The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Join authors, podcasters and animation advocates Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham for a day celebrating two breakthrough films from one of the great auteurs of modern anime, Mamoru Hosoda.

A few short years after Hosoda was dismissed from the director's chair for Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle, he enjoyed his artistic breakthrough as a visionary director and 21st Century storyteller with this sensitively drawn adaptation of the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui (Paprika).

Makoto is a typical teenage girl who spends most of her days slacking off with friends. One day while rushing to meet her aunt, she nearly gets hit by a train, but at the last second, finds herself jumping backwards in time to before the accident. However, when faced with the consequences of tampering with time, Makoto must do everything she can to avoid a dire future that can't be reversed.