Iranian drama “World War III”, which won two awards at the recent Venice Film Festival, will be shown among the main competition titles at the Tokyo International Film Festival next month.
The festival will operate as an in-person event with foreign filmmakers, media and other guests from October 24 to November. 2, 2022.
The world premiere of Milcho Manchevsky’s “Kaymak”, “Manticore” by Spanish director Carlos Fermo, “The Fabulous Ones” by Roberta Torre, “Tel Aviv Beirut” by Michel Boganim, and “The Fabulous Ones” by Michel Boganim, “The Third World War” will be joined in the competition section in the competition section. The first Chebbi. The movie “Askal”.
The 15-person competition also includes Japanese films Imaizumi Rikiya “By The Window” and Matsunaga Daishi “Egoist” and two Japanese co-productions, “Mountain Woman” by Fukunaga Takesh and Aktan Arym Kubat by Kyrgyz director “That’s What I Remember”. “
Winners will be selected from the competition section by a jury headed by Julie Timur, along with Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Marie Christine de Navasil, Shim Eun Kyung and Katsumi Yanagjima.
The festival previously announced that the opening title is Fragments of the Last Will, a post-World War II prisoner-of-war drama film directed by Zizi Takahisa. The event will conclude with “Living” directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Bill Nighy. The film is a reworking of Kurosawa Akira’s 1952 classic “Ikiru”, with a revised screenplay by Ishiguro Kazuo.
The festive screenings go to 14 films from recent international festivals or major domestic titles slated for commercial release in Japan. They include: “Amsterdam” by David O. Russell. Miura Daisuke “And here I am at a loss”; Martin McDonagh “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Facts of a Handful of Facts”; “Detectives vs. Detectives” Wai Ka-fai; Olivia Wilde “Don’t Worry Baby”; Alexander Sokurov “Fairy Tail”; Marc Miloud “The List”; Robert Eggers “Northman”; Noah Baumbach “White Noise”; “Ennio” by Giuseppe Tornator and three by Hiroki Ryuichi, “Motherhood”, “The Phases of the Moon” and “Two Women”.
The festival’s Asian Future section consists of ten films, all of which are screened for the first time in the world. They include: the “Altman method” from the Israeli company Nadav Aronowicz; “Butterflies live only one day”, authored by Mohammad Reza Fatndous of Iran; “Carnations and Carnations” by the Turkish Bekir Bulbul; “Rope of Life” by Chinese director Qiao Cixu; “I ai” by Japanese director MahiTo The People; “A Light That Never Goes Out” by Hong Kong’s Anastasia Tsang; “Opium” by Indian director Aman Sachdeva; “Our Own Place” by Ektara Collective India; “Sayonara, Girls” by Japanese director Nakagawa Shun; and “Suddenly” by Turkey’s Melissa O’Neill.
The festival moved to Hibiya-Yurakucho-Ginza District in 2021, having previously operated from Roppongi District for many years. It was a real hit last year, but it only had a few dozen foreign visitors, due to strict border controls. The newly added Tokyo Takarazuka Theater will be the venue for the opening ceremony. The closing ceremony will take place at the Tokyo International Forum.
Despite the reduction of border controls, the TIFFCOM rights market that usually accompanies the festival, will remain online only this year. It will operate from October 25 to 27, 2022.
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