TOKYO – Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza will chair the international competition jury of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), becoming the first Filipino to do so, it was announced at a press conference held at Toranomon Hills Forum on Sept. 25.

KYOTO – Kyoto International Film and Art Festival (KIFF) announced on Sept. 4 their event outline for this year’s festival at a press conference held at Yoshimoto Gion Kagetsu Hall.

FUKUOKA – Acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke is the recipient of the Fukuoka Grand Prize this year. Japanese scholar and economist Akira Suehiro won the Academic Prize and Indian performing artist Teejan Bai bagged the Arts and Culture Prize.

Five Filipino films are among the movies to be screened at the Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka 2018, which will be held from Sept. 14-23 at the Canal City Hakata in Fukuoka City.