At the Tokyo International Film Festival ’s TIFF Lounge, two of world cinema’s most distinctive voices — Cambodia’s Rithy Panh and Japan’s Miyake Sho — shared the stage for a conversation about filmmaking, memory, and work. Panh, speaking in French, served as president of the Locarno Film Festival jury that awarded Miyake’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” the Golden Leopard earlier this year. Miyake responded in Japanese.

Panh said he was pleased to see Miyake again after Locarno and recalled that the jury had been unanimous. “That doesn’t happen often,” he said. “I don’t usually watch many films, but this one impressed me. It speaks about solitude and the beauty of everyday gestures. When a director places the camera where human grace appears, that’s cinema.”

Miyake said the film was

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