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We Are Aliens
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Sat 24 Oct 1:30 PM
Palace Nova Eastend: ExiMax
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
117 MinsChildhood can be a world unto itself, where loyalties feel absolute, small cruelties are devastating and another person can remain unknowable even when you believe you know them best. In a small Japanese town, Tsubasa is drawn to the strange, magnetic Gyotaro, who claims he is an alien. Their intense friendship and its heartbreaking end continue to shape both boys into adulthood. Moving across decades and between perspectives, We Are Aliens gradually transforms our understanding of the memories they share and the lives that followed. Kohei Kadowaki’s delicate animation renders everyday life with almost hyperreal clarity, heightening fleeting gestures, facial expressions and childhood landscapes into images of extraordinary emotional intensity. Drawing beauty and heartbreak from the smallest moments, this formally ambitious animation explores memory, guilt and the enduring mystery of other people.