Carlo Chatrian , the former Locarno and Berlin artistic director who is heading the main competition jury at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), talked about the growing importance of film festivals in a challenging market when he met the press today.

Chatrian is presiding over a jury that also includes Japanese actor and director Takumi Saitoh; Chinese director Vivian Qu, Taiwan-based French film editor Matthieu Laclau and Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei.

He started by explaining how he attended TIFF in 2014 and was introduced to a film that was more than five hours long from a new Japanese filmmaker. “I didn’t have time to watch the film during the festival, and I shouldn’t say this, but I started watching it on the plane,” said Chatrian, who was working with Locarn

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