Overview

• Sho Miyake becomes the fourth Japanese director to win the Golden Leopard with a film based on Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside.
• White Snail by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter earned the Special Jury Prize, with Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov sharing the Leopard for Best Performance.
• Abbas Fahdel secured the Best Direction award for Tales of the Wounded Land, spotlighting cross-cultural storytelling from Lebanon.
• Hair, Paper, Water… by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý won the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present competition, which spotlights first and second features.
• Provoked interest from sales outfits like Bitters End, Tabi to Hibi is slated for a theatrical release in Japan this November.