LITTLE SHREW will play before FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE in all Picturehouse and other select cinemas.
“Sometimes hope is all there is to hang on to.” – Kate Bush
The beautiful short film Little Shrew directed by Kate Bush will play exclusively in cinemas alongside critically acclaimed World War II German resistance feature film, From Hilde, With Love.
Kate Bush’s Little Shrew focuses on a shrew who searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. Blissfully unaware of the dangers surrounding her, she journeys through a war-torn Land of the Giants. Stunned and caught up in an explosion as the city is being bombed during a drone attack, she recovers and manages to continue her search for Hope…
The animation is accompanied by the song Snowflake, from Kate Bush’s ninth studio album 50 Words For Snow.
Speaking about Little Shrew, Kate Bush says:
“In 2022, with war breaking out in Ukraine, I decided I wanted to make an animation. In particular, I hoped to draw attention to the children caught up in war. I based the storyboard around the song, Snowflake, which was sung by my son when he was a child. I think his performance is extremely moving and although I‘d originally written the song to capture his beautiful descant voice before he entered adolescence, it has taken on a new meaning within the context of this animation.
“I knew I wanted the featured character to be a child caught up in war, so I made a very rough, off the cuff story board. Although I’d initially thought to make the character a human child– a little girl –I settled on the idea of a Caucasian pygmy shrew: a tiny, fragile little creature. I felt that people might have more empathy for a vulnerable animal than a human…
“This little shrew would take a journey on a moonlit, winter’s night through a war-torn city, initially unaware of what was going on around her in this land of the giants. She can sense that she’s being called by a kind of spiritual presence… HOPE. She starts to search for HOPE. Sometimes hope is all there is to hang on to.”
From Hilde, With Love tells the true story of Hilde Coppi. In Berlin 1942, a shy Hilde falls in love with Hans and gradually finds her place in the resistance group that would come to be known as the “Red Orchestra”. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival to critical acclaim, and is being released in UK and Irish cinemas nationwide by Picturehouse Entertainment.
From Hilde, With Love is released in UK & Irish cinemas from Friday 27 June. Little Shrew will play before From Hilde, With Love in all Picturehouse and other select cinemas.
Watch the From Hilde, With Love trailer here:
❉ ‘Little Shrew’ and ‘From Hilde, With Love’ will preview in all Picturehouse cinemas on Tuesday 24 June.
❉ News source: Critical PR. Images via Louise Repka (Picturehouse)
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