IFFR 2000

Oshii Mamoru

A pregnant young woman roams through an empty, post-industrial medieval landscape. A young soldier, whose musket has the shape of a cross, gives the girl a giant egg to hatch. But what is given can also be taken away...

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Angel's Egg

Okiura Hiroyuki

Directed by Oshii Mamoru's protégé Okiura Hiroyuki, animation coordinator of Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh offers a unique mixture of retro-science fiction and fairytale with a sting in the tail, in the best anime of recent years.

Jin-Roh

The mysterious and elusive computer hacker The Puppet Master turns up in Hong Kong in 2029. Fine animation and complex social vision go hand in hand, in a spectacular Anime that prefers cybernetic abstraction to difficult exposé.

Kokaku kidotai

Borges-inspired animation film about a sweaty private detective who, after a break-in, finds a computer file addressed to him comprising a story of three-men-in-one, a building that technically does not exist and a school of giant carp at 30,000 feet...

The Labyrinth Files: File 538

The Special Vehicle Division is a little older, but still essential when a series of terrorist events cause chaos in the government. Captain Goto sets off with his old comrade Matsui. This animation film is an excellent deconstruction of 'peace' and 'stability' in post-war Japan.

Patlabor 2 the Movie

Ambitious, obscure animation feature in which a scientist has developed a new system to control work robots, but leaves society after suicide with a nasty computer virus. Then an enormous typhoon descends on Toyko Bay.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025