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28th International Film Festival

for Children and Young Audience

23 – 30 SEP 2023
 
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111 min
Youth Film

Butter

2022
2020
USA
from 14 years
Director: Paul A. Kaufman

Butter is full of humour, a gifted saxophonist, but also very overweight. The mockery at school increases daily. Butter has had enough. He announces that he is going to eat himself to death in front of the whole world. This makes him the star of the school and he suddenly enjoys unusual popularity.

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84 min
German Focus

The Crossing

2022
2020
France, Germany, Czech Republic
from 13 years
Director: Florence Miailhe

Kyona and Adriel are forced to leave, together with their family, the idyll of their homeland. When the siblings are seperated from their parents during a train inspection, the two children have to continue their journey alone. An odyssey across the continent and beyond its borders begins.

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86 min
Panorama

Three Wishes for Cinderella

2022
2021
Norway
from 9 years
Director: Cecilie Mosli

Cinderella is suppressed by her coldhearted stepmother. During a secret horseback riding she runs into the prince. Both find pleasure in each other. But the stepmum trys everything to marry her natural daughter Dora to the king’s son. Can three magic nuts help Cinderella?

 

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99 min
Junior Film, Special Programme

Sun Children

2021, 2022
2020
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
from 12 years
Director: Majid Majidi

Ali and his friends keep themselves afloat with small cheatings when a big fish beckons. They get the order to cover a treasure buried in a drain shaft. To get into the tunnel, they become part of the “Sun School”, a school for street children.

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100 min
Junior Film, Special Programme

Moon Rock for Monday

2020, 2021, 2022
2020
Australia
from 13 years
Director: Kurt Martin

Monday has to take her medication every day because the young girl is terminally ill. She is taught at home and well looked after by her single father Bob. But Monday dreams of seeing the places her father talks to her about. Especially Uluru, the red mountain in northern Australia.

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93 min
German Focus, Special Programme

Mission Ulja Funk

2020, 2021, 2022
2021
Germany, Luxembourg, Poland
from 10 years
Director: Barbara Kronenberg

Incredible! The twelve-year-old Ulja has discovered an asteroid that will crash into the earth in exactly four days in far-away Belarus. But the deeply religious grandma Olga thinks, that this is hellish stuff. However Ulja desperately wants to greet VR-24-1720 at the crash site.

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95 min
German Focus, Special Programme

Dreams Are Like Wild Tigers

2021, 2022
2020
Germany
from 9 years
Director: Lars Montag

Ranji has just moved to Berlin. He dreams of dancing in a Bollywood movie, but his new classmates don’t seem to allow him to do that. His chance: a casting in Mumbai. His goal: to stand in front of the camera with his great idol.

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90 min
German Focus, Special Programme

Into the Beat

2020, 2022
2020
Germany
from 12 years
Director: Stefan Westerwelle

Katya Orlow comes from a famous ballet family. She has every chance of following in the footsteps of her late mother and that of her father Victor, who is still celebrated as a master dancer. At the moment she is training very hard to apply to the prestigious New York Ballet Academy. Then an accident happens ...

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84 min
Animated Film

The Island

2022
2021
Romania, France, Belgium
from 16 years
Director: Anca Damian

Robinson is a doctor living alone on a Mediterranean island. One day, he rescues the only survivor of a capsized refugee boat from Africa. Robinson calls him Friday and, accompanied by poetry and symbolism, sets off with him on an imaginary journey to paradise.

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74 min
Children´s Film, Special Programme

Mezquite's Heart

2020, 2022
2019
Mexico
from 9 years
Director: Ana Laura Calderón

Lucía belongs to the Yoreme people and lives a secluded life with her father, a harp player, and her grandparents in a small village in Sonora, Mexico. Lucía’s father Fidel cannot get over the death of his wife and drowns his grief in alcohol. The little girl’s biggest wish is to play the traditional harp like her father, to touch his heart and be loved by him again.

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80 min
Children´s Film, Special Programme

Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers

2020, 2022
2020
Norway
from 6 years
Director: Silje Salomonsen, Arild Østin Ommundsen

Vega is nine years old and very level-headed. She is “the only normal person in the family”, so to speak. Her five-year-old, wild sister Billie does whatever she wants, her father does not exactly behave like an adult and her mother has to rest in a clinic this summer because “she always thinks so much”.

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90 min
Children´s Film, Special Programme

Binti

2019, 2022
2019
Belgium, Netherlands
from 9 years
Director: Frederike Migom

Born in Congo, twelve-year-old Binti and her father Jovial have been living illegally in Belgium for many years. Binti feels like a Belgian and dreams of becoming a popular vlogger, such as her idol Tatyana. Binti also has a video blog and regularly fills it with funny shots of her everyday life, which is suddenly disturbed when once again she and her father have to flee from the police.

