After four days packed with film screenings in Rotterdam, Tokyo Kurds tops the Audience Award rankings. Director HYUGA Fumiari explores the issues facing immigrants in Japan in a documentary that paints a moving portrait of two young Kurdish men trying to make a new life in Japan.
The top ten titles so far are:
1. Tokyo Kurds
2. Anime Supremacy
3. Alivehoon
4. Riverside Mukolitta
5. They Say Nothing Stays the Same
6. Routine + Anxious Body + I’m late + Summer Ghost
7. Eternally Younger than Those Idiots
8. Wandering
9. Target
10. Salaryman
Seven of these films will screen at LAB111 in Amsterdam (29 September – 2 October). The winner of the CAMERA JAPAN Audience Award will be announced once audiences in Amsterdam have had their say. Stay tuned!