SEFF MINI

 
SEFF MINI is a festival offer for audiences aged two and up, integrating different age groups through an intergenerational time spent together – parents/guardians with children as well as grandchildren with their grandparents. Watching films together allows for the exchange of opinions, for the formation of one’s own views and character, or just for ordinary conversations on topics that are more or less important within a family or a group of friends. SEFF MINI integrates different generations, awakens the sensitivity of the youngest viewers, creates a festival space for families. It also stimulates participants with film workshops geared at younger and older children. A friendly atmosphere while meeting with cinema, talking about it, and doing activities within its scope. This year, SEFF MINI will present completely new films, which have been carefully selected from among professional productions aimed for the youngest (and those older ones who love good cinema). “Molly Monster” and short films presented as part of the blocks “I go to the cinema!” and “Different corners of the world” come from the Kids Film Festival (Festiwal Filmowy Kino Dzieci). “Meester Kikker” was nominated for best Dutch family film at the Cinekid festival in 2016. The film workshops – organised as part of the Film Playground – will be a great highlight for the youngest kids, but also those a little bigger.
The Kids Film Festival (Festiwal Filmowy Kino Dzieci) was created with the youngest viewers, aged 4-12, in mind. We believe that in a world filled with images, where reception skills are increasingly important, there is a need for the considered familiarising of the youngest viewers with valuable, attractive, age-appropriate films that develop their sensitivities.
 
The Kids Film Festival will be taking place for the fourth time between September 23rd and October 1st 2017 in over a dozen cities in Poland. Our festival will be screening about 90 films in two film theatres in Warsaw, while around 20 film theatres throughout Poland will be presenting the competition section. This year’s edition will touch upon topics of curiosity, discovery, experience, and experimentation, providing the viewers with the opportunity to play and learn – because the festival isn’t just cinema screenings, but also meetings with authors, the workshops, debates, and an international kids’ cinema forum for film professionals.
 
The Kids Film Festival is organised by the Educational Department of the New Horizons Association, who are responsible for organising Poland’s largest program for film education in schools – New Horizons of Film Education (Nowe Horyzonty Edukacji Filmowej), – among other initiatives.
 

 


Past events


Filmy poprzednich edycji

  • "La Soupe au caillou" D: Clementine Robach, BE 20157'
    For tonight’s supper we will be having the perfect delicacy – stone soup. What we need: a pot, stones, and a whole lot of water. How can that fill a belly? Well, it can’t. Perhaps everyone should bring whatever they can find at the bottom of their pantries? It’s time for a grand feast together.
     

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  • "Meester Kikker" D: Anna van der Heide, NL 201690'
    The biology teacher in a certain small Dutch primary school is an affable character, but also an unusual one. Things aren’t always easy for him. A cheerful and fairytale-like story about friendship and accepting differences.
     
     
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  • "Min Min" D: Kaspar Astrup Schröder, DK 201226'

    How wonderful it is to be an only child – you have all the toys for yourself. And your own room. And the parents are yours alone. But Storm will soon have a sibling. Does that mean he’ll have to share all of that? Unacceptable! It might take some time until he gets used to being a big brother...

     

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  • "Molly Monster" D: Matthias Bruhn, Michael Ekbladh, Ted Sieger, DE 201670'

    Little Molly lives with her parents in colourful Monsterland. She spends time playing with her friend Edison. But as it usually happens in life, here come some changes: Molly is not going to be the youngest in her family any longer – she is going to be an older sister! And not just any older sister; she is going to be the best sister in the entire world. 

     
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  • "Neige et les arbres magiques" D: Antoine Lanciaux, Sophie Roze, FR 201526'

    Snow has covered the whole town. Nobody knows where the Inuit family suddenly came from. While everybody’s shovelling snow, they’ve already built an igloo and are now quietly fishing through a hole in the ice. And even though no-one speaks a word of their language, and none of them knows any French, they will help one another, just like Simeon and Kuduluk – two new best friends.

     

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  • "Nový druh" D: Kateřina Karhánková, CZ 20156'
    What a strange bone! It has lots of spikes and looks sort of like a comb. Maybe it used to be the remains of a multi-beaked bird? Three discoverers hypothesise about the appearance of the prehistoric creature whose bones they have found. Will they be able to establish the bone’s owner with the help of a scientist?
     

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  • "Shame and Glasses" D: Alessandro Riconda, IT 20138'

    A class test. Mirko can’t solve any of the problems because he’s far-sighted. He needs to put on his glasses, but what will the girl at the adjacent desk, the one he likes so much, think of him then? In the simplest of ways, this short feature with no dialogue tells the story of fear of rejection and the need for acceptance.

     

     
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  • "Some Thing" D: Elena Walf, DE 20156'
    Everyone carries something within. For instance, some huge mountains, apart from just being huge, are also filled with boiling lava, gold, or other wondrous things. They are stunning, enormous, and menacing. And impolite – they keep teasing the hill sitting just beside them. Will the inconspicuous little knoll flourish?
     

     
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  • „Astons Presenter“ D: Uzi Geffenblad, Lotta Geffenblad, SE 20129'

    Aston is a master at giving presents. He loves handing gifts to everyone. At long last, he receives gifts himself. Birthday gifts, at that! One of them will prove useful in all manner of circumstances.

     
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  • „The Present” D: Jacob Frey, DE 20155'

    Jake sits in front of his console day after day and plays, plays, plays. Nothing can get him to step outside. The only thing that will make the boy go out of the house is a present from Jake’s mom – a stubborn, barking present that loves to chase a ball around.

     

     
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