Looking back the 25th TIFF : comments from guests (Part3)
 
Virginie Lacombe (Producer), Jules Sitruk (Actor) (The Other Son)
Q: What was your impression of this Film Festival seen during your stay in Japan?
　Virginie Lacombe: I have been to many film festivals before now. TIFF is the big festival with very good organization, I prefer than Cannes! It is true. It is very different and people are so amazing.
 
 
 
Q: What was your impression of this Film Festival seen during your stay in Japan?
　Jules Sitruk: It was amazing. Organization, kindness of staffs, procession of events, all the guests and , , , everything!!
 
 
 
Q： Our main theme of this year’s film festival is “Power of Films Now”. Do you have any episode in which you strongly felt the power of the film?
Jules Sitruk: I think cinema and all arts are ways to bring hope and love. It’s not the function of cinema, but if we can a little bit help of peace like stopping wrong things in the world, it will make a big impact.
 
 
Aida El Kashef (Actress) (Ship of Theseus)
Q: What was your impression of this Film Festival seen during your stay in Japan?
　Aida El Kashef: I love TIFF!! It was very well-organized and everybody looking at actress with such care and films are great. I enjoyed some of competition films. Also Tokyo is of course amazing. It is my first time to come to Tokyo.
 
Q： Our main theme of this year’s film festival is “Power of Films Now”. Do you have any episode in which you strongly felt the power of the film?
Aida El Kashef: Yes, of course! The films project reality whether it is happy one or sad one, even the fantasy, each one have dreams. It is very wide medium to parallel universe to our own universe. It projects everything like what we feel and what we see, its base concept is what we live. There is no film comes out from the space, it relevant to something our living. It is so powerful because it depends on our lives.
 
 
Scott McGehee and David Siegel (Directors) (What Maisie Knew)
Q: What was your impression of this Film Festival seen during your stay in Japan?
　Scott McGehee(left): We had really nice time. Audience was very friendly and asked us many questions. We also had a chance to meet other film makers and staffs of TIFF were very helpful, it was very nice. Thank you.
David Siegel(right): I feel exactly the same way!
 
Q： Our main theme of this year’s film festival is “Power of Films Now”. Do you have any episode in which you strongly felt the power of the film?
David Siegel: I think yes. As so many people had said, that is why many of us take a grab in making movies. It is because, they do have such a strong powerful effect on people and movies are our popular media. It is the way that we tell our cultural stories of most of our time. I would say it is a renaissance painting of our time. It is a kind of honor and privilege to be involved in making movies. That is your part of very important dialogues.
Scott McGehee: I agree with him! We keep doing this exactly! Hahaha. (Scott and David have co-directed films since 1990. )
 
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