The Boy and the Heron

From Studio Ghibli and master animator Hiyao Miyazaki, director of touchstones like My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle, comes this new tale of breathtaking imagination. Rumoured to be his last film before retirement, it tells the story of Mahito, who loses his mother in wartime and is sent to a country estate with his detached father. Soon he is being visited by an ominous talking heron, who draws him into a bewildering and stunning world he could not have dreamed of.

With a terrific voice cast – including Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Florence Pugh, Christian Bale and Gemma Chan – this is not only a gripping, humanistic story of grief and rebirth, it is a testament to the power of animation to convey complex, adult emotions.