Ctrl+Alt+Cinema: Takopi’s original sin and April

Whether you are with an old hand in the arthouse or immersing a toe in the growing otto -culture of Anime Afsiydos worldwide, this column lists the curated title that challenges the challenge, comfort and sometimes burn your expectations.

Ctrl+Alt+Cinema may not vary much on the pics of this week-a pink is trying to spread a six-episode anime about a pink exotic octopus, the other is a Stark Georgian drama about both a rural doctor for his role in a bottled delivery about a rural doctor.

From the drawing board

The basic sin of takopi Looks like the kind of show you will expect to make you happy after a long day. It found a smiling foreign octopus from Happy Planet, here to help a little girl with magical gadgets and good intentions. But before the end of the first episode, it is clear that this is not that kind of story.

The show follows the Titular Tentaked Alien, whose innocent and honesty collides against a world, as much as it is more complex than understanding. Shizuka, the girl she wants to help, remains with a sorrow that no gadget can erase, and Takopi will not stop trying to make her smile once again.

Still from ‘basic sin of takopi’. Photo Credit: Crunchyroll

Now breaking the record of streaming and already viewing on Crunchrol, Takopi Surprise of 2025 Made in abis Director Shinya IINO, this six-episode gem arms its beloved camouflage, only to peel it back some deeply, to the turbulent human.

Hirokazu Kore-Eida Demon (2023), Takopi Investigates ways that shape children and sometimes disintegrate with the choice of adults. Fan of Wonder egg priority, Bojack Horsemanor even Requiem for a Dream Will also look right at home (or rather, right on the edge).

what makes Takopi It is noteworthy how it cleverly binds character, form and emotion. The grand art is afraid of a child-like sketches and chiyaroskuro, while the writing together combines several attitudes together to a tight wound intestine. If you ever liked something A silent voiceOr found myself undone with emotional honesty Look backThis is to sit with the anime.

foreign Affairs

Whereas most of the films about abortion frames the issue as binary of choice and result. april The lady agency is after the emotional weather under the siege. It also begins with one of the one of the creation, the most unstable early shots that you are likely to see this year.

Currently streaming on Mubi, the film follows Nina, a maternity-gynecologist in rural Georgia, who abortion in Gupta and who comes under the investigation of misconduct after a bated delivery. DEA, whose 2020-film beginning In Georgian cinema declared him as a major voice, now returns with more maturity and restraint. It is a slow, unstable picture of a woman pushed on the edges, and the direction of the DEA is accurate and extra.

Still from ‘April’. Photo Credit: Mubi

what makes april It is especially important when and where it has come. The film openly depicts abortion and desperation of women seeking it, which is a rareness in Georgian cinema. Even though abortion in Georgia is still legal, the film is unnecessarily banned there, it is likely that it dare to speak openly about a subject that the mainly conservative population still wants to be hidden. It also comes at a time when reproductive rights are under a global siege, and sits with weight that being a woman means trying to make an alternative in a world that keeps trying to ban them.

If you appreciate the slow, painful revelations of Eliza Hitman Sometimes sometimes always Or the moral complexity of Christian Mungiyu 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, april Is on your list. This is not easy to see, but at this moment, some films feel more necessary.

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