Birmingham Anime Film Festival 2024
Join us for our second year of Birmingham Anime Film Festival as we celebrate the vibrant world of anime with a spectacular lineup of films across three weekends.
Dive into stories of adventure, mystery, and fantasy with fellow anime enthusiasts. Don’t miss out on the excitement of discovering new favorites and revisiting beloved classics in our diverse movie schedule.
Film Festival Schedule
Podcast & Film Doubles at Mockingbird Cinema
Redline x Never Seen Podcast
Fri 20th September | 20:10 | 15 | Subtitled
Every five years, an exhilarating race called Redline is held, and the universe’s most anticipated competition has only one rule: that there are none…
Perfect Blue x Evolution of Horror Podcast
Fri 4th October | 19:30 | 18 | Subtitled
© 1997 MADHOUSE
Leaving the world of J-pop behind her, Mima Kirigoe begins life as an actress on a crime drama show called Double Blind. When offered a lead role in the show as a rape victim, Mima accepts the role despite reservations from her manager…
Contemporary Classics at Mockingbird Cinema
Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis
Sat 21st September | 15:15 | PG | Subtitled
In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red’s violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima…
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Sat 21st September | 17:30 | 12 | Subtitled
Join the Cowboiy Bebop crew as they aim for their biggest score yet of 300 million Woolongs.
Someone has stolen a chemical weapon, the authorities don’t know what to do, so it’s up to Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed and Ein to stop them…
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
Sun 22nd September | 15:15 | Unrated | Subtitled
© BANDAI VISUAL / GAINAX All Rights Reserved.
In a world eerily similar to our own, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its archrival, The Republic, seems inevitable..
Belle
Sun 22nd September | 14:00 |12A | Subtitled
© Studio Chizu
Suzu is a 17-year-old high school student living in a rural village with her father. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. One day, she enters “U,” a virtual world of 5 billion members on the internet...
Sword of the Stranger
Sun 22nd September | 17:45| 15 | Subtitled
© BONES / STRANGERS 2007 All Rights Reserved.
Set in feudal-era Japan, a young boy named Kotaro and his faithful dog Tobimaru are caught in the turmoil of a grim prophecy…
Final Fantasy Vii: Advent Children
Sun 22nd September | 20:00 | 15 | Subtitled
Set two years after the events of Final Fantasy VII, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife is forced out of isolation when three mysterious men kidnap and brainwash the city’s children afflicted with the Geostigma disease…
Your Name
Sun 29th September | 19:00 | 12A | Subtitled
©2016 TOHO CO., LTD. / CoMix Wave Films Inc. / KADOKAWA CORPORATION / East Japan MarketingCommunications,Inc. / AMUSE INC. / voque ting co.,ltd. / Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.
Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way…
Memories
Sun 6th October | 20:30 | 12A | Subtitled
© 1995 MASH ROOM / MEMORIES PROJECT
Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making…
Mindbending Stories at The MAC
Mind Game
Thu 19th September | 19:45 | 15 | Subtitled
©2004 MIND GAME Project
Based on Robin Nishi’s cult manga of the same name, planned, produced and primarily animated by Studio 4°C, It’s Masaaki Yuasa in his directorial debut, and a mind bending ride of one continuous story told through multiple animations styles…
Pompo The Cinéphile
Thu 26th September | 19:00 | 12A | Subtitled
© 2020 Shogo Sugitani/KADOKAWA/Pompo Project
Gene Fini works as assistant to the enigmatic Joelle Davidovich Pomponette, better known as simply “Pompo” An extremely talented movie producer, having inherited her grandfather’s connections and cinematic eye…
Junkhead
Thu 3rd October | 19:30 | 15 | Subtitled
Mankind has lost its ability to bear children and a human-created species has revolted and developed a separate society underground…
On-Gaku: Our Sound
Sat 5th October | 17:00 | 12A | Subtitled
© Hiroyuki Ohashi / Rock’n Roll Mountain / Tip Top
Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out…
A Silent Voice
Sat 5th October | 19:30 | 12A | Subtitled
©2015 REKI KAWAHARA/PUBLISHED BY KADOKAWA CORPORATION ASCII MEDIA WORKS/AWIB Project
After transferring into a new school, a deaf girl, Shouko Nishimiya, is bullied by the popular Shouya Ishida. As Shouya continues to bully Shouko, the class turns its back on him…
Celebrating Akira Toriyama
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F
Sat 28th September | 15:30 | 12A | Subtitled
Frieza is back from the dead, and he’s bringing his whole army with him, to enact his revenge against Goku…
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Sat 28th September | 17:30 | 12 | Subtitled
Individuals who carry on the spirit of The Red Ribbon Army , destroyed by Son Goku, have created the ultimate Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2. These two Androids call themselves “Super Heroes”…
Modern Favourites at Mockingbird Cinema
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Fri 20th September | 18:00 | 15 | Subtitled
Yuta Okkotsu, a young student who joins Tokyo Jujutsu Technical High to become a sorcerer to control the Cursed Spirit of his childhood friend Rika Orimoto…
Blue Thermal
Sat 21st September | 12:30 | PG | Subtitled
Josee, The Tiger & The Fish
Sun 22nd September | 11:00 | PG | Subtitled
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Sun 22nd September | 12:45 | 12A | Subtitled
©2022 “Lonely Castle in the Mirror” Film Partners
Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding school for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bedroom mirror. She reaches through and finds herself transported to an enchanting castle where she is joined by six other students...
Penguin Highway
Sun 29th September | 11:30 | PG | Subtitled
A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic…
PsychoPass: Providence
Sun 6th October | 18:00 | 15 | Subtitled
The chief of the Public Safety Bureau decides to recruit the former Enforcer Shinya Kougami back into the force…
Previous Screenings
Gardens Cinema: The Boy & the Heron |Sat 7th September | 19:30 | 12A | Dubbed
Join us at Birmingham Botanical Gardens for an unforgettable open-air screening as we present Hayao Miyazaki’s modern classic, ‘The Boy & the Heron’
MAC Outdoor Screening: The Boy & the Heron | Sat 7th September | 19:30 | 12A | Dubbed
Get ready for a magical night under the stars for Studio Ghibli fans! We head to the MAC Birmingham for a special outdoor screening of The Boy & the Heron.