THREE JOURNEYS TO WONDERLAND

Alice in Wonderland is one of the most frequently adapted stories in 20th- and 21st-century cinema, and also one of the hardest to pin down in a single form. Its fragmented structure, absurd logic, and unstable relationship with childhood have given rise to very different interpretations. In Cineteca en familia, we present three adaptations separated by almost sixty years: Disney’s Alice, Jan Švankmajer’s radical and material version, and Tim Burton’s reinterpretation. Three very different films that show how the same story can become an animated tale, an unsettling experience, or a contemporary fantasy, and how cinema transforms our way of understanding reality, fantasy, and the search for freedom.