POSTCARD with director Kaneto Shindo and producer Jiro Shindo
OBA: THE LAST SAMURAI with director Hideyuki Hirayama and co-director Cellin Gluck
MOTHERS’ WAY, DAUGHTERS’ CHOICE with director Kyoko Gasha
TAKAMINE with director Tôru Ichikawa and stars Hatsunori Hasegawa and Naomi Grace
MY BACK PAGE withdirector Nobuhiro Yamashita and screenwriter Kôsuke Mukai
I WISH (Kiseki) with writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda
UNDERWATER LOVE (Onna no Kappa) with director Shinji Imaoka and stars Sawa Masaki and Yoshiro Umezawa
LIVING THE SILENT SPRING with director Masako Sakata and editor John Junkerman
BUNNY DROP (Usagi Dorropu) with writer-director Sabu
SCHOOLGIRL APOCALYPSE (Seirafuku Mokushiroku)with writer-director John Cairns and producer Yukie
Kito
A STORY FROM CHIKAMATSU (Chikamatsu Monogatari) withactress Kyoko Kagawa, NFC Chief Curator Hisashi
Okajima and TIFF Secretary-General Nobushige Toshima (also press conference)
WE CAN’T CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT, WE WANNA BUILD A SCHOOL IN CAMBODIA with star Osamu Mukai and producer Masatake Kondo
SMUGGLER (Sumagura—Omaeno Miraiwo Hakobe) with star Masanobu Ando and producer-cowriter Masatoshi Yamaguchi
ABOUT THE PINK SKYwith director Keiichi Kobayashi and stars Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara,
Tsubasa Takayama [also TIFF Chair Tom Yoda and TIFF Programming Director Yoshi Yatabe]
CUT with director Amir Naderi and producers Eric Nyari, Engin Yenidunya and Regis Arnaud
CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION with producer-director Shane O’Sullivan and star May Shigenobu
ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO with star Koji Yakusho, director Izuru Narushima and producer Shohei Kotaki