When confronted with the past, do you drive away or turn back to face it? Siblings Ren and Emi (Mai Kiryu) have been estranged from their father (Ken’ichi Endô) for the ten years since he chose a new work opportunity in Tokyo. Ren, now a florist, notices a familiar name on the neighboring workstation’s order card. Propelled by emotion, not logic, he takes on the delivery himself, arriving to discover his father staring back at him through the floor-to-ceiling window of a major exhibition. Clutching the arrangement tight to his chest, there’s a heavy burden to carry.

A feature debut that feels intuitive in its emotional beats, 26-year-old Yuiga Danzuka’s Brand New Landscape takes a snapshot approach to his characters and their lives both together and apart. Danzuka knows how to frame shots to wrenchingly evoke how plate-shifting some moments can feel in our lives. A slight...