Suzume

Director Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You) is back with another astonishing adventure. Suzume’s journey begins in a quiet town when she encounters a young man ‘looking for a door’. Suzume finds a single weathered door, standing upright in the midst of ruins as though it was shielded from whatever catastrophe took place. Drawn by its power, she reaches for the knob and a cataclysm of events follows. Now, Suzume must close the portals she has opened to prevent further destruction. Encounter this epic, wonderful world on Britain’s largest screen.

Since making his debut with the self-animated short film Voices of a Distant Star in 2002, Makoto Shinkai has grown to become one of Japan's greatest anime directors, specialising in spectacular features that come filled with high concepts and even higher emotions.

This special screening will be introduced by Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, co-hosts of the podcast Ghibliotheque and co-authors of The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide, which charts a path through the wildly creative and influential anime industry with 30 standout feature films, from Akira to Your Name. Following each screening, Jake and Michael will be selling and signing copies of the Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide and their previous book, Ghibliotheque: The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli.

See other screenings of this film.