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Tokyo International Film Festival 1st - 24th LINE UP

Competition

ACACIA

Director: Jinsei Tsuji
Cast: Antonio Inoki / Eri Ishida / Ryoga Hayashi

The Dark House

Director: Wojtek Smarzowski
Cast: Arkadiusz Jakubik / Marian Dziedziel / Bartlomiej Topa

Eastern Plays

Director: Kamen Kalev
Cast: Christo Christov / Ovanes Torosian / Saadet Isil Aksoy

Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix - The Governor of Tokyo Award / Best Director Award (Kamen Kalev) / Best Actor Award (Christo Christov)

Eight Times Up

Director: Xabi Molia
Cast: Julie Gayet / Denis Podalydés / Mathieu Busson

Best Actress Award (Julie Gayet)

Heaven Eternal / Earth Everlasting

Director: Li Fangfang
Cast: Liu Dong / Huang Ming / Shi Ke

Manila Skies

Director: Raymond Red
Cast: Raul Arellano / John Arcilla / Ronnie Lazaro

Optical Illusions

Director: Cristián Jiménez
Cast: Paola Lattus / Gregory Cohen / Iván Álvarez de Araya

Rabi

Director: Sebastián Cordero
Cast: Gustavo Sanchez Parra / Martina Garcia / Concha Velasco

Special Jury Prize

Road, Movie

Director: Dev Benegal
Cast: Abhay Deol / Satish Kaushik / Tannisht Ha Chatterjee

Snowfall in Taipei

Director: Huo Jianqi
Cast: Chen Bolin / Tong Yao / Yang Yuning

Southern District

Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia
Cast: Ninón del Castillo / Nicolás Fernández / Pascual Loayza

Staten Island

Director: James DeMonaco
Cast: Ethan Hawke / Vincent D'onofrio / Seymour Cassel

Storie

Director: Mario Iglesias
Cast: Concepción González / Luis Callejo / Yago Presa

Ten Winters

Director: Valerio Mieli
Cast: Isabella Ragonese / Michele Riondino / Glen Blackhall

The Trotsky

Director: Jacob Tierney
Cast: Jay Baruchel / Geneviève Bujold / Anne-Marie Cadieux

Audience Award

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Special Screenings

Oceans

Director: Jacques Perrin / Jacques Cluzaud
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

AVATAR Special Presentation

Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington / Sigourney Weaver / Zoe Saldana

The Rebound

Director: Bart Freundlich
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones / Justin Bartha / Kelly Gould

REC2

Director: Jaume Balagueró / Paco Plaza
Cast: Jonathan Mellor / Oscar Sanchez Zafra / Ariel Casas

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Cast: Noomi Rapace / Michael Nyqvist / Sven-Bertil Taube

Yona Yona Penguin

Director: Rintaro
Cast: Ei Morisako / Lena Tanaka / Hikari Ota / Yuji Tanaka

SYNECDOCHE / NEW YORK

Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman / Samantha Morton / Michelle Williams

MY RAINY DAYS

Director: Yuri Kanchiku
Cast: Nozomi Sasaki / Shosuke Tanihara / Hikaru Yamamoto

Chasing My Girl

Director: Yuichi Fukuda
Cast: Takayuki Yamada / Yusuke Yamamoto / Erika Toda

Go Find a Psychic!

Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Cast: Masami Nagasawa / Hiroki Miyake / Masashi Suwa / Haruki Nakagawa / Osamu Tsuji / Junya Kawashima / Hideto Iwai / Kotaro Shiga

Feel the Wind

Director: Sumio Omori
Cast: Keisuke Koide / Kento Hayashi / Yuichi Nakamura

It's on me

Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Cast: Koyuki / Tomoka Kurotani / Shunya Isaka

E.YAZAWA ROCK

Director: Masuda Hisao
Cast: Eikichi Yazawa

I Give My First Love to You

Director: Takehiko Shinjo
Cast: Mao Inoue / Masaki Okada / Toru Nakamura

Drag Me To Hell

Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Alison Lohman / Justin Long / Adriana Barraza

ZERO FOCUS

Director: Isshin Inudo
Cast: Ryoko Hirosue / Miki Nakatani / Tae Kimura

PUSH

Director: Paul Mcguigan
Cast: Chris Evans / Dakota Fanning / Camilla Belle

Sideway

Director: Cellin Gluck
Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata / Katsuhisa Namase / Rinko Kikuchi / Kyoka Suzuki

THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN

Director: Haruki Kadokawa
Cast: Nao Omori / Yasuko Matsuyuki / Hiroyuki Miyasako

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda

Director: Osamu Minorikawa
Cast: Yusaku Matsuda

UP

Director: Pete Docter
Cast: Ed Asner / Jordan Nagai / Christopher Plummer

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Winds of Asia

Lifting King Kong

Director: Park Gun-yong
Cast: Lee Beom-soo / Jo An / Lee Yoon-hoi

Like You Know it All

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Cast: Kim Tae-woo / Ko Hyun-jung / Uhm Ji-won

