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Japanese black-and-white film Teki Cometh took the top Tokyo Grand Prix prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film also won Best Director for Yoshida Daihachi and Best Actor for Nagatsuka Kyozo.
Teki Cometh is based on a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka. The film follows Watanabe Gisuke, a 77-year-old widower and retired college professor of French literature, living alone in an old Japanese-style house his grandfather had built. However, one day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming.
The festival’s Special Jury Prize went to Colombian film Adios Amigo by Ivan D. Gaona.
Anamaria Vartolomei from Traffic took the Best Actress prize.
Chinese film My Friend An Delie, the debut feature by actor-director Dong Zijian, received the award for Best Artistic Contribution.
The Audience Award went to Yang Lina’s Big World, which follows Chunhu, who has cerebral palsy. During one summer, he helps with his grandmother’s stage play, while also preparing for a college exam.
The Asian Future Best Film Award went to Turkish film Apollon by Day Athena by Night.
The festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to prolific Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, behind works like Damnation, Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse.
The Kurosawa Akira Award was given to Miyake Sho and Fu Tien-yu. The prize is presented to “filmmakers who have made waves in cinema and are expected to help guide the industry’s future.”
Mati Diop’s Dahomey won the TIFF Ethical Film Award.
