The Japan Foundation Asia Center and Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will jointly present the CROSSCUT ASIA Delicious! Online Film Festival from Friday, January 21 to Thursday, February 3, 2022. Originally launched as a section of TIFF in 2014, CROSSCUT ASIA showcased diverse Asian cinema with a focus on specific Asian countries, directors, or themes for six years until 2019. It now returns in a special online version with two programs—CROSSCUT ASIA special edition featuring “delicious” films from Asia, and Encore! CROSSCUT ASIA—streaming a total of thirteen titles for free.
The film festival is themed around food. The CROSSCUT ASIA special edition featuring “delicious” films from Asia section features seven films, including Wanton Mee, made by the leading Singaporean director Eric Khoo, whose films are screened regularly at international film festivals, Jay Abello’s romantic comedy Namets! (Yummy!), which showcases the visually delightful cuisine of the Philippine island of Negros, and Aruna & Her Palate, an Indonesian food-themed road movie by Edwin, the acclaimed director who won the Golden Leopard at the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival.
Encore! CROSSCUT ASIA brings together a selection of carefully chosen films that attracted great acclaim when previously screened at the CROSSCUT ASIA section at TIFF. Fresh from her success with Netflix’s A World Without, director Nia Dinata’s Indonesian musical Three Sassy Sisters and Pete Teo Special, a series of pieces including music videos and an omnibus of short films by fifteen Malaysian directors, are just two of the works screening in this richly varied program.
Don’t miss this “delicious” opportunity to catch great examples of Asian cinema!
– Dates: Friday, January 21, 2022, 8:00 a.m.–Thursday, February 3, 2022, 9:59 p.m. (Vietnam)
– Subtitles: Japanese, English (some films have subtitles in various Southeast Asian languages including Vietnamese)
– Viewing: Free of charge (Some of the films will not be available in Vietnam)
– Organizers: The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo International Film Festival
– Inquiries to The Japan Foundation Asia Center Arts, Culture and Exchange Section 1
E-mail: jfac_film@jpf.go.jp (Tokyo International Film Festival Promotion Group)
E-mail: delicious@tiff-jp.net
– Registration starts: Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 10:00 a.m. (Vietnam)
– Further information and registration: https://crosscutonline.jfac.jp/english/
