Stop-motion animation season coming to BFI Southbank

Stop Motion: Celebrating Hand-Crafted Animation on the Big Screen, supported by headline partner Laika, is our major new season taking place from 1 August from 9 October with free film screenings for children under 16. Running in parallel, a free exhibition at BFI Southbank, Laika: Frame x Frame, will showcase the art, science and innovative wizardry of the studio’s epic films.

Titles playing on the big screen throughout the season will include King Kong (1933), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Chicken Run (2001), Corpse Bride (2005), Coraline (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Anomalisa (2015), with special guests in venue set to include filmmakers Henry Selick (Coraline), Chris Butler and Sam Fell (ParaNorman), Guillermo del Toro (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Peter Lord (Chicken Run), Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit), The Brothers Quay (Street of Crocodiles), Suzie Templeton (Peter and the Wolf), Barry Purves (Achilles), Osbert Parker (Clothes) and further names to be announced…