@torukubota.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaker. Former political prisoner. Based in Thai-Myanmar border or in Tokyo. https://www.torukubota.com
Today at Garden Cinema in London! A few seats are still available here! www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/securin...
22.09.2025 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to announce that Resisters in Borderland will be showcased at the Hong Kong Film Festival 2025 in London!
22 Sept 2025 (Mon)
6pm, Garden Cinema
Event Duration: Approx 2 hours
Speaker: Sai, Toru Kubota, Tammy Cheung
Securing the Story - Frontline Filmmaking and Digital Safety
Event Flyer for Hong Kong Film Festival UK 2025
New events!
📆12th - 28th Sept
Hong Kong Film Festival UK 2025 is on including screenings of
"Ten Years 十年" & the world premier of @torukubota.bsky.social's "Securing the Story – Frontline Filmmaking and Digital Safety: Resisters in Borderland"
also classic films & talks
www.hkff.uk/fullprogramme
ミャンマーの緊急事態宣言の解除と総選挙についてnote記事にまとめました。
-なぜ「ミャンマー政府」ではなく「ミャンマー軍」なのか
-クーデターの背景と総選挙による権力の正当化の狙い
- 中国とASEANの動き
- 日本の役割
- MV「ファシスト選挙」が訴えること
note.com/torukubota/n...
参院選に関連して広がる、外国人についての言説を改めて検証しました。
「外国人の増加で治安が悪化」という情報に根拠はなく、専門家は犯罪は減っていると明確に否定しています。
起訴率は日本人よりも高く、犯罪の類型も日本人と大きな違いはありません。
また、「外国人の低賃金が日本人の賃金に影響」という言説についても、別の専門家は、「明確な証拠はない」と指摘しています。
こうした言説の広がりが、排外主義をあおっているとの懸念も。それぞれの検証結果とともにまとめました。
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250716/k10014864391000.html
I had the chance to screen my film at the first East Asia Documentary Exchange Forum in Seoul. Truly inspired by the resilience of Korean civil society, still shaken by the martial law declaration, expressed strong solidarity, saying, “What happened in Myanmar could have been our future.”
08.07.2025 01:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Event flyer for screening of Resisters in Borderland Free Entry Saturday 12th July 7pm Donations will go to support the protagonist's misson Keep moving Project. Location: Memories of Chiang Mai
New event!
📆12th July
🕖7pm Thailand Time
Memories of Chiang Mai hold screening of @torukubota.bsky.social directed film "Resisters in Borderland"
Free entry but donations to support humanitarian work in Myanmar's liberated regions.
Details:
www.facebook.com/events/s/res...
The screening is free, but we are calling for donations in support of Keep Moving On - an initiative led by the protagonists, Kyee Kan, supporting humanitarian efforts on the frontlines in Myanmar.
Get your free ticket here:
lnkd.in/gJF_XM2k
Film screening of Resisters in Borderland in Seoul — July 4! As part of the three-day forum organised by SEEAD.
Looking forward to learning alongside filmmakers from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, and building solidarity across Asia in the fight against authoritarianism.
I was invited to speak at East Asia Democracy Forum in Tokyo. The local resistance of Myanmar is deeply intertwined with regional democratic resilience. I was grateful that I could continue this perspective to the global conversation.
26.06.2025 09:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Honored to join Panel Discussion at 17:30 on June in Shinjuku.
Rejecting Militarism: Shared Experience, Resistance, and Solidarity. #MilkTeaAlliance
メイ・リウとは、僕が拠点を置くタイ・ミャンマー国境の街メーソットで出会いました。作中でも、彼女の視点から見たミャンマー人たちが重要な存在として描かれています。政治的な検閲や弾圧を経験してきた中国出身のアーティストたちの訪問が多く、「革命」への連帯を示しているのを見てきました。夢という概念を用いて自由を奪われた人々の記憶と繋がろうとするメイ・リウによる試みは、私自身の獄中での記憶とも響き合うものでした。
26.05.2025 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02月にスパイラル・ホールで開催されたシアターコモンズのパフォーマンスを目にする機会をいただき、メイ・リウによる" Homesick for Another World" ついてのレビューを書きました。
note.com/tct_archives...
国際平和映像祭（UFPFF）の公募が始まっております。締め切りは6月30日。学生による5分以内の映像であれば、フィクション・ドキュメンタリーどんなものでも対象です。今年から審査員として参加させていただくことになりました。
02.05.2025 04:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Entries are now open for the United for Peace Film Festival (UFPFF), open to student-made films under 5 minutes, fiction or documentary. I'm honoured to join this year as a jury member. Deadline: June 30.
ufpff.com/en/entry
Hongkong, Tokyo, Bangkok, Utrecht -Thank you so much to my Chinese friends including those in the diaspora who organize film screening all around the world to support the people of Myanmar.
10.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military, attended an international conference held in Bangkok. It's deeply amoral for these Asian leaders to welcome a perpetrator of mass atrocities, especially one under an ICC arrest warrant!
05.04.2025 05:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ミャンマーで壊滅的な地震が発生し、人々が苦しんでいるにもかかわらず、ミャンマー軍は自国民への空爆を続けている。そんな彼らが国際援助を呼びかけているのは残酷な冗談としか言いようがない。
31.03.2025 13:51 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
タイ-ミャンマー国境で活動する支援者やジャーナリストと協力し、地震被災地への支援キャンペーンを立ち上げました。
本当に支援を必要としている人々に援助を届けるためには、軍を迂回して直接届ける仕組みが必要です。
www.docuathan.com/earthquake
After the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, while people are suffering, the military junta continues to bomb its own citizens. Their call for international aid is nothing short of a cruel joke.
It is essential to deliver aid directly to those in need, bypassing the military junta.
We are launching an earthquake relief campaign in collaboration with aid workers and journalists on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Donations can be made via credit card, or PayPal. (Bank transfers are limited to Japanese banks.)
www.docuathan.com/en/earthquake
History has shown that the Myanmar military abuses humanitarian aid. They drop bombs instead of relief.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people of Myanmar urgently need your help after the devastating effects of the recent earthquake. Here is a trusted source where you can donate to support the relief efforts.
www.myanmarearthquakehelp.com/en/donate
Drop all charges against Iraninan filmmakers Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha!
For more information,
www.icfr.international/cases/clear-...
New event!
📆8th & 9th Feb
Docu Athan hold two day event of films & talks in Tokyo, looking at the situation in Myanmar and solidarity beyond borders. W/ guests Takuro Kotaka, Alric Lee of Hong Kong Lady Liberty & more
Details:
www.docuathan.com/news/docu-at...
Docu Athan is an initiative to support journalists and filmmakers in exile from Myanmar/Burma. We opened a physical space on the Thai-Myanmar border, where we provide free camera rentals and host journalism and filmmaking workshops for dissidents.
english.dvb.no/why-i-founde...
Docu Athan will host the two-day event. As well as the film screenings, we'll hold sharing meetings to raise our “voices” together on various challenges in the world.
Feb 8 12:00 - 20:00
Feb 9 12:00 - 17:00
【Venue】
Minato Commons (5-28-4 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014)
1000 yen
Jumped into the first film festival hosted by Amnesty International English Network in Tokyo. It was a great opportunity to present what's happening in Myanmar/Burma and share my experiences and projects. I hope gatherings like this happen more often to strengthen intercommunal support.
03.02.2025 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Independent featured my comment in their piece.
Japanese filmmaker jailed in Myanmar backs calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
