North American premiere
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Feast of Amrita (Amrita no Kyoen)

Directed by Saku Sakamoto

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Official selection

Animafest Zagreb 2023

Director

Saku Sakamoto

Producer

Osamu Fukutani

Writer

Saku Sakamoto

Cast

Kana Hanazawa, MoeMi, Mamiko Noto, Maaya Uchida

Composer

SAKU SAKAMOTO

Editor

SAKU SAKAMOTO

Animator

SAKU SAKAMOTO

Special Effects

SAKU SAKAMOTO

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Japan 2023 47 mins OV Japanese Subtitles : English
Genre HorrorAnimation

While on a fun excursion together, teenager Tamahi and her two friends Yu and Aki pass in front of a foreboding, dilapidated apartment complex. Immediately, bad things start to happen. Tamahi runs into the courtyard of the complex, followed by Aki, who suspects the grim concrete edifice might be a “carabi-yau” — a place where people suddenly disappear and never return. There are rumours of an experiment gone wrong at a nearby facility years before, but what the three girls will come face to face with on this ill-fated day will go far beyond any scientific explanation...

In 2018, Fantasia world-premiered ARAGNE: SIGN OF VERMILLION, an indie horror-anime feature created alone by Japanese director, writer, composer, and animator Saku Sakamoto. He returns to the twisted world he imagined with FEAST OF AMRITA, a brand-new prequel that stands firmly on its own, again descending into his mind-scarring melange of modern urban gothic, skin-crawling bio-horror, and impossible cosmic abomination, all unfolding with the deranged logic of an unrelenting nightmare. – Rupert Bottenberg

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