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The Color of the Sun

New Directors Competition

The Color of the Sun

Teida Nu Iro

direction Xavier Tera

Canada, Italy, Japan 2026 Fiction Cor 110 min.

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On the main island of Okinawa, Kamei and his friends find themselves contemplating their future during summer break before their final year of high school. Everything shifts when Colin, a young teenager raised on the American base, enters their lives. First sexual awakenings, blurred loyalties, and betrayal unfold beneath the drone of helicopters. Amidst the subtle power plays between locals and occupiers, the clashes and similarities between Kamei and Colin reveal a raw coming-of-age story that asks what it means to belong. Winner of the Critics’ Prize for Best Film in the Orizzonti section at the Venice International Film Festival.

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technical sheet

direction

Xavier Tera

screenplay

Xavier Tera

cinematography

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

editing

Véronique Barbe

sound design

Paul Lucien Col

music

Philippe Aubin-Dionne, Jason Chung Won

casting

Ko Iwagami, Rikiya Takano

production design

Rika Nakanishi

cast

Naoto Shimajiri, West Mulholland, Ichiro Andre Castro, Daido, Yuma Taira, Erika Oda, Shiyun Nakamura, Sachiko Fukumoto

production

Stella Rossa Savino, Janie Chartier, Jeremy O. Harris, Shogen

co-production

Antonio Miyakawa

produced by

Twin Brains Films, MIA Film

co-produced by

Wise Pictures

world sales

The Pool Films

galeria

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