Tokyo Festival’s Women’s Empowerment Lineup Follows Those Who ‘Fall Through the Cracks’
People pushed to move, or left without anywhere to belong, through no fault of their own form the through-line of this year’s Women’s Empowerment section at…
Variety reports that people pushed to move, or left without anywhere to belong, through no fault of their own form the through-line of this year’s Women’s Empowerment section at the Tokyo International Film Festival, according to programmer Shimizu Yu, who also oversees the festival’s Youth strand.
Now in its third year, the seven-film section includes Manuela Martelli’s “The.
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