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85 min
Children´s Film

Beanie

2022
2021
Slovenia, Luxembourg, Croatia, Slovakia
from 9 years
Director: Slobodan Maksimović

Erik has hit the jackpot! He lives in a children's home and is allowed to spend Christmas with a wealthy family. But their daughter Lučka doesn't want that. She wanted Santa to give her a little sister, not a boy who never takes off his hat.

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85 min
German Focus

The Mucklas…and How They Came to Pettson and Findus.

2022
2022
Germany, Luxembourg
from 6 years
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Markus Dietrich

They love disorder and chaos: the little Mucklas. That's why mister Hansson's stuff shop is just right for them. But then the shop is rented to the exterminator Karl, a real Mister Clean. So, the Mucklas are in great danger and have to find a new home.

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108 min
Children´s Film

Detective Bruno

2022
2022
Poland
from 8 years
Director: Mariusz Palej, Magdalena Nieć

Oskar never misses an episode of the TV series „Detective Bruno“. Therefore the famous detective should help him when Oscar finds a treasure map of his recently deceased parents. But the cocky actor doesn't like children, nor does he have any desire for adventure.

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89 min
German Focus, Special Programme

Madison - A Fast Friendship

2020, 2022
2019
Germany, Austria
from 11 years
Director: Kim Strobl

Twelve-year-old Madison has set her mind on becoming as successful as her father Timo, a professional cyclist. Timo, who named his daughter after a discipline in track cycling, namely two-man team riding, often overtaxes Madison. Although she still has a year to go, she is scheduled to take part in the Federal German training camp this summer.

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112 min
Special Programme

Last Film Show

2022
2021
India, France
from 12 years
Director: Pan Nalin

Young Samay lives in a small Indian village. When he visits a movie theater for the first time, the boy is determined: he wants to make movies himself! In exchange for his lunch box, projectionist Fazal lets him watch movies for free. But the local cinema is threatened with closure.

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100 min
Youth Film, Special Programme

VS.

2019, 2022
2018
UK
from 15 years
Director: Ed Lilly

Eminem’s “8 Mile” in a British seaside resort: rage is the sensation Adam feels most often. He is furious with his foster families, his social worker and especially with his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. After destroying his room at his new foster parents’ home in a dispute, he has to move again.

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19 min
Short Film

When the Swallows Fly Away

2022
2021
Belgium
from 16 years

In a small rural village, a young boy befriends Fernand and Andrée, a farmer couple who, at the age of 80 years, find themselves at trouble feeding their remaining livestock.

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19 min
Short Film

Desert Lights

2022
2022
Chile
from 12 years
Director: Katherina Harder Sacre

In the middle of Atacama desert, Antay sees his town disappearing due to the drought. Alongside his friends and their football team, they will try to hang on to the last sunrays, their childhood fragments and the ties with those who still resist.

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13 min
Short Film

elena

2022
2021
France, Croatia, Lithuania
from 16 years
Director: Biruté Sodeikaité

Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.

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10 min
Short Film

Rest in Piece

2022
2021
Germany, France, Qatar
from 16 years

Midyan decides to run away from his war-torn home. He packs his bag with objects that remind him of his loved ones and embarks on a journey into the unknown. Soon he is starving and resorts to eating the objects he has packed. The effects are monstrous yet they give him the strength to carry on through the scorching desert. Eventually, he arrives half-dead on the other shore of the sea and eats the most precious of his objects: a family portrait. This gives him the strength to finish his journey.

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11 min
Short Film

*(In)Visible Night

2022
2022
Germany
from 16 years
Director: Maximilian Mundt, Naomi Kelechi Odhiambo, Jasmin Luu

At dusk, the three set out from their social isolation into the city to break their life into invisibility.
At night, they dive into their world of thoughts and feelings and reflect on their decision to lead a dropout life.
At dawn they decide to regain their visibility through physical proximity.

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4 min
Short Film

The Story of Chaos

2022
2022
Singapore
from 8 years

A student presents an imaginative rendition of the ancient Taoist parable of Chaos. She is admonished by her teacher for her unorthodox delivery. Two parallel narratives run through the film: the quashing of the student’s creativity and the death of Chaos in the parable.

