Evento

Home Sweet Home (Ages 8+ Short Film Program)

Sunday, March 1 1:30pm

Ages 8+

Home is the center of every kids universe, and family is the gravity that keeps their feet on the ground. This eye-popping program begins and ends with two short documentaries from personal perspectives that show us how there is no place like home. This program also has a French flavor, with four films in French with English subtitles. Another film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

74 min.

** Content advisory: Two films (Home Sweet Home and The Kite) deal in a sensitive and creative way with how grandparents can grow old and die. Both films have affirming messages of how children always carry their grandparents love with them throughout their lives. **

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Short Films in this Program:

I love everything

(José Mestenapéo, Canada, live-action doc, 2017, 3 min, in French with English subtitles) West Coast premiere!

José, who is 8, takes us on a guided tour of Nutashkuan, showing us all that he loves.

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Slurp

(Florent Hill, France, live-action, 2019, 4:14 min, mostly nonverbal, brief French with English subtitles) Seattle premiere!

Grandmas table manners drive one boy bananas until he devises a clever fix.

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Good Heart

(Eugenia Zhirkova, Russia, animation, 2018, 5:11 min, nonverbal) West Coast premiere!

In a primeval forest lives a primitive family. All mom wants is for everyone to be full and healthy, and help her with her work! Normally a gloomy and strict mom, she changes on the day her son brings a puppy home.

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The Dust

(Dace Riduze, Latvia, animation, 2018, 13 min, mostly nonverbal, brief Latvian with English subtitles) West Coast premiere!

High on a shelf in a boys room, some little friends want to come out to brighten up a boring day.

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Balance

(Raymond Limantara Sutisna, Singapore, animation, 3:37 min, nonverbal)

Two painters battle it out, each trying to make art in their own style.

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Billie

(Mami Yoshikura, UK, animation, 2018, 4 min, nonverbal) Seattle premiere!

The Labradoodle Billies good life takes a bad turn one morning when her beloved owner doesnt wake up. She is taken to a place she doesnt recognize. She is lonely, but then her life takes a new turn, and she feels frisky and happy again.

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Housing

(Judith Herbeth, France, animation, 2019, 3 min, sung in French)

A mother tries to keep her daughter home and out of trouble, but finds her love is the thread that will always keep her safe.

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Saturdays Apartment

(Jeon Seungbae, Korea, animation, 2018, 7 min, nonverbal)

In an apartment house with five different family members, noise from above and below is a constant struggle. Can there ever be peace?

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The Kite

(Martin Smatana, Czech Republic, Poland & Slovakia, animation, 2019, 12:34 min, nonverbal)

A boy learns that his beloved grandpas love will last forever, always lifting him up when he feels low.

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Gallery Experience

(Jinghan Tian, China & USA, animation, 2019, 4 min, nonverbal) Seattle premiere!

A girl has a magical experience while visiting a gallery with dad for the first time.

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Home Sweet Home

(Chaitane Conversat, France, animation, 2018, 13 min, in French with English subtitles) West Coast premiere!

A grandmothers house slowly fills up with boxes full of memories. She and her friends, the bugs, spend each week inventing stories for her granddaughter. As the little girl grows older, the house starts running out of space, and the girl must enlist the bugs to help her.

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Londons Home

(Kristen McGregor & Jennifer Treuting, US, live-action doc, 2018, 6:35 min, in English)

When a fire destroys the apartment that nine-year-old London and her family have called home for years, everything is suddenly different. Everyones unharmed, but where will they stay? See how London and her family learn that home means more than having a house.

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This program is a part of Northwest Film Forum's 15th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle 2020: childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org

ABOUT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
Northwest Film Forum's mission is to incite public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events, multidisciplinary performances, and public discussions each year. A comprehensive visual media organization, the Forum offers educational workshops (including summer camps and year-round programs for young people) and artist services for film and media makers at all stages of their development. Artist services include access to space, gear, fiscal sponsorship, and an edit lab. Northwest Film Forum is a member-based organization. nwfilmforum.org

ABOUT CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE
The 15th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle is a cinematic extravaganza that celebrates the best and brightest in international films for children, including animation, feature length films, short films, and hands-on workshops. Since 2005, Childrens Film Festival Seattle has grown to become the largest and most respected film festival on the West Coast dedicated to children ages 3-16. Each year, Northwest Film Forum selects childrens films from dozens of countries, reaching more than 10,000 people during festival screenings and field trips in Seattle, and a subsequent festival tour of up to 25 U.S. venues.