European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
The jury’s award for the best film for children at this year’s Cinekid Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children went to a film, that has been touring through many festivals all over the world: „Blanka“, a co-production between Italy, Japan and the Filippines, directed by Kohki Hasei (2015). Continue reading “Cinekid Amsterdam: Awards for „Blanka“ and „Little Grey Fergie – Country Fun“”
The International Festival of Animated Films for Children in Bratislava is with 15.000 admissions one of the most important festivals for this genre. Continue reading “Animated Films for Children Awarded at Bratislava”
After a twenty-year stint, managing director Sannette Naeyé has decided to bid farewell to Cinekid the Film, Television and New Media Festival based in Amsterdam. Continue reading “Director Sannette Naeyé announces departure from Cinekid”
In Chemnitz (Germany) a jury of 16 children from eight European countries awards the best film for children. This year the prize went to Karel Janák for his film “The Crown Prince” (Czech Republic, 2015). Continue reading “Schlingel Chemnitz: International Children’s Jury awards the Czech Fairytale “Crown Prince””
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””
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”
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””
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”