Montreal Film Festival for Children held primarily at Cinema Beaubien

Montreal Film Festival For Children

Montreal Film Festival For Children – A fifteenth edition with 23 countries!

Like every year, spring break brings us the International Film Festival for Children in Montreal.

This is a highly anticipated event, both children, toddlers to teens than their parents. Let’s see all the reasons behind the success of this festival.

We like round numbers and Montreal Film Festival For Children also: this is why the festival could not resist making its 15th edition a special adventure.

Montreal city will be proud again to host this great Festival.

Panorama films for children

Children’s film is not a genre in itself, but it consists of tragedies, comedies, science fiction, animation and documentaries …

That is why the Montreal Film Festival For Children not only to “present a panorama of different countries, but a panorama of all the different stories we can tell. That’s what’s important. “

Programming the Montreal Film Festival For Children reflects the concerns of its director: films from over 23 countries. A total of 38 medium and feature films, 30 short films.

It’s actually a showcase of world film production that offers children and adolescents. Powered by an inquiring mind, the direction of Montreal Film Festival selects films that surprise, that surprise and that move.

“For us, programming includes recent films with various themes and very sharp, as the relationship with parents, the transition from childhood to adolescence.

There are world, international and North American, some of these films represent their country at the Oscars, “says Blouin.

The official competition about short film festival

There are four films in official competition. First, for children as young as 6 years, Nicostratos the pelican, not by Emir Kusturica, but with him and directed by Olivier Horlait, co-produced by France and Greece, which tells the story of Yannis, a 14 year old boy who lives on a small Greek island remained wild.

That’s when saved from probable death a young pelican named Yannis Nicostratos that became a star in his island thanks to the popularity of this great white pelican, the largest bird of Europe … Lovely!

Ireland, we can see the runway, directed by Ian Power (from 6 years). This time, we meet the little Paco who likes to do four hundred blows with his best friend.

But Paco does not know his father, who lives in Spain according to the legends and stories that he tells his mother. When a Colombian pilot crashed in the small village of Ireland, Paco finally found the model he wanted and is a duty to help him.

Also for children 6 years or more, Among the Wolves, by Spanish director Gerardo Olivares. In the Spain of 1954, Marco, a goatherd whose flock family was decimated by wolves, is forced to work for a man who will prove tender churl.

At his side, he will learn to live in communion with nature, surrounded by deer and wild boar, and especially among the wolves.

Finally, the film that completes the official competition comes from China: A Bridge to School is intended for audiences aged 8 years or more. Directors Jiahuang Peng and Peng Chen depict Wawa, a seven year old boy who has only one dream: to go to school like her big sister.

But the journey to get there is dangerous: the school is on the other side of a tumultuous river and there is a cable suspended from the cross. A terrible accident will confirm the danger of this crossing.

The film is based on a true story.

The minicinéphiles

They have two and they go to movies!

These are the minicinéphiles, and a section of programming devoted to them. But what does a room full of babies moviegoers? “The first glance is quite impressive: it seems that the room is empty, we do not see them!

But, gradually, means a kind of babbling, and when the screen lights up, this is extraordinary because it is often their first contact with the big screen. “All these films are built to stimulate the interaction, they are evidently not con-many dialogues and are colorful.

In this class for toddlers in fact, this is a series of short films that includes the same characters of the insect world, who happens tons of adventures.

Go west!

In Montreal Film Festival For Children every year we like to focus on certain films. It becomes interesting to collect them and give them a box a little more specific. And, always in the spirit of the musical, Bardin also offers us the nanny Chouchou to the tunes of Glen Miller.

The two short films will be presented in Chouchou minicinéphiles category. But that is outdoors that will screen the ugly duckling.

Yep, outdoors! This is the great happenings of FIFEM: “Go west!”. Every night at 17:30, in the Molson Park, just across the Cinema Beaubien, it invites moviegoers to a large open-air screening.

It is important not to forget his hat, mittens, his folding chair and hot chocolate …

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