Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, who was awarded the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes film festival for her debut narrative feature All We Imagine As Light, talked about the challenges facing indie filmmakers in India during a conversation with Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda at Tokyo International Film…

TIFFCOM, the contents market that takes place alongside Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), had a tough ride during the pandemic, moving online in 2020 and only managing to come back as a physical event for the first time last year.  But with a new home at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial…

In a year in which two of world cinema's oldest industries, Japan and Italy, have signed a long-awaited co-production treaty, jury members at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) were talking up the importance of both film history and the theatrical experience on the first full day of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Mike Wiluan’s historical monster film, Orang Ikan, has been unveiled, ahead of its world premiere in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Gala section. Set in 1942 in the Pacific, the film follows a Japanese soldier named Saito and a British prisoner-of-war named…

Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr in recognition of his "extraordinary career and long-standing contributions to the film industry". The award will be presented during a Special Talk event at the festival, featuring…

"While progress has been made, gender equality in directing, screenwriting and producing is still slow, with women holding only 10-20% of these roles worldwide," says Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) senior programmer Andrijana Cvetkovikj, when asked why the festival has introduced a Women's…

As the biggest festival in one of the world's biggest film markets, the Tokyo International Film Festival has always been held under the glare of painfully high expectations. But taking place towards the end of Asia's crowded autumn festival season, then struggling through the brutal years of the…

Tokyo International Film Festival has announced its full line-up including its main international and Asian Future competitions, as well as the nine films selected for its Women's Empowerment Section.  The new female-focused section will screen Iranian drama My Favourite Cake, directed by Maryam…

Tokyo International Film Festival has announced that Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake and Taiwanese filmmaker Fu Tien-yu will be the joint recipients of the 2024 Kurosawa Akira Award. The award honors the legacy and ongoing influence of the selected directors. Last year, China's Gu Xiaogang and…

This year's Tokyo International Film Festival will open with the world premiere of 11 Rebels, directed by Japan's Kazuya Shiraishi, and close with French-Italian comedy Marcello Mio, directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring Takayuki Yamada and Taiga Nakano, 11 Rebels is a period action film based on a…

Hungarian film director and screenwriter Enyedi Ildikó, Japanese actress Hashimoto Ai, French actress Chiara Mastroianni, and Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To will join Tony Leung on the international competition jury of the 37th Tokyo Film Festival, running from October 28 to November 6. The jury…

Veteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung will serve as the president of the international competition at this year's Tokyo Film Festival.  "I am immensely honored to be on the jury team at TIFF this year. Japan is close to my heart in more ways than one and to be involved in celebrating film in this way…