Animation and science fiction, this summer, at the Canòdrom
The feature films District 9, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Anomalisa will be screened.
The stands of the Canòdrom will be open every Friday in July to enjoy good films in the open air. All screenings will start at 9:45 p.m. After the screening, on Friday, 8 July, of the award-winning and already famous Alcarràs by Carla Simón, the "Grades Obertes" cycle takes a turn towards science fiction and animated films from the second session onwards. District 9 will be screened on the 15th, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on the 22nd, and Anomalisa on the 29th.
District 9 premiered in 2009. Directed by Neill Blomkamp, it is inspired by the South African apartheid, opening a reflection on the racism and violence surrounding refugees. But it does so through a science fiction story in which extraterrestrials arrive on Earth and are imprisoned in refugee-like camps in appalling living conditions. Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 Japanese film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind takes us to a distant future, a thousand years after an apocalyptic war, with a planet full of poisonous mushrooms and giant insects. The main character is a princess protector of the Valley of the Wind, an advocate of non-violence, understanding between nations and coexistence with other species of nature. The film that will close the July screenings, Anomalisa, was directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson and hit the screens in 2015. It is a beautiful stop-motion animation that poses a poetic fable about the homogenisation, dehumanisation and automation of human relations.
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