Tokyo IFF 2020-2029
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in Tokyo International Film Festival in the '20s
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- DirectorKaltrina KrasniqiStarsTeuta AjdiniAlketa SylajRefet AbaziVera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, whose life is disrupted by her husband's suicide who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.
- DirectorDarezhan OmirbayevStarsAida AbdurakhmanKlara KabylgazinaYerdos KanaevDidar is an unrecognized poet who contemplates a rebellious 19th-century poet, executed by the authorities.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsAmir AghaeeDenizhan AkbabaFunda EryigitBoran has no longer able to see the ocean and is obstructed by a new building in which a tragedy befalls him.
- DirectorRodrigo PláLaura SantulloStarsLeah MillerJorge CastroJulia ChavezA mother may lose custody of her son because she refuses to medicate his ADHD.
- DirectorHilal BaydarovStarsOrkhan IskandarliElshan AbbasovHuseyn NasirovMusa, a law student seeks out Davud, a man imprisoned for kidnapping four women. He soon discovers that all of his victims have no wish to press charges. On the contrary, they have the feeling of a new truth in themselves. Musa's encounter with the purported criminal becomes a journey into someone else's inner world. Are the questions he asks the correct ones? Is the law a genuine form of justice? What is the meaning of humans imposing punishment on others? Is Musa being enlightened by a superior man, or is he being lured into a world of illusion?
- DirectorDaigo MatsuiStarsSôsuke IkematsuSairi ItôKalen AnzaiA former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.
- DirectorHossein TehraniStarsReza ShohaniMehran AtashzaySaideh Albaji14-year-old Ahmad is the breadwinner for his fatherless family. At his mother's request, they rent a farm, but human bones are found, disturbing their plan.
- DirectorYoussef ChebbiStarsFatma OussaifiMohamed GrayaâRami HarrabiFollows an investigation when the body of a caretaker is found calcined in the middle of a construction site in the gardens of Carthage, a new district where modern buildings are juxtaposed with abandoned sites and wastelands.
- DirectorRikiya ImaizumiStarsMoeka HoshiGorô InagakiYuri NakamuraA man discovers his wife is cheating on him, then he is bothered by mixed feelings.
- DirectorDaishi MatsunagaStarsRyohei SuzukiHio MiyazawaYûko NakamuraWhen Kôsuke was 14 years old, his mother died. He spent his adolescence in a rural village and suppressed his feelings as a gay male. Now, Kôsuke (Ryohei Suzuki) has grown up and works as a fashion magazine editor in Tokyo. He meets Ryûta (Hio Miyazawa), who works as a personal trainer. Ryûta's mother raised him alone and he is close to his mom. Kôsuke and Ryûta become attracted to each other and they sometimes spend time with Ryûta's mother. Kôsuke is happy to share time with Ryûta and his mother, which makes him remember his late mother. Kôsuke and Ryûta make an appointment to go for a drive together, but, on that day, Ryûta does not show up.
- DirectorAktan Arym KubatStarsAktan Arym KubatMirlan AbdykalykovTaalaikan AbazovaA man who has lost his memory while working in Russia and returns to Kyrgyzstan for the first time in 20 years.
- DirectorBui Thac ChuyênStarsHoang Le CongBao Ngoc Doling JulietPhuong Anh DaoRelationships between three women and their partners in a southern seaside village.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsSara KlimoskaKamka TocinovskiAleksandar MikicTwo couples go down the rabbit hole of unconventional erotic relationships, respectable at the beginning, happy at the end.
- DirectorCarlos VermutStarsNacho SánchezÁlvaro SanzXabi TolosaA video game designer's trauma following a fire manifests in a frightening obsession.
- DirectorTakeshi FukunagaStarsMasaaki AkahoriAyameDendenLate 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
- DirectorMichale BoganimStarsZalfa SeuratSarah AdlerShlomi Elkabetz"Tel-Aviv/Beirut" is a historical drama set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in 1982 and 2006. It depicts the journey of two families on each side of the border whose fates intertwine because of the war raging in Lebanon. Spanning over 20 years, the film follows two women, a Lebanese and an Israeli, who bond amid the war and embark on a road trip together to rescue a loved one.
