European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
The Zlin Film Festival is the one and only brave event insisting on serving its ECFA Jury exclusively feature documentaries. The programming procedure is tough, but according to the Jury there was one title that stood head and shoulders above the rest, GABY, BETWEEN AGES 8 TO 13 (Engeli Broberg, Sweden).
Join this year’s Children’s Media Conference, live or online, from 5 -7 July 2022. The event offers ECFA members a special discounted rate of £360 + VAT. That’s a saving of £120 + VAT on the full rate of £480 + VAT for the Live Conference.
In the 10th jubilee edition of the Cinema in Sneakers festival, held in a hybrid form in Warsaw, the ECFA Award went to LAST FILM SHOW (Pan Nalin), a story set in India but made as an Indian-French co-production.
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La Sosteria is a project of urban redevelopment, through a creative re-appropriation of a newsstand in the village of Fiorano, Italy. La Sosteria aims at preserving existing estate, repurposing abandoned infrastructure, and involving the community in a programme of activities.
Mo & Friese stands for short film. All genres, all forms, all ages! One of those short films is LUCE AND THE ROCK, a remarkably absurd and moving story by Britt Raes (Belgium).
In May 2022, European MEDIA funds approved the international Film in Hospital project for two more years. Film in Hospital can now keep striving to grant ill children in hospitals and revalidation centres access to exclusive, festival-quality films and educational materials.
Continue reading “Film in Hospital project granted another two years”
The International. Children’s Film Festival Kristiansand in Norway was handing out two ECFA Awards, one for BUSTER’S WORLD and one for SHABU.
One of the characteristics of KINEKO (Tokyo) is how the festival turns the entire city into a movie theatre: the Teen section was screened at a café and studio in a shopping street, the Kineko Marche took over the Central Square, there were street performance and a Street Piano Event… The most peculiar location was the iTSCOME Studio & Hall, turned into a dream theatre with fluffy cushions and sofas for families to watch films.