Updated on October 28
Guests information of Competition The Piano in a Factory has been updated.

10/27 Guests information of Competition If the Seed Doesn't Die, Special Screenings Swing Me Again, Winds of Asia-Middle East Hi-So have been updated.
10/26 Guests information of Winds of Asia-Middle East Juliets etc. have been updated.
10/25 Guests information of Special Screenings Bunraku has been updated.
10/24 Guests information of Competition Primary! etc. have been updated.
10/23 Guests information of Winds of Asia-Middle East The Fourth Portrait etc. have been updated.
10/21 Guests information of Special Screenings Into the White Night, WORLD CINEMA Hands Up etc. have been updated.
10/20 Guests information of Competition Into the White Night, Japanese Eyes A Liar and a Broken Girl, Successional Tradition of Noh etc. have been updated.
10/19 Guests information of Competition POST CARD, Winds of Asia-Middle East MOSS (Original Title) and natural TIFF supported by TOYOTA The Elephant Simultaneous Screening : Wake up!! TAMALA have been updated.
10/18 Additional guests information of Swing Me Again etc. have been updated!
10/17 Guests information of following films have been updated.
Competition: Buddha Mountain, Special Screenings: POTICHE, THE CRAZIES, Leonie, Winds of Asia-Middle East: Hot Summer Days, Ways of the Sea, natural TIFF: Waterlife etc.
10/13 Guests information of Filmmaker's Angle, etc have been updated.


Blue Color = The date additional guests information was updated on.
Red Color The date cancelled guests information was updated on.


Followings are lists of guest appearances during the film festival.
The latest guests information has been updated. Please check here!!

↓　10/23(Sat) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/24(Sun) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/25(Mon) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/26(Tue) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/27(Wed) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/28(Thu) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/29(Fri) Guest Appearance List
↓　10/30(Sat) Guest Appearance List

10:45  Waste Land
Guest (tentative): Vik Muniz (Artist)
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11:30  Zephyr
Guest (tentative): Belma Bas(Director/Screenplay), Seyma Uzunlar(Actress)
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12:00  Memories of a Burning Tree
Guest (tentative): Sherman Ong(Director/Producer/Writer)
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13:00  Gallants  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative): Derek Kwok(Director/Screenplay), Clement Cheng(Director/Screenplay)
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13:50  Flamingo No.13
Guest (tentative): Hamid Reza Aligholian(Director/Editor), Rasoul Younan(Screenplay/Actor), Houman Ahmadi Tofighi(Producer)
Baran Zamani(Actress)    Updated 10/20
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16:30  Minato Screening Program C / Mai Mai Miracle   Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative): Sunao Katabuchi(Director), Tomohiko Iwase(Producer)
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18:10  Passerby #3
Guest (tentative): Shin Su-won(Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Music)
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20:30  TRON: LEGACY 3D Special Presentation
Guest (tentative):
Greeting from the Stage: Sean Baily(Producer)
Q&A: Garrett Hedlund(Actor), Sean Baily(Producer),
Olivia Wilde(Actress), Yu Yamada(Actress)   Updated 10/22
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22:00  Filmmaker's Angle The World of Kyoko Koizumi    Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative): Kyoko Koizumi, Makoto Wada(Director)
Yu Koyanagi(Actor)    Updated 10/17    Kiyoshi Kurosawa(Director)    Updated 10/18
Hiroshi Machida(Cinematographer)    Updated 10/20
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10:45  MONGA   Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage/Q&A: Doze, Niu Chen-Zer(Director), Lieh Lee(Producer), Ching-Tien Juan(Actor), Mark Chao(Actor)
Press Conference Guest (tentative):   Updated 10/17
CHIANG,Chi-Chen(Minister of Government Information Office, Taiwan)
Updated 10/22
Frank J.K. CHEN(Director of Department of Motion Pictures Affairs Government Information Office, Taiwan)   Updated 10/22
HSIEH,Hsiao-yun(Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs,Taipei City Government Executive Secretary, Taipei Film Commission),
MONGA: Lieh Lee(Producer), Doze, Niu Chen-Zer(Director), Ching-Tien Juan(Actor), Mark Chao(Actor),
ZOOM HUNTING: Ning Chang(Actress),
JULIETS: Khan Lee(Producer), Vivian Hsu(Actress),
Hou Chi-jan(Director/Writer) :   Updated 10/18 :   Updated 10/23
Facilitator: Kenji Ishizaka(Winds of Asia-Middle East Programming Director)
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11:00  Hands Up  Updated 10/21
Guest (tentative): Romain Goupil(Director/Screenplay)
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11:45  Despicable Me
Guest (tentative): Chris Meledandri(Producer)
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13:30  The Four Times
