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Baltic Cinema: The Illusionist

Wed 19 Aug | 11:00

Dir. Sylvain Chomet France 2010 80’ (PG) 
Digital video | No dialogue 

Baltic Cinema: The Illusionist


Wed 19 Aug | 11:00

£6 Full price / £4.50 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+
Booking Essential

Screening as part of Baltic Cinema’s Quayside Kino strand — fantastic films for families as part of Balitc's Big Family Summer.

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village — and their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever. A fantastic animated homage to Edinburgh by Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendezvous) based on an unproduced script by legendary filmmaker Jacques Tati, The Illusionist is often cited as one of the most visually breathtaking animated films of the 21st century. 

Eight people sat in the cinema looking at the screen.

Baltic Cinema

Baltic Cinema is a year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.

Baltic Cinema has five strands:

Currents presents new work from across the world

Sources expands on our exhibitions

Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners

Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children

News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here

All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. 

Baltic's Big Family Summer

Imaginative play spaces, family bike rides around the Quayside, weekly cinema screenings and a Big Summer Carnival Disco. 

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