25th Tokyo International Film Festival

The 25th annual Tokyo International Film Festival (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 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

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 by Jun Robles Lana
• Him, Here After by Asoka Handagama
• 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

Juries

Competition

• Roger Corman, American director and producer (President)
• Luc Roeg, British producer
• Yōjirō Takita, Japanese director
• Emanuele Crialese, 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, Japanese director
• Genki Kawamura, Japanese producer

Toyota Earth Grand Prix

• Yukichi Shinada, Japanese critic
• Masako, Japanese model and actress
• Tatsumi Yoda, Chairman of Tokyo International Film Festival

References

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