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ADDED SCREENING OF 5 CENTIMER PER SECOND AND SUMMER DAYS WITH COO AT NYICFF |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
5 Centimeters Per Second and Summer Days with Coo, already part of the New York Internation Children's Film Festival, gets additional screening time.
5 Centimeter Per Second (East Coast Premiere)
Added Screening Date: March 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Five centimeters per second is the speed at which cherry blossoms—the Japanese symbol of youth’s brief flowering—are said to fl utter and fall. In this beautiful and visually arresting anime film, a series of three vignettes follow the illusive relationship between Takaki and Akari, two friends who try to remain in touch after elementary school, even as their lives take them in vastly different directions. Created by rising star Makoto Shinkai (often compared to Hayao Miyazaki), this drama of distances and time captures the heartbreak and intensity of youthful romance, told through simple actions and breathtaking landscapes rendered with almost photo-realistic precision. Shinkai spins a “sensitive and achingly beautiful tale of youthful love, loss and longing. To match the bottled-up passions of his characters, he designs his drama in a dazzling palette of vibrant, shimmering hues. Everyday moments are captured in the hyperreal intensity of romanticized memory.” (Seattle Times). “Makoto Shinkai reveals a poignant, evanescent beauty most of us notice only in rare moments.” (Japan Times) This is a movie you will not soon forget—a heart-rending visual masterwork a million miles removed from the sci-fi antics of Pokémon or the potty-mouthed sexcapades of the typical American teen movie.
Summer Days with Coo (US Continental Premiere)
Added Screening Date: March 16, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Nine-year-old Koichi unearths an odd-shaped rock by the riverside. Taking the stone back home and washing it, he is startled when green limbs pop out. He soon learns it’s actually a kappa that has been trapped underground for over 300 years—a remnant from the samurai era, a time when dragons, sprites and other mythological creatures still populated Japan’s natural forests and mountains. A kappa is a mischievous water sprite, a cute combination of a leprechaun and frog that absorbs water through a little bowl in his head. Koichi dubs him “Coo” for the fi rst sound he utters, and they soon become inseparable, taking long bicycle rides through the countryside, swimming in the local ponds, and playing practical jokes on the family. But before long Coo and Koichi begin to understand that a Tokyo suburb is no place for a water sprite. So they set out on a journey across Japan to fi nd Coo a new home, looking for the pristine lakes and rivers that might be home to more of the elusive kappa. A fi ve-year labor of love for master animator Keiichi Hara, Summer Days with Coo combines anime fantasy with a-boy-and-hispet adventure story, all set against sumptuous, hand drawn landscapes. The fi lm is a lyrical and emotionally resonant ode to friendships that unfold over the slow days of summer and the beauty, mystery and fragility of the natural world.
NYICFF 2008: The annual City-wide festival takes place February 29 to March 16, 2008 with over 100 films screening at theaters around Manhattan. For sponsorship inquiries email
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