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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo

Grand Prix · Film
Runway AIF 202607:50A Face Only A Mother Could LoveA film by Robert GaudetteTools: not stated

A Face Only A Mother Could Love

Robert Gaudette

Grand Prix, Film · Runway AI Festival 2026

$50,000 and one million Runway credits

The Grand Prix winner in the Film category of the Runway AI Festival 2026, a short of seven minutes fifty.

Director: Robert Gaudette
Form: Short film
Running time: 7 minutes 50 seconds
Festival dates: New York 11 June · Los Angeles 18 June · Tokyo 30 July 2026
Made with: Not stated by the maker
Where: Runway AIF 2026 · Grand Prix

The festival's page All films

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Runway AI Festival · checked 13 October 2026

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