Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo

Documentary

Programme: Wavelengths
Year: 2026
Runtime: 28 min
Country: Germany, France, Japan
Language: Japanese
Premiere: World Premiere

A deeply personal portrait of one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in Japanese cinema: filmmaker, writer, and revolutionary Masao Adachi.

From the TIFF programme

In Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo, Palestinian filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari documents one of Japan’s great maverick artists — now 85 — as he makes one last attempt to attain a passport decades after his was confiscated.