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Cannes’ Christian Jeune Is ‘Very Optimistic’ About New Generation of Japanese Filmmakers
Naman Ramachandran Christian Jeune, director of the film department at Cannes Film Festival, has hailed the next generation of filmmakers chosen for the Tokyo International Film Festival‘s (TIFF) Nippon Cinema Now strand. “If I go back to six, seven years, I was a bit desperate to find new voices, and I got the impression that there was nobody really, or maybe young directors had difficulties to finance or even to cross over,” Jeune said.
