With Time (Malak Quota, Saudi Arabia / United Arab Emirates, 2014)
Age Rating: 12A
14 minutes, London premiere
Regent Street Cinema
Short Film
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Malak Quota
Screenwriter: Malak Quota
Producers: Richard Lackey, Laura Quirke
Cinematographer: Crispin Dominic
Music: Ghadeer Obeidoh
Cast: Horiyah Ahmad, Hager Zaid
Locked in a room, two young sisters live their life indulging in fantasies whilst struggling through reality.
Tickets for this short which includes entry to the main film The Case of Hana and Alice should be purchased at the Regent Street Cinema here.
For more information on this short film go to the Saudi animator filmmaker Malak Quota’s website here.
To watch the trailer click below:-
The Case of Hana and Alice (Hana to Alice satsujin jiken, Shunji Iwai, Japan, 2015)
Age Rating: 12A
98 minutes, London premiere
Regent Street Cinema
Anime Film
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Director: Shunji Iwai
Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai
Producers: Shunji Iwai, Tomohiko Ishii
Cinematographer: Chigi Kanbe
Music: Shunji Iwai
Cast: Yu Aoi, Anne Suzuki, Shôko Aida, Sei Hiraizumi, Ryô Katsuji
Single film ticket prices: Adults £11; Senior/Student/Unemployed/Associate cardholders £10; Children under 16: £7
Special price for double bills (which includes Drama and Seoul Searching): Adults £15; Senior/Student/Unemployed/Associate cardholders £13; Children under 16 £10
Regent Street Cinema Members and University of Westminster students and staff have special rates and these can be seen on the Regent Street Cinema website here.
Newly arrived in small-town suburbia with her divorced mother, middle-school age transfer student Tetsuko Arisugawa (Arisu or ‘Alice’ for short) finds herself the victim of bullying by her classmates and seeks solace through dance. She soon learns of an urban myth about a mysteriously vanished former student called Yuda (Japanese for ‘Judas’) who was allegedly murdered by four of his classmates. Hana, a reclusive girl who lives in a house bedecked with flowers next door, seems to hold the key to the mystery, and together the pair soon embark on a wild and unpredictable series of suburban escapades.
With films such as Fireworks (1993), Love Letter (1995) and Swallowtail Butterfly (1996), Shunji Iwai (b. 1963) emerged as a massively invigorating force in Japanese cinema in the 1990s. This standalone prequel to his 2004 live-action film Hana & Alice is his first animated work, which he wrote, edited and directed. Craftily plotted, witty and beautifully realised, it is a great experience for people who think they don’t like anime, as well as for those who know they do.
Tickets for this film (which includes With Time) should be purchased on the Regent Street Cinema website here. Special price for double bills (which includes Drama and Seoul Searching) also available.
For more information go to the film’s website here.
To watch the trailer click below:-
These films are being screened as part of the Asia House Film Festival 2016. To read about all the films being screened at this year’s Festival click here.
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