- "Children Untold" — a postwar drama about a 12‑year‑old girl who disguises herself as a boy and the teacher who searches for her — opened TIFF's Platform section, the first Japanese film to do so.
- Director Miwa Nishikawa focuses on the largely untold stories of war‑orphaned girls and the lasting personal costs of World War II.
- Nishikawa, from Hiroshima, says the film’s themes feel freshly relevant amid current global conflicts and rising debate over Japan’s pacifist legacy.
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