Presented by Japan Foundation
Anime no bento 2024
Auditorium des diplômés de la SGWU (Théâtre Hall)
Japan’s living deity of animation, Hayao Miyazaki, believes that the golden age of anime is over, or so his son Goro told the press following the Cannes festival’s awards honouring his father and his famous Studio Ghibli this past spring. At Fantasia, we respectfully disagree with Miyazaki-sensei regarding the future of anime. There is nothing generic or uninspired about the titles in this year’s Anime no bento program, a showcase of wildly varied and innovative short works by Japanese animators—some well established, others taking their first steps forward—that demonstrate the incredible possibilities that still lie ahead for anime. – Rupert Bottenberg
First Line
Tina
A young animator feels trapped between a difficult sequence, a tight deadline, debilitating self-doubt, and a deranged director. One of the four short films from Toho’s GEMNIBUS VOLUME 1 anthology.
Maidens of the Ripples
Soma Michiko
When two very different teenage girls cross paths, a friendship—however fraught and fragile—begins. A resonant reflection on the bonds that girls build, introducing a new anime director to watch out for.
The True Shape of a Daisy
Naoki Arata
The girl Nycteris has only known a world of perpetual shadows. The boy Photogen, only the light. Promising new anime talent Naoki Arata’s first short film is a gorgeous, gothic fantasy in miniature.
Kamigoroshi: Prologue
Tomoyuki Niho
Conflicts are brewing in the miniature model city created by a godlike lupine sculptor, in the first taste of director Tomoyuki Niho’s distinctive new animation project.
Okuninushi and Sukunabikona
Akitoshi Yokoyama
The antics of two young deities are captured in an adaption of a mythic tale. Part of the DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts from celebrated anime studio Science SARU.
String Dance from the film TAISU
Shuhei Morita
Otherworldly wonders meet all too familiar conflicts in Oscar-nominated director Shuhei Morita’s segment from the forthcoming Japanese/Chinese animated anthology TAISU.
Mecha-Ude Episode 1
Okamoto
Alien lifeforms resembling mechanical limbs are at the centre of the complex, secret conflict that teenager Hikaru has been dragged into, in the first episode of Okamoto’s highly anticipated anime series!
Showings
Auditorium des diplômés de la SGWU (Théâtre Hall)