Special Screening
France, 2006, 75 min
In French with English subtitles.
Recommended for grades 4 and up
Themes: Friendship, Loyalty, Music, Coming of Age
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Directed by: Daniel Oron
Canada, 2006, 11 min
Tommy and Joey furiously pound on their game controllers as their galactic space battle intensifies. Susie and Jimmy feverishly rock up a storm as they brave level 10 of a dance game. Lori and Bobby are caught up in a star-crossed lovers web chat. Suddenly the power goes out. Against their will, the terrified kids are sent outside. On a seemingly splendid suburban summer day the real battle for survival is about to begin.
Waar is het paard Van Sinterklass?
Director: Mischa Kamp
Netherlands, 2007, 90 min
In Dutch with English subtitles, Recommended for grades 4 and up
Themes: Immigration, Facing Challenges, Responsibility
Director: Anthony Couture
Canada, 2006, 19 min
This powerful drama takes us inside the intricate web of relationships experienced by a group of grade seven students during the normal course of a school day.
Director: Susanne Horizon-Fränzel
Germany, 1999, 15 min
This action-packed, witty, thought-provoking, and wordless film has a lot to say about violence and about humanity.
Director: Phil Caron
Canada, 2006, 5 min
Innocent words, beautiful children, and transparent direction, create unexpected results. This award-winning film cleverly explores how harmless raw footage can be seamlessly crafted into cruel and hateful messages.
Director: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Canada, 2005, 11 min
This animated film takes a humourous look at being half a minority. Winner of the Edith Lando Peace Prize 2006
Director: Jason DaSilva
Canada, 2001, 12 min
Two seven-year-olds lead distinctly separate lives. Reshma was born and raised in Goa, India. Olivia was born and raised in British Columbia. The two girls talk about their life, their hopes, dreams and aspirations and what kind of opportunities may lie ahead. Olivia's Puzzle creates a cross-cultural bridge between two young children, who, in spite of living thousands of miles apart, have many things in common. In English and Konkani. Winner of Best documentary, Reel 2 Real 2002
Director: Lucy Kostelanetz
USA, 1992, 28 min
A nine-year-old American girl recounts the year she spent living and going to school in southern China. This film shows Rebeka attending an all-Chinese school, learning to read, write, and speak Mandarin, and making friends with her classmates.
Winner of several prizes at the 1993 Chicago International Film Festival for Children: Best Educational Program, Prize for Enhancing Global Awareness, and the USC/UNICEF Rights of the Child Nomination.
Director: Piotr Sapegin
Norway, 2000, 6 min
A story about how the sea became salt, and a little bit more…
Director: Richard Reeves
Canad, 1999, 4 min
This is an animated look into the sparkling ocean at night.
Directors: Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
Canada, 1999, 10 min
Ruby is a pig, whose life takes an unexpected turn after she witnesses the accidental death of a stranger. Oscar nominee
Curated by Gail Noonan
Recommended for grades 7 and up
Director: Claude Cloutier
Canada, 2007, 10 min
Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake the princess, and a number of them rise to the challenge, including a handsome prince. But can Betty be wakened with just a kiss? Sleeping Betty is the Perreault classic revisited by the sharp pen of Claude Cloutier. His ornate, India-ink animation sweeps us away to a disjointed, anachronistic and playful world inspired by Victorian engravings.
Directors: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Canada, 2007, 17 min
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.
Director: Masoud Raouf
Canada, 2003, 6 min
This visual poem sees the absurd vanity of war in contrast to the harmony and perpetuity of nature.
Director: Nick Hilligoss
Australia, 1998, 5 min
A free-spirited, artistic soul gets thrown in jail for drawing outside the lines. With the use of his imagination and a box of crayons he is able to create his own wilderness, and escapes.
Director: Kevin Langdale
Canada, 2001, 6 min
The seemingly nonsensical is juxtaposed with the precision of science to illustrate how our belief in the order of language does not guarantee communication.
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Netherlands, 2000, 9 min
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons, so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family, and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father. Oscar Winner
Director: Koji Yamamura
Japan, 1993, 4 min
One winter day, two birds find a big tree and decide to build their house there.
Director: George Schwizgebel
Canada/Switzerland, 2004, 10 min
A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap.
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Netherlands, 1994, 6 min
A monk becomes obsessed with a fish and tries everything to catch it.
Director: Josh Raskin
Canada, 2007, 5 min
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace for his school paper. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multi-pronged animation. Official selection at Sundance
Director: Sonja Jasansky
Canada, 2007, 10 min
This quirky little story is a delightful imagining of what could have been if a teen’s devious wishes had come true. Official selection at Tribeca Film Festival
www.sonjajasansky.com/lines/index.html
Director: Director: Susanne Horizon-Fränzel
Germany, 2007, 11 min
Using a simple filmic device, this film illustrates the disorientation we all feel on encountering a new culture, and the way we gradually learn to fit in.
Director: Anna McRoberts
Canada, 2007, 12 min
The Windfisherman lives in the windiest town in the world where he 'fishes' for things that have blown away and returns them to their rightful owners. He is the fifth generation of windfishermen, but even though it is in his blood, it’s not in his heart, at least not until he learns one of life's most valuable lessons.
www.thewindfisherman.com
Director: Dominique Keller
Canada, 2007, 5 min
This hybrid live-action and animated dance piece is a film about adaptation.
Many young Aboriginals are leaving reserves for large urban centres, exploring their roots, and honouring their music and art in contemporary ways, including hip hop, break dance, and Cree spoken word rap.
Director/Writer: Adeline Huynh
Canada, 2007, 6 min
Through the whimsical story of a Vietnamese girl, her grandfather and good ol’ American Westerns, this film humorously probes issues of race, identity, cultural dislocation and assimilation.
Director: Nick Hilligoss
Australia, 1998, 5 min
An adolescent frog takes a trip to the garbage dump, where he finds frogs singing unfamiliar tunes. After a few misses, he picks up a banjo and finds his voice in his new neighbourhood. R2R Youth Jury Award Winner 1999
Director: Suzi Yoonessi
USA, 2007, 11 min
Vanessa Lemor, a lonely 13-year old girl with a vivid imagination, is dumped by her true love, uber-intellectual Philip Georgey. Vanessa spends the summer obsessing over the heartbreaking tragedy, while working with Philip who is her manager at the local ice cream shack. A chance meeting with ‘angel-headed dorks,’ Hercules and Nothing, enables her to overcome her anguish on a serendipitous summer day. Official selection at Tribeca Film Festival
Directed By: Caroline Coutts
Canada, 2007, 10 min
The adults used to let him inside, but a young boy is now part of the pack, and finds himself at home on the street.
Director: Jose Pablo Gonzalez
Canada, 2007,| 5 min
Senator Salvador Barrera believes he speaks for the people, and is favoured by everyone. One day, his compassionate public persona has to confront the consequences of his false promises.
Director: Raha Shirazi
Canada | 2007 | 12 min
One fateful evening, three Iranian women from different social groups are brought together within the four walls of a prison cell. This thoughtful parable conveys a sense of despair about a cycle of oppression, but also offers hope that small victories will break the cycle.
In Farsi with English subtitles
Director: Cam Christensen
Canada, 2007, 6 min
A boy is competing in a tennis match with his father when three young men approach and start to accost them. Official selection at Sundance
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