Naomi Kawase (pictured) to head the jury.

The Goteborg Film Festival is planning a focus on Japan for its 2015 edition, which runs Jan 23-Feb 2.

Naomi Kawase will be a guest of the festival and present Still The Water, and she will also head the jury for The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award. 

Other Japanese films in the programme will include Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe, Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body, Shiori Kazama’s Chokolietta, Kiki Sugino’s Taksu, Mami Sunada’s The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness.

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