These Are The Films Competing In The 28th Tokyo International Film Festival

THE 28th Tokyo International Film Festival announced its full line-up on the 29th of September. This year’s main competition section saw 16 films selected from a total of 1,409 titles from 86 countries and regions.

Of note, last year’s Asian Future section of the competition saw Nik Amir Mustapha‘s Terbaik Dari Langit making the cut. This year, no Malaysian film has made the festival line-up but our ASEAN neighbours have significant presence.

Thailand has two films in the festival, with Kongdej Jaturanrasmee‘s Snap making the main competition, while Indonesia’s Ismail Basbeth secures a place in the Asian Future segment with The Crescent Moon.

After focusing on Thai cinema in last year’s edition of the festival’s Crosscut Asia, this year the spotlight is on the works of Filipino cinema and the works of director Brillante Mendoza. Crosscut Asia is an initiative by the Tokyo International Film Festival to enlighten audiences on Asian cinema as well as celebrate films from the region.

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Main Competition

All Three Of Us, directed by Kheiron (France)
Born To Be Blue, directed by Robert Budreau (US-Canada-UK)
Cold Of Kalandar, directed by Mustafa Kara (Turkey-Hungary)
Family Film, directed by Olmo Omerzu (Czech Republic-Germany-Slovenia-France-Slovakia)
Foujita, directed by Kohei Oguri (Japan-France)
Full Contact, directed by David Verbeek (Netherlands-Croatia)
The Girl’s House, directed by Shahram Shah Hosseini (Iran)
God Willing, directed by Edoardo Falcone (Italy)
The Inerasable, directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura (Japan)
Land Of Mine, directed by Martin Pieter Zandvliet (Denmark-Germany)
A Monster With A Thousand Heads, directed by Rodrigo Plá (Mexico)
My Original Dream, directed by Hao Jie (China)
Nise – The Heart Of Madness, directed by Roberto Berliner (Brazil)
Roukli, directed by Veiko Õunpuu (Estonia)
Sayonara, directed by Koji Fukada (Japan)
Snap, directed by Kongdej Jaturanrasmee (Thailand)

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Asian Future

The Actor, directed by Satoko Yokohama (Japan)
The Crescent Moon, directed by Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia)
If Only, directed by Ishaan Nair (India)
The Island Funeral, directed by Pimpaka Towira (Thailand)
The Kids, directed by Sunny Yu (Taiwan)
Lazy Hazy Crazy, directed by Luk Yee-sum (Hong Kong)
Shoot Me In The Heart, directed by Mun Che-yong (Korea)
A Simple Goodbye, directed by Degena Yun (China)
Stair Dad, directed by Hasan Tolga Pulat (Turkey)
Young Love Lost, directed by Xiang Guoqiang (China)

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Japanese Cinema Splash

areno – the wilderness, directed by Michio Koshikawa
Lowlife Love, Eiji Uchida
Ken and Kazu, Hiroshi Shoji
Their Distance, Rikiya Imaizumi
Spring Has Come, Ryohei Yoshino
Her Father, My Lover, Kenji Yamauchi
7Days, Hirobumi Watanabe
Tokyo Sunrise, Ryutaro Nakagawa

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The 28th Tokyo International Film Festival will be held from the 22nd to the 31st of October 2015.