Festival Year: 2019

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NYICFF Dutch Animation Celebration

NYICFF crossed the Atlantic to join forces with Cinekid, The Netherland’s premiere film festival for children, to share a program of the very best of Dutch animation–featuring diverse stories, hilarious romps, inventive animation, and more! With trusty scissors in hand, Mr. Paper makes choice cuts to craft his ideal world. Blooming with artful animation and wistful storytelling, Emily was spotlighted as the Netherlands’ entry for Oscar consideration. Then three very different kids, all friends, find out what it truly means to walk a day in each other’s shoes,…and legs, and torsos in this hilarious International Emmy-award winner. Inventive design, storytelling and themes combine to make this Dutch Animation Celebration a whole lot of fun!
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NYICFF Viva Kid Flicks

Viva Kid Flicks celebrates Spanish-language and Latino-themed stories in shorts from around the globe. Can a fabled stone offer another path for Matilde’s life on her Mexican rancho? And the choices we make at mealtime sometimes have a very big impact, especially for a seemingly picky eater with a lot more on his mind in the drama from Spain, Fish. The universal language of wizards bridges cultures from the UK to Cuba in the imaginative doc Spelliasmous. You’ll experience moving stories and hear how around the world, Spanish stories have their own distinctive flair.
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NYICFF Kid Flicks Two

NYICFF Kid Flicks 2 bridges the gap between little and big for young audiences growing in experiences and ideas. Take a wild ride and harness the (cat) power of the cosmos with the quirky film Catmos. If your curious about more earthly matters, take a page out of a Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl. And whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo in Mogu & Perol just might convince you there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship. With these films and more, NYICFF Kid Flicks 2 shows you’re never too old to learn a few new tricks!
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NYICFF Kid Flicks One

Bigger, brighter, bolder—change is in the air in NYICFF Kid Flicks 1, brimming with fun and clever stories 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. Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script. These shorts and so much more await you!
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Weekends

Nominated for an Oscar and evocatively hand-illustrated, Jimenez’s film artfully relays the story of a young boy shuttling between dreams as well as his challenging new two-household reality.
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Mogu & Perol

Whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo here finds there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship.
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Stories Floating On The Wind

One young woman’s freewheeling ride down the Japanese coast winds along a breezy path through vivid encounters with senses, sensations, and pulsating colors.
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Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems

Exquisitely hand drawn and based on the NYICFF and Academy-Award winning short, abstract and surreal visuals suggest eco-dangers tempered by Pig and a cast of hopeful characters.
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Passing By

100 years of Amsterdam go by in street-style flash and dash in this memorably animated view of history.
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Best Laid Plans

Follow twists, turns, lifts, and drops as a Rube Goldberg contraption takes viewers on a glorious ride to a circuitous conclusion.
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Ride

Get into gear for hundreds of bikes getting ready to go in this frame by frame motorized fantasia.
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Back to the Moon

Journey through early cinema, film magic, and love with Back to the Moon, an animated, interactive short celebrating the artistry of French film director and magician Georges Méliès.
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Running Lights

A magical transfer of glowing energy and life is set into motion when one creature departs its earthly form.
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Preschool Poets: Supergirl

Poet Penny sums it up best when she says “I would like to kick! ‘Cause that’s what a supergirl does.“
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Power

The crazy machines that fuel the moving image get cleverly de- and re-constructed in this animated homage to Eadweard Muybridge.
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Workout

A successful gym session is all about maintaining a good rhythm.
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A KISS

Abdi dreams of asking Leyli, a head taller and a lot more mature, to the summer dance held by their refugee center, but complications soon ensue.
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Bless You!

You might consider existence one giant cosmic sneeze once you are exposed to this vibrantly infectious animation.
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Monsters Don’t Exist

A pair of frenemies hit the books during after school detention, but things gets wilder than they ever expected.
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6:1

Checkers may seem a game of child’s play, but can a losing cat nab a comeback?
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Lost & Found

One softie might have to toughen up and risk coming completely unravelled to maintain a tight-knit friendship in this Oscar-longlisted short.
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Peas

“P” is for persistence, and powering through, and peas in this well-balanced meal time tale.
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Piggy

Will Piggy give in? Delight in Google Spotlight Stories’ new level of interaction in this Looney Tunes-style homage to classical music spoofs and deliciously naughty fun!
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Jesszilla

A pugilist-in-training, Jess has big boxing aspirations, while her father worries and supports her in one-two alternations of his own.
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Horse’s Stone

Can a fabled stone offer another path for Matilde’s life on her Mexican rancho?
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The Man Who Looked Beyond the Horizon

Bas Jan Adler, a cross between contemporary artist and Buster Keaton, impishly blurred the boundaries of art and life. In his final grand work, he disappeared at sea. Or did he?
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