The first five short films produced under Cate Blanchett’s Displacement Film Fund screened this afternoon at the Tokyo Film Festival, and the two-time Oscar winner was present alongside DFF fund directors Shahrbanoo Sadat and Mohammad Rasoulof for a post-screening Q&A.
The five films that screened are Rotation by Maryna Er Gorbach; Sadat’s Super Afghan Gym; Allies in Exile by Hasan Kattan; Mo Harawe’s Whispers of a Burning Scent; and Rasoulof’s Sense of Water.
Discussing the origins of the DFF, Blanchett described the project as a lengthy journey that was realized thanks to the work of a “very passionate group
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