Tommy Lee Jones to head Tokyo film fest jurySeptember 26, 2017 - 11:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Veteran American actor, Tommy Lee Jones will head the competition jury at next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival. The festival will open with Japanese fantasy film “Fullmetal Alchemist” and close with Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” Variety said. Jones will be joined on the jury by Belgian director Martin Provost (“Serafine”), Iranian writer-director and producer Reza Mirkarimi, Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase, and Chinese actress, director and investor Vicky Zhao Wei. The jury will decide a Grand Prix, a jury prize, best director, screenplay, actor, actress and artistic contribution prizes. 2017 Tokyo IFF competition selection “We The Dead” (aka “Aquerat”) dir. Edmund Yeo (Malaysia) “Crater” dirs. Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellini (Italy) “Euthanizer” dir. Teemu Niki (Finland) “Forget About Nick” dir. Margarethe von Trotta (Germany) “Grain” dir. Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar) “Gutland” Govinda van Maele (Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium) “The Home” dir. Asghar Yousefinejad (Iran) The Looming Storm” dir. Dong Yue (China) “The Lowlife” dir. Takahise Zeze (Japan) “Maryline” dir. Guillaume Gallienne (France) “Namme” dir. Zaza Khalvashi (Georgia, Lithuania) “Ship in a Room” dir. Lyubomir Mladenov (Bulgaria) “Sparring” dir. Samuel Jouy (France) “Sveta” dir. Zhanna Issabayeva (Kazakhstan) “Tremble all you Want” dir: Akiko Ooku Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. |