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A focus on role models at the Kristiansand Children’s Film Fest

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- Coming of age this year, the 18th edition of Norway’s largest children’s film festival will screen 85 films from 22 countries

A focus on role models at the Kristiansand Children’s Film Fest
The Boy with the Golden Pants by Ella Lemhagen

The Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival – Norway’s largest and leading cultural event for children – is coming of age: unspooling between 21 and 26 April, the 18th showcase has programmed 85 films from 22 countries, including fresh festival winners from Berlin and Malmö.

“We are looking forward to presenting everything from the latest Scandinavian children’s films to the best of Japanese animation. We have made a varied selection, ranging from movies for large audiences to titles you will not see in the Norwegian cinemas,” said festival director Danckert Monrad-Krohn

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Swedish director Ella Lemhagen’s The Boy with the Golden Pants, which won the Children’s Jury Prize at the recent Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, will open the festival, which will also screen Danish directors Kenneth Kainz’s The Shamer’s Daughter [+see also:
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and Ask Hasselbalch’s Antboy: Revenge of the Red Fury [+see also:
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Swedish director Sanna Lenken’s feature debut, My Skinny Sister [+see also:
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, which received the Audience Award at Göteborg and a Crystal Bear at Berlin, is also on the programme, together with Dutch director Barbara Bredero’s Mees Kees on Stage, UK director Morgan Matthews’ X+Y [+see also:
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and Irish director Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated Song of the Sea [+see also:
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This year’s focus, organised with the South Norwegian Film Centre, will deal with role models in documentaries, set against the backdrop of new films by August B Hanssen (Ida’s Diary), Åse Svenheim Drivenes (I Am Cuba) and Erlend Eirik Moe (Dancing for You). “We will discuss the different kinds of role models, and talk about their meaning and effect with the filmmakers,” according to Monrad-Krohn.

Films on the Horizon will introduce new feature-film projects for children and young audiences; to give children the opportunity to express themselves through cinema, the festival has also set up several workshops for kids with professional filmmakers. Lastly, the programme also includes a Polish-Norwegian screenwriters’ workshop.

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