Tricks for Kids 3

When

26. April 2024    
15:30 - 17:00

Where

Gloria 2
Königstraße 20, Stuttgart, 70173

Type

This is where the cinema turns into a rollercoaster! Magical short films to discover, laugh and marvel at for all animation fans from daycare centres and primary schools to teenagers. Foreign-language films have German live voice-over.

Captivating stories with seriousness or dancing pigs with lots of humour and slapstick – there’s plenty of variety in this programme! The multi-layered world of animation for our film pros aged 8 and over.

Tickets

Canary
CanaryDirector: Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriaul / Canada / 2022 / 12:03 min / Production: Rodeo FX / World Sales: Miyu Distribution

A young boy called Sonny works in an underground coal mine surrounded by adults. His job is to take care of the canary that detects deadly methane gas. But he’d rather he and his feathered friend were safely back overground and in the sunshine.

Historien om Bodri
Historien om BodriDirector: Stina Wirsén / Sweden / 2022 / 13:05 min / Screenplay: Stina Wirsén / Production: Hobab AB / World Sales: Hobab AB

My name is Hédi, I’ll tell you about my childhood. About how I was a happy child in a happy city in Germany. What happened next is hard to tell and hard to listen to. I still want to tell you and I want you to listen. For we humans can do so much evil but also very good. We all have a choice; we can choose the good. An animated short for younger children about the Holocaust.

#DoudouChallenge
#DoudouChallengeDirector: Alexandra Delaunay-Fernandez, Julie Majcher, Marine Benabdallah-Crolais, Noémie Segalowicz, Scott Pardaillhe-Galabrun, Sixtine Emerat / France / 2023 / 6:18 min / Screenplay: Julie Majcher / Production: Rubika / World Sales: Je Regarde

10-year-old Olivia sits hooked on her phone in the back of the car as her family goes on vacation. Her parents are so annoyed by her addiction to beauty social media that they leave her in a highway service area. After the first shock, she is already back on the phone. Her plush bunny tries to get her to play with them instead but then things take an unexpected turn.

Out there
Out thereDirector: Alexander Afonasyev, Evgeniy Golovin / Russia / 2024 / 13:26 min / Production: Studio Parovoz / World Sales: Ekaterina Kozyreva

One page, and another. One foot before the other. I am here, I’m not there. I’ll reach the light, stair by stair.

Goutte d´Eau
Goutte d´EauDirector: Selma el Malki / France / 2023 / 4:09 min / Screenplay: Selma El Malki / Production: École Émile Cohl / World Sales: Emile Cohl

A grandmother is unable to cry over the death of her husband. She shares her struggle with her family members and receives the strangest advice from them.

Deutschlandpremiere

Mum’s Spaghetti
Mum’s SpaghettiDirector: Lisa Kenney / United Kingdom / 2023 / 10:53 min / Screenplay: Jack Maraghy, Lisa Kenney / Production: National Film and Television School / World Sales: National Film and Television School

MC mastermind Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop are the new kids in town – and they’re ready to make their reputation known. Straight A’s and bubble baths are their way of life. But when confronted by an older crew en-route to her first day at school, Poppy quickly changes her tune.

Photosensitivity Warning

svinedrengen
svinedrengenDirector: Magnus Igland Møller, Peter Smith / Denmark / 2023 / 6:35 min / Production: Fleng Entertainment and Tumblehead production / World Sales: Yummy Films

Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Swineherd” as you have never seen it before! In this entirely goofy and funny version of the famous fairy tale, we meet the young swineherd who sits and looks after the king’s pigs. On Christmas Eve, the boy and the pigs are bored in the pigsty. Suddenly the boy remembers his magic pot that will always be start of some antics.