The work of an artist with nothing to prove, with a hand at the wheel so sure you don’t even notice it.

A film of tremendous unease that adults experience on behalf of children and children experience between themselves.

Director Koji Fukada offers a unique contribution to the melodrama genre: a film of unusual subtleties.

Three titles varied movies screenings during the final weekend of the festival’s 16th edition.

A coolly dystopian film centered on the Japanese government’s assisted euthanasia program for those ages 75 and up, created in response to a glut of seniors and an increase in hate crimes against them.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi has masterfully and thrillingly expanded Haruki Murakami’s typically spare and evocative short story into a three-hour feature.

As so often happens with international films, this movie is much more accurately represented by its original Japanese title, Coincidence and Imagination, than its English translation.

This film is shot by Christopher Doyle, the cinematographer most famous for working with Wong Kar-wai and Edward Yang, and it looks incredible.

A visual delight and a beautifully rendered, intriguing imagining of a little-known female artist’s life.