European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
“Whenever I feel stressed, I watch guinea pigs”How to summarise CABINETS OF WONDER in a few sentences? It’s more than ‘just a film’. It feels like a poem, or an opera, or a combination of both. German director Susanne Kim: “I would describe it as a free documentary, playing with fictional elements, staging, poetry, sounds, music… the things that children include intuitively in everything they do.”
Leah has a talent for visual arts, documenting her life with clips and stories shot with her small handycam. One day in the streets of Brixton, she catches the introverted Benji in her lens and sparks are flying. His powerful presence will lift up her next cinema project. But Leah’s portrayal of Benji is driving a wedge between the two, as she doesn’t face the consequences of her ambition.
If size matters, you’re now looking at a winner! Probably the biggest ECFA Journal ever…
If there is one thing that the Dutch workshop Taartrovers (Cake Robbers) is known for, it is definitely the art of ‘playing’, which grants them a unique place in the European children’s film landscape. Through “Playing with film” they now present a study on how film education for preschoolers can be of added value to the existing school curriculum.
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The Children’s Media Conference (CMC) comes with an Early Bird rate that is available for everyone to buy. With an extra profitable arrangement for ECFA members!
It will be Europe’s largest supermarket! Not for shopping films or groceries, but for shopping workshops. It’s new, it’s DIY, it’s something else… Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Workshop Warehouse!
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In a programme that is packed with films, the Zlin Film Festival is also growing in terms of industry impact. Shining star on the industry programme is the Central European Children’s Film Co-Production Forum on Saturday 28 May.
If you are looking forward to the summer holidays, consider yourself lucky you don’t have to spend it in the company of an embarrassing, eccentric grandmother, like 12 year old Sofia in HOW I LEARNED TO FLY, winner of the ECFA Award in the BUFF festival.