Monthly pick of family films - August 2022
Here is our monthly pick of family films for August 2022.
Here are our pick of the family films being released in Britain and Ireland during August 2022.
Monday 1st August 2022
Give Them Wings (12)
'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson. Paul was diagnosed with childhood meningitis aged just 10 months old his parents were told he would never move or speak. Paul is now 55 years old and has gone on to become an award-winning film producer and screenwriter.
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'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson. Paul was diagnosed with childhood meningitis aged just 10 months old his parents were told he would never move or speak. Paul is now 55 years old and has gone on to become an award-winning film producer and screenwriter.
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Friday 5th August 2022
Fadia's Tree (U)
Dreaming of a homeland she is denied, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, sets a challenge to find an ancient tree that stands as witness to her family's existence, guided only by inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon.
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Dreaming of a homeland she is denied, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, sets a challenge to find an ancient tree that stands as witness to her family's existence, guided only by inherited memories, a blind man and a two-headed dragon.
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Friday 19th August 2022
Girls Can't Surf (12A)
It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN'T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN'T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN'T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN'T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
Where Is Anne Frank (PG)
The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
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The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
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