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10-14 November 2024
Join Manchester Animation Festival for a special 15th anniversary screening of claymation classic Mary and Max.
Directed by Adam Elliot, this is a heart-warming tale of cross-continental connection, in which eight-year-old Mary from Melbourne and forty-four-year-old Max from New York become pen pals.
Through their letters, Mary and Max forge an unlikely bond that transcends age and distance, revealing the transformative power of friendship in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
This screening will be introduced by Steve Henderson, Festival Director at Manchester Animation Festival.
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Dir. Adam Elliot // 2009 // Australia // Lang. English
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.
