Furman Film Series - I Wish

Do you love unique, high quality films--from studio features to micro-budget indies, foreign films, festival hits, and more? The Great Neck Arts Center brings these films right to your backyard, often weeks before their major release! Plus, we host Q&As with filmmakers and other film industry insiders after each screening.

I WISH: Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Japan, 2011, 128 min. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Straight from the Toronto Film Festival! Twelve-year-old
Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in the southern region of Kyushu, Japan. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their father in northern Kyushu. The brothers have been separated by their parents’ divorce and Koichi’s only wish is for his family to be reunited. When he learns that a new bullet train line will soon open linking the two towns, he starts to believe that a miracle will take place the moment these new trains first pass each other at top speed. With help from the adults around him, Koichi sets out on a journey with a group of friends, each hoping to witness a miracle that will improve their difficult lives.

Q&A after the film with Dylan Skolnick, co-director of Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington!

Visit our website for the rest of our Spring II Series lineup, to buy tickets, and more details about film screenings! Tickets also available by calling the Great Neck Arts Center.