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COTTONTAIL
COTTONTAIL

• Director: Patrick Dickinson
• UK, JAPAN / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 94’ / English, Japanese; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Patrick Dickinson
• Director of Photography: Mark Wolf
• Editing: Andy Jadavji
• Music: Stefan Gregory
• Cast: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Nishikido, Aoife Hinds, Ciarán Hinds
• Producer: Gabrielle Tana, Raymond Phathanavirangoon
• Production Co.: Akiko Films Ltd., Brouhaha Entertainment, Magnolia Mae Films
• World Sales: Westend Films

2023 Roma Best First Work

Cottontail is a universal portrait of love, acceptance, and family loss. After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and his grown-up son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child – Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, the two men, along with Toshi’s wife and daughter, travel to England from Tokyo to fulfil her final wish. But Kenzaburo’s true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all. British-Irish filmmaker Patrick Dickinson (who has studied Japanese cinema at Oxford University and Waseda University in Tokyo) evokes Japanese master filmmaker Ozu with vast swathes of countryside, and focus on humanity and family bonds in his debut feature film.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.