This film unfolds as a slow burn, a meditation on how human beings face the unknown. Life can appear as fantasy - tragic, joyful, fragile, or guided by faith and chance - depending on the lens through which one chooses to look. For effortlessly blending those lenses together through the thoughtful depiction of an inquisitive young girl charting her own course through the uncertainties of life - we award best director to Chie Hayakawa for Renoir.
