Film - Shoplifters

Start
28 Dec 2018
End
03 Jan 2019
Schedule
3 sessions
#1.
28 Dec 2018, 7:30 PM (EST)
#2.
29 Dec 2018, 7:30 PM (EST)
#3.
03 Jan 2019, 7:30 PM (EST)
Location
Martha's Vineyard Film Center, 79 Beach Rd, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568

Film - Shoplifters

Friday, December 28, 2018 from 7:30 PM

Saturday, December 29, 2018 from 7:30 PM

Thursday, January 3, 2019 from 7:30 PM

Martha's Vineyard Film Center, 79 Beach Road
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568

Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother's pension. As he is shoplifting for groceries with his son, Shota, they discover Yuri, a homeless girl. Osamu takes her home, where the family observes evidence of abuse. Despite their strained finances, they informally adopt her. The film premiered on 13 May 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it went on to win the Palme d'Or. The film was released in Japan on 8 June 2018 and was a critical and commercial success.

To learn more, please visit Martha's Vineyard Film Society webpage.

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