British, film director Mark Gill — after an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination for his 2014 short The Voorman Problem and after his feature debut with England Is Mine — returns to the silver screen with an exquisite piece. Ravens instills magic realism in a biopic about Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Gill’s second feature premiered…
Oscar-winning filmmaker Guy Nattiv is already fairly well-known for his films Skin and Golda, the latter which received an Oscar nomination but for its hair and makeup, but not for Dame Helen Mirren’s transformative performance. For Nattiv’s new film, Tatami, the filmmaker has a couple key collaborators, notably Persian actress Zar Amir, best known for…
The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival has announced its full line-up, which will run from October 28 to November 6. There are 110 films in the line-up, with a focus on ten world premieres by emerging talents presented in the Asian Future section. The selection was made from 2,023 entries, up from 1,942 last year….
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts The Making of a Japanese : Located in one of Tokyo’s sprawling suburbs, Tsukado is one of the largest public elementary schools in Japan with nearly 1,000 students. In the nation’s unique educational system, children are tasked to run their own school in order to teach communal values and how to play…
Director Roberta Torre, inscribes on reel her love letter towards the esteemed Italian actress Monica Vitti. However, In The Mirror is not a biopic, it’s much better. It portrays how the power of cinema may be therapeutic to someone who is struggling with a neurological disorder. Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) suffers from the Korsakoff syndrome that…
Snow Leopard and Tatami took top honors this week at the 36th annual Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The festival’s Grand Prix was awarded to Snow Leopard, the final offering by Tibetan director Pema Tseden, who died in May. The film explores the conflict among villagers when the predator animal begins killing sheep in their…
The intricacies of consciousness, as it wanders through time and space restlessly jumping back and forth from present to the past, is lyrically represented by the Japanese film Sasaki In My Mind. Director Takuya Uchiyama craftily leads us back to a time when all our aspirations were possible, when the blank slate of the future…
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