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Family films ready for streaming using your library card!

Use your library card through the apps Kanopy and Hoopla to stream these fantastic family films.

Evanston Public Library

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  • The Amazing Adventure of Marchello the Cat is the first-ever live feature with a cast of real cats and was heartwarmingly filmed over six years, from the cats' point of view--eight inches from the ground. Rated: NR for Ages 5+
    Downloadable Video, 2008MVD Entertainment Group, 2008.
  • Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion. Short Film. Rated: G
    Downloadable Video, 2011Network Ireland Television, 2011.
  • From Academy Award-nominated director Dominique Monféry comes a sumptuously animated adventure about a magic library where characters from classic children’s books come alive. Rated: NR for Ages 5+
    Downloadable Video, 2009GKIDS Films, 2009.
  • Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year at the Academy Awards. Tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice,…
    Downloadable Video, 2012GKIDS Films, 2012.
  • Winner of Best Animated Feature at the European Film Awards. Mia and the Migoo is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Rate: PG
    Downloadable Video, 2008GKIDS Films, 2008.
  • Beverly Cleary's classic story about the friendship between Ralph, a talking mouse, and Keith, a boy with a toy motorcycle. Roaring up and down the hallway of a hotel, Ralph creates chaos, but then risks his life to help save Keith when he falls…
    Downloadable Video, 1986[United States] : Giant Pictures, 1986. — eVideo hoopla
  • Official selection at the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Winner of Best Animated Film at the Goya Awards. Visually stunning and wildly inventive, this film explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal…
    Downloadable Video, 2007GKIDS Films, 2007.
  • Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Futurewave Youth Jury Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, Patema Inverted is a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by…
    Downloadable Video, 2013GKIDS Films, 2013.
  • A spin-off in the Wallace & Gromit franchise, the series focuses on the adventures of Shaun, the eponymous sheep, as the leader of his flock on an English farm. Rated: G
    Downloadable Video, 2007Aardman Animations, 2007.
  • A New York Times Critics' Pick and Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Tales of the Night features exquisitely detailed backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns, as the film weaves together…
    Downloadable Video, 2011GKIDS Films, 2011.