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 | Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. |