30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

News

 

Johanne Helgeland on THE CROSSING “By the break of day when the world looks dark and bewildering”

THE CROSSING, the epic feature debut by Norwegian director Johanne Helgeland, is set in 1942 during Germany’s occupation of Norway. One day, down in the cellar, after their parents have been arrested, ten-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto discover...

Ga-eun Yoon on THE HOUSE OF US “My gift to all girls taking charge of their own lives”

Like her successful feature debut, THE WORLD OF US, Ga-eun Yoon’s second film stands very close to her own reality. And again the universe she created is delicate, tender, and restrained. In Ga-eun Yoon’s films, it seems like the world is turning...

Carolina Hellsgård about SUNBURNED “Stranded in desert, dust and death“

Together with her mother and sister, Claire spends the summer holidays at the Spanish Mediterranean. Feeling lost and disoriented, she meets Amram, a young Senegalese beach vendor. As their relationship deepens, Claire tries to help him, but unintentionally...

Director Xie Deju on STARRY ROAD “Always a torn shirt to fix”

A sporty performance as a steppingstone to social progress. It is a recipe that you've seen more often in movies. But for the brothers Hai and He the situation is very specific. It is the prospect of new shoes that pushes them to join the school's rope...

Stefan Westerwelle about INTO THE BEAT “Every gaze they gave each other was real”

If you wanna dance, you dance! Lives dilemma’s aren’t always as simple as that. Because Katya will dance anyway, but whether she’ll choose for the ballet classes that she is so good at, or for the hiphop style that she recently embraced wholeheartedly,...

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