Coming December 2013 to TIFF Bell Lightbox

Discover (or re-discover) such classics as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and many others in this seventeen-film retrospective.

Music Credits:

Fjord by Tin, Christopher Chiyan (BMI) (C)
Pinnacle by Nielsen, Daniel Jay (ASCAP) (C)

Spirited Away: The Films of Studio Ghibli returns to TIFF Bell Lightbox to delight holiday audiences with a near-exhaustive retrospective of films produced by Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, both subtitled and dubbed. This series includes additions from the 2012 series such as the most recent Studio Ghibli film From Up On Poppy Hill (2011), a father-son collaboration between Ghibli co- founder Hayao Miyazaki and his son Goro, as well as the rarely-screened gem Grave of the Fireflies (1988) regarded by many to be the greatest animated movie ever. Often referred to as the Disney of Japan, Studio Ghibli has evolved over its 25-year history into one of the most influential film studios in the world. With its trademark animation style, powerful storytelling and deeply felt humanism, the studio creates works of elegant simplicity and universal appeal. Studio Ghibli has created heart-warming classic films such as the beloved My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (whose friendly forest spirit adorns the company's logo and Tokyo headquarters), Castle in the Sky (1986) and Kiki's Delivery Service (1989). Children, often protagonists in Ghibli's films, are presented as determined, intelligent young people who pursue their goals with bravery and resourcefulness—whether recovering their parents from an uncanny magical realm as in Spirited Away (2001), defending a kingdom in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) or protecting a ravaged landscape in the ecological destruction in Princess Mononoke (1997).