And you may ask yourself: “How did I get here?” Somehow I am at the Picture House Central, just off Piccadilly, for Scotland Loves Anime (London), the unwieldily titled experimental spin-off from SLA proper, that ships a bunch of this year’s films down south of the Wall.

Last night I conducted an onstage interview with Totto-chan director Shinnosuke Yakuwa about the fate of refugee Jewish musicians in wartime Japan, the colour palette for growing austerity, and his love of Charlie Chaplin — he’s off on a three-day pilgrimage to various sites from Chaplin’s life, starting with the former Trocadero restaurant off Piccadilly, where Chaplin once ate as a child, which is where we came in.

The SLA people are calling this a “soft launch”, wherein some of the elements of the Scottish festival — the films, the Audience Award, er…. me — run in London to see if there is a big enough market to make it a regular thing. So if you are at the Picture House today and enjoying yourself, be sure to tell your socials.