Erika Oda

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough finds the recently deceased in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life for them to take into the next world. This bittersweet fantasia serves as a panoramic vision of the human experience and a profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

In a dystopian future, a man convicted of killing his girlfriend’s rapists survives his execution only to enter a nightmare of prison experiments.