While 12-year-old Jackie is wandering around the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Oopjen Coppit, from Rembrandt's famous painting, suddenly appears in front of her looking for her long-lost sister.
● Annemarie van de Mond
● 90'
● Netherlands
Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet. An omnibus film celebrating the environmental youth movement 30 years in the making.
● Simone Giampaolo
● 7'
● Switzerland
Every June at Maplewood Middle School in NJ, 6th grade students participate in a rite of passage: try write a letter to their future 18-year-old selves.
● Sarah Klein & Tom Mason
● 13'
● USA
Dédalia is a spider. Close to the death, she asks herself : would she have moved to New York with her best friend, if she wasn’t so afraid of humans?
● Hélène Ducrocq
● 9'
● France
Girls In Chess
Girls In Chess
A spotlight on the gender gap in the world of competitive scholastic chess.
● Jenny Schweitzer
● 4'
● USA
A children's theatre troupe is missing their protagonist. They discover that he is learning to kick-box in order to defend himself from the neighbourhood bully. With the help of a part-time electrician & kung fu master they must learn how to be a team again in order to make it to curtain call.
● Nikos Dayandas
● 20’
● Greece
After a great flood, Pää floats down the river on the roof of his house. Soon he is joined by Nif, and together they travel downstream and out into the ocean. Along the way they meet many peculiar creatures.
● Magnus Fredriksson
● 15’
● Sweden
Four Canadian youth activists, Hannah Alper, Cooper Price, Charlene Rocha and Sophia Mathur join forces to raise awareness on the biggest issue of their lives – Climate Change.
● Steve Scaini
● 23'
● Canada