(Nor does the film’s marketing shy from the connection, with its wide-eyed, backlit characters earnestly gazing to the horizon.) The Glassworker (2024)Though the film embraces the old-fashioned star-crossed romance, it’s driven by a surprising emotional realism. Tomas’s story arc is perhaps the most affecting, the uncompromising patriarch enfeebled, forced to surrender pride and more for his son. The film’s inclusion of a djinn, resident of a cave beside the glassworks, is a particularly light local inflection – almost an afterthought, certainly not given dramatic emphasis. It adds to the film’s visual originality, though, alongside the colourful glass-making motif: where Miyazaki intimates a spirit life in the movements of the wind, The Glassworker does so through light itself.