29th Tokyo International Film Festival

Drama

Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, buil...

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/28 10:55-
10/30 16:20-
10/31 16:30-

The Distinguished Citizen

Drama
Comedy

After refusing prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration ...

Director: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/26 15:20-
10/28 21:05-
10/31 10:20-

From Nowhere

Youth Drama

Three undocumented teenagers - a Dominican girl, an African boy, and a Peruvian girl - are just about to graduate high school in the Bronx. Like most teenagers, all they want to do is hang with the...

Director: Matthew Newton

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/27 10:40-
10/31 21:25-

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Glory

Drama

Railroad worker Tsanko Petrov finds millions of lev on the train tracks. He decides to turn the entire amount over to the police, and the state rewards him with a new wristwatch, but soon the new w...

Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/29 21:05-
10/31 14:25-

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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki

Drama
Romance
Youth Drama

Summer 1962, Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame a...

Director: Juho Kuosmanen

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/31 11:10-
11/01 21:25-

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Heaven Will Wait

Drama

Director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar parallels the stories of two teenage girls. Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she w...

Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/27 10:20-
11/02 13:40-

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Never Ever

Drama

Self-centered filmmaker Rey, during a screening of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist. Dumping his leading lady and long-time lover, R...

Director: Benoît Jacquot

World Focus/Asian Premiere

10/30 11:20-
10/31 16:55-
11/01 14:50-

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Nocturama

Youth Drama

One morning in Paris. A fistful of adolescents, from different backgrounds. Individually, they begin a strange dance through the labyrinth of the metro and the streets of the capital. They seem to ...

Director: Bertrand Bonello

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/26 11:05-
10/27 20:20-
10/31 12:15-

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The Ornithologist

Drama

After his concentrated bird surveying causes his boat to capsize, the unconscious Fernando is washed ashore and rescued by two young, seemingly innocent female Chinese pilgrims, who are lost on the...

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/30 14:20-
11/01 14:45-
11/02 10:35-

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Safari

Documentary

Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus, and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, l...

Director: Ulrich Seidl

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/26 20:55-
10/31 18:00-

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Sieranevada

Drama

Somewhere in Bucharest, three days after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and forty days after his father’s death, 40-year-old doctor Lary spends one Saturday at a family gathering in memory of...

Director: Cristi Puiu

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/27 13:00-
10/28 14:20-
10/30 20:05-

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The Teacher

Drama

Since the arrival of the new teacher, Mária Drazdechová, to a Bratislava suburban school in the year 1983, life has been turned upside down for students and parents. The teacher’s corrupt behavior ...

Director: Jan Hřebejk

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

11/02 18:50-
11/03 16:00-

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76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami (Screened together with Take Me Home)

Documentary

This is a portrait of an artist whose exceptional approach to art and life defined him as one of the most ardent admirers of life itself. The leading aim of this documentary is to share 76 minutes ...

Director: Seifollah Samadian

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/27 13:40-
10/30 11:40-

Take Me Home (Screened together with 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami )

Documentary

Abbas Kiarostami takes his camera to the south of Italy and gives us a beautiful and playful video of alleys and stairs. This short film is his last work and will be screened together with a docum...

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

World Focus

10/27 13:40-
10/30 11:40-

Apprentice

Drama

Aiman is a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory’s top prison. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a 65-year-old sergeant named R...

Director: Boo Junfeng

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/27 13:40-
10/29 13:25-

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Clash

Drama

Cairo, summer of 2013, two years after the Egyptian revolution. In the wake of the ouster of Islamist president Morsi, a police truck full of detained demonstrators of divergent political and relig...

Director: Mohamed Diab

World Focus/Asian Premiere

10/26 11:00-
10/31 13:50-
11/01 10:30-

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Diamond Island

Romance
Youth Drama

Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia's future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the rich on the river in Phnom Penh. Like many other country boys, Bora, 18, is lured from his village to wor...

Director: Davy Chou

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/30 21:20-
11/02 10:30-

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Final Round

Drama
Action

Prabhu (R. Madhavan) is an arrogant, rude but highly successful women's boxing coach. He becomes a victim of boxing association politics and is transferred to Tamil Nadu. He decides to make a champ...

Director: Sudha Kongara

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/31 20:05-
11/01 11:10-
11/02 17:10-

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Godspeed

Drama

Na Dow carries out his drug-delivering routine by taking a cab down south and returning in the same cab on the same day. One day he reluctantly gets into a shabby taxi driven by the carefree, innoc...

Director: Chung Mong-hong

World Focus/Asian Premiere

10/27 17:20-
10/29 10:20-

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A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

Drama
Science Fiction/Fantasy

Interconnected narrative threads about the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1897 characterize {A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery}: The story of the ballad "Jocelynang Baliwag", which became the hymn ...

Director: Lav Diaz

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/29 13:50-
10/31 13:20-

Operation Mekong

Action

Two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle. 13 sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are re...

Director: Dante Lam

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/26 14:15-
10/27 20:50-
10/28 11:40-

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Yourself and Yours

Drama
Romance

The mother of the painter Young-soo is gravely ill. He hears that his girlfriend Min-jung drank with a man and fought with him. They argue that night, and Min-jung leaves, saying they shouldn't see...

Director: Hong Sang-soo

World Focus/Japanese Premiere

10/26 12:20-
10/28 14:30-
10/30 14:00-

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A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY [Digitally Remastered Version]

Drama
Youth Drama

Set in Taipei in the 1960s. A night school student, Xiao Si'r, always hangs out with his gang of delinquent friends, the Little Park Boys. One day, Xiao Si'r meets a girl named Ming, girlfriend of ...

Director: Edward Yang

World Focus

11/03 11:20-