Each country has its own Christmas film. Japan is no exception, where Christmas films, like Christmas itself, are a fairly new and peculiar phenomenon. That's exactly how the most famous and best Japanese Christmas film, Tokyo Godfathers, could be described.Released in 2003, it is the penultimate film from one of Japan's most famous animation directors, Satoshi Kon, about three homeless people in Tokyo, who find a baby abandoned in the garbage on Christmas Eve. Understanding better than anyone else what it means to be homeless, misunderstood, rejected and unwanted, they set out on a journey of miraculous coincidences in search of the baby's mother.Although Tokyo Godparents is a simple film in comparison to Satoshi Kon's other works, it is by no means a traditional Christmas film, depicting traditional values from an unconventional, out-of-the-way angle. It is a very human, sensitive, but also cynical and cruel tragicomedy that has been making audiences laugh and cry for the past two decades.This screening will feature the 2020 restored version of The Godfathers of Tokyo in Japanese and with Lithuanian subtitles.Directed by Satoshi Kon Starring Toru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto