Isao Taka­hata Retro­spect­ive: The Spirit of Ghibli

Cinémathèque suisse

The greatest works of the animated filmmaker Isao Takahata, co-founder of Studio Ghibli.

The Cinémathèque suisse, in collab­or­a­tion with mudac, is dedic­at­ing an excep­tional program to Isao Taka­hata, a major figure in Japan­ese anim­a­tion and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. Entitled Isao Taka­hata Retro­spect­ive: The Spirit of Ghibli, this series high­lights a profoundly human­istic body of work, in which anim­a­tion becomes a true cine­matic language, capable of captur­ing both the beauty of every­day life and social and histor­ical real­it­ies.

From Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974) to the deeply moving Grave of the Fire­flies (1988), and includ­ing Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Prin­cess Kaguya (2013), the program offers a jour­ney through five decades of creation. It reveals the singu­lar­ity of a film­maker who continu­ously rein­ven­ted the forms of anim­a­tion, in constant dialogue with his collab­or­ator Hayao Miyazaki, giving rise to a cinema that is at once poetic, polit­ical, and univer­sal.

To open the program, the Cinémathèque suisse, in collab­or­a­tion with mudac, is host­ing a special even­ing at the Capit­ole, featur­ing a screen­ing of Pom Poko (1994), presen­ted by Marco Cost­antini, director of mudac.