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Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Leila Hatami, Fukada Koji to Feature at Vesoul Festival

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Naman Ramachandran France’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas kicks off Feb. 1 with a gala screening of Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s 2001 Cannes winner “Kandahar” and will conclude on Feb.

8 with Kazakhstan filmmaker Yerlan Nurmukhambetov’s “The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time.”The guest of honor at the festival’s 28th edition will be Japanese filmmaker Fukada Koji, who will be presented with an Honorary Cyclo at the opening ceremony.

All 10 of Fukada’s features and four shorts will be presented at Vesoul, marking the first complete retrospective for the filmmaker.

In all, 20 films from Japan will play at the festival, including Nakano Ryota’s “The Asadas” and Miyazaki Hayao’s “My Neighbor Totoro.” The festival also pays tribute to Chinese master Xie Fei, whose masterpiece “Woman Sesame Oil Maker” won the Berlin Golden Bear in 1993.This year, the international competition jury is presided over by Leila Hatami, Berlin Silver Bear best actress winner for Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “A Separation.” The jury also includes Nurmukhambetov, Palestinian writer, producer and director Suha Arraf (“Villa Touma”), Philippines filmmaker Zig Dulay (“The Baggage”) and Paris-based producer Bich-Quan Tran (“Schirkoa”).The films in competition include Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s “No Land’s Man” (Bangladesh, India, U.S.), Da Fei’s “The Coffin Painter” (China), Zhang Lu’s “Yanagawa (China), Hong Sung-eun’s “Aloners” (Korea), Reza Dormishian’s “No Choice” (Iran), Fujimoto Akio’s “Along the Sea” (Japan, Vietnam), Yolkin Tuychiev’s “2000 Songs of Farida” (Uzbekistan), Brillante Mendoza’s “Gensan Punch” (Philippines) and Chung Mong-hong’s “The Falls” (Taiwan).The festival is being operated as an in-person event with.

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