Hiroshi Sunairi | 2022 | Japan, USA | 101’ | EN subtitles

Kissable screens is a monthly sex-positive screening at Cavia; a social, political and also very personal engagement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality.

From Okinawa with Love tells the story of Okinawan photographer Ishikawa Mao, who spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments that catered specifically to African-American soldiers stationed in Okinawa. She captured impressions of her surroundings with her camera and published three photo books, starting with 1982’s Hot Days in Camp Hansen, that contains collections of friends and lovers—mainly Okinawan bar girls and their black American boyfriends in casual entwined poses. Looking back on these photographs and on Okinawa in the wake of its return to Japan in 1972 after U.S. rule, Mao takes us on a journey through her life as a passionate photographer and shares a personal and intimate point of view.