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Tanaka Toshihiko’s ‘Rei’ Wins Rotterdam Tiger Award, ‘Flathead’ and ‘Kiss Wagon’ Take Jury Prizes
Tanaka Toshihiko’s 'Rei' was awarded the Tiger Award, the top prize of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, on Friday.
Toshihiko’s feature debut chronicles a woman in her early 30s employed in a corporate job in Tokyo who meets a deaf landscape photographer living deep in the mountains of Hokkaido. “Kiss Wagon” was also awarded the FIPRESCI Award by a jury of international film journalists who stated their unanimous decision was inspired by the film’s “bold defying of cinematic conventions,” adding: “With its intricate collage of styles, genres, and themes, and elaborate, artisanal, very personal craft, it reminded us that cinema is a limitless space for play and invention, which constantly renews itself.” The jury, consisting of Samina Khan, Sylvie de Leeuwe, Lisa van der Loos, Marcos Silva and Ella de Bruijn, said the film is a “masterclass in storytelling” and “a deeply visceral cinematic experience that takes you captive along with its characters as their world encloses around Them.” On top of a cash prize of €30,000 prize, “The Old Bachelor” received a guaranteed theatrical release in the Netherlands and will be broadcast on Dutch TV by VPRO and NPO.
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