Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
An MFC staff-favorite from this year's Sundance!
Haru—lovingly known as Ha-Chan—and her husband Luis delight in competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When her sister finally drags her back to the studio, she begins to develop an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly! Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a soulful look at love, grief, and letting go—and will have you shaking your booty in the cinema right alongside Ha-Chan!
“The rumba, the cha-cha, and the tango help bring a widow out of mourning in this surprisingly buoyant, unsentimental film...Josef Kubota Wladyka, the director and co-writer, shifts from poignant emotion to comedy to surreal scenes that take us inside Haru’s fantasies just as gracefully as the dialogue shifts from Japanese to Spanish and English."—Caryn James, Hollywood Reporter.
In English and in Japanese and Spanish with English subtitles.
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Call the Box Office at 207.873.7000 to obtain YAAF tickets. Pay it forward! Donate to YAAF here.
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Haru—lovingly known as Ha-Chan—and her husband Luis delight in competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When her sister finally drags her back to the studio, she begins to develop an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly! Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a soulful look at love, grief, and letting go—and will have you shaking your booty in the cinema right alongside Ha-Chan!
“The rumba, the cha-cha, and the tango help bring a widow out of mourning in this surprisingly buoyant, unsentimental film...Josef Kubota Wladyka, the director and co-writer, shifts from poignant emotion to comedy to surreal scenes that take us inside Haru’s fantasies just as gracefully as the dialogue shifts from Japanese to Spanish and English."—Caryn James, Hollywood Reporter.
In English and in Japanese and Spanish with English subtitles.
This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund. Call the Box Office at 207.873.7000 to obtain YAAF tickets. Pay it forward! Donate to YAAF here.
WATCH TRAILER >