The Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Young People, affiliated with the Fann Foundation for Promoting and supporting media art for children and young people in the country, continues its efforts in presenting cinematic creations to all family members, in light of the conditions imposed by the emergence of the new Corona virus, as it displays and via its platform “in our home cinema” A new batch of films, including nine international works, until the end of this month.
Sheikha Jawaher bint Abdullah Al Qasimi, director of the festival and director of the “Art” Foundation said: “After the popularity that we finally enjoyed in the film platform we launched, in line with the conditions of social separation and the precautionary measures used, we made sure to present a new batch of international films presented by the festival screens. During its previous sessions, to remain in close contact with all family members, and to show them distinctive cinematic works that meet their tastes and enrich their imagination and knowledge. ” She added: «The new films that the platform takes on exclusively through its website are among the works that their owners have created in their industry and received great approval and acceptance from the festival’s pioneers, so we decided to re-introduce them to them again, and make them feel like they are wandering in the corridors and corridors of the festival again, Each of his home and using their own devices, because we seek to keep the cinema an ideal space for everyone, especially children and adolescents, in light of these circumstances to move to worlds of beauty and surprise ».
Relations
The list of films includes a diversity of offering and content. The platform provides viewers with the silent Spanish film "Replica" by its director Rafa Cano Mendes, which narrates, within nine minutes, the relationship of Father "Kobe" and his son "Best", and lessons in life.
The American animated movie "Friends of Dust" by directors Beth Tomashik and Sam Wade, who speaks in four minutes, talks about a woman who is trying hard to clean the dust beneath her house, to start an amazing adventure between her and the fun and small creatures that formed from the dust.
And the platform of the festival presents to its followers the movie of Saudi director Jawaher Al-Amiri, "Saadia Sabet Sultan", which sheds light and over half an hour on the parental relationship between Doctor (Sultan) and the animated doll (Saadia), which he shares the details of life after the collapse of his marriage, which is followed by an arduous journey to meet his young daughter.
The platform also introduces the American animated movie "Looks Scary" by his director Zia Lan, who within four minutes tells the story of the crocodile and visits the dentist for treatment, as he discovers a strange thing during that visit.
The audience will be on a date with the German movie "Zumbrilla" by director Benjamin Gucha, who accompanies his guests, the spectators, through 15 minutes of interest in the details of the nightmare, which the boy "Miku" lives and his vision of creatures from (the zombies) chasing him, but Miku insists on challenging his nightmare until the end, and there He meets Zumbrela, the girl who helps him overcome his fears. Children and adolescents will enjoy the story of the girl "Rana", through the Iranian movie "Silence Rana", directed by Behzad Rafei.
A journey of discovery
The platform presents the Mexican animated movie "The Hole" by its director Maribel Suarez, which tells the story of the girl who stumbled upon a visit to her farm on a small hole that attracted her attention, and the journey of her discovery begins to happen to her in a rainy night.
The viewers will be on a date with the Saudi film "Coexistence", which tells about the good relationship that arises between two Muslim immigrant students in the United States, who live in one house, but it soon happens to them that the relationship is shaken. The public will have the opportunity to enjoy the Dutch movie "Green" by director Lucas Kams, who depicts the journey of a young man with an interview at the Art College.
Jawaher Bint Abdullah Al Qasimi:
• “Cinema is an ideal space for everyone, especially children and adolescents, in these circumstances, to travel to worlds of beauty and surprise.”
Interview at the College of Art
The Dutch movie "Green" embodies the journey of a young man who has an interview in the College of Arts, as he encounters during his trip a group of people, who stand in front of the red traffic light while waiting for it to turn green, and he tries hard to cut it while it is still red, but the crowds prevent him .. What will happen? What will the boy do? Will he succeed in passing and breaking the law ... or what?