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28th International Film Festival

for Children and Young Audience

23 – 30 SEP 2023
 
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10 min
Short Film

Cat in Boots

2021
2021
Germany
from 5 years
Director: Britt Dunse

Cat in Boots in German Sign Language tells the story of Hans, the young miller's son, and the clever cat who, amazingly, can sign just like him. With unusual ideas and cunning, she defeats the evil wizard and finds a way to get to know the helpful king and his daughter. Courage, confidence and wit characterise the cat, who seizes the chance to turn the situation around from her friend Hans to the good.

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5 min
Short Film

Avant Card

2021
2020
Germany
from 5 years
Director: Stella Raith

We follow Ernst, a postcard character, on his way through the diverse world of postcards and his bizarre journey to himself.

Will he find happiness?

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5 min
Short Film

Antropocene

2021
2020
Poland
from 5 years
Director: Agata Zych

Why do we need environmental protection? How can we reduce waste? In what way can a small person take care of the world? What are the effects of environmental pollution and the greenhouse effect?

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3 min
Short Film

The ABC of Breakups

2021
2021
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Susann Hoffmann

“The ABC of Breakups” describes the emotional development after the end of a relationship in song form. It starts from A for „alone again“ via T for „Tinder“ and ends with a hopeful view for the bigger picture.

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27 min
Short Film

Romance, X and Y

2021
2020
France
from 14 years
Director: Louise Condemi

A new haircut. One look. And the dreary school day becomes an odyssey of love for sixteen-year-old Romane. But Diego is as beautiful as he is cowardly, and love is as sweet as it is cruel. Romane faces it with courage and humor.

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7 min
Short Film

Obervogelgesang

2021
2020
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Elias Weinberger

A teenager is confronted with a fresh right-wing extremist graffiti in the train and thus also with a blight of her homeland.

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11 min
Short Film

Armadila

2021
2020
Serbia
from 14 years
Director: Gorana Jovanović

A tough thirteen year old girl struggles to keep her emotions in check, whether concerning her missing dog or the boy she likes.

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4 min
Short Film

Winner

2021
2021
Slovakia
from 14 years
Director: Samuel Chovan

There can only be one winner.

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5 min
Short Film

294 notes

2021
2021
Germany
from 14 years
Director: Julie Gaston

294 notes – taken from an anomymous online survey where people were asked about personal fears. They show the subjective sensation of anxiety in its different dimensions and proportions.

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61 min
Panorama

the Tale of Lost Times

2021
2013
Uzbekistan
from 10 years
Director: Sarvar Karimov

The ghost of the time is allowed to rejuvenate every 70 years. To do so, he has to find a child on Earth who is wasting its time. Fotih is such a boy and he actually gives the ghost his free time. With bad consequences! Unless he manages to break the magic by nightfall.

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90 min
Panorama

Girls Got Game

2021
2020
Russia
from 15 years
Director: Maxim Sweschnikow

Danya has been an enthusiastic soccer player since her childhood. After her team threatens to fall apart, she persuades old friends to start kicking again. Together they train harder than ever. Can they make it to the next league?

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102 min
Panorama

A Tale of Love and Desire

2021
2021
France
from 16 years
Director: Leyla Bouzid

The Algerian literature student Ahmed meets the Tunisian Farah. They are attracted to each other from the start and then fall head over heels in love. Ahmed tries to withstand the ever-growing desire as he discovers unexpected sensuality in poetry and passion.

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100 min
Youth Film

Parents vs Influencer

2021
2021
Italy
from 14 years
Director: Michela Andreozzi

Simone and her father have a great relationship – until she gets older and her smartphone becomes more and more important. Now Insta star Eleonore is her idol. Father Paolo goes to war with his mop and other parents join him. Neither he nor Simone have any idea how quickly things are going to turn around.

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84 min
Junior Film

Little Warrior [Sumo Kid]

2021
2021
Russia
from 12 years
Director: Ilja Jermolow

13-year-old Vitja Kasatkin has an unusual hobby: Japanese sumo wrestling. His love for the sport comes from his father, who left the family for Japan eight years ago. Since then, the boy has been training hard to see his father again one day.

