THE CHILDISH FILM FESTIVAL AT M-SPIFF APRIL 1-16, 2005
Allow 75 minutes for films and discussion time. Films and videos with subtitles will be read aloud on stage.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?(program for GRADES K-2)Kids know a lot. Travel from New Jersey to Cameroon to Scandinavia
to the universe of an animator's imagination to learn about our vast world.
(Dave Goldenberg, USA, 2002, Beta, 8 min.)
New Jersey kids try to settle a classroom dispute between a boy and their teacher by breaking into a full-fledged opera
MBOUTOUKOU
(Victor Viyuoch, Cameroon, 2002, Beta, 14 min.)
Napo's older brother is about to go away. He does a coming of age ritual and builds a termite mound. Can Napo follow his shoes?
(Morten H. Evelid, 2004, Norway, 35mm w/subtitles, 9 min.)
Tom's a curly red head who wants to get his hair to be cool at school. His mother concocts a secret solution that's pretty sweet.
(Sara Johnsen, Norway/English Subtitles, 2002, 35mm, 12 min.)
A very suspenseful tale about Fredrik who tries to impress his cousin Klara at the beach with a Houdini trick that goes awry
(Michelle Lemieux, 2003, Canada, 35mm, 10 min.)
What is life is just a drem and dreams are what's really real? A little girl's late night philosophical musings end with a sunny day.