Sansone
Director – Chiara Centioni
(Italy)
Duration – 13:00
Christian, 8 years old, is bullied by friends because of his very long blond hair, and gets scolded by his mother, Paola, who is unaware that the gesture of the son does not conceal a whim but a heroic act. Christian, in fact, was shocked after seeing his friend Luna lose her long brown hair due to an illness, so he decided to donate some of his hair to her. So, wearing the blonde wig made with Christian’s hair, Luna smiles again.
Luce & Me
Director – Isabella Salvetti
(Italy)
Duration – 10:00
A boy and his father, supporter of Roma football club, are driving together in a car. They are late, the radio broadcasts the Roma-Lazio derby. The boy wears the costume of a cartoon heroine and fears that he won’t arrive in time for a very special appointment…
Silent Movie
Director – Melo Viana
(Brazil)
Duration – 15:00
Children show film frames from the transition from silent to spoken cinema.
U Scantu (Afraid)
Director – Daniele Suraci
(Italy)
Duration – 15:00
In a small village in southern Calabria, Saro, a 10-year-old boy, is struggling to overcome his fears, waiting for a “lost” grief-stricken father to come back.
Boje
Directors – Andreas Cordes, Robert Köhler
(Germany)
Duration – 10:00
Boje, who is living on the coast with his father Holke, has a lot of questions in his mind that are not that easy to answer. How do I know I love somebody? Where was I before I was born? How do I know I’m not dreaming?
Nothing would make Holke happier than answering his son’s complex questions, but he is literally missing the right words. Nonetheless he doesn’t want to leave Boje alone with his questions and eventually turns to the sea for help…
Traces
Director – Pins Sébastien
(Belgium)
Duration – 12:00
Over the seasons we follow a logger and his horse in the depths of the Ardennes forest, and see him live his passion through the eyes of an odd young girl…
Green Pinocchio
Director – Marta Miniucchi
(Italy)
Duration – 8:00
A green reinterpretation of the famous story of Pinocchio: Geppetto has been living in the whale’s belly for two years now. He ended up inside looking for Pinocchio who ran away from home to live a life of adventures. Pinocchio, tired of being a puppet and living a meaningless life in the Land of Toys, is now in search of his beloved Geppetto. They are going to meet each other right in the belly of the whale, which has now become a landfill for plastic waste.
Heaven of Children
Director – Amir Masoud Soheili
(Indonesia)
Duration – 5:00
A boy and a girl are exploring an abandoned cinema when they find a film roll. They start to watch it, but the security throws them out before the end of the film, so they try to imagine the ending.
Better Than Neil Armstrong
Director – Alireza Ghasemi
(Iran)
Duration – 20:00
Four kids start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a mysterious place called The Redland. But the gates of Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.