Rainbow Reel Tokyo (Japanese: レインボー・リール東京 Reinbō rīru Tōkyō), until 2016 known as Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Japanese: 東京国際レズビアン&ゲイ映画祭 Tōkyō kokusai rezubian to gei eigasai), also known by the acronym TILGFF, is an international film festival for LGBT audiences, held annually in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan.
The Festival was established in 1992 and was held at Nakano Sun Plaza, 6th Floor (中野サンプラザ6F研修室). The next three were held at Kichijōji Baus Theater (吉祥寺バウスシアター). Since 1996, the Festival has been held in July at Spiral Hall in the Aoyama neighborhood of Tokyo.
The 23rd Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival was held July 12~21, 2014, at Eurospace in Shibuya, and Spiral Hall in Aoyama.
Awards
Rainbow Reel Competition The Rainbow Reel Competition (レインボー・リール・コンペティション) began in 19957th Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Retrieved 1 February 2012. as an annual screening of Japanese short films to encourage production of LGBT-themed films. The audience selects a favorite film and the director is awarded the Grand Prix Rainbow Reel Award (レインボー・リール賞（グランプリ）), currently a ¥100,000 prize ($1000 US).Japanese Rainbow Reel Competition Retrieved 1 February 2012.
Grand Prix Rainbow Reel Award winners 4th Festival (1995) – 5th Festival (1996) – 6th Festival (1997) – 7th Festival (1998) – We Are Transgenders (We Are Transgenders ～性別を超えて、自分らしく生きる～); director: Lulu Ogawa (尾川ルル) 8th Festival (1999) – 9th Festival (2000) – 10th Festival (2001) – 11th Festival (2002) – 12th Festival (2003) – 13th Festival (2004) – 14th Festival (2005) – "Stereotype Company" (「ヘテロ薬」) (2005); director: Team "Stereotype Company" (ヘテロ薬制作委員会) 15th Festival (2006) – Somewhere in Tokyo (東京のどこかで) (2006); director: Kenta Tatenai (タテナイケンタ) 16th Festival (2007) – A Tulip of Violet (2007); director: Yūmi Andō (安藤優美) 17th Festival (2008) – San-Kaku (△サンカク) (2008); director: Kazuki Watanabe (渡辺一樹) 18th Festival (2009) – "Avec mon copain / With my Boyfriend; director : Antonio de Oliveira; Producer : Sanae Kikuchi (Tomoé films) 19th Festival (2010) – Jellyfish Boy (くらげくん) (2009); director: Shō Kataoka (片岡翔) 20th Festival (2011) – 21st Festival (2012) – Tsuyako (2011); director: Mitsuyo Miyazaki (宮崎光代) 22nd Festival (2013) – 23rd Festival (2014) – The Other Side of a Smiling Face (笑顔の向こう側) (2013); director: Yoshiaki Sajima (佐島由昭) 24th Festival (2015) – From the Bottom of the Vortex (私は渦の底から) (2015); director: Kozue Nomoto (野本梢) 25th Festival (2016) – 26th Festival (2017) – 27th Festival (2018) – Old Narcissus (老ナルキソス); director: Tsuyoshi Shōji (東海林毅) 28th Festival (2019) –
Special Jury Award The Special Jury Award (審査員特別賞 Shinsa-in tokubetsu shō), first given in 2008, is an outstanding Japanese film selected by a guest director.
