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The Cannes Film Festival : “All the Lovers in the Night” / Exclusive Video Interview with Actress Yukino Kishii & Dirctor Yukiko Sode

©Courtesy of Bitters End Check out more of Our Youtube Channel 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of numerous awards…

Luis Pedron

May 23, 2026

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The Parades | Official Trailer | Netflix : Starring Masami Nagasawa, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Ryusei Yokohama

The Parades is the newest film from Michihito Fujii, one of the most talented directors in Japanese cinema, following his massive hit The Last 10 Years. With a top-tier cast and crew, Fujii masterfully tells a poignant story that explores the emotions of the departed toward the loved ones they left behind. The story begins…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

February 17, 2024

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‘The Gas Station Attendant,’ Immigration Is Shown Through A Dual-Perspective

The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

June 6, 2026

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Tribeca Festival/ Sad Girlz Review: Swimming Through Silence: A Striking Mexican Debut

© Still from the film by DoP: Rosa Hadit Hernández © Colectivo Colmena Sexual assault remains one of the most urgent and complex issues facing young people today. Despite increased awareness, it is still shrouded in silence, confusion, and contradiction. More troubling still, it often arises not from the outside, but within spaces meant to feel…

Niclas Goldberg

June 5, 2026

Interviews

“Renoir” : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Chie Hayakawa

©Courtesy of Film Movement Renoir : Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift — her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

June 4, 2026

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Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir” is Emotionally Complex Coming-of-Age Drama

©Courtesy of Film Movement Kids always pick up on more than their parents realize. That is especially true of eleven-year-old Fuki Okita. She fully understands that her father Keiji is dying from cancer and that her mother Utako is dealing with it badly. In fact, she often rather awkwardly acknowledges these facts to her increasingly…

Joe Bendel

June 4, 2026

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The Cannes Film Festival : “All the Lovers in the Night” / Exclusive Video Interview with Actress Yukino Kishii & Dirctor Yukiko Sode

The Parades | Official Trailer | Netflix : Starring Masami Nagasawa, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Ryusei Yokohama