New York Worldwide Youngsters’s Movie Pageant Highlights Authentic Work From Across the World | Festivals & Awards
One in every of my favourite movie tales of the final 12 months has been the success of “Flow,” a essential darling and Oscar nominee for each Greatest Animated Function and Greatest Worldwide Movie. The humorous factor is I believe the film itself is a tick overrated, however I don’t care as a result of it looks like that cute cat might knock down a few of the boundaries that preserve youngsters’s leisure in such foolish containers. Children are open to filmmaking from world wide, and it doesn’t simply should be Studio Ghibli. Top-of-the-line occasions on the pageant calendar in the case of increasing the minds of each younger and previous viewers is the New York Worldwide Youngsters’s Movie Pageant, an occasion at 4 venues within the metropolis that runs principally for the primary half of March.
Highlights this 12 months embody the second pageant look of the very enjoyable “The Legend of Ochi,” which I already reviewed in full at that hyperlink and I stay up for seeing once more when it hits theaters. It’s a charmer, a throwback to an period of filmmaking that I miss.
The 2 movies that I used to be most excited to see needs to be huge attracts for NYICFF: Michel Gondry’s “Maya, Give Me a Title” and Claude Barras’ “Sauvages.” The previous is a private undertaking for the visionary director of “Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts,” who makes use of concepts from his daughter Maya to craft creative items of animated storytelling. The latter is the primary movie from the director of 2017’s stellar “My Life as a Zucchini,” one among my fave stop-motion movies of its period. That I used to be a bit upset in each looks like one thing not price digging into too deeply in a chunk like this given how a lot I really like the general vibe of NYICFF. That may wait for an additional day. In case you’re a fan of Gondry or “Zucchini,” they’re nonetheless price seeing, and you are able to do so sooner than anybody.
Different highlights I might see if I had been within the Huge Apple embody opening evening choice “Hola, Frida,” “Dwelling Court docket,” “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” and “Totto Chan: The Little Woman on the Window.”
Discover all the main points under, get tickets here, and perhaps you’ll be able to see the following “Circulation” earlier than any of your pals:
FEATURE FILM PROGRAM
A BOAT IN THE GARDEN
Slocum et moi
FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Jean-François Laguionie, 2024, 76 min.
Really helpful ages 8+
In French with English subtitles
Forties France, close to the Marne river. François is as bit adrift till he and his father embark on a undertaking: to construct a reproduction of a legendary navigator’s boat collectively. One other lyrical story from the good Jean-François Laguionie (NYICFF 2017, 2012).
HOLA, FRIDA
OPENING NIGHT
CANADA, FRANCE | US PREMIERE
André Kadi and Karine Vézina, 2024, 82 min.
Really helpful ages 7+
In Spanish with English subtitles
That is the story of a woman who’s completely different. Her world is Coyoacán, in Mexico Metropolis. Glowing and vibrant, every little thing fascinates her. Say hola to Frida Kahlo.
HOME COURT
UNITED STATES, CAMBODIA | NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
Erica Tanamachi, 2024, 98 min.
Really helpful ages 10+
In English and Khmer with English subtitles
This 2025 reply to Hoop Desires follows a first-gen highschool basketball phenom on her quest for faculty superstardom.
JIPPIE NO MORE!
NETHERLANDS | NEW YORK PREMIERE
Margien Rogaar, 2024, 95 min.
Really helpful ages 10+
In Dutch with English subtitles
Jippie’s sister is getting married, and the entire household helps with the celebration. The nice dishes are out, decorations are set, and Jippie is ready for the efficiency of a lifetime. However when he falls in love for the primary time, his consideration is not on his huge gig.
KENSUKE’S KINGDOM
UNITED KINGDOM, LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE | ICYMI FEST FLASHBACK
Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry, 2023, 84 min.
Really helpful ages 8+
In English
Missed NYICFF 2024’s Grand Prize successful function? Now’s your probability: catch the return of this viewers favourite, Robinson Crusoe-style journey, based mostly on the novel by Michael Morpurgo.
THE LEGEND OF OCHI
CENTERPIECE
UNITED STATES | EAST COAST PREMIERE
Isaiah Saxon, 2025, 96 min.
