The short film programme for grades 5 -7 with films from the current Tricks for Kids competition makes you want to discover new things, explore foreign cultures and different realities. and go through life with open eyes.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 awaits you. The programme is professionally moderated and foreign-language films have a live German voice-over. If the filmmakers are festival guests, they will of course come to the screening and answer the questions of their young audience. With advance registration only.
The series FRITZI & SOPHIE tells the story of the events of 1989 that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall from the perspective of the 12-year-old girls Fritzi and Sophie. Sophie flees to Western Germany with her mother and has to leave her dog Sputnik behind with her friend Fritzi. Fritzi is looking for a way to bring Sputnik to Sophie and finds herself caught up in the demonstrations of Leipzig.
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.
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.
This short animated documentary relates experiences of immigration in the Netherlands through the eyes of a little Israeli girl as she learns how to swim while being fully clothed.
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.