Name: SX Sunday Double: THE BOY & THE HERON + SPIRITED AWAY
Start: 2024-12-15T16:30:00+08:00
Location: Luna on SX

SX Sunday Double: THE BOY & THE HERON + SPIRITED AWAY

THE BOY & THE HERON (2023) | (PG)
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, The Boy & the Heron follows Mahito, a young 12-year-old boy struggling to settle in a new town after his mother's death. One day, a mysterious talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, transporting him to another world. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
10 min. intermission
SPIRITED AWAY (2001) | (PG)
From Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes this Academy Award-winning masterpiece. Spirited Away is a Alice in Wonderland-like fantasy about a young girl named Chihiro who tumbles into a secret world of spirits and sorcery. When her parents are transformed into pigs by a witch, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family from the witch's curse and return them to the human world.
Japanese with English subtitles