Guest appearances for 2025!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ll once again be joined by two directors of JFTFP25 titles at select screenings, where they’ll be giving exclusive Q&A sessions!

SEKINE Kosai, director of Stay Mum, will be appearing at:

• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (7 Feb)
• Frankopan Hall, Jesus College; Cambridge (8 Feb)
• QUAD, Derby (9 Feb)
• Phoenix, Leicester (10 Feb)

TODA Akihiro, director of Ichiko, will be appearing at:

• Depot, Lewes (13 Feb)
• The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford (14 Feb)
• Chapter, Cardiff (15 Feb)
• Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (16 Feb)
• Showroom Cinema, Sheffield (17 Feb)

We’re excited to welcome them, and we hope you’re looking forward to meeting them!

For more information, check out our film or venue pages.

About SEKINE Kosai

Film director/cinematographer. He directed his first short film RIGHT PLACE in 2005, which won the Best Foreign Film at the New York Short Film Festival and the Grand Prix at the Young Director’s Award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity the following year. In 2018, he made his feature film directorial debut with Love At Least which won the Jury Prize at the KINOTAYO Film Festival and the Silver Award at the SHINDO Kaneto Awards. In the same year, he released his feature documentary Tower of the Sun. He announced his collaboration with UNHCR about the immigrants and released his new documentary Dust to Dust which focus on clothes and dust issue in 2024.

About TODA Akihiro

Born in Nara Prefecture in 1983. Founder of theatre unit cheese theater.

TODA Akihiro graduated with a degree in theatre arts from Kindai University. He learned filmmaking on his own and won several prizes for his short films. In 2014, he made his feature debut with TANGERINES ON CAT. TODA also works as a writer and stage director. Stage play Ichiko no Tameni which Ichiko is based on, won Best Screenplay at Sun Mall Studio Awards in 2015.

Posted on: 6 January 2025

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