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28th International Film Festival

for Children and Young Audience

23 – 30 SEP 2023
 
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89 min
German Focus

Lucy Wanted

2022
2021
Germany, Netherlands
from 8 years
Director: Till Endemann

With her ten years Lucy is actually too good for this world. This changes when her parents ice cream parlour face the end. 30,000 euros are needed, but the bank does not grant a loan. So Lucy decides to become a gangster and get the money.

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78 min
Children´s Film

Unknown Treasures

2022
2022
Lithuania
from 8 years
Director: Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė

Because the parents have so much to do, they send Austėja to her grandparents. A week of boredom in the countryside! Luckily she is allowed to take her friend Martynas with her. But then everything turns out differently. Because the two of them receive a mysterious assignment as soon as they arrive.

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85 min
Panorama

You Are Here, You Were Here

2022
2019
Japan
from 12 years
Director: Kousuke Sakoda

Kishimoto is bullied at school. Only the young librarian Miss Shoko is able to cheer the twelve-year-old up. When his classmate Kayama asks him to do a radio show with him, Kishimoto initially refuses. But secretly, he does not want to be an outsider any longer.

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83 min
Junior Film

My Robot Brother

2022
2022
Denmark
from 11 years
Director: Frederik Meldal Nørgaard

Like every child, Alberte also has a robot as her personal assistant. But her „Robbi“ is completly outdated. So everyone in class is laughing about her. Until Alberte gets the very latest modell for her birthday: robot Konrad, who looks like a human being and also behaves like one.

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90 min
Youth Film

White Berry

2022
2022
Netherlands
from 15 years
Director: Sia Hermanides

Grace, a Dutch-African girl with albinism, feels like an outsider with her white skin. Again and again, the 17-year-old has to endure insults and exclusion in her neighbourhood. But then she meets Kya, who takes her into her Afro dance team and encourages her to live her African identity.

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92 min
Panorama

Ninjas Down the Street

2022
2022
Netherlands
from 10 years
Director: Pim van Hoeve

The pirates around Captain Hector and son Billy feel right at home in Sandsborough. This changes when the ninjas, the sworn enemies of the pirates, move into the street. While Billy befriends ninja daughter Yuka, the ultimate battle breaks out between the groups.

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90 min
Youth Film

A Male

2022
2022
Colombia, France, Netherlands, Germany
from 16 years
Director: Fabian Hernández

16-year-old Carlos lives in a youth home. At christmas he desperately wants to spend time with his mother and sister. But in order to reunite the family, he has to leave the safety of the home and make his way on the streets of Bogotá.

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67 min
Animated Film

Hug Me - The Movie

2022
2022
Poland, China
from 4 years
Director: Anna Błaszczyk

Today is Teddys birthday. Papa bear wants his adventurous bear cub to have a beautiful cake for the occasion! Alas, the honey reserves of the den and the surrounding hives have run out. Teddy convinces papa bear to go search for the Golden Land where, some say, there is an endless source of honey.

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78 min
German Focus

Tales of Franz

2022
2022
Austria, Germany
from 8 years
Director: Johannes Schmid

Franz is the smallest in the class. Furthermore he is often mistaken for a girl because he has such beautiful golden curls. But even worse: He gets a beeping voice when he is excited. Luckily there is the influencer Hank, who coaches boys like him "from Zero to Hero".

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100 min
Youth Film

The Space Among Us

2022
2022
Slovenia, Canada
from 14 years
Director: Rahela Jagrič Pirc

14-year-old Tobi from Canada has to spend the holidays in his mother's Slovenian homeland. There he feels like an outsider. Then he meets the old, blind Herman, who teaches him about the night sky. And then there is also Tjaša, who becomes the centre of Tobi's universe.

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87 min
Animated Film, Special Programme

Even Mice Belong in Heaven

2021, 2022
2020
Czech Republic, France, Poland, Slovakia
from 10 years
Director: Denisa Grimmová, Jan Bubeníček

Two arch-enemies on Earth – a small mouse and a fox – land in the sky after a deadly accident, abandoning their prejudices and becoming best friends. Because they have to go through a lot of adventures and encounter strange characters in this paradise, boredom never arises.

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2 min
Short Film

Thank You for Your Teeth!

2021
2020
Romania
from 14 years
Director: George ve Gänæaard, Horia Cucută

Josh, a 6 y.o. kid living with his mother and sister, discovers that for each tooth lost he receives five dollars. He makes a quick calculation and understands that an entire bike is sitting in his mouth.

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5 min
Short Film

Mmm...Cat

2021
2020
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Yongxin Wang

A girl who only wants to be alone. One day, a Cat knocks on her door. Since then everything has changed...

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4 min
Short Film

Herr Herrmann Mann

2021
2020
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Lars Smekal

It's a day like any other for Herr Herrmann Mann - his wife Frauke Mann is rampaging once again. Suddenly he realizes why Frauke was so furious: He forgot her umpteenth wedding anniversary.

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2 min
Short Film

Mirrors Of Our Reflections

2021
2020
Cyprus
from 14 years
Director: Antony Petrou

They are mirrors off our reflections. Perhaps portraits of ourselves and the sounds that envelope them.

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14 min
Short Film

The Night Train

2021
2020
Sweden
from 14 years
Director: Jerry Carlsson

Oskar is on the night train, heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.

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28 min
Short Film

The Glory of Terrible Eliz

2021
2021
Czech Republic
from 12 years
Director: Eliška Kováříková, Adam Struhala

Three 11-years-olds have a secret crush on the same girl, Eliz. While eating lunch in a school cantine, each boy is trying to top his love-rivals by coming up with a better and scarier story, each starring the devilish Eliz in the main role. But are these stories really true or are they just fragments of boys’ imagination?

