Tokyo International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Founded	1985
Language	International
Website	www.tiff-jp.net

The Tokyo International Film Festival (東京国際映画祭, Tōkyōkokusaieigasai, TIFF) is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF.^[1]^[2]

The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo 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.^[3]

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.^[2]

Tokyo Grand Prix winners

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1985	Typhoon Club	Shinji Sōmai	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	Chung Ji-young	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 Svěrák	Czech Republic
1997	The Perfect Circle Jenseits der Stille	Ademir Kenović 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 and Pablo Stoll	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
2012	The Other Son	Lorraine Lévy	France
2013	We Are the Best!	Lukas Moodysson	Sweden
2014	Heaven Knows What	Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie	United States
2015	Nise: The Heart of Madness	Roberto Berliner	Brazil
2016^[4]	The Bloom of Yesterday	Chris Kraus	Germany Austria
2017^[5]	Grain	Semih Kaplanoğlu	Turkey Germany France Sweden
2018^[6]	Amanda	Mikhael Hers	France
2019	Uncle	Frelle Petersen	Denmark
2020	No competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021	Vera Dreams of the Sea	Kaltrina Krasniqi	Kosovo North Macedonia Albania
2022	The Beasts	Rodrigo Sorogoyen	Spain France

Best Director Award

1985 - Péter Gothár, Time Stands Still
1987 - Lana Gogoberidze, Oromtriali
1989 - Rajko Grlic, That Summer of White Roses
1991 - Alan Parker, The Commitments
1992 - Ji-yeong Jeong, White Badge
1993 - Taylor Hackford, Blood In, Blood Out
1994 - Ho Yim, The Day the Sun Turned Cold
1995 - Joseph Novoa, Sicario
1996 - Tian-Ming Wu, The King of Masks
1997 - Ademir Kenović, The Perfect Circle
1998 - Guy Ritchie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1999 - Martha Fiennes, Onegin
2000 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros
2001 - (tied) Reza Mirkarimi, Under the Moonlight and Gjergj Xhuvani, Slogans
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
2011 - Ruben Östlund, Play
2012 - Lorraine Lévy, The Other Son
2013 - Benedikt Erlingsson, Of Horses and Men
2014 - Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie, Heaven Knows What
2015 - Mustafa Kara, Cold of Kalandar
2016 - Hana Jusic, Quit Staring at My Plate
2017 - Edmund Yeo, Aqérat (We, The Dead)
2018 - Edoardo De Angelis, The Vice of Hope
2019 - Saeed Roustaee, Just 6.5
2021 - Darezhan Omirbaev, Poet
2022 - Rodrigo Sorogoyen, The Beasts

Best Actor Award

2014 - Robert Więckiewicz, Pod mocnym aniolem
2015 - Roland Møller and Louis Hofmann, Land of Mine
2016 - Paolo Ballesteros, Die Beautiful
2017 - Duan Yihong, The Looming Storm
2018 - Jesper Christensen, Before the Frost
2019 - Navid Mohammadzadeh, Just 6.5
2021 - Amir Aghaei, Fatih Al, Bariş Yildiz, Onur Buldu, The Four Walls
2022 - Denis Menochet, The Beasts

Best Actress Award

1987 - Rachel Ward, The Good Wife
1991 - Zhao Lirong, The Spring Festival
1994 - Debra Winger, A Dangerous Woman
1995 - Yasuko Tomita, The Christ of Nanjing
1997 - Rene Liu and Jing Tseng, Murmur of Youth
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
2011 - Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
2012 - Neslihan Atagül, Araf - Somewhere in Between
2013 - Eugene Domingo, Barber's Tales
2014 - Rie Miyazawa, Pale Moon
2015 - Glória Pires, Nise - The Heart of Madness
2016 - Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Sami Blood
2017 - Adeline D'Hermy, Maryline
2018 - Pina Turco, The Vice of Hope
2019 - Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Only the Animals
2021 - Julia Chávez, The Other Tom
2022 - Aline Kuppenheim, 1976

Special Jury Prize

2013 - Bending the Rules, Behnam Behzadi
2014 - The Lesson, Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
2015 - All Three of Us, Kheiron
2016 - Sami Blood
2017 - Crater, Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino
2018 - Before the Frost, Michael Noer
2019 - Atlantis, Valentyn Vasyanovych
2021 - La Civil, Teodora Ana Mihai
2022 - World War III, Houman Seyyedi

Best Screenplay Award

2017 - Euthanizer, Teemu Nikki
2018 - Amanda, Mikhael Hers and Maud Ameline
2019 - A Beloved Wife, Shin Adachi

Best Artistic Contribution Award

2012 - Pankaj Kumar, Ship of Theseus^[7]
2014 - Ispytanie, Aleksandr Kott
2015 - Family Film, Olmo Omerzu
2017 - The Looming Storm
2018 - The White Crow
2019 - Chaogtu with Sarula
2021 - Crane Lantern
2022 - Peacock Lament, Sanjeewa Pushpakumara

Audience Award

2013 - Red Family, Lee Ju-hyoung^[8]
2014 - Pale Moon, Daihachi Yoshida
2015 - God Willing, Edoardo Falcone
2016 - Die Beautiful, Jun Lana
2017 - Tremble All You Want, Akiko Ooku
2018 - Another World, Junji Sakamoto
2019 - Only the Animals, Dominik Moll
2020 - Hold Me Back, Akiko Ooku (sole award given)
2021 - Just Remembering, Daigo Matsui
2022 - By the Window, Rikiya Imaizumi

