2009.08.17[Updates]
Alejandro González Iñárritu to head 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival Jury
We are pleased to announce that award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu will be the Jury President for the International Competition at the 22nd TIFF. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival for Babel, Iñárritu is now one of the most highly acclaimed international filmmakers. He returns to TIFF for the first time since he was awarded the Grand Prix for his debut film, Amores perros, at the 13th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2000. The 22nd edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival will take place from October 17 to 25, 2009.
International Competition President - Alejandro González Iñárritu / Director
Native citizen of what he calls “the biggest and most intense anthropological experiment of the world (Mexico)”, Iñárritu, intrigued by the “first primitive society of the future”, a concept he learned from Baudrillard, emigrates from his homeland, after filming Amores perros, to the United States. Later, he immerses himself in Morocco, Japan and now Spain, where he has been rolling as a person and rolling film about one same subject: am I father or son? He admits still not being able to decipher when and how fiction takes over reality, but he is working on that.
Works:
Feature Films
Amores perros (2000)
21 grams (2003)
Babel (2006)
Biutiful (2009)
Short Films
Powder Keg (2001)
Darkness (2002)
Anna (2007)
His films have received 10 Oscar nominations.
Message from Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
" New and exciting voices are emerging from different parts of the planet within the world of cinema. Those who will change the rules and those who have already enriched our vision with their films need spaces of resistance to the flawless distractions that sometimes today’s culture offers. The TIFF has been, for years, an important and generous festival for filmmakers around the world to meet. Japan’s culture and film traditions have had a personal impact on me and inspire in me respect and admiration. I am honored to preside at the 22nd TIFF and I am looking forward to finding new voices that will generate in us catharsis and reflection."
2009.07.27[Updates]
TIFF's commentary on loss of the director,Yasmin Ahmad
Tokyo International Film Festival had the honor and pleasure to screen each and every films of the director, Ahmad since her debut film as Japan Premiere and 4th film Mukhsin as World Premiere. She is one of the directors in the world that TIFF has forged a special bond with.
2005, 18th Tokyo International Film Festival - Winds of Asia screening of the Best Asian Film Award winning film, Sepet (aka Slit Eyes).
2006, 19th Tokyo International Film Festival – Winds of Asia special screening of “Film Malaysia:Truly Asia Yasmin the Storyteller” which showcased Rabun (aka My Failing Eyesight), Sepet (aka Slit Eyes), Gubra (aka Anxiety) and Mukhsin.
2008, 21st Tokyo International Film Festival – Winds of Asia screening of the honorably mentioned film, Muallaf (aka Convert),.
We would like to express our sincere condolences and deepest sympathies at this moment of grief.
The 22nd edition of The Tokyo International Film Festival Office
2009.05.19[TIFF Activities]
Celebrating the official inauguration of the Green Carpet Club at the Cannes International Film Festival !
The 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) and TIFFCOM 2009 have co-hosted a champagne party at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival, which is currently underway. More than one thousand people involved in the international film industry and the media attended the event at Plage Majestic 62 (Majestic Beach) in Cannes.
The Green Carpet, made from recycled plastic bottles and initially used at the 21st TIFF, was rolled out at the party where TIFF Chairman Tom Yoda announced the official inauguration of the Green Carpet Club and the official sponsors for the 22nd TIFF, and also unveiled the new festival poster.
Chairman Yoda addressed the significance of taking global environment in considerations. More than 500 guests including Director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Dieter Kosslick (Director of the Berlin Film Festival), and Jérôme Paillard (Executive Director of the Marche du Film) personally came forward to express their sympathies and presented their best wishes for the success of the Green Carpet Club. Felicite Wouassi who won the Award for Best Actress at the 21st TIFF was also among the guests.
Ms.Wouassi (left)＆TomYoda (right) (C) 2009 TIFF
Green Carpet Club
The Official Poster Visual of the 22nd TIFF
2009.05.16[Updates]
The Official Poster Visual of the 22nd TIFF
The Official Poster Visual of the 22nd TIFF
Films. The power to change our world.
Cinema, a global language, constantly adapts to reflect its era.
The greatest films inevitably address the most compelling social issues of their times.
One of the most urgent problems we now face is protecting the Earth’s environment.
While many individual films have grappled with how to sustain our environment,
no international film festival has yet stepped up to champion this issue.
This is why we are gathering filmmakers here in Tokyo to think about
how to care for our planet and propose solutions.
We hope our ideas will resonate far beyond the film community,
contributing to the global conversation on our planet’s future.
By engaging with the environmental crisis as filmmakers,
we can find new ways to imagine our relationship with the Earth.
Because we make films, but the Earth made us.
Action! for Earth 2009
