MIYAZAKI, SPIRIT OF NATURE

The first documentary to focus on Academy Award® winner Hayao Miyazaki’s deep connection to nature and the environmental themes expressed through his films. For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, PRINCESS MONONOKE, SPIRITED AWAY, or his latest film THE BOY AND THE HERON, to name only a few of eleven feature films, ten short films, several manga, and also through Studio Ghibli, a museum and a theme park. Miyazaki’s films are often autobiographical, reflecting the state of the world and the turmoil of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, full of wars and ecological disasters. Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola or philosopher Timothy Morton, as well as close associates, his son and film director Gorō Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki, his longtime producer and friend, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive, and mysterious artist.