Ages 8+
In these live-action shorts from Europe, South America, India and the USA, you’ll meet kids who navigate all kinds of magical twists and turns in their lives. Time travel with two friends, meet a bike-riding girl who isn’t everything she appears to be and discover how friendships can build a bridge to understanding.
82 min.
Ages 8+
Home is the center of every kid’s universe, and family is the gravity that keeps their feet on the ground. This eye-popping program begins and ends with two short documentaries from personal perspectives that show us how there is no place like home. This program also has a French flavor, with four films in French with English subtitles. Another film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
74 min.
Ages 8+
This imaginative collection of international films is meant to inspire the youngest generation to protect the planet and take good care of all the fabulous creatures who call it home. You’ll also meet brave kids who learn to fight, if necessary, in order to do what’s right for the earth.
61 min.
Ages 8+
In this program of exquisitely animated short films from nine countries, you’ll travel over moonscapes and take wing across technicolor skies. These films, all nonverbal, invite you to linger in the cool shadow of dreams.
77 min.
Ages 8+
Can you do anything you set your mind to? Yes, you can! And so can the kids in these animated and live-action films, who exercise their imaginations while also remembering that to truly succeed, we all need a little help from our friends.
70 min.
Ages 8+
This all-German language program is filled with stories of a wild world — an epic playground battle, messages fished from bottles floating in the sea, miracles performed by a learned man, and the story of a girl who cannot recognize her own face, until she draws it. All films are in German with English subtitles.
Dieses deutschsprachige Filmprogramm ist vollgepackt mit Geschichten einer wilden Welt – eine gewaltige Schlacht auf dem Spielplatz, eine Flaschenpost aus dem Meer, von einem Gelehrten vollbrachte Wunder sowie die Erzählung eines Mädchens, das ihr eigenes Gesicht so lange nicht erkennen kann bis sie es schließlich zeichnet. Alle Filme werden auf Deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln gezeigt.
68 min.
(Atsuko Quirk & Debby Lee Cohen, USA, live-action documentary, 76 min, English)
Ages 8+
(Katja Benrath, Germany, live-action, 2019, 90 min, German with English subtitles)
Ages 8+ (younger German speakers will also enjoy the film)
(David Eilander, Hesdy Lonwijk, Sam Yazdanpanna, Ties Schenk & Barbara Bredero, The Netherlands, live-action, 2019, 67 min, Dutch with English subtitles)
Ages 8+
(rating is for subtitles, younger Dutch speakers will also enjoy the film)