FESTIVAL GALA SCREENING: Cottontail

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and his son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from
beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she
loved most as a child – Lake Windermere in England. The two men, along with Toshi’s wife and
daughter, travel to England from Tokyo to fulfl her fnal wish. But the father and son’s fraught
relationship threatens to upend their journey.

By kind permission of Kate Bush and in aid of War Child we will be screening her short animation ‘Little Shrew (Snowflake)’ before each film across our main festival programme.
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