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87 articles available in total starting from 19/06/2007. Last article published on 20/05/2025.

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Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir

Interview: Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir

“What I tried to bring from myself was the myriad emotions I was experiencing that I was not able to put into words”

CANNES 2025: The Japanese director shares her thoughts about art, life and death, and describes how her movie parallels her own life journey  

20/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Kei Ishikawa • Director of A Pale View of Hills

Interview: Kei Ishikawa • Director of A Pale View of Hills

“Right when we’re about to approach Mr Ishiguro, he goes and wins the Nobel Prize in Literature!”

CANNES 2025: The Japanese director discusses the process of adapting the debut novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the fruits of which have met with the author’s warm approval  

18/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Renoir

Review: Renoir

CANNES 2025: Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa weaves an infinitely delicate work on childhood’s look at the tortured world of adults  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: A Pale View of Hills

Review: A Pale View of Hills

CANNES 2025: Japanese director Kei Ishikawa takes on a subtle, mysterious novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, and mostly succeeds in translating it to cinema  

17/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir jumps into the race for the Palme d’Or

Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir jumps into the race for the Palme d’Or

The Japanese writer-director returns to the Croisette with her sophomore feature, an emotional coming-of-age tale set in late-1980s Tokyo  

18/04 | Production | Funding | Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia

Kaspar Astrup Schröder • Director of Dear Tomorrow

Interview: Kaspar Astrup Schröder • Director of Dear Tomorrow

“Lonely people are invisible”

In the Danish director’s film, people decide to fight loneliness by finally reaching out to others – or even adopting an owl  

12/03 | SXSW 2025

Kei Ishikawa’s A Pale View of Hills enters post-production

Kei Ishikawa’s A Pale View of Hills enters post-production

Adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, the movie is now in post-production in Poland and will be introduced to international buyers at the upcoming European Film Market  

30/01 | Production | Funding | Japan/UK/Poland

Lisa Takeba to shoot Children of the River

Lisa Takeba to shoot Children of the River

This co-production between Japan’s Fourier Film and Italy’s Antropica which is due to be shot in the summer next year, conveys an environmental message through the story of two twin sisters  

05/11/2024 | Production | Funding | Japan/Italy

Review: Ulysses

Review: Ulysses

Debuting director Hikaru Uwagawa offers up an apparently disjointed tale in which three stories come one after the other, inviting us to explore concepts such as home, friendship and family  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Review: Serpent’s Path

Review: Serpent’s Path

Kiyoshi Kurosawa readapts his 1990s film Serpent’s Path, setting it in contemporary France, for an unhinged thriller that investigates the pointless obtuseness of evil  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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