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Satoshi Kon Retrospective (Perfect Blue)Directed by Satoshi Kon 1997 | Japan | 80 min | DVD | R21 Synopsis Junko Iwao plays Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese pop-idol group called "CHAM!", who decides to pursue her career as an actress. Some of her fans are displeased with her sudden career change, particularly a stalker named Me-Mania, voiced by Masaaki Ōkura. As her new career proceeds, Mima's world becomes increasingly reminiscent of the works of Alfred Hitchcock: reality and fantasy spiral out of control, and Mima discovers that Me-Mania is the least of her troubles. 
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Satoshi Kon Retrospective (Millenium Actress)Directed by Satoshi Kon 2001 | Japan | 87 min | DigiBeta | PG Synopsis Director Genya Tachibana works on a documentary about a famous actress, Chiyoko Fujiwara. In her old age, Chiyoko has withdrawn from public life, but Tachibana slowly draws her out. As he talks to her, the story of her life, from teenage schoolgirl to middle-aged superstar, gradually unfolds, illustrated through flashbacks interspersed with segments from her films. Her life spans the tumultuous period surrounding World War II, while her characters in movies span a time period from the Sengoku period to a futuristic space age. "It is a lovely Valentine to the golden age of Japanese filmmaking and an era of gentler, deeper feelings." - San Francisco Chronicle "To watch Millennium Actress' is to witness one cinematic medium celebrating another, an expression of movie love that is wonderfully eccentric and deeply affecting." - New York Times
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Best of Stuttgart Animation Festival - Baden Watenburgh2010 | Various | 90 min | DVD | PG Synopsis The BW-Reel programme comprises animated films from Baden-Württemberg which were produced last year and shows the diversity of the Baden-Württemberg and Stuttgart animation scene.
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Best of Stuggart Animation Festival - International2010 | Various | 90 min | DVD | M18 Synopsis BEST OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION is a collection of the best international animated short films from the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2011. Films include David O'Reilly's The External World, Bill Plympton's The Cow Who Wanted to Be A Hamburger and many more. The list of films are:
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DigiCon - Singapore Selection (PG13)2010 | Singapore | 90 min | DVD | TBC Synopsis A screening of the ten shortlisted titles from this year's DigiCon Singapore selection, including the winning film Godaizer, followed by a Q&A with director Hilary Yeo.
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Satoshi Kon Retrospective (Tokyo Godfathers)Directed by Satoshi Kon 2003 | Japan | 92 min | 35mm | PG Synopsis Christmas in Tokyo, Japan. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum. While foraging through some trash, they find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found with the baby who they name Kiyoko or 'pure child', they start tracking down the parents. Winner, Best Animated Feature Film 2003, Sitges Film Festival "Takes anime to a whole new level." - Variety "It's a touching movie that, like the best animes, transcends the limitations of the genre." - The Hollywood Reporter
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Satoshi Kon Retrospective (Paprika)Directed by Satoshi Kon 2006 | Japan | 90 min | 35mm | NC16 Synopsis When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. "In Paprika, a gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close." - New York Times "The über-dream is both gorgeously animated, in Kon's shimmering, hyperreal style, and sickeningly scary." - Slate
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Sky Song (M18)Directed by Mati Kütt 2010 | Estonia | 45 min | Blu-ray | TBC Synopsis A film by Mati Kütt, one of Estonia's most renowned animators, Sky Song is a forty five minute stop motion animation about a postman's will to deliver a package to the moon. Follow postman Rain as he undergoes a special training to fly to the moon in a visually surreal world that symbolizes his thoughts and imagination. Awarded Best Estonian Film 2010 by the Association of Estonian Film Journalists and the Jury Special Prize in the Long Feature Category of the China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival 2011, this film is truly an experimental piece of puppet animation. Note that tickets for The Green Wave and Sky Song are sold together and allow access to both films.
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The Green WaveDirected by Ali Samadi Ahadi 2010 | Germany | 80 min | DigiBeta | M18 Synopsis Following the 2009 Iranian presidential elections and with allegations of vote fraud, dissatisfied Iranians took the streets in a 'sea of green' to challenge the results only to be suppressed by the authorities with arrests and violence. An animated documentary recounting the election and its aftermath in the eyes of pro-opposition activists, The Green Wave is craftily told using information collected from social media sites. Tweets and blog posts as well as live footage of the protests taken from cell phones are mixed alongside the stylized artwork of the animation to form a compelling tale as the movement's hope for a political evolution is put down by a brutal crackdown. A World Cinema Documentary entry in this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film gives a powerful insight of ordinary people seeking change in an environment of fear and oppression. Note that tickets for The Green Wave and Sky Song are sold together and allow access to both films.
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