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.
Continue reading “Bulbul becomes hotspot for children’s film in India”
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.
“Impact and attendance are parameters to measure our success”What is the most debated question at European youth film festivals? How to get teenagers to our event? Seminars are held in which young people are questioned about it. But TIFF Next Wave in Toronto just does it. Searching for the magical spell, we approach Ikoro Sekai. May we call him the programmer of Next Wave? No, that is what the young people do themselves. With Ikoro as coordinator and manager.
“Children understand that a war is going on, but they have plenty of children’s issues on their minds”Is there a demand for children’s programmes on television and theatre shows while a war is going on out there? Under such circumstances, how do you keep a focus on your work and your social mission? We asked director and producer Volodymyr Ksenzytskii, head of the Ukrainian Agugugu Children’s Educational and Entertainment Channel.