Bleak Week at GFT: Grave of the Fireflies

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Bleak Week at GFT: Grave of the Fireflies

Sunday 21 June, 2026, 7.20 p.m.

In the final months of the Second World War, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

Japanese with English subtitles.

Screening as part of Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair season, presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque and Prince Charles Cinema.

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GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

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Written by : Pat Byrne

Publisher of Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End; the community guide to the West End of Glasgow. Fiction and non-fiction writer.

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