The festival will also include a panel entitled ‘World Cinema Conference’, a discussion on the future of the film industry featuring guests such as Cannes’ Christian Jeune, Berlin artistic director Carlo Chatrian and Tribeca artistic director Frederic Boyer.Īs previously announced, the festival will open with Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho and close with Stephen Chbosky’s Dear Evan Hansen.
I think it will be a good opportunity to discuss how filmmaking and film festivals will change following the pandemic,” said Kore-eda via a video message. “I chose Crossing Borders as the theme because many people have become isolated during the pandemic.
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The series will again be hosted by filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda and feature directors and actors such as Isabelle Huppert, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kamila Andini and Yukiko Sode.ĭespite ongoing restrictions, the festival said it will “strive to invite as many international guests as possible to Japan” in order to facilitate face-to-face conversation for the series. Meanwhile, this year’s Japanese Animation section will feature several new films, including the world premiere of Atsuko Ishizuka’s Goodbye, DonGlees, as well as a tribute to legendary animator Yasuo Otsuka, who died earlier this year at the age of 89.įor the second year, TIFF will also feature a series of conversations between filmmakers from Japan and the rest of Asia dubbed the Conversation Series at Asia Lounge. The Asian Future section will screen ten titles, all of which are world premieres, including Fiona Roan’s American Girl, starring Karena Lam Granaz Moussavi’s When Pomegranates Howl, about children in Afghanistan and Asu from Sri Lanka’s Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, who won the jury award at Tokyo Filmex in 2017 for Burning Bird. Also as previously announced, Keisuke Yoshida has been selected as the Director in Focus in the Nippon Cinema Now section. “We decided not to worry about country or region quotas, or whether a film was a world premiere, and simply chose based on quality,” said new programming director Shozo Ichiyama, explaining that the large number of world premieres was a happy coincidence.Īs previously announced Isabelle Huppert is heading the competition jury, which also includes director Shinji Aoyama, film critic and programmer Chris Fujiwara, producer and curator Lorna Tee and composer Hiroko Sebu.
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World premieres also include Mikhail Red’s Arisaka, Brillante Ma Mendoza’s Payback, Crane Lantern from Hilal Baydarov, who won the Tokyo Filmex Grand Prize last year with In Between Dying, and Shin Su-won’s Hommage starring Parasite actress Lee Jung-eun (see full list below). The competition section includes the world premieres of two Japanese films – Third Time Lucky, the debut feature of Tadashi Nohara, who co-wrote Happy Hour and Wife Of A Spy and Just Remembering from Daigo Matsui ( Ice Cream And The Sound Of Raindrops). Other sections include Asian Future, Gala Selection, World Focus, Nippon Cinema Now and Japanese Animation. Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced the full line-up for its 34th edition, including the main competition section of 15 films, among which 10 titles are world premieres.
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