Children are sometimes warned: ‘Be careful what you wish for.’ and it’s this very cautionary wisdom that sets the stage for Henry Selick’s Coraline, an eye-popping animated tale of fractured dreams and families made whole.

Coraline Jones has just moved into the Pink Palace, a once-vibrant boarding house that’s become drab and dilapidated. As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalogue and ignore her, Coraline starts to get bored. When she finds a mysterious hidden door she also discovers a gateway to a parallel world where her "other" parents and neighbours live only to see Coraline well fed and endlessly entertained. All is not cakes and carnivals for Coraline, though, and the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions. When these intentions are revealed, Coraline and a friendly magical cat use their wits and willpower to defeat Coraline’s wicked ‘other mother’ and restore balance in the real world.

Based on Neil Gaiman’s beloved children’s novel, director Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) uses traditional stop-motion puppet animation to bring Coraline to life with amazing visual and emotional depth. The result is a frightfully magical adventure that will give the whole family plenty to shriek, cheer, and talk about.

Discovery Family Film Club is a new way for families and young audiences to experience the magic of cinema. Like the Discovery Film Festival, our new Family Film Club will bring you the best children’s films from around the globe - both new releases and classics. Every second Saturday at 12.15pm there will be a workshop in the cinema before the screening where young people can participate in a variety of art projects. A team of Discovery artists equipped with our brand new Artcart will be on hand to guide the way. Come join us on this new adventure!