Remember Atreyu, Bastian, The Childlike Empress, Falkor the luckdragon, Morla, The Old Man of Wandering Mountain and The Southern Oracle? Remember The Nothing?

This nostalgia-fest was one of the films to give VHS home video blast-off in the mid 80s. The Neverending Story is a cut-above the other fantasy offerings from Hollywood during this period and is considered on a par with the likes of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Excalibur and Conan.

A German-American co-production, The Neverending Story is based on the 1979 (rather dark) children’s novel by German author Michael Ende and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, whose 1981 submarine classic Das Boot earned him multiple nominations and awards. In this story the enemy threatening to destroy the world of Fantasia is ‘The Nothing’, an all-consuming dark force of nothingness – see what we mean about dark? Our hero Bastian discovers the land of Fantasia through a ‘dangerous’ storybook the local shopkeeper has warned him about, but which he pilfers anyway, before hiding himself away in the school attic, where he reads his way through the story, gradually bringing it to life and finding himself immersed. Cue a memorable line-up of entertaining creatures and a powerful message about the need for children to have faith in stories and storytelling.

The Nomad folk will be theming the whole night around the film that has a very special place in our hearts – expect some musical goodies and one of their bespoke photobooth experiences, as well as other extra bonuses…