A Brand New Life

Director: Ounie Lecomte
Cast: Kim Saeron / Park Doyeon / Ko A-Sung

Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award

Chengdu / I Love Yo

Director: Fruit Chan / Cui Jian
Cast: Tan Weiwei / Huang Xuan / Guo Tao

Wheat

Director: He Ping
Cast: Fan Bingbing / Huang Jue / Du Jiayi

Kung Fu Cyborg : Metallic Attraction

Director: Jeff Lau
Cast: Hun Jun / Sun Li / Alex Fong

Taipei 24H

Director: Cheng Fen-fen / Niu Cheng-zer / Debbie Hsu / Cheng Hsiao-tse / Lee Chi Y / Chen Yin-jung / An Je-yi / Lee Kang-sheng
Cast: Lai ya yen / Lee Kuan-Yi / Morning Mo

Yang Yang

Director: Cheng Yu-chieh
Cast: Sandrine Pinna / Chang Ruei-Jia / Huang Chien-Wei

At the End of Daybreak

Director: Ho Yuhang
Cast: Chui Tien You / Wai Ying Hung / Ng Meng Hui

The Blue Mansion

Director: Glen Goei
Cast: Patrick Teoh / Louisa Chong / Lim Kay Siu

Best of Times

Director: Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
Cast: Arak Amornsupasiri / Krissana Sreadthatamrong / Yarinda Bunnag

COLORUM

Director: Jobin Ballesteros
Cast: Alfred Vargas / Lou Veloso / Jose Mari Avellana

Luck by Chance

Director: Zoya Akhtar
Cast: Farhan Akhtar / Konkona Sen Sharma / Rishi Kapoor

Shirin

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Juliette Binoche / Niki Karimi / Golshifteh Farahani

The Book of Law

Director: Maziar Miri
Cast: Parviz Parastoui / Darin Khamse / Negar Javaherian

Whisper with the Wind

Director: Shahram Alidi
Cast: Omar Chawshin / Maryam Boubani / Fakher Mohammad Barzani

I Saw the Sun

Director: Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Cast: Mahsun Kırmızıgül / Murat Ünalmış / Altan Erkekli

Special Mention

The Time That Remains

Director: Elia Suleiman
Cast: Elia Suleiman / Saleh Bakri / Yasmine Has

A History of Israeli Cinema: Part 1

Director: Raphael Nadjari
Cast: Mohammed Bakri / Amos Gitaï / Menachem Golan

A History of Israeli Cinema: Part 2

Director: Raphael Nadjari
Cast: Mohammed Bakri / Amos Gitaï / Menachem Golan

Jeonju Digital Project 2009: Visitors

Director: Hong Sang-soo / Kawase Naomi / Lav Diaz
Cast: 《An Omunibus Film》

Alexandria... Why?

Director: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Nagla Fathi / Farid Shawki / Ezzat El-Alayli

An Egyptian Story

Director: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Nour El-Sherif / Magda El-Khatib / Mohsen Mohieddin

Alexandria / Again and Forever

Director: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Youssra / Youssef Chahine / Hussein Fahmy

Alexandria... New York

Director: Youssef Chahine
Cast: Mahmoud Hemida / Ahmed Yehia / Youssra

Justified Betrayal

Director: Khaled Youssef
Cast: Mai Ezzidine / Hani Salama / Somaya El Khashab

Hassan and Morkos + Bitter Right

Director: Rami Imam "Hassan and Morkos" / Zeinab Abdel-Razzak "Bitter Right"
Cast:

Talentime + Yasmin's TVCM works

Director: Yasmin Ahmad
Cast:

Special Contribution Award (Yasmin Ahmad)

The Convert

Director: Yasmin Ahmad
Cast: Brian Yap / Tony Savarimuthu / Sharifah Amani

Rain Dogs

Director: Ho Yuhang
Cast: Kuan Choon Wai / Liu Wai Hung / Yasmin Ahmad

Night and Fog

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: Simon Yam / Zhang Jingchu / Jacqueline Law

The Way We Are

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: Leung Chun Lung / Paw Hee Ching / Chan Lai Wun

The TV Works of Ann Hui Vol.1

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: 《A Short Film》

The TV Works of Ann Hui Vol.2

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: 《A Short Film》

The TV Works of Ann Hui Vol.3

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: 《A Short Film》

Hyeon-hae-tan Knows

Director: Kim Ki-young
Cast: Kong Midori / Kim Wun-ha / Lee Sang-sa

The Aimless Bullet

Director: Yu Hyeon-mok
Cast: Mu-ryong Choi / Jin Kyu Kim / Jeong-suk Moon

The Man with Two Names Cameraman Kim Hak-seong / Kanai Seiichi

Director: Fumihito Tanaka
Cast: Yoo Hyun-mok / Chung Il Song / Kurataro Takamura

You and I + Between Sky and Earth (Frieda)

