Tokyo International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Language	International
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 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 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.^[3]

Tokyo Sakura 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 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
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

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
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

Best Actor Award

2014 - Robert Więckiewicz, Pod mocnym aniolem

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
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

Special Jury Prize

2014 - Urok, Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

Best Artistic Contribution Award

2014 - Ispytanie, Aleksandr Kott

Audience Award

2014 - Pale Moon, Daihachi Yoshida

Asian Future Best Film Award

2014 - Bedone marz, Amirhossein Asgari

Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award

2014 - Hyakuen no koi, Masaharu Take

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Tokyo International Film Festival

By year	1985 1987 1989 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix winners

1985–1999	Typhoon Club (1985) Old Well (1987) That Summer of White Roses (1989) City of Hope (1991) White Badge (1992) The Blue Kite (1993) The Day the Sun Turned Cold (1994) Kolya (1996) The Perfect Circle (1997) Beyond Silence (1997) Open Your Eyes (1998) Darkness and Light (1999)

2000–present	Amores perros (2000) Slogans (2001) Broken Wings (2002) Nuan (2003) Whisky (2004) What the Snow Brings (2005) OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) The Band's Visit (2007) Tulpan (2008) Eastern Plays (2009) Intimate Grammar (2010) The Intouchables (2011) The Other Son (2012) We Are the Best! (2013)

Tokyo International Film Festival Best Actress

Rachel Ward (1987)
Elena Yakovleva (1989)
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)
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)
Fan Bingbing (2010)
Glenn Close (2011)
Neslihan Atagül (2012)
Eugene Domingo (2013)

FIAPF-accredited film festivals

Feature (Competitive)	Berlin Cannes Cairo Goa Karlovy Vary Locarno Mar del Plata Moscow Montreal San Sebastián Shanghai Tallinn (PÖFF) Tokyo Venice Warsaw

Feature (Competitive Specialised)	Antalya Bogota Brussels Busan Cartagena Cluj Napoca (TIFF) Courmayeur Frankfurt Ghent Gijón Istanbul Jeonju Kerala (Trivandrum) Kyiv Los Angeles (AFI FEST) Namur Sarajevo Setúbal Sitges Stockholm Sydney Thessaloniki Turin Valencia (Jove) Valencia (Mediterranean) Wiesbaden (goEast) Wrocław

Feature (Non-competitive)	Haugesund Kolkata London Toronto Vienna

Documentary and Short	Bilbao Krakow Oberhausen St. Petersburg Tampere

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