Asian Future Best Film Award

2014 - Bedone marz بدون مرز, Amirhossein Asgari امیرحسین عسگری
2015 - Pimpaka Towira, The Island Funeral
2016 - Birdshot
2017 - Passage of Life
2018 - A First Farewell
2019 - Summer Knight
2021 - World, Northern Hemisphere
2022 - Butterflies Live Only One Day, Mohammadreza Vatandoust

Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award

2014 - 100 Yen Love, Masaharu Take
2015 - Ken and Kazu, Hiroshi Shoji
2017 - Of Love & Law, Hikaru Toda
2016 - Poolsideman, Hirobumi Watanabe
2018 - Lying to Mom, Katsumi Nojiri
2019 - i -Documentary of the Journalist-, Tatsuya Mori

Tokyo Gemstone Award

2017 - Mayu Matsuoka, Shizuka Ishibashi, Adeline D'Hermy, Daphne Low
2018 - Lien Binh Phat, Karelle Tremblay, Mai Kiryu, Nijiro Murakami
2019 - Josefine Frida Pettersen, Sairi Ito, Riru Yoshina, Yui Sakuma

References

^ International Federation of Film Producers Associations.
^ ^a ^b "Tokyo International Film Festival - Outline". www.tiff-jp.net.
^ "Grand Prix Winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival". nippon.com. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
^ Festival, Asian Film (2016-11-03). "Winners of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016". Asian Film Festivals. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
^ "List of Winners | 30th Tokyo International Film Festival". 2017.tiff-jp.net. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
^ Festival (TIFF), Tokyo International Film. ""Amanda" Wins Tokyo Grand Prix at 31st Tokyo International Film Festival". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
^ Ship of Theseus, retrieved 2018-05-26
^ Conran, Pierce (28 October 2013). "RED FAMILY Triumphs in Tokyo Int. Film Fest". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

External links

[1] International Federation of Film Producers Associations.

[tiff-jp.net-2] "Tokyo International Film Festival - Outline". www.tiff-jp.net.

[3] "Grand Prix Winners at the Tokyo International Film Festival". nippon.com. 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[4] Festival, Asian Film (2016-11-03). "Winners of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016". Asian Film Festivals. Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[5] "List of Winners | 30th Tokyo International Film Festival". 2017.tiff-jp.net. Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[6] Festival (TIFF), Tokyo International Film. ""Amanda" Wins Tokyo Grand Prix at 31st Tokyo International Film Festival". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[7] Ship of Theseus, retrieved 2018-05-26

[8] Conran, Pierce (28 October 2013). "RED FAMILY Triumphs in Tokyo Int. Film Fest". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

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v t e Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actor
1980s	Zhang Yimou (1987) Marlon Brando (1989)
1990s	Otar Megvinetukhutsesi (1991) Max von Sydow (1992) Masahiro Motoki (1993) Niu Zhenhua (1994) Zhu Xu (1996) Koji Yakusho (1997) Brad Renfro (1998) Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa (1999)
2000s	Moussa Maaskri (2000) Andrew Howard (2001) Graham Greene (2002) Teruyuki Kagawa (2003) Oldzhas Nusupbayev (2004) Kōichi Satō (2005) Roy Dupuis (2006) Damian Ul (2007) Vincent Cassel (2008) Christo Christov (2009)
2010s	Wang Qianyuan (2010) François Cluzet / Omar Sy (2011) Seo Young-joo (2012) Wang Jingchun (2013) Robert Więckiewicz (2014) Roland Møller / Louis Hofmann (2015) Paolo Ballesteros (2016) Duan Yihong (2017) Jesper Christensen (2018) Navid Mohammadzadeh (2019) No Award (2020)
2020s	Amir Aghaei (2021) Denis Ménochet (2022) Yasna Mirtahmasb (2023) Kyōzō Nagatsuka (2024)

v t e Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actress
1980s	Rachel Ward (1987) Elena Yakovleva (1989)
1990s	Zhao Lirong (1991) Lumi Cavazos (1992) Lü Liping (1993) Debra Winger (1994) Yasuko Tomita (1995) Hildegunn Riise (1996) Rene Liu / Tseng Jing (1997) Maki Miyamoto (1998) María Galiana (1999)
2000s	Jennifer Jason Leigh (2000) Luiza Xhuvani (2001) Donatella Finocchiaro (2002) Shinobu Terajima / Khristy Jean Hulslander (2003) Mirella Pascual (2004) Helena Bonham Carter (2005) Abigail Breslin (2006) Shefali Shah (2007) Félicité Wouassi (2008) Julie Gayet (2009)
2010s	Fan Bingbing (2010) Glenn Close (2011) Neslihan Atagül (2012) Eugene Domingo (2013) Rie Miyazawa (2014) Glória Pires (2015) Lene Cecilia Sparrok (2016) Adeline D'Hermy (2017) Pina Turco (2018) Nadia Tereszkiewicz (2019) No Award (2020)
2020s	Julia Chávez (2021) Aline Küppenheim (2022) Zar Amir Ebrahimi (2023) Anamaria Vartolomei (2024)

v t e FIAPF-accredited film festivals
Competitive	Berlin Cairo Cannes Goa Karlovy Vary Locarno Mar del Plata San Sebastián Shanghai Tallinn Tehran Tokyo Venice Warsaw
Competitive specialised	Antalya Busan Cartagena Cluj Gijón Istanbul Kitzbühel Kolkata Kyiv Milan Nur-Sultan Rome Sitges Sofia Sydney Thiruvananthapuram Turin
Non-competitive	Toronto Vienna
Documentary/ short	Bilbao Kraków Oberhausen Tampere
Formerly accredited	Adelaide Bogotá Brussels Ghent Haugesund Jeonju Minsk Montreal Moscow Namur São Paulo Sarajevo St. Petersburg Stockholm Thessaloniki Wiesbaden Wrocław