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The Secret of Kells (2008)

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Nominated for Best Animation Feature Academy Award 2010

Nominated for Best Film and Best Animation, IFTAs 2010

Twelve hundred years ago an orphan named Brendan met Brother Aidan, the keeper of an extraordinary, but unfinished, book of illuminations. Aidan sets Brendan a great task, to complete the Book of Kells, which sees him called to a new life of creativity and imagination where adventure, danger and action await him. With the threat of invading Vikings all around and the help of Aisling, a mysterious young girl, Brendan faces his deepest fears to complete the task. The Book of Kells is one of the masterpieces of European art and this story, a blend of fantasy and legend, tells of its creation.

DIRECTOR: Tomm Moore
SCRIPT: Tomm Moore, Fabrice Ziolkowski
PRODUCERS: Paul Young, Didier Brunner, Viviane Vanfleteren
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Cartoon Saloon