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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 Plan 75

Interview: Chie Hayakawa • Director of Plan 75

"There is a feeling of hatred among young people towards elderly in Japanese society, because they think they have to pay for them and won’t get anything back"

CANNES 2022: The Japanese director discusses her first feature, a film of great acuity about the topic of euthanasia which received a Special Mention from the Caméra d'Or jury  

30/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Plan 75

Review: Plan 75

CANNES 2022: Produced by Japan, France and the Philippines, Chie Hayakawa's first feature film deals with the delicate subject of euthanasia in a subtle and slightly futuristic way  

20/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Final Cut

Review: Final Cut

CANNES 2022: Michel Hazanavicius offers up a hilarious and high cinephile-value diversion in the form of a multidimensional comedy unfolding on the set of a zombie film  

17/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Out of Competition

Masako Kudo • Distributor, Child Film

Interview: Masako Kudo • Distributor, Child Film

“In Japan, family-orientated animation films from foreign countries are quite complicated to distribute”

The Japanese distributor talked through Child Film’s efforts to bring European arthouse animated films to the country and how the local audience has changed over the last two years  

16/03/2022 | Cartoon 2022 | Cartoon Movie

Review: Small, Slow but Steady

Review: Small, Slow but Steady

BERLINALE 2022: In co-production with France, Japan’s Shô Miyake carves out a seemingly modest yet subtle and masterful movie about a young, deaf female boxer with a big heart  

14/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Encounters

Review: Yamabuki

Review: Yamabuki

Tough lives intersect, and unconvincing plot lines pile up, in Juichiro Yamasaki’s tale of small-town Japanese life  

07/02/2022 | IFFR 2022 | Tiger Competition

EXCLUSIVE: ENSEMBLE wraps post-production

EXCLUSIVE: ENSEMBLE wraps post-production

The collective audiovisual work was directed by 42 film professionals, all of whom were alumni of Berlinale Talents 2021, scattered around the globe and meeting only virtually  

20/12/2021 | Production | Funding | Germany

Review: Miss Osaka

Review: Miss Osaka

Victoria Carmen Sonne dazzles as a woman who totally reinvents herself in a new life on another continent in a peculiar film by Danish director Daniel Dencik  

11/10/2021 | Warsaw 2021 | Competition

Leos Carax: “When I was young, I wanted to make films with music, but music spurned me”

Leos Carax: “When I was young, I wanted to make films with music, but music spurned me”

The Bif&st masterclass leader and director of Annette, which won Best Direction in Cannes, speaks about his project’s lengthy gestation, his actors and his specific work approach  

01/10/2021 | Bif&st 2021

Review: Ennio

Review: Ennio

VENICE 2021: Giuseppe Tornatore’s tribute to Morricone is a gargantuan, occasionally exhausting, homage, taking in an exceptional musical journey  

13/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

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