Moonrise

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down – which might not be such a bad thing.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down – which might not be such a bad thing.

A Story of Children and Film is the new film from Mark Cousins, a kaleidoscopic ode to childhood told through 53 films from 25 different countries. The Red Balloon (1956), Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959), E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012) feature alongside less familiar films from around the world. Cousins’s film, produced by BofA Productions with backing from Film4 and the BFI, receives its world premiere in the Cannes Classics section of the festival.