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135 min

Almost Fly

2022
2021
Germany
from 16 years
Director: Florian Gaag

Eichfeld, 1990: The Wall has fallen. While reunification is being celebrated in Berlin, Walter – known as “W” – Ben and Nik are bored with their lives in the West German province. At school, they are ostracised, they do not fit in and are almost invisible to the girls. Everything changes when the outsiders sneak off in a car to the nearby US base to attend a party. This is where, for the first time, the three 17-year-olds come into contact with breakdance, hip-hop and rap – and are full of enthusiasm. In order to escape the exclusion at school and to impress their beloved, they announce that they want to rap themselves at the school festival. But sooner than expected, W, Ben and Nik find themselves facing a major challenge – the English language, which none of the three really speaks. Surrounded by outdated traditions, racism and long-kept family secrets, they try to find their own language. Thus, they end up making German rap music, getting closer to the big stage, and also discovering themselves.

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20 min
Short Film

Our Name is Anna

2022
2021
Italy
from 12 years

Anne Frank is the symbol of all the children who were victims of the Shoah but also of those who today continue to be discriminated against. Her ideals are shared through the eyes of a contemporary teenager named Anna.

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17 min
Short Film

Eger, 1552

2022
2021
Hungary
from 12 years
Director: Attila Szász

Two sixth-graders lose their way on a school trip and find themselves in the middle of the siege of Eger in 1552, on the exact day that the Turks unleash their final attack on the iconic Hungarian castle.

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10 min
Short Film

Bootleg

2022
2021
Germany
from 11 years
Director: Free Ponys (Caroline Hellwig, Alena Kolbach)

It´s 2002. She loves listening to music and creating perfect duplicates of her favourite hits on CD. Why not try to make some money with it? The new Anti-Shock Discman doesn´t seem that far out of reach anymore.

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5 min
Short Film

Benztown

2022
2021
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Gottfried Mentor

A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic chaos. With far reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal...

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10 min
Short Film

Nameless

2022
2021
Italy
from 16 years
Director: Gisella Gobbi

An ordinary school day told through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy: made up of games, fun classes, happy meals, and going home. An ordinary day that vanishes into the blue, like the denied dream of the young protagonist.

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4 min
Short Film

Clearance Sale

2022
2021
Estonia, Bangladesh
from 16 years
Director: Sarower Reza Jimi

A man wants the last pair from a sale. But there is a catch to getting it.

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8 min
Short Film

Pig

2022
2022
Netherlands
from 14 years
Director: Jorn Leeuwerink

A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing – the useful and the useless – is automated...

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8 min
Short Film

How To Survive the Heatwave and Stay Human

2022
2021
Israel
from 14 years
Director: Ronni Shalev, Alon Sharabi

It’s the hottest day of the year and Jerusalem is being devoured by a scorching heatwave! In the city center, three flatmates live in blissful ignorance under the cool caress of their air conditioner. But when the AC breaks down, one person must venture outside to find a new battery, and discover HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEATWAVE AND STAY HUMAN.

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19 min
Short Film

Titan

2022
2021
Belgium
from 14 years
Director: Valéry Carnoy

Nathan is a thirteen year old boy. Driven by his new friend Malik, he prepares himself for a strange ritual to become a member of a teens gang.

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Short Film

Oh So Convenient

2022
Taiwan (Republik China), Estonia
from 16 years

A man who has a unique way of using toilet paper after pooping. A couple who always order food because they don’t like to put on clothes. A family who has a way to avoid washing dishes. A woman who likes her table to be sparkly clean. People use bags for every little thing. Just like that, the convenience of life at your fingertips which we enjoy every single day.  Too much waste? No problem, flash them all down to the toilet!

 

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28 min
Short Film

My Daddy is an Alien

2022
2022
South Korea
from 16 years

One day, an Alien daddy came.

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2 min
Short Film

Piece of Art

2022
2021
Netherlands
from 11 years
Director: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch

A burglar breaks into a museum and breaks more than he wants. As he tries to escape he can't help but burn, tear and crack the stolen painting until we are left with nothing but a small... piece of art. 'A piece of art' is a comedic, short animated POV film.

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14 min
Short Film

2020: A 3rd Left Odyssey

2022
2021
Portugal
from 7 years
Director: Ricardo Leite

During a perilous maneuver, Socks has his spacecraft damaged. To repair it, he embarks on an unprecedented journey through the vastness of outer space, where a much greater threat dwells: the Astro-Zombies.

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12 min
Short Film

Elsa

2022
2021
Spain
from 6 years
Director: Albert Carbó

Elsa wants, like every child, to live happily and free. She knows that she is different from most, but she knows who she is. Elsa stands for tolerance, diversity and the possibility of choosing who we want to be.

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