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Upcoming London Screenings: IMAX Totoro in June, Open Air Screening Grave of the Fireflies in August

Tickets are available for a subtitled screening of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro at London's BFI IMAX cinema on Sunday June 29 at 11.30 a.m. The screening will be presented by the hosts of the Ghibliotheque podcast, Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, and by Arunee Sarasetsiri, the Environmental Sustainability Partner at the BFI. The screening is part of the BFI IMAX's London Climate Action Week strand.

Tickets are also available for screenings of My Neighbor Totoro at the nearby BFI Southbank cinema (also near Waterloo station). There will be English-dubbed screenings on Sunday June 1 at 1 p.m. and on Sunday June 29 at 11.50 p.m., and a subtitled screening on Monday June 16 at 6.20 p.m.

There will also be an outdoor screening of Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies anime film at London's Barbican Centre on Wednesday August 27 at 8.30 p.m. The film is part of the Barbican's Animation at War strand. Grave of the Fireflies is based on author Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. The story follows a brother and sister's struggle to survive in the waning months of World War II.

My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies were double-billed in Japanese cinemas in 1988.