Special Jury Award winners 17th Festival (2008) – When I Become Silent (わたしが沈黙するとき) (2007); director: Hyōe Yamamoto (山本兵衛)
Festival programs
1st Festival (1992) Festival reference English title Original title Year Country Director(s) Notes AIDS March on Washington 1988 US Los Angeles Project documentary The Best of Out 1985 US London Project documentary Forbidden Love Zapovězená láska 1990 Czechoslovakia Vladislav Kvasnička Gay Games 2 1986 US San Francisco Sports Project documentary Gay Movement in Japan 1986 Japan ILGA Japan Video Project documentary Nocturne 1990 UK Joy Chamberlain OCCUR Takes Its Case to Court OCCUR 東京同性愛裁判 1992 Japan OCCUR Video Project documentary of the OCCUR case Festival title: OCCUR Takes Its ...... to Court Orientations 1986 Canada Richard Fung Over Our Dead Bodies 1991 UK Stuart Marshall Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song 1988 Philippines Nick Deocampo We Were One Man Nous étions un seul homme 1978 France Philippe Vallois Because the Dawn 1988 US Amy Goldstein short film, 40 minutes The Battle of Tuntenhaus 1991 UK Juliet Bashore short film, 24 minutes Bolo! Bolo! 1991 Canada Gita Saxena Ian Iqbal Rashid short film, 30 minutes Exposure 1990 Canada Michelle Mohabeer short film, 8 minutes Fighting Chance 1990 Canada Richard Fung short film, 29 minutes Honored by the Moon 1989 US Mona Smith documentary short, 15 minutes Outtakes 1989 US John Goth short film, 13 minutes Ten Cents a Dance: Parallax 1985 Canada Midi Onodera short film, 30 minutes We Were Everywhere 1987 Sweden Bill Sure short film, 28 minutes The White Line Dance Flowing Heart 1991 1992 Thailand John Goth short film, 38 minutes Women of Gold 1990 US Eileen Lee Marilyn Abbink short film, 30 minutes
2nd Festival (1993) Festival reference English title Original title Year Country Director(s) Notes Before Stonewall 1984 US Robert Rosenberg Greta Schiller documentary Bright Eyes 1986 UK Stuart Marshall documentary Dear My Friends ディアマイフレンズ 1992 Japan documentary; Visual AIDS Tokyo Fun Down There 1989 US Roger Stigliano Love and Marriage UK Susan Ardill The Lost Language of Cranes 1991 UK Nigel Finch TV film Minoru & Me ミノルと私 Minoru to watashi 1992 UK Toichi Nakata North of Vortex 1991 UK/Greece Constantine Giannaris Okoge おこげ 1992 Japan Takehiro Nakajima (中島丈博) On Guard 1984 Australia Susan Lambert The Salt Mines 1990 US Susana Aikin Carlos Aparicio Together Alone 1991 US P. J. Castellaneta Woman Like Us (??) Japanese title: エマとダイアナ UK Among Good Christian Peoples 1991 US Catherine Saalfield Jacqueline Woodson documentary short, 30 minutes Anthem 1991 US Marlon Riggs short film, 8 minutes Aura 1992 US Ming-Yuen S. Ma short film, 7 minutes Because This Is About Love 1991 US Shu Lee Ong short film, 30 minutes Caught Looking 1991 UK Constantine Giannaris short film, 35 minutes Gay Sera Sera 1992 UK Susan Ardill short film, 23 minutes Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1991 UK Richard Kwietniowski short film, 25 minutes Home Sweet Home 1991 UK Rosalind Haber short film, 17 minutes If She Grows Up Gay 1983 US Karen Sloe short film, 23 minutes I Got This Way From Kissin' Girls 1990 US Julie Battler short film, 8 minutes I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To 1992 US Dawn Suggs short film, 8 minutes Irome 色目 Irome 1992 Japan Hiroyuki Ōki (大木裕之) short film, 8 minutes; Festival Title: Iro-Me Khush 1991 UK Pratibha Parmar short film, 24 minutes L Is for the Way You Look 1991 US Jean Carlomusto short film, 24 minutes Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) 1992 US Marlon Riggs short film, 35 minutes Red Lolita 1989 US Gloria Toyunpark short film, 6 minutes Relax 1991 UK Chris Newby short film, 25 minutes Rosebud 1992 UK Cheryl Farthing short film, 14 minutes RSVP 1991 Canada Laurie Lynd short film, 23 minutes Sandra's Garden 1991 Canada Bonnie Dickson short film, 34 minutes She Don't Fade 1991 US Cheryl Dunye short film, 24 minutes Target Bush 1991 US short film, 10 minutes; Diva TV Tell Me No Lies 1992 UK Neil Hunter short film, 29 minutes Tell Me Why: The Epistemology of Disco 1991 Canada John Di Stefano short film, 24 minutes They Are Lost to Vision Altogether 1989 US Tom Colin short film, 13 minutes Two Marches 1991 US Jim Hubbard short film, 9 minutes War on Lesbians 1992 US Jane Cotis short film, 32 minutes
3rd Festival (1994) Festival reference English title Original title Year Country Director(s) Notes Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives 1992 Canada Aerlyn Weissman Lynne Fernie documentary; Festival title Forbidden Love Grief 1993 US Richard Glatzer In the Best Interests of the Children 1977 US Frances Reid Elizabeth Stevens Cathy Zheutlin documentary Prinz in Hölleland 1993 Germany Michael Stock A Secret Evening 夕辺の秘密 Yūbe no himitsu 1989 Japan Ryōsuke Hashiguchi Festival title: Secret in the Evening After the Break 1992 US Mary Guzmán short film, 13 minutes Because the Dawn 1988 US Amy Goldstein short film, 40 minutes Both 1993 US Vic De La Rosa short film, 8 minutes A Certain Grace 1992 US Sandra Nettelbeck short film, 40 minutes The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore 1992 Canada Laurie Lynd short film, 17 minutes Harold and Hiroshi 1989 US Ed Askinazi short film, 38 minutes I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True 1986 Canada Kalli Paakspuu Daria Stermac short film, 24 minutes Ifé 1993 US Len Keller short film, 5 minutes In Plain View 1993 France/US Felix Olivier short film, 25 minutes Just Because of Who We Are 1986 US Hermadia Collective short film, 28 minutes The Lesbian Impress Card 1990 US Ingrid Wilhite short film, 3 minutes Life on Earth As I Know It 1989 Australia Penny McDonald short film, 8 minutes Loverville 1992 US Bohdan Zachary short film, 6 minutes My Life Ma vie 1992 Canada Denis Langlois short film, 21 minutes Pool Days 1993 US Brian Sloan short film, 27 minutes Public Opinion 1993 US Ted Dvoracek short film, 24 minutes Saito-kun & Yoshinaga-kun シリーズ・斉藤君と吉永君 Shirīzu・Saitō-kun to Yoshinaga-kun 1991 Japan Yoshio Takanori (吉雄孝紀) short film, 20 minutes Thick Lips Thin Lips 1994 Canada Paul Lee short film, 6 minutes Things We Said Today 1992 US John Miller-Monzon short film, 34 minutes Twenty-two 1993 US Gene Bernard short film, 10 minutes We Want Things Like These 僕たちこんなモノが欲しい!! Bokutachi konna mono ga hoshii!! 1993 Japan short film, 7 minutes; NHK BS program The Weight of Oceans 1992 US John Binninger short film, 7 minutes
4th Festival (1995) Festival reference English title Original title Year Country Director(s) Notes The Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too 1993 US Janet Baus Su Friedrich documentary; Festival title: Lesbian Avengers Totally F***ed Up 1993 US Gregg Araki World and Time Enough 1994 US Eric Mueller Your Heart Is All Mine Mein ist dein ganzes Herz 1992 Germany Elke Götz 100 Seconds with Sasha 1994 US Hans Gelke short film, 1.5 minutes 1993 West Coast Retreat 1994 US Marilyn Abbink Heidi Li Marie Kyoko Morohoshi documentary short, 22 minutes presented by The Asian Pacific Lesbian & Bisexual Women's Network Beyond/Body/Memory 1993 Canada Neesha Dosanjh short film, 5 minutes Billy Turner's Secret 1991 US Michael Mayson short film, 30 minutes Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen 1994 US Ela Troyano short film, 30 minutes; Festival title: Carmelita Tropicana Closets Are for Clothes Closets Are for Clothes 1995 Japan Dezu short film, 21 minutes Cruel 1994 US Desi Del Valle short film, 20 minutes The Dead Boys' Club 1992 US Mark Christopher short film, 25 minutes Death in Venice, CA 1994 US P. David Ebersole short film, 30 minutes Deep Sea Diving at Night, With a Camera 1994 US Elsa Eder short film, 8 minutes Elevation 1989 Australia Stephen Cummins short film, 11 minutes Flames of Passion 1989 UK Richard Kwietniowski short film, 18 minutes A Friend of Dorothy 1994 US Raoul O'Connell short film, 26 minutes Her Sweetness Lingers 1994 Canada Shani Mootoo short film, 12 minutes Ketchup-man ケチャップマン Japan Daisuke Aiba (愛場大介) short film, 10 minutes The Last Stop 1994 UK Ross Dinwiddy Mark Adams short film, 25 minutes Los dos Jorges 1993 US Nelson Nazario short film, 11 minutes The Lost Heart The Lost Heart 1993 Germany Hilou Vogelmann short film, 25 minutes Lost in the Garden Lost in the Garden Japan Tsuyoshi Shōji (東海林毅) short film, 20 minutes The Love Thang Trilogy 1994 US Mari Keiko Gonzales short film, 12 minutes Mister Sisters 1994 US Ingrid Wilhite short film, 12 minutes Outlaw 1994 US Alisa Lebow short film, 27 minutes The Reason I Quit Being a Hustler 僕がウリセンをやめた理由 Boku ga urisen wo yameta riyū 1996 Japan Satoshi Sugano (菅野哲史) short film, 25 minutes; Festival title: The Reason I Quit Being Hustler Sex Bowl 1994 US Shu Lea Cheang short film, 7 minutes Sex Fish 1993 US Shu Lea Cheang E.T. Baby Maniac short film, 6 minutes Song of the Goddess 似是故人來 1993 Hong Kong Ellen Pau (鮑靄倫) short film, 7 minutes Summer Summer 1995 Japan Takako Tajiri (田尻孝子) short film, 6 minutes Tomboy 1994 US Dawn Logsdon documentary short, 17 minutes Wicked Radiance Sinar Durjana 1992 US Azian Nurudin short film, 5 minutes; Malay language film
5th Festival (1996) Festival reference