Shorts Families abound in all forms in Short Films One, so you’ll have plenty of charmed chances to find your tribe! Read more.

Recommended ages: 5 to 10
75 minutes

Feature Babs’ grandfather, an American with a curiously rootin tootin’ cowboy accent, suddenly appears on the scene, he just may be the key to her perfect pet. Instead, he finds Oink, a lovable if constantly, er, digesting, pig, whom he gifts to Babs. Read more.

Recommended ages: 7+
73 minutes

Special Program Kitty is the most famous imaginary friend in history, created in the ink-filled pages of Anne Frank’s diary. When she suddenly materializes in the near future as a fully-fledged girl, she can neither find her friend nor understand why her home is now a tourist attraction. Aided by a resourceful pickpocket, a group of young refugees, and modern jeans and sneakers, Kitty sets out to solve the mystery. Read more.

Recommended ages: 9+
99 minutes

Shorts Families abound in all forms in Short Films One, so you’ll have plenty of charmed chances to find your tribe! Read more.

Recommended ages: 5 to 10
75 minutes

Feature This new series follows three wacky friends Sef, Wesley, and Marjory. One day, they discover an abandoned washing machine with mysterious powers: it lets you swap heads with someone else! Read more.

Recommended ages: 7+
60 minutes

Shorts This year Girls’ POV looks forward, and back, to celebrate stories of young scientists who are trailblazing creative ways to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. Read more.

Recommended ages: 10+
75 minutes

Special Program From the heights of his apartment, Yuri dreams of becoming an astronaut, while on the ground he utilizes his engineering know-how to keep his home base humming. But when plans to demolish his community's home are leaked, Yuri joins the resistance. Read more.

Recommended ages: 13+
102 minutes

Shorts No mismatch here, NYICFF favorite series Mitch-Match returns with a stop-motion volley for Short Films Two’s tales of growing up and making key plays to save the day. Read more.

Recommended ages: 8 to 14
75 minutes

Feature Gyun and his buddies are traversing the enormity of the vast Chinese countryside as their own ragtag troupe. With hard work, athleticism, and a reluctant dance-champ-turned-fishmonger Sifu to coach them, they begin to outwit their competitors by harnessing their perceived weaknesses. Read more.

Recommended ages: 9+
104 minutes

Feature Though Jonna’s home is filled with wonderful kids and a caring guardian, she can’t help but pin her hopes on one day being adopted. When that long-awaited day finally arrives, she learns that love comes in all shapes, sizes, and, er, creatures…like the enormous ape with the equally enormous heart who wants to take Jonna home. Read more.

Recommended ages: 6+
73 minutes

Feature Tove Jansson’s delightful universe is back, premiering exclusively at NYICFF with all the Moomincapers you could ever wish for in three new episodes. Read more.

Recommended ages: 6+
66 minutes

Feature Poupelle of Chimney Town is the story of young Lubicchi living among the thick smoke from the chimneys of his isolated town, yearning to see the “stars” — to know the truth — his father always told him about. Read more.

Recommended ages: Rated PG
100 minutes

Feature When Barefoot gets the chance to produce her own screenplay for a high school project, it’s both a dream come true and an enormous challenge—especially with all of the support and attention going to a competing student’s cheesy, soft-focus romcom. So Barefoot mobilizes a crew to shoot the film in one summer, guerilla-style. Read more.

Recommended ages: 10+
97 minutes

Feature Zero Gravity follows three middle school innovators and their first-time coach as they learn to navigate the complexities of NASA technology and life as a pre-teen. Read more.

Recommended ages: 8+
74 minutes

Feature The Norway Cup is the world’s biggest soccer tournament for kids, and tough teams overcome enormous challenges—on and off the pitch—to play in it. Read more.

Recommended ages: 10+
90 minutes

Feature Though the protagonists range from a family of rabbits, a boy doing his homework at his parents’ restaurant, or a child and his grandmother in the countryside, all tell a unique stories of love, challenges, and maturing to the beat of your own drum. Read more.

Recommended ages: 7+
83 minutes

Shorts This year Girls’ POV looks forward, and back, to celebrate stories of young scientists who are trailblazing creative ways to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. Read more.

Recommended ages: 10+
75 minutes

Special Program Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda! Read more.

