The Australian Premiere of  director Mark Cousins’ documentary A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM will close this year’s Adelaide Film Festival. Cousins has put together what the festival has described as a richly complex picture of the various aspects of children as they exhibit defiance and doggedness, as they learn distinctions of class, and as they come to understand loneliness and loss.This year’s Adelaide Film Festival runs October 10 to 20, 2013.

A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM is described as the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood – its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness – as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries.It includes classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Red Balloon, also dozens of masterpieces (many directed by women) that are almost unknown.It combines the child’s eye view of Mark Cousins’ acclaimed film The First Movie, with the revelations and bold movie history of his 15 hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.