TOKYO -- "To Each His
Own Cinema," an omnibus of 35 shorts made by well-known helmers made to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
Cannes fest will open the 2007 edition of the Tokyo Filmex fest.
Unspooling at four venues in
Tokyo (Nov 17 - 25), Filmex will feature a ten-pic competition for emerging Asian filmmakers,
including Hana Makhmalbaf's "Buddha Collapsed Out
of Shame," Kim Hee-jung's "The Wonder Years," Takahashi Izumi's
"Musunde-Hiraite," Kunitoshi Manda's "The Kiss," Lee Kong-sheng's "Help Me Eros"
and Kenneth Bi's "The Drummer."
The competition
jury is headed by Korean helmer Lee Chang-dong, whose pic "Secret Sunshine" will
close the fest. Other jury members are lenser Yutaka Yamazaki, helmer
Isao Yukisada, journalist and filmmaker Dorothee
Wenner and Cannes programmer Christian Jeune.
The fest will also offer a ten-pic Special
Screening section devoted to indie auteurs, including Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon
the Brain," Amos Gitai's "Disengagement," Jia Zhang-ke's "Dong" and "Useless" (Wuyong), Michelange Quay's "Eat, For This
Is My Body," Johnny To's "Exiled," Dariush Mehrjui's "Santori" and Wong Fung's
classic 1972 martial arts pic "Hapkido."
Among the other sections are a 12-pic retro
dedicated to socially conscious Japanese helmer Satsuo Yamamoto and a four-pic
mini-retro for Indian helmer Ritwik Ghatak.
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