The Boy And The Heron (Parent And Baby Screening) (12A)

In 1943, 12-year-old boy Mahito wrestles with the recent loss of his mother in a fire. His father Shoichi remarries his wife's sister Natsuko and uproots the grief-stricken boy to a house in the countryside tended by an army of ageing maids. Left to his own devices, Mahito follows a mysterious grey heron to a dilapidated tower close to the estate where he tumbles into a magical netherworld connecting the living and the dead.