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Films: Paprika

Time to gear up, people: the 16th Philadelphia Film Festival starts tomorrow! As we did last year, Phillyist is planning plenty of coverage, mostly taking the form of film festival diary entries from various staff members (including, of course, yours truly, whose schedule can be seen here, in case you're interested). But what's going on this year, and what should you look forward to? Well, we're glad you asked. Let's pick through the overview press release, shall we?

Tonight the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia will be screening Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers on the 7th floor of the Bellevue (Broad and Walnut Streets) at 6:30 PM. If we're reading this right - the film follows three wildly different homeless characters as they care for an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. Hmm. Not exactly your traditional holiday story...but the tag line, "Meet the ultimate dysfunctional family," is something people of all cultures seem to relate to around the holidays. (Phillyist, of course, does not refer to our own family, who is a paragon of normalcy, and whom we never, ever complain about when they're out of earshot. And we didn't just roll our eyes either. Honest.)