The jury at the “Lucas International Festival for Young Filmlovers” in Frankfurt (Germany) gathers both children and adult experts. This year they have chosen “Offline – Are You Ready for the Next Level?” by Florian Schnell (Germany, 2016) as best film for children in the category 8+. Continue reading “Frankfurt: Lucas-Festival’s Award for “Offline”, ECFA-Award for “Rauf””
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Wild Soccer Legends awarded in Giffoni
The late follower to Joachim Massanek’s “Wild Soccer Bunch”-series received the award for the best film in the 6+-section at this years Giffoni Film Festival: “Wild Soccer Bunch – The Legend Lives” (Germany, 2016). Continue reading “Wild Soccer Legends awarded in Giffoni”
Kinderfilmfest Munich: Audience Award for “At Eye Level”
The audience award at Kinderfilmfest Munich, the children’s section of Filmfest München, went to “At Eye Level” (“Auf Augenhöhe”), directed by Evi Goldbrunner and Joachim Dollhopf (Germany, 2016), a film made within the German programme “Der besondere Kinderfilm”. Continue reading “Kinderfilmfest Munich: Audience Award for “At Eye Level””
Kinolub 2016: Russian Films Win in Krakow
With “The Celestial Camel” by Juri Feting (Russia, 2015) as winner of the main prize and “Land of the Good Kids” by Olga Kaptur (Russia, 2013) awarded by the children’s jury two Russian films received the prizes for long films at the Kinlolub Filmfestival for Children and Young People which was held at Krakow and several other cities in the South of Poland. Continue reading “Kinolub 2016: Russian Films Win in Krakow”
Warsaw: Audience Award for „Little Gangster“
Arne Toonen’s crowd pleaser „Little Gangster“ also convinced the audience to vote for this film at the „Cinema in Sneakers“ Film Festival for Children in Warsaw. Continue reading “Warsaw: Audience Award for „Little Gangster“”
Golden Sparrow’s Children’s jury voted for fairy tale “King Laurin”
The children’s jury at the Golden Sparrow German Children’s Media Festival has selected the fairy tale movie „King Laurin“ (Germany, 2016) as best film for children. Continue reading “Golden Sparrow’s Children’s jury voted for fairy tale “King Laurin””
Zlin 2016: Children Jury awarded “Abulele” (Israel), Experts’ Jury voted for “The World of Us” (Korea) and ECFA’s jury has chosen “Learn by Heart” (France)
It is remarkable that children’s films from Asia have been winning more and more awards at festivals recently. Also at the International Zlin Film Festival for Children and Youth the experts’ jury gave their award to “The World of Us” directed by YOON Ga-eun (Korea 2016). Continue reading “Zlin 2016: Children Jury awarded “Abulele” (Israel), Experts’ Jury voted for “The World of Us” (Korea) and ECFA’s jury has chosen “Learn by Heart” (France)”
Bringing European Children’s Films to a Broader Audience
Expert Meeting at Cinekid Amsterdam 2008
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