In 2014, the Tokyo International Film Festival reserved a special section celebrating the diversity and development of Asian Cinema. It was called Crosscut Asia, which looked into the cinema of Asia and, more than that, curated films from specific Asian countries.
The section is coming back grandly this year. From January 21 to February 3, the TIFF and the Japan Foundation Asia Center will jointly present the program with a gustatory twist: it will be called Crosscut Asia Delicious! Online Film Festival. In this edition, the films will be culled from the year 2014 to 2019.
Even with the title bearing the word “delicious”, as reference to the food themes of the works selected, the festival will have two programs: Crosscut Asia, an edition featuring films from Asia that have something to do with food or culinary tradition; and Encore! Crosscut Asia, which will stream some other titles for free..
Lawrence Fajardo’s Invisible comes under the second program. The film tracks the tale of four Filipino migrant workers in Japan. The title mirrors the socioeconomic reality of “unregistered” foreign laborers who become part of the shadow economy. They contribute to the wealth-production of the country, which is Japan in this case, even as they remain “unseen”—invisible., consists of 15 short films made by Malaysian filmmakers, produced and released by Pete Teo.
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