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104 min
Youth Film

Follow the Light

2021
2020
Japan
from 14 years
Director: Yoichi Narita

Akira's father grew up in a small village and returned there after a failed relationship. Now all the people are leaving this place. Even the school has to close because of it. This does not bother the whimsical Maki, whom everyone avoids. Akira, however, is inevitably attracted to her.

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96 min
Youth Film

Yuni

2021
2021
Indonesia, Singapore
from 16 years
Director: Kamila Andini

Yuni is stubborn. She wants to study, but for that she has to be unmarried. Her family is looking for marriage candidates. The first request reaches her, the second and even a third. But the religiously shaped world soon becomes too small for her dreams.

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101 min
Panorama

All for Uma

2021
2020
Italy, Austria
from 14 years
Director: Susy Laude

How do you mess up a man’s household? With Uma! The young woman bursts into the life of the six men around Emanuel and his grandfather, who suddenly try to bring order to their chaos. But Uma looks behind the facade and begins her own therapy.

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91 min
Panorama

With You

2021
2019
China
from 10 years
Director: Shen Yanjun, Bai Fujian

Dami is a dog straight out of the picture book and loves his humans more than anything. But little Xiaodou only associates his pet with the leaving of his father. When the two later become friends, his classmates make fun of him. Finally Xiadodou goes in search of his father.

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85 min
Youth Film

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

2021
2021
Chad, France, Germany, Belgium
from 15 years
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mary and her mother face a great challenge. The 15-year-old is pregnant and wants to have an abortion. However, abortions are punishable by severe penalties in Chad and their religion forbids it. Both have to choose between family and faith.

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97 min
Youth Film

The City of Wild Beasts

2021
2021
Colombia, Ecuador
from 16 years
Director: Henry Eduardo Rincón Orozco

Seventeen-year-old Tato has almost no money to bury his mother. Abandoned by his father, he has to cope on his own. When he can’t pay his rent, gangsters collect the pesos with guns. Tato has to get out of Medellín. His last chance: The unknown grandfather in the countryside.

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85 min
Children´s Film

Buster's World

2021
2021
Denmark
from 8 years
Director: Martin Miehe-Renard

The bustling Buster likes to do magic for his life. As a great magician, the eleven-year-old wants to win the first prize in the talent competition. But most of the time he fails the tricks. That’s why old Mr. Larsen practices with him and gives him tips on how Buster can impress nice Joanna.

 

 

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101 min
Junior Film

Rickshaw Girl

2021
2021
Bangladesh
from 12 years
Director: Amitabh Reza Chowdhury

Driving a rickshaw is a male privilege in Bangladesh. The brave and resolut Naima would do anything to help her family, even leave them. In order to earn money in the capital city Dhaka, she pretends to be a boy and becomes a rickshaw driver.

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59 min
German Focus

Ghost in a Bottle

2021
2021
Germany
from 9 years
Director: Markus Dietrich

For 20 years, the ghost of Mercurius was locked in a magic bottle. Now he is released and the village people fear that he is going to do mischance again. No one dares to catch Mercurius – except the young medical intern Sophia and the herbal apprentice Jakob.

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108 min
Junior Film

A Butterfly's Heart

2021
2021
Lithuania
from 11 years
Director: Inesa Kurklietyté

Juozapas is a quiet boy who breeds insects in an abandoned house and always wears a wide sweater. That’ s why the other kids call him Balloon. But then Rugilė moves to the city. She becomes friends with Juozapas and is the first to learn about his secret.

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95 min
Junior Film

Buckley's Chance

2021
2021
Australia
from 13 years
Director: Tim Brown

Ridley has to leave New York after the tragic death of his father. Together with his mother, he moves to the Australian outback to live with his grandfather, a grumpy animal owner. Everything is different and instead of just mourning, the 14-year-old has to cope with a completely new life.

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93 min
Animated Film

Coppelia

2021
2021
Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
from 14 years
Director: Jeff Tudor, Steven de Beul, Ben Tesseur

Completely without language but harmoniously modern, the film adaptation of the well-known ballet tells the story of a happy couple. A scary new neighbor threatens the idyll: He wants to bring his robot wife Coppelia to life and needs a loving heart to do so. The heart of Franz.

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91 min
German Focus

Dwarf Long Nose

2021
2021
Germany, Czech Republic
from 10 years
Director: Ngo The Chau

Jakob, a lovely boy, helps his mother on the market. However, one day an ugly, old lady insults everyone at the booth and Jakob rants back. Little does he know that this is fairy Kräuterweis. Vicious as she is, she will take revenge on Jakob ...

