Screening times:
Sunday, July 12, 7:45 PM
Sunday, August 2, 5:30 PM

Sho Miyake | Japan | 2026 | 89m
Japanese with English subtitles

Lauded by IndieWire as “one of the finest, most soulful Japanese filmmakers of his generation”, Sho Miyake’s latest explores longing and loneliness in an adaptation of two short mangas by revered artist Yoshiharu Tsuge.

In summer, Nagisa, a woman from the city, and Natsuo, a young man visiting his relatives, meet by the sea. In winter, Li, a screenwriter in a creative slump, travels to a snow-covered village with an old camera left behind by a late acquaintance. Two Seasons, Two Strangers begins as a film within a film; a potential seaside romance between two lonely strangers, and then transforms into the story of the screenwriter herself, stuck in a rustic and chilly cabin with a curmudgeonly inn-keeper. Delicately, themes in the second film start to echo the first.

“Elegant, sensitive … unfolds in a playful but deeply felt register that is perhaps more melancomedy than tragicomedy, but that delivers the rare satisfaction of watching modest, thoughtful people find just what they need in the last place they’d expect it.” Jessica Kiang, Sight and Sound

“Beguiling … An eloquently structured miniature … Rich in doublings, parallels, and reflective surfaces, layered to entrancing, cumulatively moving effect.” Guy Lodge, Variety

“Miyake is not only one of the great Japanese filmmakers of his generation. He is also among the best at imbuing neglected people with humanity and injecting aching empathy into modest stories. Two Seasons, Two Strangers might be him at his best.” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com

Winner: Golden Leopard, Locarno Film Festival, 2025

Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available)