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Asa ga Kuru / Comes Morning

A director whose international prestige has been orchestrated primarily through her repeated appearances at the Cannes film festival (where she more often than not competes), Japan’s Naomi Kawase is already at work on her latest project, Comes Morning. Kawase won the Golden Camera at Cannes for her 1997 debut Suzaku, then competing in 2003 with Shara, 2007 with The Mourning Forest (winner of the Grand Jury Prize), 2011 with Hanezu, 2014 with Still the Water, and 2017 with Radiance (winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize). Her 2015 title An notably opened Un Certain Regard.…...

The 2011 Sitges Film Festival, held 6-16 October on the Catalan coast of Spain, has released information on the films that will comprise the fest's "Noves Visions" section, which promises to be a category dedicated to the most innovative and transgressive approaches. Several genre films are represented, and we have the full rundown here.

The films are divided into four categories, three of which can be found below. We're including all the films in these three sections as even if some aren't pure horror, they sound intriguing enough to be of interest to genre fans. The fourth category is comprised solely of documentaries. Be sure to visit the official Sitges Film Festival website for full details on "Noves Visions" and more!

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A selection that combines big names in contemporary film with young artists appearing around the festival circuit.

- The Day He Arrives (Sang-soo Hong): A game of meta-language...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

Day eight of the ongoing 64th Cannes International Film Festival, saw some shocking remarks in the garb of jokes amidst the regular delightful appearances. The centre of attraction was Dutch director Lars Von Trier’s latest flick Melancholia, about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one’s own depression. The calm scene just changed into a restless topic of discussion when the director confessed of being a Nazi. If that wasn’t it, Trier joked his next would be a hardcore porno. The other highlight of the day, was Hanezu No Tsuki by Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. The film is ...

After hounding The Beaver around Cannes, Xan Brooks falls into Melancholia, hurtling towards the end of the world so fast he flies right past the meaning of Hanezu

It's 7am at a cafe near the Palais and we're leafing through the schedule, working out which events we can cover and which ones we can't. Today, in particular, is already littered with casualties, with potential highlights that must be junked and ignored – but that's just a consequence of Cannes. "Ah well, it's not the end of the world," says my colleague Charlotte Higgins, peering out on the bright blue morning. It turns out she is wrong.

Melancholia, the new film from Lars von Trier, is about the end of the world, about a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth. Melancholia is coming, slowly, at 60,000-miles an hour. It looms up on the horizon at 11pm, like an illuminated pearl,...

With a flurry of titles (from herlmers Kawase, Lanners, Rebecca Daly in the multiple Cannes sections, the future (Venice, and Tiff prospects) look equally as fruitful for Memento Films Int. The French Sales Agent and Prod Co. have a stellar bunch in post production items such from So Yong Kim's and Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's next films (see Headshot pic above), but pre-production items with an eye towards next year's Cannes with Laurent Cantet's and Cate Shortland's next features. Here's the cool slate below. Foxfire (Foxfire: Confessions D'Un Gang De Filles) by Laurent Cantet - Pre-Production Hanezu (Hanezu No Tsuki) by Naomi Kawase - Completed The Giants (Les Geants) by Bouli Lanners - Completed Bad Seeds (Mauvaises Herbes) by Safy Nebbou - Production Elles by Malgoska Szumowska - Post-Production For Ellen by So Yong Kim - Post-Production Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - Post-Production L'enfant...

Every year Cannes plays host to 20,000 movie bigwigs, honchos and grande fromages who arrive for 11 days of film viewing, deal-making, soirees and those tiny canapes with basil on top.Into this movie maelstrom Empire sends its crack Videblogisode unit, a guerilla group of hardened movie journos sent to sort the von Trier wheat from the McG chaff. If you've got an arthouse movie and you can find them, maybe you can be interviewed by the V Team.Day One's videblogisode sees the mighty Thor (aka Chris Hewitt) reporting from the Croisette, early word on Woody Allen's latest, Midnight In Paris, and the thoughts of Empire's 'Cannes-guru' (this doesn't work so well written down) on this year's Palme D'Or favourites. Two words: Naomi Kawase's Hanezu No Tsuki. Okay, five words. brightcove.createExperiences(); Check back soon for more from the Riviera or head to Empire's canned Cannes for a...

We’re here to have a little chat about an upcoming Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase, titled Hanezu No Tsuki, and the project that is scheduled to premiere In Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Hanezu No Tsuki is based on a novel by Masako Bando, and we definitely think that it deserves your [...] Cannes 2011: Hanezu No Tsuki by Naomi Kawase is a post from: www.FilmoFilia.com...

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It's 10.00am: on 11 May 2011 which means that the 64th Cannes film festival has just kicked off. Right this minute, the world's film press are huddled in the Palais du cinema as the opening credits roll on the first press screening of the opening night film, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. And in about 90 minutes, we'll know the verdict: is it a new Manhattan or another Curse of the Jade Scorpion? Will this year's fest have been launched with a bang or a whimper?

We'll be bringing you all the news, reviews and reaction from the Croisette, as it happens, right through the festival. My colleague Ian and I will be drawing coverage together in London; we'll be getting regular updates from the team on the ground: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Andrew Pulver, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons,...

Regardless what larger themes or shifting styles that are discovered or get attached to this year's Cannes batch, one of the major conversation starters is the prominence of global female filmmakers at the festival. There are 22 feature films by female directors (and I'm not even including the short films) which should be a record for any festival in recent memory. We have renowned auteurs Naomi Kawase and Lynne Ramsay to actress-turned-directors, Jodie Foster, Maiwenn, Nadine Labaki, Eva Ionesco, Hagar Ben Asher. Among the 22, with have a dozen or so from first time filmmakers including Julia Leigh (see below) whose first film is in the official competition and comes with the blessing from fellow Australian and Palme d'Or winner Jane Campion. See the 22 names below. The Official Competition Naomi Kawase, Hanezu No Tsuki Julia Leigh, Sleeping Beauty Maiwenn, Polisse Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk about Kevin Out of Competition Jodie Foster,...