Guest (tentative): Michelangelo Frammartino(Director/Screenplay)
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13:45  The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Guest (tentative): Saverio Costanzo（Director/Screenplay), Alba Rohrwacher(Actress)
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14:15  Dog Sweat
Guest (tentative): Hossein Keshavarz(Director/Writer/Producer/ Editor), Maryam Azadi(Writer/Producer)
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14:40  Zephyr
Guest (tentative): Belma Bas(Director/Screenplay), Seyma Uzunlar(Actress)
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15:15  Leonie   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Hisako Matsui(Director)
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15:20  Juliets
Guest (tentative): Hou Chi-jan(Director/Writer), Khan Lee(Producer), Vivian Hsu(Actress)
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17:30  hospitalite
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage: Koji Fukada(Director/Screenplay/Editor/Producer), Kiki Sugino(Producer/Actress), Kenji Yamauchi(Actor), Kanji Furutachi(Actor), Bryerly Long(Actress), Eriko Ono(Actress), Kumi Hyodo(Actress)
Kousuke Ono(Executive Producer)   Updated 10/17
Q&A: Koji Fukada(Director/Screenplay/Editor/Producer), Kiki Sugino(Producer/Actress)
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17:45  Buddha Mountain   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Li Yu(Director/Script Writer), Fang Li(Producer/Script Writer), Sylvia Chang(Actress), Chen Po Lin(Actor)
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18:40  POTICHE   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Catherine Deneuve(Actress)
François Ozon(Director)   Updated 10/19
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19:00  Hi-So
Guest (tentative): Aditya Assarat(Director/Writer/Producer)
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19:00  The Legend is Alive
Guest (tentative): Dustin Tri Nguyen(Actor)
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19:50  Birthright
Guest (tentative): Naoki Hashimoto(Executive Producer/Screenplay/Director)
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21:00  Primary!
Guest (tentative): Ivan Noel(Director/Music/Screenplay/Editing)   Updated 10/23
Francisco Alfonsin(Actor)
Dan Uneken(Producer)   Updated 10/24
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21:30  Zoom Hunting
Guest (tentative): Ning Chang(Actor)
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10:45  Taipei Exchanges
Guest (tentative): Hsiao Ya-chuan(Director/Script)
Zaizai Lin(Actress)   Updated 10/8   Kosuke Atari(Musician)   Updated 10/24
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11:40  Primary!
Guest (tentative): Ivan Noel(Director/Music/Screenplay/Editing)   Updated 10/23
Francisco Alfonsin(Actor)
Dan Uneken(Producer)   Updated 10/24
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11:50  A Liar and a Broken Girl  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage: Natsuki Seta(Director/Screenplay), Aya Omasa(Actress), Shota Sometani(Actor)
Q&A: Natsuki Seta(Director/Screenplay)
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13:20  The Fourth Portrait
Guest (tentative): Mong-hong Chung(Director/Screenplay)   Updated 10/23
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13:35  STRANGERS IN THE CITY
Guest (tentative): Toru Nakamura(Actor), Manami Konishi(Actress), Nao Minamisawa(Actress), Junji Sakamoto(Director),meg
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14:30  Flamingo No.13
Guest (tentative): Hamid Reza Aligholian(Director/Editor), Rasoul Younan(Screenplay/Actor), Houman Ahmadi Tofighi(Producer)
Baran Zamani(Actress)    Updated 10/20
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16:15  Let the Wind Carry Me
Guest (tentative): Kwan Pun-leung(Director/Cinematographer/Editor)
Symposium Guest (tentative):   Updated 10/17
"MONGA" Doze, Niu Chen-Zer(Director)
"Taipei Exchanges" Hsiao Ya-chuan(Director/Script)
"Juliets" Khan Lee(Producer), Hou Chi-jan(Director/Writer)   Updated 10/24
Facilitator: Kenji Ishizaka(Winds of Asia-Middle East Programming Director)
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16:40  Love in a Puff
Guest (tentative): Pang Ho-cheung(Director/Producer/Original Story/Written)
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17:10  Oh Moon
Guest (tentative): Reha Erdem(Director/Writer)
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17:15  Into the White Night  Updated 10/21
Guest (tentative): Maki Horikita(Actress), Kengo Kora(Actor), Eiichiro Funakoshi(Actor), Yoshihiro Fukagawa(Director)
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18:30  Intimate Grammar
Guest (tentative): Nir Bergman(Director/Screenplay), Orly Zilbershatz(Actress)
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19:35  GARO-RED REQUIEM
Guest (tentative): Keita Amemiya(Director), Ryosei Konishi(Actor), Mary Matsuyama(Actress), Saori Hara(Actress)
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20:00  Camellia  Updated 10/12
Guest (tentative): Isao YUKISADA (Film Director)
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20:05  Mommy, I'm Scared
