The Barbican's Framed Film Festival Returns For Another Weekend Of Screenings & Free Workshops

The Barbican's Framed Film Festival returns for another weekend of screenings and free workshops and events that celebrates the best cinema from around the world for younger film lovers.

Taking place between Sat 17 Nov - Sun 18 Nov, this year's programme draws together shorts and features, animations and live action, old favourites and brand-new characters - all screened together over one weekend to create a showcase of the best stories made for and about children. Young festival-goers can make a day of it by attending a film and some of the free quality artist- and filmmaker-led creative activities that run between 10-4pm in the cinema foyer spaces.

Highlights include Framed Shorts: Animal Antics, a specially curated shorts programme about an array of delightful animals, a sound effects workshop with the School of Noise, the new international hit My Giraffe - about a young boy and his pet giraffe, and the classic Michel Ocelot animation Princes and Princesses, six captivating stories of love and adventure with an interactive introduction by the artist and animator Reza Ben Gajra. The free Character Corner design workshop gives young festival goers a creative outlet to design and make their own characters from the films.

FILMS:

Sat 17th Nov

Framed Shorts: Animal Antics (U*) - 11am
This year's Framed Film Festival opens with a specially curated programme short films - featuring tales of wolves and squirrels, birds and caterpillars, ants and bears, penguins and lions - as well as the odd owl thrown in for good measure!This charming selection is a fantastic way to introduce a young audience to cinema from around the world in easy to swallow, bite-sized stories - not available anywhere else.
Approx running time 65min

My Giraffe (U*) - 1.30pm
Patterson is excited to start school for the first time but is disappointed to learn that his best friend Raf - a giraffe in THE ZOO next-door - won't be able to come to classes with him. Determined not to grow apart, the two pals navigate this new stage in their lives with courage and mischief. An absolute charmer of a film full of warm-hearted characters, this is a wonderfully gentle story for the youngest of film-goers (and the young at heart!). Based on a poem by Annie M.G. Schmidt, the multi-award winning, queen of Dutch children's literature.
Netherlands 2018 Dir. Barbara Bredero 74min. With English subtitles.
Headsets will be available to children, subtitles will be read out loud by a voice over artist.

Revisit a Classic: Princes of Princesses (PG*) - 3.30pm
With introduction from artist and animator Reza Ben Gajra
Michel Ocelot - maker of the Kirikou films - Azur and Asmar and Tales of the Night - creates beautifully intricate silhouettes to tell short stories of princes and princesses, of daring-do and distant lands. Bringing to mind the work of Lotte Reiniger, this is a rare opportunity to see one of Ocelot's early works not released theatrically in the UK on the big screen.
France 2000, Dir Michel Ocelot 70min. With English subtitles.
Headsets will be available to children, subtitles will be read out loud by a voice over artist.

Artist Reza Ben Gajra will give a lively introduction to the animation techniques that Ocelot uses to create his fantastical onscreen stories.

Sun 18th Nov

Cartoon Saloon's PUFFIN ROCK (U*) with Co-creator and Art Director Lily Bernard - 11.30am
Cartoon Saloon has stolen film-goers' hearts of all ages with their luscious animation style and carefully crafted characters in titles such as Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner. In this interactive event the Barbican is delighted to welcome Lily Bernard the Co-creator and Art Director of Cartoon Saloon's pre-school animation PUFFIN ROCK to talk about her work, screen specially selected episodes of the show and introduce young audiences to the creative processes behind Oona, Baba and the residents of the beautiful island.
Approx. 60-70mins
With thanks to Cartoon Saloon

Moomins and the Winter Wonderland (U*) - 1.20pm
With introduction from So Mayer from Club des Femmes.
Moomintroll awakes one night and decides not to take his traditional winter slumber, instead he explores the snowy land on a leisurely adventure, encountering many new things and learning much about his beloved valley. Based on the adored Tove Jansson stories, the film has a wonderfully gentle and meditative tone, matched with flawless stop motion animation. Featuring THE VOICE talents of Alicia Vikander, Bill Skarsgård and Stellan Skarsgård.
Dirs. Ira Carpelan & Jakub Wronski Finland/Poland 2017 82min

WORKSHOPS:

Sat 17 - Sun 18 Nov

All workshops run between 10-4pm and are free to attend.

CHARACTER CORNER

Make your own character from the films in the festival from moomins to puffins, owls and giraffes with animators and artists Shelly Wain and Wendy Scott.

Free, Drop in / Cinema 2/3 Foyer

FILM SOUND EFFECTS WORKSHOP

With the School of Noise

Discover how sound effects are created for film with the School of Noise. Have a go at making your own unique sound track to some classic clips and watch it played back in our mini cinema with foley artists and musicians from School of Noise.

Sign up on the day, free/ Cinema 2/3 Foyer

ANIMATION STATION

Animate your own characters using stop-frame animation. Take inspiration from the world around you and the films you see at the festival with animation specialists.

Free, drop-in

Also look out for art activities around the foyer for you to add your creations to, pick up and do or take home.

For further information please contact:

Ian Cuthbert, Communications Manager - Cinema

ian.cuthbert@barbican.org.uk/ 07980 925 352

Sarah Harvey, Communications Consultant for Barbican Cinema

sarah@sarahharveypublicity.co.uk/ 020 7732 7790

Ticket prices:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/cinema Box Office: 0845 120 7527

About the Barbican

A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.1 million people attend events annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite.

The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, The Pit, Cinemas 1, 2 and 3, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery the Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Barbican Centre.

The Barbican is home to Resident Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra; Associate Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra; Associate Ensembles the

Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia, Associate Producer Serious, and Artistic Partner Create. Our Artistic Associates include Boy Blue, Cheek by Jowl, Deborah Warner, Drum Works and Michael Clark Company. The Los Angeles Philharmonic are the Barbican's International Orchestral Partner, the Australian Chamber Orchestra are International Associate Ensemble at Milton Court and Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra are International Associate Ensemble.

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