July 13 (Saturday) at 20:00 film club in the Auditorium: screening and discussion of the animated film “The Boy and the Bird” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023)

The long-awaited screening of the latest film by the cult Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki

Three years after the start of the Pacific War, the boy Mahito’s mother died in a fire in Tokyo, and a year later his father married her sister and sent his son to the family estate in the countryside. The head of the family works at a defense plant and is rarely home, so the boy has to spend his days with his pregnant stepmother and is surrounded by elderly servants, in addition, from the very first day he has been bugged by a suspicious gray heron. One day, a bird tells Mahito that it can take him to his mother, and lures him into a mysterious tower surrounded by many local legends...