Recommended ages: Rated PG
99 minutes

Feature Gyun and his buddies are traversing the enormity of the vast Chinese countryside as their own ragtag troupe. With hard work, athleticism, and a reluctant dance-champ-turned-fishmonger Sifu to coach them, they begin to outwit their competitors by harnessing their perceived weaknesses. Read more.

Recommended ages: 9+
104 minutes

Feature The colorful world of high school, with its cool kids, chaos, and excitement, is just a pale backdrop for Melién. For her, true thrills are in the mysteries she reads and horror stories she writes that transport her far beyond the tame walls of her bedroom. Read more.

Recommended ages: 9+
82 minutes

Shorts They’re baaaack, and creepier than ever: Heebie Jeebies shorts! Join in on some bloody good fun with I’m A Vampire, as Jackie starts to suspect that there’s more to her pallor than her lockdown regime, and hmn, what’s really in her morning “beet” juice special blend? Read more.

Recommended ages: 10+
75 minutes

Feature If you’re reading this, chances are you like movies. You’ll feel right at home with Pompo, the talented and gutsy producer whose love of cinema is unflinching and unapologetic. One day, Pompo turns her uncanny eye for talent to her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene, selecting him to make his directorial debut with her latest script. Read more.

Recommended ages: 9+
94 minutes

Shorts Families abound in all forms in Short Films One, so you’ll have plenty of charmed chances to find your tribe! Read more.

Recommended ages: 5 to 10
75 minutes

Feature Poupelle of Chimney Town is the story of young Lubicchi living among the thick smoke from the chimneys of his isolated town, yearning to see the “stars” — to know the truth — his father always told him about. Read more.

Recommended ages: Rated PG
100 minutes

Feature Charlotte is a testament to the power of art to endure, affront, and thrive, even in the face of impossible circumstances. This beautifully rendered animation is based on the true-to-life story of Charlotte Salomon, a young aspiring Jewish painter living in Germany during the Nazis rise to power. Note: film contains intense moments depicting the reality of World War II Europe, suicide, and sexual content Read more.

Recommended ages: 14+
92 minutes

Feature Tove Jansson’s delightful universe is back, premiering exclusively at NYICFF with all the Moomincapers you could ever wish for in three new episodes. Read more.

Recommended ages: 6+
66 minutes

Feature This new series follows three wacky friends Sef, Wesley, and Marjory. One day, they discover an abandoned washing machine with mysterious powers: it lets you swap heads with someone else! Read more.

Recommended ages: 7+
60 minutes

Shorts No mismatch here, NYICFF favorite series Mitch-Match returns with a stop-motion volley for Short Films Two’s tales of growing up and making key plays to save the day. Read more.

Recommended ages: 8 to 14
75 minutes

Feature Babs’ grandfather, an American with a curiously rootin tootin’ cowboy accent, suddenly appears on the scene, he just may be the key to her perfect pet. Instead, he finds Oink, a lovable if constantly, er, digesting, pig, whom he gifts to Babs. Read more.

Recommended ages: 7+
73 minutes

Special Program See it before it hits theaters! Narrated by two-time Academy Award® nominee Catherine Keener (Capote, Being John Malkovich), Disneynature’s Polar Bear tells the story of a new mother whose memories of her own youth prepare her to navigate motherhood in the increasingly challenging world that polar bears face today. Read more.

Recommended ages: Rated PG
95 minutes

Shorts Searching for connection and striving to make your mark are the core themes that will lead you through a fabulously eclectic collection in Short Films Three. Read more.

Recommended ages: 12+
75 minutes

Feature If you’re reading this, chances are you like movies. You’ll feel right at home with Pompo, the talented and gutsy producer whose love of cinema is unflinching and unapologetic. One day, Pompo turns her uncanny eye for talent to her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene, selecting him to make his directorial debut with her latest script. Read more.

Recommended ages: 9+
94 minutes

Feature Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood tells the story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives – the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and through the eyes of a kid growing up in Houston, Texas who has intergalactic dreams of his own. Taking inspiration from Academy Award-nominated® filmmaker Richard Linklater’s own life, this snapshot of American life in the 1960s is part coming-of-age, part societal commentary, and part out-of-this-world adventure. Read more.

Recommended ages: 13+
97 minutes