FAMILY FILM FEST
Join us in July for a series of family-friendly animated films, showing every Saturday at 11:00 a.m. All tickets $5.
SATURDAY, JULY 6 – 11:00 a.m.
WOLFWALKERS (2020)
Academy Award Nominee: Best Animated Feature. In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the WOLFWALKERS and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.  (d. Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart | 1 hour, 43 minutes | Rated PG for sequences of violence and peril, scary images, some thematic elements and brief language)
SATURDAY, JULY 13 – 11 a.m.
A CAT IN PARIS (2010)
Academy Award Nominee: Best Animated Feature. From directors Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol, A Cat in Paris is a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the shadow-drenched alleyways of Paris. Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night Dino sneaks out the window to work with Nico – a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. Rife with film references, A Cat in Paris is a warm and richly humorous love letter to classic noir and American gangster films, with a jazz soundtrack featuring Billie Holiday. (d. Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alan Gagnol | 1 hour, 10 minutes | Rated PG for mild violence and action, and some thematic material) **A CAT IN PARIS will be shown with the short film EXTINCTION OF THE SABER-TOOTHED HOUSE-CAT (viewable here).Â
SATURDAY, JULY 20 – 11 a.m.
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (2005)
Academy Award Winner: Best Animated Feature. Daffy scientist Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his heroic dog Gromit are doing well with their business, Anti-Pesto, a varmint-hunting outfit designed to keep their English town safe from rabbits chomping on prized vegetables. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest. (d. Steve Box & Nick Park | 1 hour, 25 minutes | Rated G )
SATURDAY, JULY 27 – 11:00 a.m.
THE IRON GIANT (1999)
October, 1957. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes lives in Rockwell, Maine, a seemingly idyllic town. Hearing stories of a UFO that crashed into the sea, Hogarth, always on the lookout for mutant aliens, finds a huge, metal-eating robot with an insatiable curiosity and equally insatiable appetite. But the extraterrestrial’s presence unleashes a wave of paranoia that threatens to engulf Rockwell unless Hogarth and his 50-foot friend can stop it. Acclaimed animation director and writer Brad Bird brings his creative talents to the big screen in this unique tale of two heroes. (d. Brad Bird | 1 hour, 26 minutes | Rated PG for fantasy action violence, language, some thematic material and smoking)