Country
Japan
Year
2016
Language
Japanese spoken, English subtitles
Director
Naoko Yamada
Duration
130 min
Director Naoko Yamada brings an impressive and understated coming-of-age film with A Silent Voice.
How do you deal with the mistakes of your past? Can you really forgive - or be forgiven - someone after all that has happened? A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) is a deeply moving Japanese animated film that does not shy away from these questions. The film tells the story of Shoya Ishida, who as a child bullied his deaf classmate Shoko Nishimiya.
Years later, now a lonely teenager himself struggling with guilt and isolation, he decides to look her up. What begins as an attempt at reconciliation grows into a vulnerable search for forgiveness, friendship and self-acceptance.
Prior to the film, the short film C C C - Animated Music Video by Aishwarya Chaudhari and Siddharth Modi will be shown.
With introduction by Esther Smeenge. Esther is a historian and illustrator. Animation, and anime in particular, has been a great interest and source of inspiration for her since childhood.
There are no new dates planned (yet) for Silent Voice.
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