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Recommended for ages 3 to 7
Selected from 2016 New York International Children’s Film Festival programs for our younger audience members, Kid Flix 1 features Audience Award winners The Visitors and Octopus, Grown-Ups Award winner One, Two, Tree, and more of our highest-rated shorts, including Object at Rest, Looks, and Tiny Tunes: Food.
JBFC Kids Activities (from 11 am to 3 pm):
- Stop-Motion Animation: Come create original films starring the JBFC Kids creatures using stop-motion animation!
- Interactive Time-Lapse Floor Drawing: Grab your favorite colors and bring the JBFC Kids logo and creatures to life in this interactive time-lapse floor design
*This program will be preceded by a short film from JBFC Media Arts Lab students.
It’s the story of a tree, a tree like any other. One day, it jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk, inviting everyone to follow. |
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Baking a cake should be much easier with eight arms, but that’s only if all arms agree on what cake they’re going to make! |
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| Me…Jane
Director: Paul and Sandra Fierlinger Jane Goodall is renowned for her work with apes in the jungle, but as Patrick McDonnell’s heartwarming tale shows, her curiosity, spirit, and sense of adventure started long ago with a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. |
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Our new favorite band performs a pocket-sized poem about our favorite subject: food! |
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A grey lynx doesn’t quite fit into the colorful world around him, and resorts to dark behavior in order to blend in. |
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A devious spin on a classic tale of a hungry fox and plump goose. Complete with a chorus of concerned little chicks! |
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| Perfect Houseguest
Director: Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter A house is visited by a clean, organized, well-mannered guest. |
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| The Visitors
Director: Philip Watts A man’s home is his castle. But not for long… |
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| An Object At Rest
Director: Seth Boyden A stone will encounter lots of obstacles over the course of a millennium, but is there any greater disruption than that of human civilization? |
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| The Girl Who Spoke Cat
Director: Dotty Kultys A curious girl wants to add some color into her predictable, organized world where there’s a proper way of walking, looking — even eating soup! |
