The 25th annual
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the ...
(TIFF) was held from October 20 to October 28, 2012.
Official selection
Competition
Special screenings
†: 12 minutes
Winds of Asia-Middle East
†: Nominated for "Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award"
Film Panorama of Asia-Middle East
††: ''
Floating City
''Floating City'' () is a 2012 Chinese-Hong Kong drama film directed by Yim Ho.
Premise
The story of a self-made man in a rapidly changing Hong Kong at the end of British Colonial rule.
Reception
''Exclaim!'' writer Robert Bell said "...the su ...
'' was cancelled.
Indonesian Express: Nugroho, Edwin and Riza
Discovering Asian Cinema: Golden Slumbers of the Cambodian film history
Japanese Eyes
†: Director Koji Wakamatsu Memorial Screening.
World Cinema
Natural TIFF
Miscellaneous
Special Presentation
TIFF in Nihombashi
Minato Screening
†:
Short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
Bunka-Cho Film Awards
Allied-events
*Bunka-Cho Film Week 2012
*U. S. -Japan Film Academy
*Tokyo International Women's Film Festival
*TIFF / Tohoku project - Japan in a Day, a single strong step which links us to the future through "The Power of Films, Now!"
*Symposium on Motion-Picture Filming
*The Forest of the Asian Cinema
*Masayuki Suo Film Festival
*Korean Cinema Week 2012
*Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia "Focus on Asia" & Workshop
*China Film Week in Tokyo 2012
*Future Line-up Collection of Tokyo International Film Festival
*Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival 2012
*Polish Film Festival in Japan 2012
*CineGrid@TIFF 2012
*Economic Contribution of the Japanese Film and Television Broadcast Industry
*Regional Cooperation between Hong Kong and Japan
*JFC Locations Fair 2012
*Green Energy Festa in TIFF
Awards
;Competition
*Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix - ''The Other Son'' by Lorraine Lévy
*Special Jury Prize - ''
Juvenile Offender'' by Kang Yi-kwan
*Award for Best Director - Lorraine Lévy for ''The Other Son''
*Award for Best Actress - Neslihan Atagül for ''Araf - Somewhere in Between''
*Award for Best Actor - Seo Young-ju for ''
Juvenile Offender''
*Award for Best Artistic Contribution - ''Ship of Theseus'' (Director of Photography: Pankaj Kumar)
*The Audience Award - ''Flashback Memories 3D'' by Tetsuaki Matsue
;Toyota Earth Grand Prix
*Grand Prix - ''Himself He Cooks'' by Valerie Berteau and Philippe Witjes
*Special Jury Prize - ''Trashed'' by Candida Brady
;Winds of Asia-Middle East
*Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award - ''Night of Silence'' by Reis Çelik
*Special Mention
**''
Bwakaw
''Bwakaw'' is a 2012 Philippine comedy drama film written and directed by Jun Lana. Eddie Garcia stars as a lonely gay man in his 70s who cares for a stray dog he named ''bwakaw''. The film was first screened as part of the 2012 Cinemalaya Philippi ...
'' by
Jun Robles Lana
Rodolfo R. Lana Jr. (born October 10, 1972), known professionally as Jun Robles Lana, is a Filipino filmmaker. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006.
In 2015, he dire ...
**''Him, Here After'' by
Asoka Handagama
Asoka Handagama (born December 1962) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker. He obtained his primary and secondary schooling in a provincial school and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Kelaniya where he was awarded a first class honours d ...
**''Full Circle'' by
Zhang Yang
;Japanese Eyes
*Best Picture Award - ''GFP Bunny'' by
Yutaka Tsuchiya
;TIFF Special Appreciation Award
*TIFF Special Appreciation Award -
Raymond Chow
Raymond Chow Man-wai, (; 8 October 1927 – 2 November 2018) was a Hong Kong film producer, and presenter. He was responsible for successfully launching martial arts and the Hong Kong cinema onto the international stage. As the founder of G ...
Juries
Competition
*
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works t ...
, American director and producer (President)
*Luc Roeg, English producer
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Yōjirō Takita
Yōjirō Takita (滝田 洋二郎 ''Takita Yōjirō'', born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. Takita received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for his 2008 drama '' Departures''. It marked the first time a Japanese film won the aw ...
, Japanese director
*
Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese (born 27 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome and studied filmmaking in New York City.
Biography
Emanuele Crialese was born on July 26, 1965 in Rome to Sicilian parents. He studied filmm ...
, Italian screenwriter and director
*Kyoko Heya, Japanese production designer
Winds of Asia-Middle East
*Harumi Nakayama, Japanese cinema journalist
*Koichi Kawakami, Japanese director of photography
*
Lim Kah Wai, Malaysian director
Japanese Eyes
*Kyoichiro Murayama, Japanese critic
*
Yoshihiro Fukagawa
is a Japanese film director. His film ''Into the White Night'' was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
In an interview, Fukagawa explains that there have been many versions of '' ...
, Japanese director
*Genki Kawamura, Japanese producer
Toyota Earth Grand Prix
*Yukichi Shinada, Japanese critic
*Masako, Japanese model and actress
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Tatsumi Yoda, Chairman of Tokyo International Film Festival
References
External links
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The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the ...
2012 in Tokyo
October 2012 events in Japan