Metrograph

In a near-future Tokyo, two rambunctious high school pals with graduation—and uncertain-at-best prospects—on the near horizon reckon with the fallout of a prank played on their principal and the daily looming threat of a catastrophic earthquake. The fiction feature debut by Sora (Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus), lauded upon its premiere at last year’s Venice International Film Festival, is at once a poignant, delicately modulated coming-of-age drama of foundering friendship and a cutting cautionary tale concerning the incursion of surveillance technology into all aspects of everyday life, intelligently employing its schoolyard setting as a microcosm of Japanese society and its rankling socio-political and environmental anxieties.

A Film Movement release

Q&A with director Neo Sora moderated by writer/critic Carlos Valladares on Friday, September 12th

Q&A with director Neo Sora moderated by writer/critic Devika Girish and Saturday, September 13th

Introduction by director Neo Sora on Sunday, September 14th