Really helpful ages 9+
In English
In a distant northern village, Yuri is raised to by no means go outdoors and to worry the reclusive forest creatures often known as the ochi. When a child ochi is left behind by its pack, she embarks on the journey of a lifetime to reunite it with its household.
LIVING LARGE
ŽIVOT Ok SEŽRÁNÍ
CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE | EAST COAST PREMIERE
Kristina Dufková, 2024, 80 min.
Really helpful ages 9+
In English
Ben is charming, humorous, and in a significantly cool rock band together with his pals. However rising up is difficult, and one little drawback seems to be greater than he bargained for.
MAYA, GIVE ME A TITLE
Maya, donne-moi un titre
SPOTLIGHT
FRANCE | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Michel Gondry, 2024, 61 min.
Really helpful ages 8+
In French with English subtitles
As a result of Maya’s dad is at all times touring, they communicate by way of nightly calls, creating tales wherein she is the star. As a result of Maya’s dad can be famend filmmaker Michel Gondry, we get these tales in all their creative, stop-motion glory.
MOOMINVALLEY
FINLAND, UNITED KINGDOM | US PREMIERE
Nigel Davies, 2024, 66 min.
Really helpful ages 5+
In English
Simply in time to rejoice their eightieth anniversary (they usually don’t look a day over…nonetheless previous they’re purported to be!), our Moominfriends return for extra adventures. Have fun with three all-new tales from the world of Moominvalley.
¡SALTA!
SPAIN | US PREMIERE
Olga Osorio, 2023, 85 min.
Really helpful ages 8+
In Spanish with English subtitles
Come for the killer ‘80s soundtrack and lovely Spanish seaside vistas. Keep for the wormholes and a concord that spans many years (Forties, Eighties, and 2020s, to be actual—simply not at all times in that order).
SAVAGES
SAUVAGES
SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM
Claude Barras, 2024, 87 min.
Really helpful ages 7+
In French with English subtitles
From the Oscar-nominated director of NYICFF 2017’s My Life as a Zucchini comes a gorgeously animated story of household, nature, and understanding our roots.
TOTTO CHAN: THE LITTLE GIRL AT THE WINDOW
窓ぎわのトットちゃん
SPOTLIGHT
JAPAN | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Shinnosuke Yakuwa, 2023, 114 min.
Really helpful ages 8+
In Japanese with English subtitles
Based mostly on the beloved memoir—now required studying in lots of Japanese elementary colleges—Totto-Chan is the highly effective story of an imaginative lady studying to be herself even because the world round her modifications.
WINNERS
SIEGER SEIN
GERMANY | NEW YORK PREMIERE
Soleen Yusef, 2024, 119 min.
Really helpful ages 10+
In German with English subtitles
After leaving Syria for Berlin, Mona is struggling to search out her footing. Faculty is chaotic. Her mean-girl classmates all hail from different international locations, and he or she barely is aware of any German. What she does know is soccer, however it’s going to take much more than expertise to convey the group collectively.
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
SHORTS FOR TOTS
Really helpful ages 3-6
Created for our youngest and first-ever moviegoers, however beloved by grown-ups, Shorts for Tots is certain to please all audiences.
SHORT FILMS ONE
Really helpful ages 5-10
Whether or not you’re a child chick who’s flown the coop, a budding Lego grasp, or simply out for a film, there’s heaps to get into in Quick Movies One.
SHORT FILMS TWO
Really helpful ages 8-14
Spending the week at a brand new home? Touring the land along with your ties and guitar? Ready for the bus? Let Quick Movies Two take you away.
SHORT FILMS THREE
Really helpful ages 12+
Shorts for our older crowd: teenagers and grown-ups solely.
CELEBRATING BLACK STORIES
Really helpful ages 9+
Shorts from world wide that embrace the enjoyment, resilience, and complexity of being younger and Black.
GIRLS’ POV
Really helpful ages 10+
Not only for ladies! These shorts function tales of ladies breaking the mildew.
HEEBIE JEEBIES
Really helpful ages 9+
Wild, spooky, freaky, and weird…put together to have your thoughts blown.
¡HOLA CINE!
Really helpful ages 9+
Latinx tales from world wide, and never simply in Spanish, celebrating the various Latinx cultures, histories, identities and languages.
