"Verdi Kids" series. Screening of "The Secret of Kells"

The Secret of Kells, by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey Ireland, 2009, animation, 75 min. Brendan is a 12-year-old monk who lives in the remote fortified abbey of Kells, in 11th-century Ireland. With his other brothers, he helps build a wall to resist Viking raids. A new life of adventure is presented to him when he meets a famous master who arrives from foreign lands and who watches over an ancient magical book that is unfinished. In the hope of finishing it, Brendan will leave the…