Arab News Japan
DUBAI: Dubai’s Cinema Akil, the first independent cinema in the GCC region, will hold its own anime film week from Oct. 25 to 31, featuring three Studio Ghibli films as well as the 2024 movie ‘Ghost Cat Anzu’.
The anime film week will showcase Hayao Miyazaki’s critically acclaimed movie ‘Spirited Away.’ The iconic 2011 movie follows a 10-year-old as she moves into a new neighborhood and stumbles across a world filled with supernatural beings.
The second film that will be featured is Miyazaki’s 2004 ‘Howl’s Moving Castle,’ which follows Sophie, a girl who turns into a 90-year-old woman, as she hides her condition from her family in a moving castle that belongs to Howl.
Cinema Akil will also screen Miyazaki’s recent movie, ‘The Boy and the Heron’. The award-winning movie is about a boy who moves to the countryside after his mother’s death and enters a world that has a talking heron.
Additionally, the cinema will showcase ‘Ghost Cat Anzu,’ which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Based on a manga by the same name, the movie follows an 11-year-old who forms a friendship with a talking cat.
The first screening will begin on the 25th at 7 p.m. with ‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ and will conclude with a screening of ‘Spirited Away’ on the 31st at 9 p.m. Dubai time.
The program is brought in partnership with Dubai-based Front Row Entertainment, who recently claimed the rights for ‘The Boy and the Heron’ in the Middle East and North Africa.
Tickets cost approximately ¥2,013 and can be booked on Cinema Akil’s website.
Located in Alserkal Avenue, Cinema Akil was founded in 2018 and focuses on bringing movies from all over the world to the UAE audience in order to spread awareness about different film projects.