Family Time: Lu Over The Wall

This summer as part of Family Time, why not take a trip to a sunny Japanese seaside town from the cool comfort our cinema screen?

From visionary director Masaaki Yuasa (Inu-Oh, The Tatami Galaxy) comes an anime fairy tale about a little mermaid who comes ashore, where she joins a middle-school rock band and helps propel them to fame. Lu Over The Wall is a joyously colourful and inventively animated musical retelling of the classic mermaid myth that will enchant all ages.

Kai is talented but adrift, spending his summer days sulking in a small fishing village after his family moves from Tokyo. His only joy is uploading songs he writes to the internet. When his classmates invite him to play keyboard in their band, their practice sessions bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid whose fins turn to feet when she hears the beats, and whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance – whether they want to or not.

As Kai spends more time with Lu, he finds he is able to tell her what he is really thinking, and a bond begins to form. But since ancient times, the people in the village have believed that mermaids bring disaster…

Winner of the Grand Prize at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival and an official selection of Sundance 2018, Lu Over the Wall is a toe-tapping, feel-good demonstration of Yuasa’s genre-mixing mastery that will leave you humming long after you leave the cinema.

Lu Over The Wall is rated PG due to mild bad language and threat. For fans of Ponyo, Song of the Sea, Luca, and The Little Mermaid.

This screening will be presented in the English language dub.

Family Time screenings feature subtitles and low-level lighting for accessibility and comfort for all.

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