Event: A Silent Voice screening as part of Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme is back for another year of bringing all the wonders of Japanese cinema to the UK. For 2017, their top billing for the anime fandom is Kyoto Animation’s gorgeous tale of forgiveness and redemption A Silent Voice. The Naoko Yamada-directed picture will screen alongside several live-action movies, all of which reflect the foundation’s chosen theme of “desires, hopes and impulses”.
The Japan Foundation describe their own impulses behind the theme of this year’s tour:
Taking inspiration from Charlie Chaplin’s famous quote “Life is a desire, not a meaning”, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2017 features an all-encompassing introduction to Japanese cinema through the prism of “desires, hopes and impulses”. Presenting films by established and up-and-coming directors, animation, documentary and classics, this year’s programme promises to not only entertain but also provide a vivid insight into what drives human action.
For Shoya, discovering what drives him is the key to the story of A Silent Voice. When a new girl, Shoka, joins his elementary school class, she becomes a target for bullying because she is deaf. Shoya is drawn into devising new torments for her with his friends, until they push it too far and Shoko leaves the school. Six years later, they cross paths again. Shoya now feels differently, but can he ever make up for his mistakes?
The full list of screening films and their descriptions can be found on the programme’s website. The event begins in London on February 3rd and runs until March 29th, with all the stops on the tour listed as follows:
February 3rd-9th
ICA, London (tickets available here)
Box office: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
February 4th-20th
Watershed, Bristol
Box office: 0117 927 5100
www.watershed.co.uk
1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
February 5th – March 1st
HOME, Manchester
Box office: 0161 200 1500
homemcr.org
2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN
February 5th – March 26th
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
20 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1PA
February 7th – March 27th
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
Box office: 0114 275 7727
www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX
Box office: 01392 667080
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS
QUAD, Derby
Box office: 01332 290606
www.derbyquad.co.uk
The Market Place, The Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS
mac birmingham, Birmingham
Box office: 0121 446 3232
macbirmingham.co.uk
Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 9QH
Phoenix, Leicester
Box Office 0116 242 2800
www.phoenix.org.uk
4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG
Eden Court, Inverness
Box office: 01463 234 234
www.eden-court.co.uk
Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA
Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling
Box office: 01786 466666
macrobertartscentre.org
University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA
February 25th – March 1st
www.dca.org.uk
152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY
March 10th-16th
The Brewery Arts Centre Cinema, Kendal
Box office: 01539 725133
www.breweryarts.co.uk
122a Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4HE
Broadway, Nottingham
Box office: 0115 952 6611
www.broadway.org.uk
14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL
March 20th-29th
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Box office: 0131 228 2688
www.filmhousecinema.com
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Awesome to see they’re bringing this over to the UK again! I was a little bummed out when i missed it the first time, but I made sure to get tickets this time!
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That’s great, enjoy it when you go 😊
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