JAPANESE ANIME FESTIVAL

25 September

Zugdidi: GG Gymnasium (32, Tsaishvili str.)

15:00 The Garden of Words (+12)

16:00 Time of Eve

26 September

Mestia: Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography (7, Ioseliani.)

15:00 The Garden of Words (+12)

16:00 Time of Eve

*** AMDISSION FREE ***

● The Garden of Words (2013; 46 min.) (+12)

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Original language: Japanese

Subtitles: Georgian

Plot:

When Takao, a high school student dreaming of becoming a shoemaker, skips school one day in favor of sketching shoes in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters the mysterious Yukino. Older, but perhaps not much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. The two strike up an unusual relationship through chance meetings in the same garden on each rainy day. But the rainy season is coming to a close, leaving many things left unshared between them…

● Time of EVE (2010; 106 min.)

Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: Georgian

Plot:

Two high school boys grapple with their own humanity in a world where people are serviced by androids distinguished from their masters only by the halo-like rings above their heads. Public mores, enforced by the shadowy Robot Ethics Committee, dictate that androids be treated like appliances, and those who empathize with their robots are branded as "android-holics." Rikuo and his childhood pal Masaki find their assumptions about androids radically challenged when they come across Time of EVE, a cafe where androids and people are treated as equals. Liberated from the strictures of the Ethics Committee, Masaki and Rikuo must confront old wounds of betrayal and grief, and are faced with decisions that put their friendship and families on the line.

*　*　*　*　*　*　*　*