Aspect Ratio(s): 16:9
Original Release Year: 2011

Description:

■Grand Prix at the "Japan Prize", an international competition for educational programs! The world's attention was drawn to this topical film. The film caused a great social sensation when it was released in Spain, and won the "Best Animation" and "Best Screenplay" awards at the 26th Goya Awards, known as Spain's Academy Awards. The much-talked-about film "Wrinkles" (original title: Arrugas) also won the 2012 Grand Prix of the Japan Prize, a world-class competition for educational programs. Based on the comic "Wrinkles" by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca (winner of the Excellence Award in the Manga Division of the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival), the film is directed by Ignacio Ferreras, a talented Spanish animator for whom this is his first feature film. The themes of the film are "dementia" and "final residence. The themes of this film are "dementia" and "final residence," both of which have been highlighted as social issues in this aging society. How should we deal with "aging" and "dementia" at this time? What is really needed is "family" or "friends"...Expressions about old age and aging, which are heavy themes, are humorously and casually depicted in a warm, hand-drawn animation technique that combines carefully researched comic depictions by the original author, Paco Roca, with the characteristics of the director's own acquaintances and relatives.