KINOdiseea: Film festival for young audiences holds new edition in Bucharest, Botosani

KINOdiseea, the international film festival for children and teenagers, will hold an edition highlighting the best films of its 2022 run, between June 23rd and June 25th.

The screenings take place at Prajitoria Buimac in Bucharest and Unirea Cinema in Botoșani.

The program of KINOdiseea Altfel includes productions tackling educational and social topics not carried by regular distribution networks. These are films that have won numerous awards at festivals such as the Berlinale, European Film Awards, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, Brussels Animation Film Festival, Lithuanian Film Awards and Children KinoFest.

Among the films to be screened are Linda Hamback’s Ape Star, an animation film telling the story of a gorilla that adopts an eight-year-old girl who has lived in an orphanage all her life; Juha Wuolijoki’s Vinski and the Invisibility Powder, where ten-year-old Vinski becomes invisible with the help of a bottle of powder given to him by a mysterious pharmacist; and Radivoje Andric’s How I Learned To Fly, exploring young Sofia’s transformation during a holiday spent with her overbearing grandmother.

More details on the program are available here.

Illustration courtesy of the organizers.