Preschool Poets: Poem About All Different Things
Samuel serves up some poetic proclamations about life, as definitively drawn from the three-foot perspective.
Age Range: 5
Workout
A successful gym session is all about maintaining a good rhythm.
Monsters Don’t Exist
A pair of frenemies hit the books during after school detention, but things gets wilder than they ever expected.
Peas
“P” is for persistence, and powering through, and peas in this well-balanced meal time tale.
Brooklyn Breeze
NYC’s biggest borough gets the Busby Berkeley treatment in this charmingly upbeat ode to industrial Brooklyn that will have you tapping your steel-capped toes!
Humus
In a magical laboratory in the woods, a gardener tries to school his young and wayward apprentice about the power of nature.
Mi Abuelita
Like everything Abuelita does, her tamales are filled with love, especially when her granddaughter gets to help out in the kitchen.
The Basket
A devoted daughter works hard to earn enough to repair her father’s watch in this busy city short on quick fixes.
Fox & Hare: Birthday
Fox dreams of giving Hare the most exquisite birthday ever, but will a few pesky neighbors spoil his plans?
Raccoon and the Light
Nighttime is a breeze for a nocturnal creature, but a spotlight shines in more ways than one in this Student Academy Award-Winner.
1 Meter/Hour
French snails get all due respect, especially this troupe and their sublime, slow grooves as overseen by renowned choreographer Philippe Decouflé.
Small Spark
You’ve heard of night owls and bookworms? Well both perfectly describe this mouse, who must find a way to continue his exciting bedtime reading when it’s lights out.
Belly Flop
One girl is determined to make a very big splash, but will she have the buoyant courage to pull it off?
Slurp
Grandma’s table manners drive one boy bananas until he devises a clever fix.
Shorts For Tots
Premiere status is at the top of the list for tots with Zog, a brand new film about a fabulous, freethinking Dragon from Magic Light Pictures (creators of NYICFF 2018’s The Highway Rat and 2017’s Revolting Rhymes). Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script. Finally, in Pig on the Hill, Pig may be up high, but his freewheeling new neighbor, Duck, shows how the most important spot of all is one next to friends.
Short Films One
Bigger, brighter, bolder—change is in the air in Short Films 1, brimming with stories full of growth and transformation. If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming Kuap. Catching up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils in the winning doc Pen Licence. Seasons turn and spring is sprung when a boy flies the coop with the eye-popping imagery in Man with the Birds.
Opening Spotlight: Pachamama
Tepulpai’s your average kid—headstrong and a bit naughty. It may seem unusual that he has a pet armadillo and wants to be a shaman, but not if you live in the ancient Peruvian Andes like he and his wise friend Naïra do. The two embark on a young heroes’ quest to locate their community’s stolen treasure, and must confront the Inca and newly arrived Spanish to retain their indigenous ways. With a vibrantly-hued palette and Pre-Colombian soundtrack of ancient flutes and condor wings, Pachamama exuberantly celebrates nature, culture, and community.
The screening on February 24th will be followed by a Q&A with the director Juan Antin
Minuscule: Mandibles From Far Away
“Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home…” the rhyme goes, but try heeding that when you’re a quarter of an inch long and home is 4,000 miles away! When accidentally boxed into a chestnut shipment, the ladybug of Minuscule is inadvertently shipped to a Caribbean isle. Its parents embark on an odyssey to find it while, on the island, beachfront developers are threatening native habitats. A wild ride ensues—it’s a bug-eyed ecological view made more eye-popping as a live-action animation hybrid shot in lush Guadeloupe.
Screenings on Sunday, March 3rd and Sunday, March 10th will be in 3D
Moominvalley
They may hail from faraway Finland, but artist/novelist Tove Jansson’s cuddly, quasi-philosophical, not-quite-hippo creatures have a huge international following and were last seen at NYICFF 2014. This exciting new series uses brand new innovative techniques in 3D CGI, bringing the Moomintroll family to vivid life as they adventure through the mystical islets and fjords of their glacial world. Rosamund Pike leads a top-notch voice cast as Moominmamma, wisely grounding the family’s insatiable curiosity as they seek the shadowy Groke and luminescent Hattifatteners.
Minuscule: Mandibles From Far Away
“Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home…” the rhyme goes, but try heeding that when you’re a quarter of an inch long and home is 4,000 miles away! When accidentally boxed into a chestnut shipment, the ladybug of Minuscule is inadvertently shipped to a Caribbean isle. Its parents embark on an odyssey to find it while, on the island, beachfront developers are threatening native habitats. A wild ride ensues—it’s a bug-eyed ecological view made more eye-popping as a live-action animation hybrid shot in lush Guadeloupe.
Moominvalley
They may hail from faraway Finland, but artist/novelist Tove Jansson’s cuddly, quasi-philosophical, not-quite-hippo creatures have a huge international following and were last seen at NYICFF 2014. This exciting new series uses brand new innovative techniques in 3D CGI, bringing the Moomintroll family to vivid life as they adventure through the mystical islets and fjords of their glacial world. Rosamund Pike leads a top-notch voice cast as Moominmamma, wisely grounding the family’s insatiable curiosity as they seek the shadowy Groke and luminescent Hattifatteners.
The Man with Birds
Seasons turn and spring is sprung when a boy flies the coop but lands the flock.
Flipped
Little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.
KUAP
If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming KUAP.
ZOG
Meet the fabulous, freethinking Zog in this brand new film from Magic Light Pictures (creators of NYICFF 2018’s The Highway Rat and 2016’s Revolting Rhymes
The Pig on the Hill
Pig may be up high, but his nimble new neighbor, Duck, shows how the most important spot of all is one next to friends.
The Pen Licence
Brushing up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils.
Pachamama
Tepulpai’s your average kid—headstrong and a bit naughty. It may seem unusual that he has a pet armadillo and wants to be a shaman, but not if you live in the ancient Peruvian Andes like he and his wise friend Naïra do. The two embark on a young heroes’ quest to locate their community’s stolen treasure, and must confront the Inca and newly arrived Spanish to retain their indigenous ways. With a vibrantly-hued palette and Pre-Colombian soundtrack of ancient flutes and condor wings, Pachamama exuberantly celebrates nature, culture, and community.
Smallfoot
Get Yeti! An animated adventure for all, Smallfoot turns a myth upside down when a bright young yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all new story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.
Smallfoot is sure to delight, with original music and an all-star cast featuring Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, and Yara Shahidi. Join us for this very special first look at the film before it opens in theaters on September 28th.
Smallfoot
Get Yeti! An animated adventure for all, Smallfoot turns a myth upside down when a bright young yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all new story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.
Smallfoot is sure to delight, with original music and an all-star cast featuring Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, and Yara Shahidi. Join us for this very special first look at the film before it opens in theaters on September 28th.