Tokyo International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Language	International
Official website

Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biannually from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF.

The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director.

In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market.

Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix winners

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1985	Typhoon Club	Shinji Somai	Japan
1987	Old Well	Wu Tianming	China
1989	That Summer of White Roses	Rajko Grlić	Yugoslavia
1991	City of Hope	John Sayles	United States
1992	White Badge	Jeong Ji-yeong	South Korea
1993	The Blue Kite	Tian Zhuangzhuang	China
1994	The Day the Sun Turned Cold	Yim Ho	Hong Kong
1995	not awarded
1996	Kolya	Jan Sverak	Czech Republic
1997	The Perfect Circle Jenseits der Stille	Ademir Kenovic Caroline Link	Bosnia-Herzegovina Germany
1998	Abre los ojos	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain
1999	Darkness and Light	Chang Tso-chi	Taiwan
2000	Amores Perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Mexico
2001	Slogans	Gjergj Xhuvani	Albania
2002	Broken Wings	Nir Bergman	Israel
2003	Nuan	Huo Jianqi	China
2004	Whisky	Juan Pablo Rebella	Uruguay
2005	What the Snow Brings	Kichitaro Negishi	Japan
2006	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies	Michel Hazanavicius	France
2007	The Band's Visit	Eran Kolirin	Israel
2008	Tulpan	Sergey Dvortsevoy	Kazakhstan
2009	Eastern Plays	Kamen Kalev	Bulgaria
2010	Intimate Grammar	Nir Bergman	Israel
2011	Intouchables	Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano	France

Best Actress Award

• 1987 - Rachel Ward, The Good Wife
• 1991 - Zhao Lirong, The Spring Festival
• 2004 - Debra Winger, A Dangerous Woman
• 2004 - Mirella Pascual, Whisky
• 2005 - Helena Bonham Carter, Conversations with Other Women
• 2006 - Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
• 2007 - Shefali Shah, Gandhi, My Father
• 2008 - Félicité Wouassi, With a Little Help from Myself
• 2009 - Julie Gayet, Eight Times Up
• 2010 - Fan Bing Bing, Buddha Mountain

Best Director Award

• 2002 - Carlo Rola, Sass
• 2003 - Chris Valentien, Santa Smokes
• 2004 - Chan-sang Lim, The President's Barber
• 2005 - Kichitaro Negishi, What the Snow Brings
• 2006 - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
• 2007 - Peter Howitt, Dangerous Parking
• 2008 - Sergey Dvortsevoy, Tulpan
• 2009 - Kamen Kalev, Eastern Plays
• 2010 - Nir Bergman, Intimate Grammar

External links

• Official site of the Tokyo International Film Festival
• English site of the Tokyo International Film Festival
• Tokyo International Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database