Tokyo Film Festival Awards Articles

2009 Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2009 Tokyo Film Festival: October 17-25, 2009   In Kamen Kalev's Bulgarian drama Eastern Plays, two estranged brothers are unexpectedly brought together after they play opposing roles in a racist beating — Georgi is a new member of a neo-Nazi group; Itso, a drug-addicted artist, rescues the victimized Turkish family. Compounding matters, Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) starts to question his place [...]

2008 Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2008 Tokyo Film Festival: October 18-26, 2008   Set in the arid steppes of Kazakhstan, Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan chronicles one young man's struggle to prove himself worthy of a wife. In the meantime, he has to cope with his sister's family, a reluctant bride-to-be, sand storms, and illness in the family's sheep herd — all that while listening to "By [...]