Recommended age 15+

Adaptation of the best-selling Young Adult fantasy tale about an orphaned boy who follows a trail of mysterious photographs that lead him to an abandoned orphanage on a Welsh island. Who better to capture the dark mood of the novel than master of the gothic, Tim Burton. The director’s distinctive visual style and preference for off-beat characters is ideally suited to the novel’s combination of vintage photos, mysterious settings and peculiars, gifted nonpeculiars and animals.

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Director: Tim Burton

USA/Belgium/UK, 2016, Adventure/Fantasy

Screening as part of the 2016/2017 IFI Schools Programme.

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