Director: Eitaro Hinatsu(Dr.Huyung)
Cast:

Wailing in Hollow Valley + The Leper Girl

Director: Maxi Weiban
Cast:

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Japanese Eyes

OUR BRIEF ETERNITY

Director: Takuya Fukushima
Cast: Kouta Kusano / Romi / Takahiro Iwasaki

To Walk Beside You

Director: Yuya Ishii
Cast: Maki Meguro / Ryu Morioka / Ayako Yoshitani

Jungle-House Three-Farts / Sanpei Hayashiya

Director: Toshiyuki Mizutani
Cast: Sanpei Hayashiya / Kayoko Ebina / Shozo Hayashiya / Sanpei Hayashiya II

The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant

Director: Tetsuo Shinohara
Cast: Norito Yashima / Sarara Tsukifune / Atomu Shimojo

Palm of the Hand Stories

Director: Takushi Tsubokawa / Nobuyuki Miyake / Tsukasa kishimoto / Yuya Takahashi
Cast: Mitsuru Fukikoshi / Yu Kashii / Seizi Fukushi

TOCHKA

Director: Hiroyuki Matsumura
Cast: Yoko Fujita / Shun Sugata,

If Blessed

Director: Kite Okachimachi
Cast: Machiko Ono / Masashi Kubota / Shiro Sano

LIVE TAPE

Director: Tetsuaki Matsue
Cast: Kenta Maeno / THE DAVID BOWIES / Tsugumi Nagasawai

Best Picture Award

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WORLD CINEMA

Around a Small Mountain

Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Jane Birkin / Sergio Castellito / André Marcon

Baaria

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Francesco Scianna / Margareth Madè / Salvo Ficarra

Five Minutes of Heaven

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Liam Neeson / James Nesbitt / Anamaria Marinca

The King of Escape

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Cast: Ludovic Berthillot / Hafsia Herzi / Pierre Laur

Looking for Eric

Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Steve Evets / Eric Cantona / John Henshaw

Mary and Max

Director: Adam Elliot
Cast: Toni Collette / Philip Seymour Hoffman / Barry Humphries

A Single Man

Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Colin Firth / Julianne Moore / Matthew Goode

The Tango Singer

Director: Diego Martinez Vignatti
Cast: Eugenia Ramirez Miori / Bruno Todeschini / Andrés Ramirez

Wrong Rosary

Director: Mahmut Fazil Coşkun
Cast: Nadir Saribacak / Gorkem Yeltan / Ersan Uysal

Japan

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Cast: Alejandro Ferretis / Magdalena Flores / Yolanda Villa

Battle in Heaven

Director: Carlos Reygadas
Cast: Marcos Hernández / Anapola Mushkadiz / Berta Ruiz

Silent Light

Director: Carols Reygadas
Cast: Cornelio Wall Fehr / Miriam Toews / María Pankratz

IDENTIFICATION MARKS:NONE

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jerzy Skolimowski / Elzbieta Czyzewska / Jacek Szczęk

WALKOVER

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jerzy Skolimowski / Aleksandra Zawieruszanka / Krzysztof Chamie

BARRIER

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Joannna Szczerbic / Jan Nowicki / Tadeusz Lomnicki

HANDS UP!

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Jerzy Skolimowski / Joanna Szczerbic / Tadeusz Łomnicki

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natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA

Bird without Borders - Black-Faced Spoonbill

Director: Dean Johnson
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Border

Director: Harutyun Khachatryan
Cast: Liparit Liparitian / Manvel Mkhitaryan / Davit Gasparyan

Creation

Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Paul Bettany / Jennifer Connelly / Jeremy Northam

In Another World

Director: Joseph Péaquin
Cast: Dario Favre

The Mermaid and the Diver

Director: Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Oil Rocks - City Above The Sea

Director: Marc Wolfensberger
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

The Tree Lover

Director: Jonas Selberg Augustsén
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

Wolf

Director: Nicolas Vanier
Cast: Nicholas Brioudes / Pom Klementieff / Min Man Ma

TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix

INNISFREE

Director: José Luis Guerín
Cast: 《A Documentary Film》

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Additional Screening

The Cove

Director: Louie Psihoyos
Cast: Richard O' Barry / Louie Psihoyos / Simon Hutchins

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Director's Angle/Actor's Angle

The World of Hirokazu Kore-eda

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast:

The World of Hiroyuki Sanada

Director:
Cast:

The World of Yusaku Matsuda

Director:
Cast:

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Minato Screening

Proud Mouse + When Apples Roll + The Beginning of the Armadillos + The Forgotten Toys

Director:
Cast:

When Apples Roll + STORMHEART

Director:
Cast:

Call Me Elisabeth

Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Cast: Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi / Stéphane Freiss / Yolande Moreau

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