Bucharest Kids Film Festival Celebrates 1st Edition!

Launching an event for children in Romania always feels like an act of courage. The idea of the Bucharest Kids Film Festival (BKFF) was born from a simple but urgent truth: in a country of 19 million people, there are countless film festivals, but very few dedicated exclusively to children. And yet, children are our most important audience!

 

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Cinescapade, For All Children Across Québec

With Cinescapade, FIFEM (Festival Int’l du Film pour Enfants de Montréal) found a way to reach out to an underserved audience. The project responds to an open call by Québec’s cultural agency SODEC, which challenged organisations to find new ways of developing audiences. For FIFEM, this was a sign to make cinema truly accessible to children who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, or on the autism spectrum.

 

 

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Giancarlo Zappoli, a life dedicated to cinema

Giancarlo Zappoli has been Artistic Director of the Castellinaria – Bellinzona Youth Film Festival since 1998. After 28 years of selecting and presenting films targeting not only young audiences but also the general public, his companion Filippo Demarchi (Head of Industry at Castellinaria) felt the time was right for a hymn of praise.

 

 

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