The right time to release old fears, to clear the way, to allow inner treasures to be discovered, to learn life-reviving lessons.

This is exactly the right moment to open our minds, read and study.

We need to trust our feelings, to understand that there is more than what meets the eye.

Studio Ghibli’s worlds are often fantastical but far from straightforward parables and allegories; they insist on ambiguity, associative order and irresolution.

A look at two critically lauded South Korean films in which an elderly woman is the sole protagonist.