Sharjah Film Festival for Children takes school students on a journey through the cultures of the world
The Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, organized by the Fun Foundation, which is concerned with promoting and supporting media art for children and young people, continued its tour between the country’s schools, where yesterday, Wednesday, the students took a journey through cultures from different countries of the world, through 12 short films, most notably “Tulip” and “Tulip”. The Big Little Man, "Just a Child" and "A Sweet Taste of Darkness", along with the feature film "Running Against the Wind".
His film screenings, presented on his electronic platform, succeeded in gathering followers and viewers from different countries of the world, as school students watched the shows in conjunction with their peers and a large audience of viewers from inside and outside the UAE.
On its closing day, Friday, Friday, the festival will screen 10 short films, a feature film and a documentary film. The main cinema will host six short films that deal with human reality from the point of view of children.
One of the most prominent short films is the movie "Pencil", which takes place in Singapore in the nineties, and tells the story of two school girls whose friendship is challenged as a result of a dispute over values.
While the film "Yarni" deals with the story of a group of young monks who share a strong friendship and reside in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet and who together face many life challenges;
The film “Mother’s Calf” narrates the experience of a young child learning the value of human relationships, along with the films “Kiko and the Animals”, “The Migrants” and “Fly”, while the feature film “Kings of Mulberry Street” deals with the story of “Babu” and his close friend “Tiki” and their confrontation To the bully in the neighborhood they moved to.
The festival will present the documentary film "Ander", one of the most prominent works of Alina Mustafina, a Kazakh journalist, writer and film director. dairy.
The festival will host, within the “Small Cinema” screenings, the Korean lyrical film “Poem for the Misfits”, which tells the experience of “Nuru”, who was admitted to a mental hospital due to a rare disease called Chromstiga, a unique case where a person sees sound as colors, and in it she meets children. They suffer from various other diseases.
The film "Dupout" tells the story of Joseph, an eight-year-old boy living on the island of Martinique, who holds to his conviction that "Lintakri", the old monster of Martinique is still wandering around the house waiting for the right moment to attack his family, along with two short films, "The Set" from Sudan and "Winter Timo" from Italy.
It is noteworthy that the eighth session of the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, organized by the Fun Foundation to support and promote media art for children and young people, presented 80 films from 38 Arab and foreign countries, including 6 films that were shown for the first time globally, 35 films were shown for the first time in the Middle East, and 4 films were presented for the first time in the Middle East. In the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, in addition to 4 films for the first time in the UAE, the festival will conclude its activities on Friday, October 15.
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