Guest (tentative): Reha Erdem(Director/Script/Editor)
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21:00  The Elephant Simultaneous Screening : Wake up!! TAMALA Updated 10/19
Guest (tentative): t.o.L("Wake up!! TAMALA"Director)
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21:00  If the Seed Doesn't Die
Guest (tentative): Sinisa Dragin(Director/Producer/Editor), Ioana Barbu(Actress)
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10:40  Wandering Home
Guest (tentative): Yoichi Higashi(Director/Screenplay/Editor)
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10:45  Passerby #3
Guest (tentative): Shin Su-won(Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Music)
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11:00  Red Dragonflies
Guest (tentative): Liao Jiekai(Director/Writer), Ng Xuan Ming(Actress)
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11:10  Sarah's Key
Guest (tentative): Gilles Paquet-Brenner(Director/Script)
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11:30  The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Guest (tentative): Saverio Costanzo(Director/Screenplay), Alba Rohrwacher(Actress)
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13:30  Hands Up  Updated 10/21
Guest (tentative): Romain Goupil(Director/Screenplay)
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13:50  Gallants  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative): Derek Kwok(Director/Screenplay), Clement Cheng(Director/Screenplay)
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14:25  Successional Tradition of Noh
Guest (tentative): Chiseko Tanaka(Producer/Director)
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15:00  And Peace on Earth
Guest (tentative): Matteo Botrugno(Director/Screenplay), Daniele Coluccini(Director/Screenplay), Maurizio Tesei(Actor)
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16:15  Memories of a Burning Tree
Guest (tentative): Sherman Ong(Director/Producer/Writer)
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17:30  Buddha Mountain   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Li Yu(Director/Script Writer), Fang Li(Producer/Script Writer), Sylvia Chang(Actress), Chen Po Lin(Actor)
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18:00  SP THE MOTION PICTURE Ⅰ
Main casts are scheduled to be on the stage.
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18:20  Juliets   Updated 10/26
Guest (tentative): Hou Chi-jan(Director/Writer)
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18:55  Ways of the Sea   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Sheron Dayoc(Director/Writer/Producer), Lilit Reyes(Producer), Maria Isabel Lopez(Actress)
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19:30  STONE
Guest (tentative):Teru(Special Guest)
"Maria"   Updated 10/21
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19:55  My Only Sunshine
Guest (tentative): Reha Erdem(Director/Writer/Sound Design/Editor)
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20:00  hospitalite
Guest (tentative): Koji Fukada(Director/Screenplay/Editor/Producer), Kiki Sugino(Producer/Actress), Kousuke Ono(Executive Producer)
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21:00  Brighton Rock
Guest (tentative): Rowan Joffe(Director)
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21:25  The Tiger Factory + Inhalation
Guest (tentative): Woo Ming Jin(Director/Producer/Writer), Edmund Yeo(Producer/Writer/Editor)
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10:50  Five Hours from Paris  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative): Leon Prudovsky(Director/Screenplay)
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11:00  442 -LIVE WITH HONOR, DIE WITH DIGNITY-
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage: Junichi Suzuki(Producer/Screenplay/Director), Rumi Sakakibara(Assistant director), Kitaro(Music), Ryuichi Suzuki(Executive Producer)  Updated 10/27
Q&A: Junichi Suzuki(Producer/Screenplay/Director)
Kitaro(Music)   Updated 10/17
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11:20  All About Love
Guest (tentative): Ann Hui(Director/Producer)
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11:30  If the Seed Doesn't Die
Guest (tentative): Sinisa Dragin(Director/Producer/Editor), Ioana Barbu(Actress) , Simona Stoicescu(Actress)  Updated 10/27
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12:00  Run Away
Guest (tentative): Inuhiko Yomota(Professor of Meijigakuin University)
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13:45  Swing Me Again
Guest (tentative): Ryohei Suzuki(Actor), Ichiro Zaitsu(Actor), Shunji Fujimura(Actor), Mitsuo Sagawa(Actor), Toshi Shioya(Director)
Hiroshi Inuzuka(Actor)   Updated 10/26
MINJI(Actress), Sho Aoyagi(Actor)   Updated 10/18
Sadao Watanabe(Actor)   Updated 10/27
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13:50  The Four Times
Guest (tentative): Michelangelo Frammartino(Director/Screenplay)
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14:30  POST CARD    Updated 10/19
Guest (tentative): Kaneto Shindo(Director), Etsushi Toyokawa(Actor), Shinobu Otake(Actress), Naomasa Musaka(Actor)
