Japan Foundation London To Screen 'A Silent Voice'

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme has been bringing the best in Japanese cinema old and new to audiences in the UK for some 14 years now. Now it's back with a brand new line-up for 2017. The programme will normally find room for at least one animated film, and this year that film is A Silent Voice.

A Silent Voice (Koe no katachi) is a 2016 feature directed by Naoko Yamada and produced by the acclaimed studio Kyoto Animation. Adapted from Yoshitoki Ōimas' manga of the same name, it follows a teenager named Shoko who is haunted by his past bullying of a deaf classmate. When he meets her again years later he decides to try and redeem himself. But is is already too late?

The film is due to be screened more widely in the UK this year via Anime Limited, but this will be one of the first chances to see it. It will screen on some locations of the touring programme, which will take in 15 cities between the 3rd of February and March 29th. It will also screen at London's ICA on February 5th at 2.40pm.



The full tour schedule is as follows: but please note that screening line-ups may vary and A Silent Voice may not be screening at every location listed.Please check with your local venue.



3 – 9 February

ICA, London
Box office: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH



4 – 20 February

Watershed, Bristol
Box office: 0117 927 5100
www.watershed.co.uk
1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX



5 February – 1 March

HOME, Manchester

Box office: 0161 200 1500
homemcr.org
2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN



5 February – 26 March
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
www.queensfilmtheatre.com
20 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1PA



7 February – 27 March

Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

Box office: 0114 275 7727
www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX



8 February – 29 March*
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

Box office: 01392 667080
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS



10 – 12 February
QUAD, Derby

Box office: 01332 290606
www.derbyquad.co.uk
The Market Place, The Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS



10 February – 28 March

mac birmingham, Birmingham

Box office: 0121 446 3232
macbirmingham.co.uk
Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands B12 9QH



11 February – 29 March
Phoenix, Leicester

Box Office 0116 242 2800

www.phoenix.org.uk

4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG



15 February – 11 March

Eden Court, Inverness

Box office: 01463 234 234
www.eden-court.co.uk
Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA



19 – 23 February

Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling
Box office: 01786 466666
macrobertartscentre.org
University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA



25 February – 1 March
Dundee Contemporary Arts

Box office: 01382 909900
www.dca.org.uk
152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY



10 – 16 March

The Brewery Arts Centre Cinema, Kendal

Box office: 01539 725133
www.breweryarts.co.uk
122a Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4HE



17 – 23 March

Broadway, Nottingham

Box office: 0115 952 6611
www.broadway.org.uk
14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL



20 – 29 March

Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Box office: 0131 228 2688
www.filmhousecinema.com
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