Sleepover
Silvia throws a sleepover party, but things can be complicated when your house doesn’t quite match what they think of as a home.
Age Range: 12
Scrambled
Whenever Esra misses her train, her go-to for killing time is playing a game on her smartphone. But soon, a classic Cube challenges her attention.
Safia’s Summer
Displaced from her home in Libya, Safia must take on the tricky balancing act of growing up without knowing where she and her family will settle.
Game
A.J. Green, a new kid in town, shows up at boys’ basketball tryouts and instantly makes an impression. Can it be sustained?
Flip the Record
It’s 1984, the dawn of the DJ era, and Vanessa’s had it with piano lessons and the constraints of her conservative Filipino-American family. Slowly, on the sly, she sets about learning how to scratch on her older brother’s turntables and spins herself a new persona.
Note: contains strong language
Black Barbie
Confronting limited mainstream media depictions, this artful animation poetically explores the filmmaker’s challenges with self-acceptance growing up.
TIS
Are you a cut-out, or will you define the contours of your character and shape your own path?
Scent of Geranium
When you are new to a country, even the simplest things can trip you up, until you learn that blossoming on your own time is just fine.
Poles Apart
Nanuk, a tough-talking polar bear, meets Aklak, an enthusiastic grizzly, when he encroaches on her own dwindling turf, and she’s understandably a little less than patient with his clueless cheer.
Old Bear
A girl and a bear share an apartment, and, like most roommates, they try to balance their own quirky habits to make harmony. But they may need to reexamine what’s polite and what’s way too wild in order to become true friends.
Negative Space
The art of packing bags—and memories—is beautifully examined in this 2018 Oscar® nominee for Best Animated Short Film.
The Geneva Convention
When tensions run high at the school bus stop, a budding diplomat steps up to broker peace.
Fired Up!
Never underestimate the power of one voice to change things, as wittily illustrated by 14 artists from around the world in this animated speech by Barack Obama.
The Fancies
The Fancies are brainless, peaceful prehistoric fungi with hollow bodies and an ability to “eat” through their feet. They enjoy singing, dancing, and living happily in an isolated place called Fancytown.
Fly Lady Fly
Dani has almost cracked the code to set her drone on a very important mission. Will her dad Juan put up a roadblock or let her ideas soar?
Zara and the Others: Gorilla Brains for Dinner
Zara’s a little self-conscious about sharing her unusual family with her friends. But dinnertime is here, and why not make the playdate last just a little longer?
The Theory of Sunset
Deep at night, a dedicated cyclist traverses the wintry forest. The challenge: make sure this new day gets off to a fresh and timely start.
Samedi Cinema
Two young film lovers, Baba and Sembene, pool skills and resources to raise enough cash to see a movie at their local cinema before it closes its doors forever.
Iron Hands
As a 12-year-old preps for her final try-out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team, she gets some valuable pointers from a surprising source.
If You Fall
Eight-year-old Lila takes on the daunting task of learning how to cycle, while she and her beloved Baba must also balance Mom’s work, his art, and everyone learning to grow and let go.
Home
One family learns you can’t always judge a book by its cover—or a sheep by its skin—in this wooly stop-motion tale.
Bird Karma
In this World Premiere that kicks off Dreamworks’ exciting new series of theatrical shorts, a leggy bird discovers that you get as good as you give.
Bango Vassil
Two children share an altogether different kind of New Year’s Eve, taking an icy journey where they must cross waters and cultures to make a fresh start.
Tiniest Man in the World: Chopsticks
Scaling the food pyramid one delicious meal at a time is easy—unless you’re bite-sized yourself!
Wolves in the Walls
Based on the children’s book by Neil Gaiman, this extraordinary VR fable allows you to join 8-year-old Lucy to test a multidimensional world to try and find the truth behind the Wolves in the Walls.
Son of Jaguar
In the most important match of his life, the once mighty masked luchador Son of Jaguar faces his legacy, his family, and what it means to be a part of something bigger than himself.
VR JR. — Experiences
Explore a new facet of creative production with a set of virtual reality projects that place kids at the helm of their own immersive story world. Your ticket gives you access to all of the cutting-edge VR JR. experiences we’re proudly presenting. You’ll put on a headset and we’ll show you new worlds. Projects include the East Coast premiere of the Neil Gaiman picture book adaptation Wolves in the Walls, directed by Pete Billington, and Golden Globe-nominated director Jorge Gutiérrez’s Son of Jaguar, a new Google Spotlight Story placing viewers into the story of a family of Mexican wrestlers.
Note: parental supervision is required.
VR JR. — Talk
Join us for an exciting behind-the-scenes VR talk and demos featuring director Pete Billington discussing his VR adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Wolves in the Walls, Framestore’s Senior Animator Jim Hundertmark on their Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, and Jorge Gutierrez via Skype on how he created the exciting and moving interactive world of Son of Jaguar as part of Google’s Spotlight Stories Lab. Learn all about what goes into this exciting new artistic media and be prepared to be amazed!
Short Films Two
Start your journey by testing out your wheels with the beautifully animated family short If You Fall. Keep pedaling to make the wonder wheel of the world spin in Theory of Sunset, and see how even the flightiest of actions can have unexpected consequences in the hilarious World premiere of Dreamworks’ brand-new short Bird Karma.
Friends & Neighbors: Mexico
Join us in warmly welcoming our friends and neighbors to the south, Mexico’s Morelia International Film Festival, who recently celebrated their 15th anniversary! We’re showcasing and saluting shorts that highlight Latin American culture and demonstrate that art has no borders.