Renoir

In late-1980s Tokyo, an 11-year-old girl faces her father's terminal cancer while her mother shoulders the family's financial and caring responsibilities. Longing for connection, she becomes fascinated by telepathy and tries to understand the adults around her, exploring loneliness and death through her imagination.

Drama

The director drew on her childhood experience of having a father with cancer. She had wanted to make the film since her early twenties.