Best of the Olympia Film Festival Presents: THE RED TURTLE

MARCH 11 – 16
Best of the Olympia Film Festival Presents
Oscar nominee: Best Animated Feature Film

THE RED TURTLE

Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli explores a new creative direction after the retirement of its founder Hayao Miyazaki with this realistically drawn feature created in partnership with Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit. This extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked man who establishes a family and a new life on an island inhabited only by majestic animal life is told entirely without dialogue. Few artistic collaborations yield the perfect synthesis of sensibilities found in The Red Turtle. Not only is the artwork gorgeous to behold, but it showcases the best ways in which Studio Ghibli productions maintain a certain elegant simplicity that points to deeper truths. This is a quiet little masterpiece of images, each one rich with meaning, that collectively speak to a universal process.

“The Red Turtle is a fable so simple, so pure, it feels as if it has existed for hundreds of years, like a brilliant shard of sea glass rendered smooth and elegant through generations of retelling.” Peter Debruge, Variety

Dir: Michaël Dudok De Wit / 2016 / Japan, France / 80 min

SCREENING: SAT 3/11 4PM; SUN 3/12 7:30PM; TUE 3/14 9PM; WED 3/15 6:30PM; THU 3/16 9PM

Tickets available at box office 30 minutes prior to showtime