2024 Film Schedule – The Boy & The Heron

2024 Film Schedule – The Boy & The Heron

FILM — THE BOY AND THE HERON © Studio Ghibli WORDS: SAM EDWARDS RETIREMENT In 2013, legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki announced that he would be retiring from film-making after the release of his passion project The Wind Rises. He had made such  announcements several...

2023 Christmas Special – Tokyo Godfathers

Screening as part of the Mockingbird’s Alternative Christmas Film Festival © 2003 Satoshi Kon / Tokyo Godfathers Committee What is Tokyo Godfathers about? From legendary director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Paprika), an unconvential Christmas story. One...

2023 Film Schedule – Promare

©TRIGGER,Kazuki Nakashima/XFLAG Words: Laura-Rose – World’s Apart Birmingham What is Promare about? Screening as part of our Worlds Apart Birmingham Double Bill From the brilliant minds of Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima, comes a visually punching...
2023 Film Schedule – Suzume

2023 Film Schedule – Suzume

©2022 “Suzume” Film Partners Words: Leigh Price What is Suzume about? A high school girl ends up on a journey across Japan after meeting a mysterious man and encountering a creature that causes earthquakes emerging from a strange door. Suzume Synopsis...

2023 Film Schedule – A Silent Voice

©2015 REKI KAWAHARA/PUBLISHED BY KADOKAWA CORPORATION ASCII MEDIA WORKS/AWIB Project Words: Nick Layland – World’s Apart Birmingham What is A Silent Voice about? Screening as part of our Worlds Apart Birmingham Double Bill A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi)...
2023 Film Schedule – Your Name

2023 Film Schedule – Your Name

©2016 TOHO CO., LTD. / CoMix Wave Films Inc. / KADOKAWA CORPORATION / East Japan MarketingCommunications,Inc. / AMUSE INC. / voque ting co.,ltd. / Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc. Words: Leigh Price What is Your Name about? Two high school students who’ve never met...