Ages 9+ (age rating is for subtitles)
Is there anything kids can’t do? With the grownups in their lives sometimes cheering them on and sometimes getting in the way, the characters in this international program show kids on the move, dancing and dreaming, asking great questions and proving their superpowers.
57 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 9+
Hold on tight during this program of animated and live-action adventure films that will take you to outer space and back. Meet a plant that must be saved, a pizza delivery girl who is jolted out of the boredom with her job, an astronaut adrift on a faraway planet, kids who patch up monsters, and a mother who will do anything to please her son on her birthday — even if she hates the present he has requested!
57 min.
(Wang Chuhe, China, animation, 2018, 2 min, English) World premiere!
A young woman journeys to find a Rembrandt exhibition she is desperate to see. Can she find her way?
(Robin Hays & Andy Poon, Canada, animation, 2017, 5 min, English)
Noodle Boy must face his fears in order to rescue Miss Fortune from the city’s clean up crew.
(Richard Grover, US, animation, 2017, 4 min, nonverbal) Made in Seattle!
A pizza delivery girl is stuck in a dead-end job, but one day, she runs into a customer that will change her fate forever.
(Marcin Gizycki, US & Poland, live action, 2018, 6 min, English) World premiere!
A school trip turns wild when a giant cephalopod takes an unexpected star turn!
(Cécile Carre, France, animation, 2017, 4 min, English) Seattle premiere!
Stella, a space mechanician, is stranded on a deserted planet, but a little girl appears out of nowhere to show her the way to her next adventure.
(Gustavo Teixeira, Brazil, live action, 2017, 11 min, Portuguese with English subtitles) Washington premiere!
A boy who has already chosen his future profession, will now have to face his fears to become a doctor of monsters.
(Sam Johnson, UK, live-action, 2017, 25 minutes, English) Seattle premiere!
A teenager believes he can save his sick older brother with a plant he’s found at the back of a garden center, but a shadowy agency is out to destroy it first.
(Sarah Clift, Mexico & UK, live action, 2016, 6 min, Spanish with English subtitles)
A Mexican mother embarks upon an epic, cross-country journey and gets her political beliefs thoroughly tested when her son requests a Donald Trump piñata for his birthday.
Age 9+
These short films are all about fearless kids who learn to stand strong, breathe deep and fly high. Meet a boy who overcomes his fears, a classroom full of kids who practice the powers of meditation, a boy and girl who learn that their friendship is worth fighting for, a student whose teachers make unreasonable demands, and a kid who must gather the courage to leave a secret hideout where bullies have been banned.
66 min.
** Special guests! Filmmaker Enrique Delzer (Robbie’s Fears) and Giselle Geney (director) and Andrés Montaña (producer and sound director) of the film 3feet (Colombia) will be in attendance! **
CONTENT ADVISORY: Characters in the films in this program experience non-graphic physical and emotional bullying. The film Loser Leaves Town is about a boy who wears a Lucha libre mask and imagines himself, at times, to be in the ring as a large and imposing luchador (Mexican wrestler). He and another character engage in a physical but non-graphic fight in the film.
(Julie Bayer Salzman, US, live action, 2014, 4 min, English) Washington State premiere!
Kids and parents alike can learn from these elementary school students, who talk about anger, the brain, and how they use mindful breathing techniques to calm down.
(Enrique Delzer, US, animation, 2018, 2 min, English) Seattle premiere! Filmmaker in attendance!
Robbie, a 12-year-old boy, overcomes the anxieties that keeps him awake at night, with the help of his mother.
(Kristina Mileska, Canada, live action, 2018, 3 min, nonverbal)
Self-conscious of her homemade grape costume at a party, a girl decides to make a run for it and return home.
(Lauren Hoekstra, US, live action, 2017, 4 min, English)
A young girl chases her science dreams, believing in herself when it seems few others do.
(Mark Nickelsburg, US, live action, 2018, 12 min, English) Seattle premiere!
An 11-year-old luchador named José retreats into a fantasy world, but when he encounters a tough 12-year-old girl, he finds his sanctuary world being infiltrated by the real one.
(Giselle Geney, Colombia, live action, 2018, 14 min, Spanish with English subtitles) North American premiere! Fimmakers in attendance!
An imaginative and tenacious 10-year old faces the most difficult task of his life: get to school with clean shoes.
(Daniel Bydlowski, US/Brazil, live action, 2018, 28 min, English) Seattle premiere!
A 10-year-old boy is afraid of bullies until he discovers a secret beneath his school that promises to keep him safe — if he’s willing to play by the rules.
Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar & André Catoto, animation, Brazil, 2018, 1h 13m, Portuguese with English subtitles
Ages 12+
** Washington State premiere! **
This film, with a distinctive painterly style, follows the story of a shy 10-year-old boy named Tito who lives in a world where fear is crippling people, making them sick and transforming them. Tito realizes, based on his missing father’s past research, that there may be a way to use the local pigeon population and their songs to create a cure for the disease. As he tries to find a cure, he also begins the search for his father.
Content advisory: This uplifting film with some dark themes is suitable for older kids with adventurous tastes. This is a film about the debilitating way that fear affects people, so fearlessness in watching is helpful! There are depictions of life in near-future, dangerous looking, chaos-filled city, where an epidemic turns people into stones. Not spoiling anything to alert you: there is a happy ending.
