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Film4 Screening Ghibli's When Marnie Was There August 23

Film4 has Tweeted that it will screen Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There on Wednesday August 23 at 11 am. It will be the English-dubbed screening, with the subtitled version being screened the week after (the time-slot is still to be confirmed.)

Also, the day before the dubbed Marnie screening, Film4 will show Isao Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya at 11am on Tuesday August 22.

GKIDS, the North American distributor for When Marnie Was There, describes the film:

Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away among the marshes. She believes she's outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her, wearing her “ordinary face.” Anna never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, who does not judge Anna for being just what she is. But no sooner has Anna learned the loveliness of friendship than she begins to wonder about her newfound friend...

When Marnie Was There adapts Joan G. Robinson's English children's novel of the same name. In his second film, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2010's The Secret World of Arrietty) shifted the setting from Norfolk in the book to a Japanese village on the shores of Hokkaido. Yonebayashi wrote the screenplay with Keiko Niwa (The Secret World of Arrietty) and Masashi Ando (A Letter to Momo, Spirited Away and Paprika). Ando also handled the character designs and animation direction. Takatsugu Muramatsu composed the film's soundtrack.

The film premiered in Japan in July 2014, and was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar on January 14.