The PFF Award is the main feature of PFF and is a competition for young artists who dream of becoming film directors. After PFF in Tokyo, the finalist's films will travel to other major cities in Japan: Nagoya, Kansai, Sendai, Fukuoka and Kanazawa in 2008. Also, PFF has always been at the forefront of cinema, introducing works of rising talents both from within and outside of Japan whose films are rich with independent spirit such as Hou Hsiao Hsien in 1984 and Naomi Kawase in 1993. In addition, since the 1980s, PFF has been offering retrospectives of renown filmmakers whose works are difficult to see theatrically such as Francois Truffaut, Luis Bunnuel, Masahiro Makino, and Ken Russel. Recent programs in this section include Michael Haneke in 2001, Robert Altman in 2007 and Douglas Sirk in 2008. PFF tries to present the original versions of these films as much as possible.