Atsuko Ishizuka’s Anime Goodbye, DonGlees! Getting UK Premiere

Earlier today Edinburgh Film Festival announced it’s 75th anniversary line-up. One of the films announced was Atsuko Ishizuka‘s coming of age Anime Goodbye, DonGlees!.

Anime Limited will be bringing to the festival for it’s UK Premiere in August, with director in attendance.

There’s no time more exciting yet poignant than the end of youth: when we weigh up what’s truly special to us and become aware of the wider world outside our humble hometowns. This fond farewell to childhood is at the heart of , a coming-of-age adventure.

Outcast by their classmates, bullied teenager boys come together to become a club. The tightly knit friendship group dubbed the “DonGlees”. However, after meeting up for one last summer firework show together, they find themselves blamed for a nearby forest fire. Send them on a journey to prove their innocence, growing up might be taking them down different paths in life.

Embracing youthful adventure punctuated by emotional soul-searching, Goodbye, DonGlees! embodies the hallmarks of the director’s  2018 anime series A Place Further Than the Universe to critical acclaim.

Anime Limited haven’t released a  UK Trailer for the film, here’s a recent US Trailer…

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Teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees,” an informal name for their backyard adventures. One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends as they realize that growing up has taken them on wildly different paths in life.

Director Atsuko Ishizuka follows up her critically acclaimed series A Place Further Than the Universe with her first original feature film. With luminescent animation and lush backdrops, Goodbye, Don Glees! is a tender coming-of-age story about the fearlessness of being young and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery.

Goodbye, DonGlees! will be shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival on Tuesday 16th and Friday 19th August. It will be shown in Japanese with English subtitles. Book your tickets and more info at the festival’s website. The film will receive a wider cinematic release in the UK and Ireland later this year.