The 60th Berlin International Film Festival has announced that Generation, its festival section specially dedicated to long and short films for children and youths, will screen SUMMER WARS directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time).

Generation has selected 28 feature length films and 28 short films from 31 countries for its Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions, and SUMMER WARS has been selected for 14plus. There will be three official screenings on the following dates: February 16th at 17pm, 19th at 9am and 20th at 19:30pm at Berlinale.

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In the near future, the creation of virtual city OZ has made it possible for everyone to access the Internet from anywhere and at anytime. Kenji, a high school student, spends his summer holidays idly working as a part-timer, maintaining the OZ system. But then the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, invites him to her hometown of Nagano! When they arrive, Kenji is bewildered when Natsuki asks him to pretend to be her fiancé, so that she can make her elderly grandmother happy. During his first night there, Kenji receives an e-mail with a strange mathematic riddle from a mysterious sender. Kenji, a math whiz, is intrigued by this and when he finally solves the answer, the world has completely changed. The next morning, on a TV news report, he sees a story about a lawless avatar in OZ. Kenji is astonished to see that it is his avatar! The innocent Kenji is maligned as an OZ criminal, and before he knows what is happening, he is thrown into a battle with the fate of the world in the balance...

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