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30 min
Short Film

Iro /he.roː/

2021
2020
Greece
from 12 years
Director: Alexis Koukias-Pantelis

Iro, an 8 year old girl, is ready to take off on a short road trip with her mom and a superhero towards Lake Stymphalia. Despite some difficulties they will hitchhike their way towards their destination.

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30 min
Short Film

Vanille

2021
2020
France, Guadeloupe
from 12 years
Director: Guillaume Lorin

Vanille, a young Parisian girl that recently arrived in Guadeloupe, dives into an adventure tinged with mystery, meeting picturesque characters and a magic flower.

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18 min
Short Film

The French Fry Heist

2021
2021
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Franz David Kunkel

Racing Roland, whose stomach is always empty, is on his way to his beloved, the poetic Petra. His ladies’ bike and melodic chansons become his faithful companions, as well as a couple of dodgy dudes.

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9 min
Short Film

Little Sasha

2021
2021
Russia
from 14 years
Director: Olga Dobromyslova (Dobromyslowa)

Little Sasha is afraid to get old. Her grandmother told her, you can close your eyes as a little girl and wake up as an elderly woman. One Day Sasha decides to try this out.

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7 min
Short Film

Clair de Lune

2021
2020
France
from 7 years
Director: Jean-Baptiste Caillet, Pauline Camensuli, Clara Beaugrand, Hugo Bussiere, Hugo Jaquet

Feeling guilty for having forgotten the book he had promised to his daughter, Tom must be imaginative to tell her a fantastic story and thus not disappoint her.

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18 min
Short Film

Reconstruction

2021
2021
Finland
from 14 years
Director: Pia Andell

A short dance film reconstructs a night in the 80’s when Pia, the protagonist, was 17 and the rules of the world were somewhat different.

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9 min
Short Film

Extra Flavour

2021
2020
France
from 14 years
Director: Carlos Abascal Peiró

Joachim is a very average man in his sixties. But he hides an obsession... or even two to be precise. He can't help but stare at the men who go to the gym across the street from his house while he devours pickles.

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2 min
Short Film

Da Humbug

2021
2020
UK
from 4 years
Director: Johnny Schuhmann

A heartwarming tale about a grumpy old man who dislikes Christmas but receives an unexpected gift that opens his eyes to the true importance of the festive period.

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26 min
Short Film

Christmas with the Musifants

2021
2021
Germany
from 4 years
Director: Meike Fehre

The two musifants, Charlie and his grandpa Gunther, head off in search of the perfect Christmas tree – because Christmas without a musifantastic Christmas tree isn’t a real Christmas at all!

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2 min
Short Film

Ink

2021
2020
Netherlands
from 4 years
Director: Joost van den Bosch, Erik Verkerk

In this ultrashort animated film, we follow an octopus who is a clean-up neat-freak. But sometimes, even though you have so many arms, you still cannot reach what you are aiming for.

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12 min
Short Film

Bunny

2021
2020
Finland
from 14 years
Director: Jani Ilomäki

Lili and Tuukka are siblings, who are in very different positions in their lives. Older brother Tuukka wants them to return to the past.

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2 min
Short Film

Eenie Meenie World

2021
2020
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Bianca Scali

Life can be pretty overwhelming when you realize you have so many decisions to make. Isn’t it just easier to put those questions aside? That’s what the universe thought.

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17 min
Short Film

Boys don't cry

2021
2021
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Madita Rutten

Seventeen year old Luca doesn’t feel like a real girl at all. Her mother also always tells her to lose weight. Luca wins a meet and greet with her Idol, the Popstar Felix West and tries to change everything about herself. Meanwhile she doesn’t notice, that her best friend Noah is in danger…

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24 min
Short Film

Bluestar

2021
2021
Belgium
from 14 years
Director: François Vacarisas

With a bottle of Bluestar, that exposes blood trails, Tom and Kevin break into the house where a murder took place. This ghastly escapade turns when the Bluestar has something to reveal to Tom.

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8 min
Short Film

#couplegoals

2021
2021
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Alexander Conrads

Actually Franzi and Mark just want to spend a relaxed day at the "beach"... unfortunately they are there with each other.

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7 min
Short Film

Conspiracy

2021
2020
Russia
from 14 years
Director: Andrey (Andrej) Kuznetsov (Kusnezow)

Conspiracy theory sometimes diverges from practice. At the same time, not only life, but also death makes its own adjustments to the plans of people - and not always in the way you thought about.

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13 min
Short Film

Loculus

2021
2020
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
from 14 years
Director: Amir Rooini

Power is out in the cemetery's mortuary. The mortaury's personnel realise that something’s wrong due to the stinking smell. There's also a corpse there, belonging to a ten-year-old boy’s mom.

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3 min
Short Film

The Game

2021
2020
Russia
from 4 years
Director: Elena Kurkova

Once on a hot summer day, the animals on old Granny's farm were bored...

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7 min
Short Film

Tales from the Multiverse

2021
2020
Denmark
from 14 years
Director: Magnus Igland Møller, Mette Tange, Peter Smith

God is a single parent and amateur programmer. He's working on project 'Earth' but never seems to get a break from the kids. One day though, he finally gets a breakthrough.

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3 min
Short Film

Exhibition

2021
2020
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Sylvia Borges

An exhibitionist is trying desperately to get some attention.

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6 min
Short Film

Red

2021
2020
Germany
from 4 years
Director: Chen Yang

A story about a little explorer and a world, that is much more colourful, than it first seems.

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3 min
Short Film

Rhino

2021
2021
UK
from 4 years
Director: Bethany Powell

The animals are afraid of the large and lonely Rhino, but through a series of good deeds he gains their trust. When Rhino himself needs help, Oxpecker – the smallest and most afraid of Rhino – bands the others together to help out their new friend.

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