Program

Feature Film Competition

maboroshi

Original title:アリスとテレスのまぼろし工場

Japan

2023

Schedule/Ticket


Adult ¥1,400

Student ¥1,000

Under 19 ¥500

  • 03.16(Sat)
    10:00
    11:55
    Daishi Hokuetsu Hall
  • 03.19(Tue)
    14:40
    16:35
    Niigata Citizen Plaza

Introduction

Ever since a bizarre factory explosion, 14-year-old Masamune Kikuiri finds himself stuck in time alongside the residents of his town — until he encounters a locked-up girl who might hold the key to the truth behind their never-ending winter.

©maboroshi Project

Director

Mari Okada

Animation director and screenwriter. Okada wrote such films as "anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day" (2013), a movie known to make adults cry; "The Anthem of the Heart" (2015), a movie focusing on the emotional wounds of a young girl and; "Her Blue Sky" (2019), a movie about facing a dream you once gave up (once abandoned). In 2018, she made her directorial debut with "MAQUIA: When the Promised Flower Blooms" and won the award for Best Animation at the Shanghai International Film Festival 2018, garnering international attention. She is known as an auteur whose works strike deep at the heart of whoever watches them.

Schedule/Ticket


Adult ¥1,400

Student ¥1,000

Under 19 ¥500

  • 03.16(Sat)
    10:00
    11:55
    Daishi Hokuetsu Hall
  • 03.19(Tue)
    14:40
    16:35
    Niigata Citizen Plaza