- DirectorSanjeewa PushpakumaraStarsAkalanka PrabashwaraSabeetha PereraDinara PunchihewaAmila comes from a small village in Sri Lanka. After losing his parents, he moves to Colombo. He works as a construction worker in a Chinese building site and looks after his four siblings. His sister Inoka suffers from a congenital heart defect and the only way to save her is an urgent and expensive surgery to be performed in India. While Amila is trying to find the money he needs, he just meets the wrong person at the right time, and gets caught up in the child trafficking business.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsYerkebulan TasynovKarina HuramshinaYerzhan BurkutbayevA tech company that digitizes memories experiences a catastrophic data loss.
- DirectorArchie QiStarsChen Xi YaoZhao ChenyuWang QiuyingThe eve of the wedding ceremony was full of wind and rain. In the early hours of the morning, the bride Chen Yu woke up from a nightmare. The groom, Jia Ming, accompanied and comforted her.At night, the two were whispering on their pillows. Unexpectedly, during the chat, the groom Jiaming inadvertently recounted a dusty past. At the same time, unknowingly, the two of them are revealed to each other, deep in their hearts, an unspeakable shocking secret.
- DirectorMohammadreza VatandoustStarsNeda HabibiManzar LashgariMaryam RostamiAn old woman lives alone near a dam-submerged village in northern Iran. The grave of her son is in off-limits island who died in the Iran-Iraq War. She decides to take action. The calm, long takes are impressive.
- DirectorAnastasia TsangStarsSylvia ChangSimon YamHenick ChouDevastated by the loss of her skilled neon-sign-making husband, a wife decides to carry on his unfinished dream of making neon signs.
- DirectorEktara CollectiveStarsManisha SoniMuskanAakash JamraLaila and Roshni are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society.
- DirectorSixue QiaoStarsBademaNahiaYiderALUS is a nomadic electronic musician who accompanied his mother with Alzheimer's disease back to the grassland and spent the last time with his mother.
- DirectorBekir BülbülStarsSerkan BilgiEmine CiftciBahadir EfeIn South Eastern Anatolia Musa carries the corpse of deceased wife to the homeland with granddaughter. They face difficulties as they get closer to a country at war, they get caught up by the police they separate in different destinations.
- DirectorAman SachdevaStarsAnirban BhattacharyyaManu Rishi ChadhaSharib Hashmi"Religion is the opium of the masses", stated Marx. Five unique stories stringed together with the theme of religion and faith. These intriguing stories gradually progress from dystopian to utopian settings.
- DirectorShun NakagawaStarsYuumi KawaiRina KomiyamaTomo NakaiIt follows four students as they bid farewell to youth and move forward with regret and hope in mind.
- DirectorMelisa ÖnelStarsDefne KayalarÖner ErkanSerif ErolReyhan, a 40-year-old woman who has lost her sense of smell, one day decides to change her life into something new. She vanishes without notice only to find her true self again.
- DirectorNadav AronowiczStarsMaayan WeinstockNir 'Niro' BarakDana LererNoa, a forgotten actress, is pushed into a severe moral crisis after her husband miraculously survives a terrorist attack. The reality which she once trusted begins to crack, and lying becomes her only way to the truth.
- DirectorThe People MahitoStarsKentaro TomitaMirai MoriyamaHonami SatôKou, who had been living a dull life with no hope for the future, meets the charismatic Hee Bro. and regains the sparkle in his life. When Hee Bro. suddenly dies, Kou tries to find the definition of goodbye.
- DirectorMartyn Le RouxStarsStephanie BothmaFrancois CoertzeWikus De KockA paranormal investigator, George Coetzee, gets a tip about a very scarce frog species in the Tankwa Karoo, a very desolate area in South Africa. What he finds is not what he expected.