The new school year brings new challenges for 14 year old Sana. She is starting at a new school where she will learn all the ins and outs of the world of baking. In the evenings she is training hard for her very first international boxing match. In a couple of weeks she and some of her teammates have been invited to fight at the Olympic Center in Pisa. How will she cope, combining these two big passions that are both demanding a lot of her? Will she manage to juggle both and succeed in finding her footing?
● Liesbeth De Mey
● 16'
● Belgium
When Fien discovers that her sister Hannah is threatened by a vicious crocodile that is making her very skinny and sick, her world is turned upside down.
● Lore Mechelaere
● 16'
● Belgium
For the third year in a row, a group of cinephile students from the second and third grades of middle school is taking on the role of program curator. The student committee watched, discussed, and selected seven films for the lineup, covering a wide range of topics from autism to the first kiss
● 98'
13-year-old Nastia, an elite gymnast from Kyiv. After winning the Ukrainian championship with her tightknit group of friends, Nastia is forced to flee to Germany with her grandmother due to war in Ukraine. In the unfamiliar town of Gelsenkirchen, Nastia must start over and cope with the uncertainty of whether she will ever see her parents and friends again. But when she joins a German gymnastics team, Nastia finds hope and begins to build a new life for herself. This moving story celebrates resilience, friendship, and the power of sports to bring people together.
● Simon Lereng Wilmont, Alisa Kovalenko
● 22΄
● Denmark, Norway
Amazing animated short stories for children aged 2 and up, without dialogue.
● 55'
Presentation of short films from the "Inclusion in Action" program implemented by the Athens International Children's Film Festival in both general and special education schools with the aim of promoting a culture of inclusion within the classroom.
● 45'
A few nigella seeds tucked in the palm of her hand, 6-year-old Dounia leaves Aleppo with the Princess of Aleppo’s help and travels towards a new world.
● Marya Zarif, André Kadi
● 72'
● Canada, France
When the ever-optimistic boy Monty causes the school’s computer to crash during a test, he is immediately put in a special-needs class and deemed unlikely to ever succeed. Monty decides to start his own school, a school which accommodates kids with strange brains!
● Anders Morgenthaler, Mikael Wulff
● 84'
● Denmark