8th Kids’ Cinema IFF

September 25 – 26, 2021
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
tickets: 12 PLN / movie, available at the Forum cinema’s box office (5 Legionowa Street), Ludwik Zamenhof Centre’s box office (19 Warszawska Street) and on bilety.bok.bialystok.pl

Kids’ Cinema International Film Festival, organized by the Education Department of the New Horizons Association, is an event aimed at children and young people aged 4-12 and their guardians. The idea that has guided the festival from the very beginning is to make valuable films distinguished by their educational, artistic and production values available to the general public.

Screening schedule:

September 25
9.30 – Yakari, A spectacular Journey
11.30 – Even Mice Belong in Heaven
13.30 – Dragon Girl
15.30 – Dear Mr. Führer

September 26
9.30 – Christmas at Cattle Hill
11.15 – Mamma Moo Finds Home
13.00 – My Very Own Circus
15.15 – Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
17:15 – Belle

Yakari, A spectacular Journey
With his tribe’s move to follow the migrating bison imminent, Yakari, the little Sioux boy, sets out on his own to follow the trail of Little Thunder, a wild mustang said to be untamable. On his journey, and alone for the first time in his life, Yakari is visited by Great Eagle, his totem animal. Great Eagle gives Yakari a magnificent feather as well as the incredible ability to speak to animals. Traveling far from home and deep into the territory of the terrible pumaskin clad hunters, Yakari and Little Thunder undertake a great adventure and find their way back home again. Their journey, through breath-taking but treacherous landscape, will forever seal the undying friendship between the bravest little Sioux boy and the pony who runs like the wind.

Even Mice Belong in Heaven
A film about two mortal enemies – a little Mouse and a Fox, who after an unfortunate accident, meet in animal heaven. They lose their natural instincts and become best friends. Their wish to stay together after they return to earth comes true, but they are reborn into opposite roles. Thanks to the power of friendship they can even overcome what seems to be impossible.

Dragon Girl
Gina (10) dreads Christmas. Living in hiding, orphaned and alone, her mantra is “Never get to know anyone! Always be invisible!” One night, she breaks into an empty house whose residents are on holiday — a perfect place to celebrate Christmas all alone. Everything gets upside down when she discovers a baby dragon in the garage! The neighbouring kid, Mortimer (10), is surprised to discover Gina in the house where he was just supposed to feed a goldfish. Mortimer is hard to find any friends. He decides to deal with his loneliness through social media. Gina and Mortimer are forced to become cooperating buddies to save the baby dragon from the local dragon hunter, the police and TV reporters. They both earn much more during this rescue then they ever hoped for.

Dear Mr. Führer
Pre-teen, shy Bavarian village boy Felix hears his father died on the front in World War II, so he’s left with his mother. Luckily he becomes buddies with Karri, the cocky son of local Nazi boss Ortsgruppenleiter Feik ‘s son Karri and thus the petty tyrant’s protege as well as a “war hero’s heir”. Karri drags Felix along in attempts to prove their bravery, terrorize rustic and even hunt down a deserter and a crashed US pilot. Felix already ‘lacked toughness’, but the deserter’s true identity shakes his world, just in time as the war is lost and the Allies approach.

Mamma Moo Finds Home
When a globetrotting stork shows up at the farm, Mamma Moo has reason to ask the question: what is a home, really? How can she be sure that the meadow and farm where she is now are actually her home? What if there’s something better somewhere else in this big, wide world. Crow struggles to show his friend that the grass isn’t greener across the road – but sometimes you have to get lost in order to find your way home.

My Very Own Circus
Born into a family of circus performers, Laura has spent much of her young life on tour with her father Bill, a professional clown, and his stage hand, Mandeep. Secretly, she yearns for a more conventional life. Thanks to her new Secondary I teacher, Patricia, she can finally fulfill her dream : to go to private school. Having spotted her new pupil’s enormous potential, Patricia helps Laura pass her entrance exams. This act is a form of rebellion against her father. Can bohemian Bill, a self-proclaimed nonconformist, accept that the apple of his eye has fallen so far from the paternal tree?

Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the dangers in a gigantic and wild world where everything is possible.

Belle
Suzu, a teenager living with her father in a small town in the mountains. In virtual world called “U”, Suzu is Belle, a musical icon.