As we count down the days until an epic 18-day celebration of world cinema, we've partnered with MIFF's programmers to ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s second film, Renoir, took me back for a while to Avinash Arun’s Marathi debut ...

Chie Hayakawa’s latest feature about a young girl facing losing a parent to cancer is a shining, soulful study of quiet mourning.

Director Chie Hayakawa says the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit north-central Japan in March 2011, setting off the Fukushima nuclear disaster, galvanized her plunge into professional ...

Director Chie Hayakawa shared her thoughts about art, life and, not least, death. Cineuropa: Some similarities between yourself and the main character have already been hinted at in the film’s ...

That information is only glancingly alluded to in Chie Hayakawa’s “ Renoir,” a diaphanous coming-of-age story that’s only clouded by the burden of unbecoming (no surprise to anyone ...

Chie Hayakawa on Revisiting the Pain and Wonder of Childhood in Cannes Standout ‘Renoir’ For the follow-up to her distinguished 2022 debut, 'Plan 75,' the Japanese auteur threw out the rule ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...

Chie Hayakawa’s story of a girl who, watching her father die, seeks kindred spirits in art has a message about greed-is-good 1980s Japan.

Cannes 2025: You could call Chie Hayakawa’s understated second feature a coming-of-age film, except that its lead character doesn’t really learn anything ...

In 'Renoir,' director Chie Hayakawa tells a deeply personal and poetic story about a transformative summer in the life of an 11 year-old-girl.