Tokyo International Film Festival (東京国際映画祭)

Tokyo International Film Festival

東京国際映画祭

Also known as: TIFF

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2026

Tokyo International Film Festival awards grand prix to Yoshida Daihachi’s "Teki Cometh"
Yoshida Daihachi’s drama "Teki Cometh" dominated the Tokyo International Film Festival (Japan), winning the grand prix, best director, and best actor for Nagatsuka Kyozo. Other winners include "Adios…
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37th Tokyo International Film Festival Unveils Complete Program and Special Events
The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its full lineup, including 15 films in competition, nine of which are world premieres. Running from October 28 to November 6, 2024, TIFF…
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Tokyo International Film Festival Announces Major 2023 Plans
Tokyo International Film Festival is set to unveil its most expansive edition since 2019, with a larger program and a significant increase in international guests. Chairman Hiroyasu Ando highlights th…
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A Bouquet of Light for You

Ando Hiroshi

A Bouquet of Light for You A live-action adaptation of a novel by Shiomi Natsue, author of "Till We Meet Again on…

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

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Jing Zou

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra When Jo's classmate Phaedra performs an ethereal song that makes Jo's heart skip a beat,…

A Girl Unknown

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Jing Zou

A Girl Unknown By the end of this extended cinematic portrait, Wang Juan might only be in her thirties,…

A Story from Chikamatsu

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Mizoguchi Kenji

A Story from Chikamatsu When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair…

A(E)LIENS

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Atsushi Nishigori

A(E)LIENS Alien goodwill ambassador Ellie loves Earth’s culture and everyday life. She teams up…

All of Her

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Kim Nam-hyeon

All of Her Short film by Kim Nam-hyeon, who studied Film and Digital Media at Chung-Ang University…

Allies in Exile

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Hasan Kattan

Allies in Exile For 14 years, Syrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi have journeyed together…

Alpha Gang

David Zellner, Nathan Zellner

Alpha Gang The Alpha Gang are alien invaders sent on a mission to conquer Earth. Disguised in human…

Amadeo and the Hypothetical New World

Brenda Lígia, Edu Felistoque

Amadeo and the Hypothetical New World In 19th-century slave-holding Brazil, a brilliant young African man builds the camera…

Becoming Human

Polen Ly

Becoming Human When Thida encounters Hai, a human journalist with whom she shares an uncanny bond, their…

Black Beauty

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Wang Haoduo

Black Beauty Mandarin-language short by Wang Haoduo, a graduate of Shanghai Theatre Academy born in…

Cairo Station

Youssef Chahine

Cairo Station Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the…

Cairo, As Told by Chahine

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Youssef Chahine

Cairo, As Told by Chahine Short documentary by Youssef Chahine about Cairo. Presented together with Cairo Station…

Can You See Me?

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Team Red

Can You See Me?Japanese-language workshop film made by Team Red in TIFF 2021: Teens Meet Cinema, a…

Cherry and Virgin

Masanao Kawajiri

Cherry and Virgin CHERRY AND VIRGIN—a ‘nervous romance’ about Ryou, a 32-year-old erotic manga artist who…

Cunning3

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Sinclair William

Cunning3 Black-and-white Japanese-language short by William Sinclair, a Musashino Art University…

Dear Hero

Takai Kohsuke

Dear Hero Japan–Korea co-production and debut film by Takai Kohsuke, a directing student at the…

Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram

Chika Nagaoka

Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram Hakodate, the Hokkaido region. Kaito Kid’s business card is found in the Onoe Group’s…

Diamond Diplomacy

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Yuriko Gamo Romer

Diamond Diplomacy Diamond Diplomacy , a documentary by Yuriko Gamo Romer, explores the dramatic and…

Diary of a Mad Old Man

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Wayne Wang

Diary of a Mad Old Man A seventy year old widow recovers from a stroke in the care of his dysfunctional family.…

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Simon Curtis

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial…

Everything's Peachy

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Nah Yee Chern

Everything's Peachy First stop-motion short film and graduation film by Nah Yee Chern at LASALLE College of…

Far from the trees

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Meritxell Colell Aparicio

Far from the trees Adela, a sound artist and granddaughter of Catalan exiles, travels through Peru to record…

Fjord

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Cristian Mungiu

Fjord The Gheorghius – Catholic and Romanian - settle in a Norwegian village, the mother’s…

Flies

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Fernando Eimbcke

Flies Olga lives the quiet life of a retiree, earning extra income by renting out one of her…

Four Human

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Team Blue

Four Human Japanese-language workshop film made by Team Blue in TIFF 2019: Teens Meet Cinema, a…

Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting

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Qiu Jiongjiong

Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting On a seesaw, Sun and Moon rise and fall, witnessing four feasts and festivities spanning…

Godzilla Minus Zero

Yamazaki Takashi

Godzilla Minus Zero War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed…

Good Neighbors (Restoration)

Lee Hsing

Good Neighbors (Restoration)Two neighboring doctors clash when their children fall in love, exposing divides of…

