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Japan’s Emerging Directors: With a Couple of Films on Their Resumes, These Auteurs Are Poised to Make Bigger Marks on World Cinema
While Japan’s emerging directors already have some festival circuit success, they represent a new wave in Japanese cinema.
Her 2024 drama, “Desert of Namibia,” starring Kawai Yuumi as a self-centered 21-year-old hair removal technician, was selected for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize, making her the youngest filmmaker to ever receive this honor. His feature “Lostland” (“Les Fleurs du Manguier”), which depicts a border crossing journey undertaken by Rohingya siblings, will be presented at the Cannes market by Arizona Distribution. His 2015 feature debut, “Blanka,” whose title character is a street girl in Manila, screened in the Venice Biennale College section, where it won the Laterna Magica and Sorriso Diverso Venezia prizes.
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