2010 Festival Schedule
November 1-14, 2010

To view a selection of film trailers, click on the YouTube icon on the right (under Tickets).

Come join us for the 2010 Block of Films including:

What A Wonderful World	The Crocodiles
Chills and Thrills	Frogs and Toads
Totally Tall Tales	Small Change
Magic Carpet	On My Way
Creature Comforts	Animation Brigade!
Passport	Celebrating Differences

Additional Detail on the Films:

What a Wonderful World

This fast-paced program is filled with films that are musical, moving, funny and full of adventure.

Head Dwellers (Maria Boros, Hungary); Nappy Heads (Sabrina Moella, Canada); For a Fistful of Snow (Julien Ezri, Switzerland); The Mouse That Soared (Kyle Bell, USA); Hello Antenna (Veronika Samartseva and Anna Samoylovich, Germany); Betty–The Doll (Anna Guldager, Sweden); Crane and Digger (Leonore Poth, Germany); The Moth and the Firefly (Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein, USA); Getting Dad (Hailey Bartholomew, Australia); The King of the Island (Raimondo Della Calce, Italy).

Recommended for all ages. Total running time: 60 min

Chills and Thrills

Fasten your seat belts for a cinematic roller coaster ride, filled with spooky animation and surreal stories. This is the perfect show for kids who like their movies served with a side of goose bumps.

Teleportation (Markus Dietrich, Germany); The Portrait for the Pest (Lucila Las Heras, Argentina); Bob’s Knee (Mike Attie, USA); The Royal Nightmare (Alex Budovsky, USA); Alma (Rodrigo Blaas, Spain); Les Escargots de Joseph (Sophie Roze, France); Careful with that Power Tool (Jason Stutter, New Zealand); Price 2,70 Fts (Roland Ballai Toth, Hungary); Elephants (Sally Pearce, Wales).

Ages 8 and up. Total running time: 69 min
Parental guidance suggested due to some spooky themes. Three films have subtitles.

Totally Tall Tales

Gather around for a high-spirited collection of Greek myths, African fables, Mexican and Brazilian legends, Hungarian folk tales and Irish yarns.

Just So Stories: The Beginnings of the Armadillo (Jean-Jacques Prunes, France);  Long Long Ago: The Salmon of Knowledge (Michael Algar, Ireland); Long Long Ago: The Warty Tree (Michael Algar, Ireland); Ideation (Jeremiah Dicky, USA); The Legend of the Bat (Lucia Morgan, UK/Mexico); Josue e o Pe de Macaxeira (Diogo Viegas, Brazil); SOL (Harry Wormald, UK); The Wee King (Lajos Nagy, Hungary); Leila (Louise-Marie Colon, Belgium/Burkina Faso); A Water Tale (SJ Chiro, USA

Ages 7 and up. Total running time: 70 min
Two films have English subtitles.

Magic Carpet

This program of inventive international animation and amazing stories will whisk you a way on a whirlwind trip around the world.

Heterogenic (Raimondo Della Calce, Italy); Chicory ‘n’ Coffee (Dusan Kastelic, Slovenia) Melvin(Magnus Holmgren, Sweden); Melvin (Magnus Holmgren, Sweden); The Sand Piper (Jimmy Marakami, Ireland); I’m Hungry (Louise-Marie Colon and Delphine Hermans, Belgium); The Mouse with a Mouth (Andrea Kiss, Belgium/France/Hungary); Panic Painter (Johan Hagelback, Sweden); Dreamscape (Pelle Hybbinette, Sweden); Home Sweet Home (Pascal Adant, Belgium);

Ages 7 and up. Total running time: 75 min
Four films have English subtitles.

Creature Comforts

This program is tailor-made for the festival’s youngest viewers with colorful films filled with sweet animals, cheerful music and gentle stories.

Green Leaf (Harry Flosser, Germany); Pink Nanuq (Jeanine Reutemann, Switzerland); When Apples Roll (Reinis Kalnaellis, Latvia); Tales for Tiny Tots (Gun Jacobson and Anna-Clara Tidholm); Saari (Veronica Lassenius, Spain); Electric Car (Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, USA); Miriam’s Broken Picture (Priit Tender, Estonia); Y por que? (German Anzola, Venezuela); Cuento de Lac: The C Story (Carlos Navarro, Spain,); Hajar’s Wedding (Mahin Javaherian, Iran); Un Duelo (Felipe Esquivel, Mexico); Glow (Jenna Byun, Canada).

