Ginger & Rosa - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

Weans’ World
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PARANORMAN SHORTS FOR WEE ONES TWIGSON
Weans’ World
Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £2.50
(£4.50 for 3D shows) per person, big or small!
This month, we’re featuring some of the highlights
of the Discovery Film Festival in Dundee
– delightful Norwegian family film Twigson and
three fantastic programmes of shorts. For more
information go to www.discoveryfilmfestival.org.uk
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people
talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for
kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
Arrietty
Sat 13 Oct at 1.00pm & Sun 14 Oct at 11.00am
Hiromasa Yonebayashi • Japan 2010 • 1h34m
Digital projection • English language version
U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
With the voices of Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Tom Holland,
Geraldine McEwan, Phyllida Law.
Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a
magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-
year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. Arrietty’s
parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you.”
But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and is spotted by
a 12-year-old boy. The two begin to confide in each other
and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom.
See left for details of an event with Arrietty composer Cécile
Corbel.
ParaNorman
Mon 15 to Thu 18 Oct at 1.00pm
Chris Butler, Sam Fell • USA 2012 • 1h33m • Digital projection
PG – Contains mild comic horror and violence, frightening
sequences and innuendo
With the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Tucker
Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
A spooky stop-motion comedy for all the family! A small
town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only
misunderstood local boy Norman, who is able to speak to
the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on
ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his
town from a centuries-old curse.
Shorts for Wee Ones
Sat 20 Oct at 12 noon
1h • U
Once again Discovery Film Festival have searched high
and low to bring you a new mix of the best short films for
the very young. All the films are either in English or have
no dialogue, so they’re suitable for even the youngest
children and form an ideal introduction to the big screen
experience.
In this year’s selection you’ll meet a most determined bull,
a duck on a mission and an ant with a dream. There are
brilliant colours, fantastic soundtracks and a huge range of
animation styles: hand-drawn, computer generated and
even one that’s made with tea leaves!
Shorts for Middle Ones, for those aged 8 and above, will
screen next month.
Twigson Knerten
Sun 21 & Mon 22 Oct at 2.00pm
Åsleik Engmark • Norway 2009 • 1h15m
Digibeta • Norwegian with English subtitles • U
Cast: Adrian Grønnevik Smith, Asleik Engmark, Pernille Sørensen,
Jan Gunnar Røise, Petrus Andreas Christensen.
Poor Junior has plenty of time to play, but no-one to play
with. His family has just moved to a ramshackle old house
in the country and he doesn’t know anyone. He’s pretty
lonely until he finds a special twig called ‘Twigson’ – a twig
who can talk! Before long they’re getting into all kinds of
scrapes in the woods with the oddball neighbours.
The Gruffalo’s Child and Other Stories
Sat 27 Oct at 12 noon
45m • U
The wonderful thing about great books is that they can
be made into great films too! Following on the heels of
the hugely enjoyable film version of Julia Donaldson’s The
Gruffalo is this beautiful adaptation of the next chapter,
The Gruffalo’s Child. Once again we venture into the deep,
dark wood and encounter Snake, Owl and Fox, who are
on their way to a showdown with Mouse. But is he as big
and bad as everyone says? The Gruffalo’s child is about to
find out.
Discovery Film Festival have also included two more short
films in this compendium. Based on a Tibetan folk tale,
Rumours shows just how quickly a story can get out of
hand and distort the truth. In Gus, a cave boy with chronic
flatulence and his father live a cold life in the Alps, until the
boy is sent outside and changes their lives forever.