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83 min
Children´s Film

Pirate's Soul

2021
2020
Russia
from 10 years
Director: Aisyuak Jumagulow

Pasha Kostin falls into a coma after a fall. His companions believe that his soul has slipped into their dog “Pirate”. They fight hard to get Pasha’s spirit back into the boy. In the end, the tried-and-tested method works in the “sleeping Beauty” style – a princess kisses Pasha awake.

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85 min
Junior Film

Birta

2021
2021
Iceland
from 11 years
Director: Bragi Thór Hinriksson

Since the parents split up, Birta’s family has run out of money. Although her mother even works double shifts, she doesn’t know how to handle Christmas. So Birta decides to make money herself. Not an easy task for an 11-year-old!

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85 min
Panorama

Wolf Cubs of the Apple Valley

2021
2020
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
from 11 years
Director: Fereydoun Najafi

Asho is in danger. Since his father was accused of murder, he has to live undercover as the girl Sogol. Together with his cousin Pari Asho heads off to the Apple Valley to find his presumed dead mother.

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108 min
Panorama

The Sun above Me Never Sets

2021
2019
Russia
from 15 years
Director: Ljubow Borisowa

Altan’s life isn’t easy. His grandmother died and so he had to move in with his father and his new family. Then he is to work for a month on a deserted island on a fox farm. There he is alone with a strange old man who is going to change his life.

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76 min
Youth Film

A Brixton Tale

2021
2021
UK
from 16 years
Director: Darragh Carey, Bertrand Desrochers

The YouTuber and prospective filmmaker Leah never leaves the house without a camera. While filming on the street, she meets Benji and it sparks between the two. He’s going to be the star of her documentaries, she wants more and more glaring shots. Her exaggerated pursuit of success puts both of them at risk.

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108 min
Children´s Film

Kids Are Fine

2021
2021
South Korea
from 8 years
Director: LEE Ji-won

9-year-old Da-yi from South Korea has to deal with all kinds of Problems in his life, especially with the worsening illness of his mother. Together with his new friends and a special yellow flower they tackle the obstacles, conflicts and losses.

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90 min
Youth Film

Unreachable

2021
2021
Russia
from 14 years
Director: Anna Kurbatowa

A summer without mobile phones, but go out more often and experience a lot together. That’s what friends Vanja, Masha and Kirill decide. But the three are no longer children and Mascha twists the heads of both boys, which puts their friendship to a test.

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85 min
Youth Film

Princess of the Row

2021
2019
USA
from 16 years
Director: Van Maximilian Carlson

Alicia is her father’s „princess“. She is tough, loving, creative and stubborn. She would do anything for a life with her sick and homeless father. The two manage to be together for a little while but in the end both of them painfully reach their limits.

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88 min
Animated Film

Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds

2021
2021
Spain
from 8 years
Director: Toni García

The young D’Artagnan wishes to serve the King in the noble Muskehund Guard. He is threatened by the evil Cardinal Richelieu. D’Artagnan cannot allow this and so he takes up the fight with his new friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the three muskhounds.

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89 min
Children´s Film

Healing Waters

2021
2020
Czech Republic, Slovakia
from 8 years
Director: Ján Sebechlebský

Princess Hanka likes to play by the river. By that she won the heart of the queen of the water. When Hanka almost dies in a storm, the goddess gives her father a miracle water. But this must not get into the hands of selfish people!

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102 min
German Focus

Wet Dog

2021
2020
Germany
from 16 years
Director: Damir Lukacevic

When Soheil‘s iranian family moves to Berlin-Wedding, he meets mainly young muslim people. His environment is shaped anti-semitic. In order to belong, Soheil does not tell his new friends that he is jewish. But how long can he deny his identity?

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80 min
Youth Film

La Francisca, a Chilean Youth

2021
2020
Belgium, Chile
from 15 years
Director: Rodrigo Litorriaga

Francisca dreams of escaping her small town by the sea one day, but she is very attached to her brother Diego, who has autistic traits and does not talk. When the new teacher Fernando acquires a liking for Diego, her hopes for help seem to get fulfilled.

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