These ten films from seven different countries have been chosen especially for children aged 8 and upwards – but adults are allowed in as long as you are accompanied by a child. They are films for the young but also the young at heart featuring several films that tug at the heart-strings and several others that will make you ponder some of life’s big questions.
Here you will meet charismatic characters and encounter amazing tales featuring playful flamingos, robots on Mars, a girl with two heads and the heartbreaking story of Archie and his Dog.
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Athleticus 2: Guide for the Blind (Nicolas Deveaux, France)
Two flamingos discover a colourful glove on a ski slope. What is this strange thing?
2019, 2min
Leaf (Aliona Baranova, Czech Republic)
The big, gentle sailor has everything under control. He checks tickets, shovels coal into the firebox and scrubs the deck – he even thinks to feed the fish in the sea.
2020, 6min
Archie (Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Archie is devastated to learn of the death of his aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she’s left him in the Outer Hebrides and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog.
2019, 4min
Black and White (Gerd Gockell & Jesús Pérez, Switzerland/Germany)
A film about tolerance towards strangers. The black sheep is mobbed out of the herd, but only the courageous outsider can save the herd from great disaster.
2020, 5min
Matilda and the Spare Head (Ignas Meilunas, Lithuania)
A girl wants to be the smartest person in the world. When all the things she’s learned can no longer fit in just one head, her mother buys her a backup one.
2020, 13min
One Stormy Night (Gil Alkabetz, Germany)
A quest for love featuring a fire in the fireplace and some lightning.
2019, 9min
Senses (Chloé Barbet, Thomas Caputo, Léonie Clément, Bruno Crapanzano, Manon Crouzet & Solene Gaudu, France)
Colourful and soundless or noisy and black and white? Your choice!
2019, 6min
Red Rover (Astrid Goldsmith, UK)
When a robotic rover starts drilling for signs of life on Mars, the race is on for one tiny rock-beast to save her native community from the invader from Earth.
2020, 13min
Out There (Judit Orosz, Hungary)
While playing hide and seek, a little girl is wandering deeper and deeper into the garden until she finds herself at a distant place.
2019, 9min
Latitude du printemps (Sylvain Cuvillier, Chloé Bourdic, Théophile Coursimault, Noémie Halberstam, Maŷlis Mosny & Zijing Ye, France)
An abandoned dog by the side of the road, a young astronaut wannabe and a professional cyclist and the connection between all three.
2020, 7min