Grandma's Boy

Fred Newmeyer

Grandma's Boy Silent comedy starring Harold Lloyd as a meek young man bullied by his romantic rival. At…

GROTESQQQUE

Atsushi Nishigori

GROTESQQQUE Aliens, gyarus (gals), vampires… the girls race through a GROTESQQQUE night. A pop and…

Happily Ever After

Feng-i Fiona Roan

Happily Ever After As one sister prepares for marriage and the other resists every convention it represents,…

Hearing

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Lê Bảo

Hearing Ninh is a mechanic that installs decibel meters in public spaces. Sound levels rise in…

Heysel 85

Teodora Ana Mihai

Heysel 85 When violence erupts before the 1985 European Cup Final at Brussels’ Heysel Stadium,…

Hinotama: Ball of Fire

Yaza Takenoshin

Hinotama: Ball of Fire As his parents’ marriage fractures and eventually collapses into divorce, high schooler…

Home

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Tanoue Hiromi

Home Japanese-language short by Tanoue Hiromi, who turned from video journalism to film…

I Hit a Deer

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Yu Jiale Melody and 2 co-directors

I Hit a Deer On the way home, Mian’s father hits a deer. The burgeoning anxiety from this incident…

La bola negra

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Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi

La bola negra Explores what it means to be gay throughout different eras, focusing on "three…

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors

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Lav Diaz

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors 1617, Spanish friar Padre Enciso rules an island with unrelenting toughness and…

Lonely BOX

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Team YELLOW

Lonely BOX Japanese-language workshop film made by Team YELLOW in TIFF 2017: Teens Meet Cinema, a…

Lost Traces of Summer

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Team Red

Lost Traces of Summer Japanese-language workshop film made by Team Red in TIFF 2022: Teens Meet Cinema, a…

Love the Dead

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Teng Fu-kang

Love the Dead One year after a zombie apocalypse, a mother and daughter are forced to choose between…

Magic Atlas

Xun Sun

Magic Atlas A magician arrives in the reclusive coal empire — Luocha, triggering widespread panic in…

Memories of Prison

Sérgio Graciano

Memories of Prison The latest film by Sérgio Graciano of The Englishman's Papers , screened at TIFF,…

Mom, When My Time Comes, Where Do I Go?

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Dang Hoang Anh

Mom, When My Time Comes, Where Do I Go?Debut short by Dang Hoang Anh, a directing graduate of Hanoi Academy of Theatre and…

My Wife Cries

Angela Schanelec

My Wife Cries A routine working day at a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator,…

Passage of Soul

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Put Chung Ho

Passage of Soul Cantonese-language short by Put Chung Ho, a former Chinese teacher and filmmaker with an…

Patlabor EZY

Izubuchi Yutaka

Patlabor EZY Follows cops that pilot mecha suits, known as Labors, to handle crimes and disasters.…

Patlabor EZY — Episode 1: トレンドは＃第二小隊

Izubuchi Yutaka

Patlabor EZY — Episode 1: トレンドは＃第二小隊 The Second Squad is called away from an educational visit to a nursery after a…

Patlabor EZY — Episode 2: 閑中妄あり

Izubuchi Yutaka

Patlabor EZY — Episode 2: 閑中妄あり The new year brings a quiet spell at Special Vehicles Section 2. With the captain away…

Patlabor EZY — Episode 3: ホンモノが一番

Izubuchi Yutaka

Patlabor EZY — Episode 3: ホンモノが一番 The Second Squad provides security for a reboot of a classic special-effects period film,…

Patlabor EZY — Episode 4: ワインと銃弾

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Izubuchi Yutaka

Patlabor EZY — Episode 4: ワインと銃弾 Before an internal audit, maintenance worker Kurumi discovers that a live round for the…

Patlabor EZY — Episode 5: あさき夢みし

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Izubuchi Yutaka

Patlabor EZY — Episode 5: あさき夢みし Towa and Kippei rescue a girl injured at a redevelopment site and take her to hospital.…

Red Before Dawn

Garin Nugroho

Red Before Dawn In 1946 Indonesia, amid ongoing turmoil after independence, a young geologist sets out on…

Return of the Prodigal Son

Youssef Chahine

Return of the Prodigal Son After 12 years chasing a failed dream, Ali returns home to find his family fractured by…

Revolving Visions

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Chen Yingru

Revolving Visions Chinese-language short by Chen Yingru, whose filmmaking explores social structures,…

Rotation

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Maryna Er Gorbach

Rotation “Rotation” is a therapeutic hypnosis ritual experienced by a young Ukrainian woman who…

Running Wild in the Sun

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Nguyen Vu Hien Chi

Running Wild in the Sun Graduation short by Nguyen Vu Hien Chi, who studied film directing at Hanoi Academy of…

Saccharine

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Natalie Erika James

Saccharine Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a hungry ghost after taking part…

Said Unsaid

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Seike Takashi

Said Unsaid Kojima returns home to find his chronically ill mother motionless in bed. He asks his…