Japan · Anime
Now and Then, Here and There
Akitaro Daichi · 1999
Set in a desert dystopia where child soldiers serve a mad king, the series follows Lala-Ru, a girl whose body literally contains the world's last water, making her flesh the contested terrain of war. Its Hungarian co-production lineage and unflinching gaze at how revolution consumes its youngest carriers parallels Belli's reckoning with the children — including her own — left in the wake of armed struggle.