Summary
The film premiered at Cannes and has been made in English and French-language versions.
Sandwiched between these two feel-good movies, the public will have an opportunity to catch 78 feature-length and short films, fictions and docs, by directors from 28 countries.
As has been the case recently, BIFF will not hold a competition for feature-length fiction films from the region.
The shorts competition will field 14 works from around the region, all vying for four prizes – first, second and third-place awards and a jury prize.
Some people go to the cinema to escape issue-based cultural production, it seems, and BIFF 15 includes a 26-film Panorama of festival-lauded features that promise to entertain and perplex cinema-goers wanting to forget the world for a spell.
Kiyochi's film took the prize for Best Director in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section.
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