2018 San Diego International Kids Film Festival--Feature Films

ANKA Croatia|90min Feature|Fiction Director/Producer: Dejan Aćimović Synopsis: An orphan girl Anka, who bravely sets off in pursuit of a home and finds her place with the help of a magical world and its mysterious forest creatures.      ESCAPE PLAN China |86 min Feature| Drama Director: Fan Zhang Writer: Fan Zhang,Ting Zhang Producer: Tao Du Cast: Jiajia Ban, Tian Jin, Zijian Zhang Synopsis: Since a new member born in little bell’s family, little bell try to get more attention from his parents.    FILIAL PIETY SUPREME-LYING ON ICE FOR CARPS China|90min Feature|Drama Director: Jiandong Yang, Writer: DingDing Hu, Jiandong Yang Producer:Ning Wang Synopsis: Mother is ill in bed and she wants to eat fish soup. Theson took off his clothes and put his own body on the ice over the river and there have two river carps jump out of the river….   GO TO HEAVEN ALIVE China |100min Feature|Drama Director/Producer: Jinggang Li Writer: Jinggang Li, Yantong Liu Synopsis:  DaYangGe’s inheritor is Shunxin Zhao. Zhao hopes Yanggecan still live on, but get discouraged. HAPPINESS REFUGEE  Korea|53min Feature|Documentary Director: SangrokLee, HeebackPark, SebinYim, ByungjaeSong, MyungjooSung,NayeonShin, JaewonYun Producer:SangrokLee Cast: Shin Ayoung, Choi Jinki, Suh Cheonseok Synopsis:  Korea has the highest student suicide rate in the world. Ranked 71th in students’ life satisfaction in the OECD Better Life Index Yet it has the highest average study time in the world. How can we become happier?   HARVIE AND THE MAGIC MUSEUM Belgium/Czech Republic/Russia|85min Feature|Animation|Comedy| Adventure Director/Producer: Martin Kotik Synopsis:  Harvie is a smart but a bit too lively boy with one ambition, to finish the last level of his computer game. Once in the Gamers Hall of Fame, his fatherwould finally be proud of him. But finishing the game turns out to be only the start of a real adventure   KNIGHT KRIS Indonesia|106min Feature|Animation Director: Antonius Li, William Fajito Producer:KurniawanBiantoro  Synopsis:  A boy find a secret temple in the middle of forest. He found a Kris that gave him the powers of a superhero but at the same time releasing the evil AsuraMurka who had been trapped by it   LILLY THE LITTLE FISH Bulgaria|107min Feature| Fantasy Director/Writer/Producer: YassenGrigorov Cast: DobrinDosev, Elena Kabasakalova, KalinSurmenov, KoynaRuseva, Tatyana Lolova Synopsis:  A fairy tale about the metamorphoses of a child, reacting to each glance with a magic whirlwind, which changes its gender – from a boy it becomes a girl and vice versa   MiGuo's Autumn China|95min Feature|Drama Director/Writer: Tian Lan Producer:Ran Bi Synopsis:  At the end of a golden autumn, 8-year-old Miguo lost his beloved black goat Snow White, and Miguo was determined to get rid of all difficulties in finding snow     MY TEACHER HILDA: NORA FINDS NEW FRIENDS USA|65min Feature|Animation Director/Producer: Pawan Mishra Writer: Tamar Bobokhidze Cast: Elle Boone, Nuka Adamia, Sandro Dzigrashvili, Mariam Kavtaradze Synopsis: A little girl named Nora is fretting over entering a new school. With the help of a special hippo teacher, Nora's fears come to an end and she learns to enjoy school.   ONCE I WILL BE CHILD Italy|76min Feature|Comedy Director: Edoardo Palma Producers:Romeo Ricci, Emiliano Leone Synopsis: These are our stories: a championship game to be won, a small family mystery to solve, a special mission to fulfill, some advice to follow, a secret to confess. Six stories told with tenderness and sensitivity needed to involve everyone, young and old.     PARADISE 89 Germany/Latvia|89min Feature|Drama Director: MadaraDislere Producers:AliseGelze, AijaBerzina Synopsis: Playing “grownups” gets serious for the nine-year-old Paula when an innocent game turns into events that fling the girl into the reality of grownup life at a time when Latvia is wakening to embark on the road to independence.   SANDALWOOD PLANT India|126min Feature|Comedy|Drama|Fantasy | Action Director: Santhosh Shetty Kateel Producer: K Sathyendra PaiI & Krishna Amohan PaiI Synopsis: Sanjana’ the city girl from a wealthy family, during her mid-term holidays visits her Grandfather’s house at the Western Ghats in Karnataka.     STOP THE HORNED VIKINGS! Russia|68 min Feature|Comedy|Adventure Director/Producer: Ilya Belostotsky Writer: VladislavKrapivin Cast: Eugene Oleshuk, Darya Chistyakova, Ilya Plyasukhin, Nikita Lipunov Synopsis: A company of best friends confronted trapped in their backyard for the rest of the summer. However, their team spirit, bravery, friendship and support of the locals, help them to procure a serious "biological weapon"   SURPRISE ISLAND Colombia/Guatemala/Korea/USA| 79min Feature| Animation Director/Writer/Producer: Daniel Chuba Cast: Griffin Gluck, Joey King, Talitha Bateman, Synopsis: The four 'Boxcar Children'—Jessie, Henry, Violet and Benny—are given the irreplaceable experience of spending a summer of wonder and adventure on Surprise Island. Based on the second Boxcar Children.     TALENT PLAN China|90min Feature| Drama Director: Lidong Zhang, Xinjun Huang Writer: Lidong Zhang Producer:Yong Cai, Guocai Yi Synopsis: Wang accidentally came to the school of genius, thenthey experiencedthe special education, and defeat the bad guys. THE BEST WISH Peru|82min Feature|Comedy Director: Ricardo Morán Writer: Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco Producer:Ana María Roca Rey Cast: Maricarmen Marín, Armando Machuca, Marco Zunino, Ray del Castillo, Raúl Huamán Synopsis:  Daniela is a charismatic and fighter woman who has four children.An unexpected event will give the history a great twist that will lead them to discover the most important thing in Christmas is being together.   THE LAST WARRIOR(1) Russia|110min Feature|Comedy|Adventure|Fantasy Director: Dmitry Dyachenko Writers: Dmitry Yan, Igor Tudvasev, Pavel Danilov, VasilyKutsenko, VitalyShlyappo Producers:Eduard Iloyan, Marina Jigalova-Ozkan Synopsis:  Ivanis transferred from modern Moscow to fantasy land of Belogorie. This parallel world is inhabited by characters of Russia fairy-tales, magic is an inherent part of ordinary life and disputes are settled by an enchanted sword fight. THE WISHING TREE India|100min Feature|Drama Director: Manika Sharma Producer:RaajayshChetwal Cast:ShabanaAzmi, Saurabh Shukla, RajitKapur, Makarand Deshpande Synopsis:  THE wishing tree is a magical, inspirational and an entertaining story of five children in a hill-station who come together to save their ‘wishing tree’ from being cut by vested interests   WHERE THE DREAMS SLEEP  Brazil|72min Feature|Documentary|Drama Director/Writer/Producer: Cecilia Amado Synopsis:  The documentary “Where the Dreams Sleep” enters the intimacy of five Brazilian children, investigating and rebuilding their very special family and social relationships.