Origin: Spirits of the Past

Origin: Spirits of the Past (銀色の髪のアギト, 2006) — watch this Japanese animated feature online on iFILM. Produced by Gonzo and directed by Keiichi Sugiyama, the film is set three centuries after humanity's engineered forests came alive and remade the planet. What remains of civilisation is split: one settlement has made a fragile peace with the Forest; another is quietly preparing to destroy it.

Agito, a teenager from the peaceful side, breaks into a forbidden ruin and finds Toola — a girl held in suspended animation since before the catastrophe. Aoi Miyazaki voices Toola. The film builds its ecological argument through the choices these two characters make rather than through speeches, which gives it more weight than most post-apocalyptic anime of the period. Stream Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006) on iFILM.