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16:30  Dog Sweat
Guest (tentative): Hossein Keshavarz(Director/Writer/Producer/Editor), Maryam Azadi(Writer/Producer)  Updated 10/15
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16:40  Hot Summer Days   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Wing Shya（Director)
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17:15  Cheburashka + the bears' school ～Jackie&Keity～
Guest (tentative): Nozomi Ohashi, Makoto Nakamura, Eduard Uspensky, Ayu Matsuura, Tetsuro Kodama(Director), Hiroyuki Aihara
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17:30  A Liar and a Broken Girl  Updated 10/20
Guest (tentative): Natsuki Seta(Director/Screenplay)
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18:00  The Invisible Eye
Guest (tentative): Diego Lerman(Director/Screenplay/Producer), Julieta Zylberberg(Actress)
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19:15  Taipei Exchanges
Guest (tentative): Hsiao Ya-chuan(Director/Script)
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19:50  GAME OF DEATH + ENTER THE DRAGON   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Koyo Udagawa(Film Critic), Jun Edoki(Film Critic)
Facilitator: Kenji Ishizaka(Winds of Asia-Middle East Programming Director)
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20:10  KOSMOS
Guest (tentative): Reha Erdem（Director/Writer/Sound Design/Editor）
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20:10  Two Gates of Sleep
Guest (tentative): Alistair Banks Griffin(Director/Screenplay)
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20:35  And Peace on Earth
Guest (tentative): Matteo Botrugno(Director/Screenplay), Daniele Coluccini(Director/Screenplay), Maurizio Tesei(Actor)
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21:00  Bunraku  Updated 10/25
Guest (tentative): Emiri Kaiho (Actress), Syun Sugata(Actor)
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10:40  Hi-So
Guest (tentative): Aditya Assarat(Director/Writer/Producer)
Soros Sukhum(Producer)   Updated 10/27
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11:20  Magic  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative): Koo Hye-sun(Director/Writer)
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11:50  Your Home
Guest (tentative): Kohei Yamakawa(Director/Screenplay/Editor)
Symposium Guest (tentative):   Updated 10/17
Kohei Yamakawa("Your Home" Director/Screenplay/Editor), Naoki Hashimoto ("Birthright"), Tetsuaki Matsue("LIVE TAPE" Director), Keiko Araki(PIA FILM FESTIVAL Director)
Facilitator:Yoshi Yatabe(TIFF Programming Director)
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12:00  Never Let Me Go    Updated 10/20
Guest (tentative): Mark Romanek(Director)
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13:35  The Valiant Ones  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative): Koyo Udagawa(Film Critic)
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14:20  Sketches of Kaitan City  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri(Director), Mitsuki Tanimura(Actress), Ryo Kase(Actor), Kaho Minami(Actress), Kaoru Kobayashi(Actor), Masaki Miura(Actor)
Q&A: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri(Director)
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17:30  Shrek Forever After
Guest (tentative): Norika Fujiwara(Voice Cast), Koichi Yamadera(Voice Cast), Hitori Gekidan(Voice Cast)
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17:45  The Piano in a Factory
Guest (tentative): Zhang Meng(Director/Screenplay), Wang Qian-yuan(Actor)
Jessica Kam(Producer), Choi Gwang-suk(Producer)    Updated 10/28
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18:00  8000 MILES: SR Saitama's Rapper    Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative): Yu Irie(Director)
Belma Bas(Director/Screenplay Zephyr), Sinisa Dragin(Director/Producer/Editor If the Seed Doesn't Die)    Updated 10/26
Facilitator: Kaizo Hayashi(Director)
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19:30  THE CRAZIES   Updated 10/17
Live Webcast Guest (tentative): Breck Eisner(Director)
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19:45  Let the Wind Carry Me
Guest (tentative): Kwan Pun-leung(Director/Cinematographer/Editor)
Chiang Hsiu-chiung(Director/Cinematographer/Editor)   Updated 10/19
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20:15  The Tiger Factory + Inhalation
Guest (tentative): Woo Ming Jin(Director/Producer/Writer)    Updated 10/19
Edmund Yeo(Producer/Writer/Editor)
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20:40  P.S
Guest (tentative): Yalkin Tuychiev(Director/Screenplay）
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21:05  The Happy Poet
Guest (tentative): Paul Gordon(Director/Producer/Screenplay/Editor)
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21:20  Beautiful Boy
Guest (tentative): Shawn Ku(Director/Writer)
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11:00  Hot Summer Days
Guest (tentative): Wing Shya(Director)  Updated 10/15
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11:10  The Singing Hitman!
