From the Kenzi Mizoguchi tribute section – Sansho the Bailiff, Street of Shame and The Woman of Rumour
From the Arab competition section – Falafel, Tender is the Wolf.
Indian competition – Podokkhep, Kayyoppu, Shoonya.
Films on Intolerance – Shame (a documentary about Mukhtaran Mai's fight for justice), Iraq in Fragments, The Colour of Olives.
Hymns to Freedom – The Battle of Algiers (an old favourite, which I haven’t seen on the big screen), Children of Fire.
Ozu’s Tokyo Story and Hitchcock’s The Birds (no, don't ask me what it's doing in a festival of Asian cinema; maybe some of the starring birds were immigrants).
Focus on Japan – Taboo (directed by Nagisa Oshima, who made the fascinating Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and In the Realm of the Senses), Hiroshi Inagaki’s four-hour epic Chushingura/Samurai.
From the Arab competition section – Falafel, Tender is the Wolf.
Indian competition – Podokkhep, Kayyoppu, Shoonya.
Films on Intolerance – Shame (a documentary about Mukhtaran Mai's fight for justice), Iraq in Fragments, The Colour of Olives.
Hymns to Freedom – The Battle of Algiers (an old favourite, which I haven’t seen on the big screen), Children of Fire.
Ozu’s Tokyo Story and Hitchcock’s The Birds (no, don't ask me what it's doing in a festival of Asian cinema; maybe some of the starring birds were immigrants).
Focus on Japan – Taboo (directed by Nagisa Oshima, who made the fascinating Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and In the Realm of the Senses), Hiroshi Inagaki’s four-hour epic Chushingura/Samurai.
