SLIFF Kid Film "Wolf Children" showing at the Wildey Theatre

"Wolf Children" is the brilliant third feature from Mamoru Hosoda, whose "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" have established him as one of the world's top creative forces in animation. The film begins with a romance between student Hana and a mysterious outcast who sits in on her college lecture. It turns out that Hana's beau is actually part wolf, but love conquers all differences. However, when the couple has children, Ame and Yuki, they follow in their father's pawprints, with the rambunctious bundles of joy transforming into wolves when excited. Circumstances eventually force Hana to raise her changeling children on her own, and it proves no easy task. To maintain the family secret, Hana escapes to the country, turning a dilapidated farmhouse into a loving home, where each child is free to pursue its wolfish and human sides. "Wolf Children" is a stunningly animated and heartfelt fable about growing up, growing apart, and the choices faced along the way.

This showing is free to the public and is part of the SLIFF First Annual St. Louis International Children's Film Festival, presented by PNC Arts Alive. For more information, please call 618.307.1750. - See more at: http://www.wildeytheatre.com/?nav=calendar#sthash.jgZt73Dp.dpuf

"Wolf Children" is the brilliant third feature from Mamoru Hosoda, whose "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" have established him as one of the world's top creative forces in animation. The film begins with a romance between student Hana and a mysterious outcast who sits in on her college lecture. It turns out that Hana's beau is actually part wolf, but love conquers all differences. However, when the couple has children, Ame and Yuki, they follow in their father's pawprints, with the rambunctious bundles of joy transforming into wolves when excited. Circumstances eventually force Hana to raise her changeling children on her own, and it proves no easy task. To maintain the family secret, Hana escapes to the country, turning a dilapidated farmhouse into a loving home, where each child is free to pursue its wolfish and human sides. "Wolf Children" is a stunningly animated and heartfelt fable about growing up, growing apart, and the choices faced along the way.

This showing is free to the public and is part of the SLIFF First Annual St. Louis International Children's Film Festival, presented by PNC Arts Alive. For more information, please call 618.307.1750. - See more at: http://www.wildeytheatre.com/?nav=calendar#sthash.jgZt73Dp.dpuf

"Wolf Children" is the brilliant third feature from Mamoru Hosoda, whose "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" have established him as one of the world's top creative forces in animation. The film begins with a romance between student Hana and a mysterious outcast who sits in on her college lecture. It turns out that Hana's beau is actually part wolf, but love conquers all differences. However, when the couple has children, Ame and Yuki, they follow in their father's pawprints, with the rambunctious bundles of joy transforming into wolves when excited. Circumstances eventually force Hana to raise her changeling children on her own, and it proves no easy task. To maintain the family secret, Hana escapes to the country, turning a dilapidated farmhouse into a loving home, where each child is free to pursue its wolfish and human sides. "Wolf Children" is a stunningly animated and heartfelt fable about growing up, growing apart, and the choices faced along the way.

This showing is free to the public and is part of the SLIFF First Annual St. Louis International Children's Film Festival, presented by PNC Arts Alive. For more information, please call 618.307.1750. - See more at: http://www.wildeytheatre.com/?nav=calendar#sthash.jgZt73Dp.dpuf