BUDDHA MOUNTAIN (dir Li Yu) To Complete The 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival Competition Line-Up


BUDDHA MOUNTAIN now completes the competition line-up of the 23rd edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival ((東京国際映画祭) which will take place from the 23rd to 31st of October.

BUDDHA MOUNTAIN is Li Yu's already nominated feature in Taiwan; set in the mountainous region around Chengdu, it tells the story of a retired opera singer and her boarding tenants, a rock singer and a student who has run away from home after a fight with his father.

Tokyo Competition Lineup

And Peace on Earth; Dirs: Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini [Italy]
Beautiful Boy; Dirs: Shawn Ku [U.S.A]
Brighton Rock; Dir: Rowan Joffe [U.K.]
Buddha Mountain (觀音山); Dir: Li Yu (李玉) [China]
Flamingo No.13; Dir: Hamid Reza Aligholian [Iran]
If the Seed Doesn't Die; Dir: Sinisa Dragin [Romania/Serbia/Austria]
Intimate Grammar; Dir: Nir Bergman [Israel]
The Invisible Eye; Dir: Diego Lerman [Argentina/France/Spain]
Never Let Me Go; Dir: Mark Romanek [UK/US]
The Piano in a Factory (鋼的琴); Dir: Zhang Meng (張猛) [China]
Post Card (一枚のハガキ); Dirs: Shindo Kaneto (新藤兼人) [Japan]
Primary!; Dir: Ivan Noel [Spain]
Sarah's Key; Dir: Gilles Paquet-Brenner [France]
Sketches of Kaitan City (海炭市叙景); Dir: Kumakiri Kazuyoshi (熊切和嘉) [Japan]
Zephyr; Dir: Belma Bas [Turkey]

Tania Martins on fest21.com