The theatrical anime Beyond the Trail will be screened as a late-night showing at Theater Shinjuku in Tokyo for one week starting October 10. Simultaneously, the main poster and trailer have been released. Beyond the Trail is a 30-minute anime created by Studio DOT, a collective of around 100 artists who came together online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the first feature film by director Vab.png. Its world premiere took place at the 29th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, in July. The film was nominated for the ‘Satoshi Kon Award‘ in the anime category and also for the Bronze Award in the Best Short Animation category of the Audience Award.
Main Trailer:
Main Poster:
MAIN STAFF:
Director: Vab.png (Ryusei Hasegawa), (Art Director) CUZ
Producer: FutaMoku, Utsuro Ishinomaki
Writer: Vab.png
Cast: Hotori Asami, Lemone Ido, Youta Kawase, Mana Kobayashi, Kirara Omori, Yui Watanabe
Cinematographer: CloA, Massy
Composer: Abu-Se-Ken, Yuki Hayashi, Lemone Ido, ZEROKU, Mizore
Canadian illustrator, comic artist, and writer Rupert Bottenberg presented Beyond the Trail on the official Fantasia International Film Festival website:
In the shadow of a ruinous war, three young women are serving as soldiers in a barren, snow-swept landscape. Their task is to scour the frozen wastes for stragglers of the Iron Army, eerie, formerly human flesh-weapons. Gros and especially the inexperienced Leichte admire Esus, stronger and wiser than they. Esus has her weaknesses, though, and unhealed wounds in her heart. Somewhere out there in the vast, deadly sea of snow lie answers—to Esus’ pain, and to the awful secret of this war. A truly independent, crowdfunded labour of love from a dedicated team of young volunteer animators, each contributing what they could in their spare time, BEYOND THE TRAIL is a solid, self-contained serving of science-fiction anime, imaginative and emotionally honest.
Source: Comic Natalie
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