Ages 3 and up. Total running time: 62 min
Three films have subtitles.

Passport

On this cinematic voyage, you’ll hear stories from Madagascar, Mexico, Iran, Brazil, Palestine, India and Kenya, and meet real-life kids who are making the world a better place.

Bamiyan (Patrick Pleutin, France); To Be a Child in Iran (Behrooz Karamizade, Iran); The Scarecrow Girl (Cassio Pereira dos Santos, Brazil); Madagascar, a journey diary (Guilaine Bergeret, France); Warda (Louise-Marie Colon and Delphine Hermans, Belgium/Palestine); Breakout: The Power of One (Lalita Krishna, Canada).

Ages 9 and up. Total running time: 77 min
Parental guidance suggested due to a brief moment of partial nudity in one film. Five films have subtitles.

The Crocodiles

(Christian Ditter, Germany, 2009). The Crocodiles, a gang of neighborhood kids, embark on a series of thrilling adventures when they meet Kai, a boy in a wheelchair who wants to join their club. Little do they realize how much Kai will help them learn about life and friendship along the way.

Shown with Teaching the Alphabet (Volker Schreiner, Germany)
This film pays homage to cinematic splendor from A to Z.

Ages 9 and up. Total running time: 101 min
Parental guidance suggested due to some language, images and scenes depicting danger and fighting. Feature is in German with English subtitles.

Frogs and Toads

(Simone van Dusseldorp, The Netherlands, 2009).
A wonderful adventure takes shape when a six-year-old boy sets out to help his ailing brother. With a friend, he journeys through forests and meadows, looking high and low for a magical cure. Will the two friends find what they need?

Shows with When Apples Roll (Reinis Kalnaellis, Latvia, 7 min). A sweet cat and a feisty mouse must care for a little lost chick.

Ages 5 and up. Total running time: 82 min
Feature is in Dutch with English subtitles.

Small Change

(Francois Truffaut, France, 1976).
Truffaut’s critically acclaimed film is a gentle and comedic tribute to the small moments and chance happenings that define and shape the childhoods of a group of children in the picturesque French town of Theirs. Film critic Vincent Canby called the “an original, a major work in minor keys.”

Ages 10 and up. Total running time: 109 min
Parental guidance is suggested due to some mild adult language, a very brief scene of partial nudity and a plot line about a boy who lives in an abusive home. Feature is in French with English subtitles.

On My Way

The kids in these films are growing up fast, expanding their horizons and learning about the world as they tackle everything from bad hair days to much more complicated problems.

Dreamscape (Pelle Hybbinette, Sweden); Iker Stubborn Hair (Sandra Garcia Velten, Mexico); The Magic Stamp (Tomoko Oguchi, USA); Cocoon Child (Sonja Rohleder, Germany); Mr. Mack’s Kitchen (Mike Attie, USA); Father Gave Water (Mahdi Jafari, Iran); Frog (Cecilia Torquato, Sweden); Immersion (Richard Levien, USA); Something to Hold Onto (Barbara O’Halloran, USA).

Ages 8 and up. Total running time: 69 min
Three films have subtitles.

Annimation Brigade

Since the 1966, a talented group of Latvian animators have been creating puppet animation films that have delighted children all over the world. Join us for a special salute to AB Studio’s “Rescue Team,” “Munk and Lemmy” and “Animals” films, and travel to a wonderland full of brave, roguish and mischievous creatures.

The Swan (Janis Cimermanis, 1991); The Tart (Janis Cimermanis, 1995); The Bird Cage (Janis Cimermanis, 1996); Cats (2002, Dace Riduze); Magician (Maris Brinkmanis, 2001); Munk and Lemmy: Let’s Fly (Nils Skapans, 1994); Animals: Home Hole Horrors (Nils Skapans, 1999); Firefly (Dace Riduze, 2002)

All ages. Total Running Time: 56 min

All films are nonverbal.

Celebrating Differences

TBD