European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
The Ket & Doc formation trajectory not only launched a revival of young audience documentaries in Flanders, but also guarantees five new titles every year. The powerful new crop premiering at the Antwerp Youth Film Festival is now suited and booted to conquer festivals around the world. Hang on for a super strong selection!
Having the status as a major Scandinavian children’s film festival lends itself to opening with a big premiere. At the BUFF festival in Malmö that became LARS IS LOL, a Norwegian film by Eirik Sæter Stordahl.
ECFA’s new member Luftkind Filmverleih is a Hamburg-based company co-producing animated content – exclusively for children – and bringing animated movies to the theatres. Luftkind’s ambitions for 2024 are big!
ECFA collects as much information as possible to make it permanently available on the ECFA website. Recently ECFA Journal interviews and a number of research reports, curated by ECFA’s Academic Committee, have been added to the site.
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If you thought you already had enough reasons to visit the Indian province of Goa (whether to rave, sunbath or admire the countryside), you can add one more reason to your list: the Bulbul Children’s International Film Festival in Margao celebrated its first edition in January.
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FIFEM (Montreal Int’l Children’s Film Festival) is putting German films centre stage. After last year’s SCHLINGEL spotlight on productions from the Canadian province of Québec, the festival team is now curating a German focus in Canada.
Film is all about stories. Here are some stories to take home with you.
During CINEKID for Professionals, the international Industry programme for youth media in Amsterdam, the prestigious Filmmore Post-Production Award for Best Live Action Project in Development went to HANNEKE & FIET. Once again, the Dutch successful duo consisting of screenwriter Tamara Bos and director Mischa Kamp (WINKY’S HORSE, ROMY’S SALON) has a story in hand that will move and excite audiences around the world.
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