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  • Drama
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  • Youth Drama
Short of money, a woman turns to human trafficking to make ends meet. Focusing in part on the Rohingyas’ flight to Malaysia to avoid persecution, the film is a poetic depiction of one woman’s spiri...
Director: Edmund Yeo
/World Premiere
  • 10/28 14:20-
  • 11/02 13:30-
Competition
  • Drama
Discovering that his daughter has a gift for singing, a man who supports his family by selling stuffed toys on the rough streets of Naples dedicates himself to promoting her career in this startlin...
Director: Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino
/International Premiere
  • 10/26 19:55-
  • 11/01 14:35-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Suspense
A man who is ostensibly a car mechanic is secretly involved in euthanizing animals. Giving candid advice to his clients, he calmly goes about his business until one day, after letting a dog live, e...
Director: Teemu Nikki
/Asian Premiere
  • 10/26 11:55-
  • 10/28 21:05-
Competition
  • Drama
Against the backdrop of New York’s dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to live with her husband’s ex-wife when he disappear...
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
/World Premiere
  • 10/28 17:40-
  • 10/30 11:05-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
In the near future in a world beset by food shortages, a professor embarks on a trip to find a grain to save humankind. This epic sci-fi work touches on many contemporary issues, such as the refuge...
Director: Semih Kaplanoğlu
/Asian Premiere
  • 10/28 10:30-
  • 10/30 14:20-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Erotic Drama
  • Suspense
A drifter appears in a village during the fall harvest. The locals accept him, but he has a secret, and he senses that they have a secret of their own. This erotic crime thriller takes a surprising...
Director: Govinda Van Maele
/Asian Premiere
  • 10/26 14:50-
  • 11/01 20:35-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Suspense
When her father dies, a grieving woman returns to the family home after a long absence. As her relatives assemble to pay their respects, questions arise about how to deal with the body in this surp...
Director: Asghar Yousefinejad
/International Premiere
  • 10/27 15:35-
  • 10/30 21:05-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Yu, a self-assured factory guard, fancies himself a detective and begins poking his nose into a murder investigation. Things only grow more complicated in this Chinese film noir dealing with love a...
Director: Dong Yue
/World Premiere
  • 10/29 20:15-
  • 11/01 10:55-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Erotic Drama
A stunning adaptation by renowned director Takahisa Zeze of a novel by current porn video actress Mana Sakura, portraying strongly and subtly the struggle of women seeking their own ways of life.
Director: Takahisa Zeze
/World Premiere
  • 10/31 20:00-
  • 11/02 16:40-
Competition
  • Drama
An aspiring actress passes a film audition but runs out of patience with the unreasonable director. Can she still make her dreams come true? This moving drama vividly depicts the woman’s precarious...
Director: Guillaume Gallienne
/International Premiere
  • 10/27 12:05-
  • 10/29 10:25-
Competition
  • Drama
In the Georgian mountains, a family oversees a healing spring for the local village. When his sons leave home, the father entrusts the work to his daughter until something strange happens in this m...
Director: Zaza Khalvashi
/World Premiere
  • 10/29 16:55-
  • 10/31 11:15-
Competition
  • Drama
A cameraman takes up with a woman he has just met and her brother. The mentally ill brother never leaves his room until the man comes up with an effective way of coaxing him out in this touching hu...
Director: Lyubomir Mladenov
/World Premiere
  • 10/27 20:00-
  • 10/31 14:20-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Action
A touring, second-rate boxer is chosen to be a sparring partner for the European champion, giving him the chance to hang up his gloves and go back to his beloved family in this gripping portrayal o...
Director: Samuel Jouy
/Asian Premiere
  • 10/31 17:35-
  • 11/02 20:00-
Competition
  • Drama
  • Suspense
Suddenly laid off from a factory staffed by deaf-mute people, Sveta’s house loan pushes her into a highly unethical line of work in this controversial film that unfolds almost entirely in sign lang...
Director: Zhanna Issabayeva
/World Premiere
  • 10/29 13:45-
  • 11/02 10:30-
Competition
  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Youth Drama
Finally, a real romance appears in her life full of secret, unrequited love. Wavering between two “boyfriends”, she tackles her ruthless reality in this non-stop romantic comedy.
Director: Akiko Ooku
/World Premiere
  • 10/30 18:00-
  • 11/01 17:35-
Competition
30th Tokyo International Film Festival Competition Section The Tokyo Grand Prix winning film will be screened. The Tokyo Grand Prix winner will be announced on 11/3 (Fri) Closing Day of the film fe...
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  • 11/03 20:10-
Competition
30th Tokyo International Film Festival Competition Section The Audience Award winning film will be screened.
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  • 11/03 19:30-
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