This year, the New Horizons Association celebrates the 10th edition of the Kids Kino Int’l Film Festival. This jubilee edition will be held from 30 September – 8 October in Warsaw, Wrocław and other cities in Poland. The on-site festival will be followed by an online edition (12-29 October).
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Keeping up with the ECFA Beat
On 27 October a EU Parliamentary Breakfast will be hosted in Brussels by KIDS Regio, lobbying for “A strong European children’s film culture”.
Three films – two features and one documentary – have been selected by film experts and teenagers from around Europe in a two-step awarding procedure, and are now running for the Young Audience Award (YAA) 2022. What is unique about it? The winners will be chosen by young juries in more than 70 cities in 42 European countries watching the films online or in movie theatres.
The AleKino! festival celebrated its 40th edition with the animated ECFA Award winner DRAGON PRINCESS (by Jean-Jacques Denis & Anthony Roux, France) and with a new green festival policy.
On 7 October, Cinemira Int’l Children’s & Youth Film Festival hosted the 3rd Children & Youth Film Pitch Forum, where Hungarian screenwriters, writers and creatives came to present their ideas for young audience films and series, and find directors, producers and other professional partners for their projects.
ECFA’s most extensive project for 2023 is the Workshop Warehouse, a trade fair in which educators will actively participate and inspire each other with creative ideas. The Workshop Warehouse will take place from 30 June – 2 July in Bologna and the contours of the programme are gradually becoming clear.
The audience of the 9th edition of Kino Dzieci (Kids Kino Int’l Film Festival) nowadays are spread over 20 Polish cities! In Warsaw and Wroclaw, the entire programme is available, while the main competition is presented in 18 more locations nationwide. Thus viewers from around the country decide the winning films… and then there’s juries, like the ECFA Jury!