Guest (tentative): Masao Kusakari(Actor), Yoka Wao(Actress), Claude Maki(Actor), Takashi Takahata(Director), zeebra(Theme Song)
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11:30  Brighton Rock
Guest (tentative): Rowan Joffe(Director）
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13:30  MOSS (Original Title)    Updated 10/19
Guest (tentative): Kang Woo-suk(Director), Pakr Hae-il(Actor)
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15:00  IP MAN 2   Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative): Yasuaki Kurata(Actor), Jiro Chino(Film Critic), Kenji Ishizaka(Winds of Asia-Middle East Programming Director)
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16:20  Ways of the Sea
Guest (tentative): Sheron Dayoc(Director/Writer/Producer), Lilit Reyes(Producer), Maria Isabel Lopez(Actress)
Romeo John Arcilla(Actor)    Updated 10/19
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17:40  Intimate Grammar
Guest (tentative): Nir Bergman(Director/Screenplay), Orly Zilbershatz(Actress)
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17:45  Birthright
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage: Naoki Hashimoto(Executive Producer/Screenplay/Director), Sayoko Oho(Actress), Miyu Yagyu(Actress), Yoko Takizawa(Actress)
Q&A: Naoki Hashimoto(Executive Producer/Screenplay/Director)
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18:00  Waterlife   Updated 10/17
Guest (tentative): Kevin McMahon(Director/Screenplay)
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19:50  Red Dragonflies
Guest (tentative): Liao Jiekai(Director/Writer)
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21:00  Sarah's Key
Guest (tentative): Gilles Paquet-Brenner(Director/Script)
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21:00  Two Gates of Sleep
Guest (tentative): Alistair Banks Griffin(Director/Screenplay)
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22:00  Filmmaker's Angle The World of Yohei Taneda   Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative): Yohei Taneda, Lee Chi-Ngai(Director), Su Chao-Bin(Director), Chiaki Kuriyama(Actress), Shinya Kawai(Producer), Masayuki Tanashima(Producer), Koko Maeda(Producer)
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10:50  FIT
Guest (tentative):
Greetings from the Stage: Hiromasa Hirosue(Director/Screenplay/Editor/Cinematographer), Akie Namiki(Screenplay/Cinematographer/Continuity/Actress), Midori Shine(Actress), Yui Oouchi (Actress)
Q&A: Hiromasa Hirosue (Director/Screenplay/Editor/Cinematographer)
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11:20  The Piano in a Factory
Guest (tentative): Zhang Meng(Director/Screenplay), Wang Qian-yuan(Actor)
Jessica Kam(Producer), Choi Gwang-suk(Producer)    Updated 10/28
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13:25  Successional Tradition of Noh
Guest (tentative): Greetings from the Stage: Chiseko Tanaka(Producer/Director), Shiro Sano(Actor)
Shoroku Sekine(Noh performer)   Updated 10/20
Q&A: Chiseko Tanaka(Producer/Director)
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14:30  Never Let Me Go    Updated 10/20
Guest (tentative): Mark Romanek(Director)
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16:50  The Happy Poet
Guest (tentative): Paul Gordon(Director/Producer/Screenplay/Editor)
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17:00  The Invisible Eye
Guest (tentative): Diego Lerman(Director/Screenplay/Producer), Julieta Zylberberg(Actress)
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19:50  Sketches of Kaitan City  Updated 10/8
Guest (tentative): Kazuyoshi Kumakiri(Director)
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19:50  442 -LIVE WITH HONOR, DIE WITH DIGNITY-
Guest (tentative): Junichi Suzuki(Producer/Screenplay/Director)
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22:00  Filmmaker's Angle The World of Rintaro    Updated 10/13
Guest (tentative): Rintaro, Toru Furuya(Voice Actor), Ryudo Uzaki(Musician)
Katsuhiro Otomo    Updated 10/19    Sunao Katabuchi(Director)    Updated 10/20
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