Feature Films at 2021 San Diego International Kids Film Festival

2021 San Diego International Kids Film Festival--Feature Films

	Action Dongja Korea \| 100 min Feature \| Drama Director:용민네 Synopsis: A young Jin-gu (9 years old, male) becomes a apprentice monk of a temple named Boseoksa. Jin-gu, who is silent and timid, is bullied by other boy monks, but the monk piggy, who is his age, takes care of Jin-gu. One day, while all of the temple's members left to participate in a Buddhists lighting ceremony at a nearby temple, a thief enters the temple and steals Buddha statues and paintings and runs away. The head monk, who was stabbed in the accident, was hospitalized and Jingu and the three boy monks, who remained in the temple, get yelled at by other monks..			Black Mill Poland \| 101min Feature \| Drama Director: Mariusz Palej Synopsis: BLACK MILL is modern scary story for kids, referring to classic fairy tales of Brother Grimm or Jan Christian Andersen and modern series like Stranger Things on other hand. Group of teenagers have to face and fight the mysterious forces. Also learn what can help them most in their uneasy life: friendship, empathy and love
	Children of Disease United States \|107min Feature \| Documentary Director: Madison VanDerLinde Synopsis: Feature length documentary telling the stories of healthy children who grow up with chronically ill parents.			Coppelia United States \| 80min Feature \| Drama Director: Steven de Beul, Ben Tesseur, Jeff Tudor Synopsis: When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic plastic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must act to save her sweetheart Franz, before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia - the ‘perfect’ robot-woman the Doctor has created.
	Full Speed Israel \| 110min Feature \| Drama Director: Kobi Mahat Synopsis: A group of top-notch teenage riders compete against one another for the chance to make it to the world's leading motorized academy in Daytona, Florida. Only this year, the competition includes both female and male riders. Will the female riders be given the chance to shatter the glass ceiling they've been competing against all their lives? Or will old world prejudices get in their way yet again?			Goodbye Groundhog China \| 83min Feature \| Youth Director: Chengcheng Yang Synopsis: In a small mountain village called Mosca, the little boy Qunpei was attracted by the iPad in the hands of a businessman and couldn't resist the temptation. He made a deal with the businessman and promised to exchange the iPad with a groundhog. Later, the little boy regretted it and embarked on the road of rescuing the groundhog with the help of his best friend Baima.s.
	Hanna's Shabbath Dress Israel \|75Feature \| Family Director: Ranny Magier Synopsis: A group of top-notch teenage riders compete against one another for the chance to make it to the world's leading motorized academy in Daytona, Florida. Only this year, the competition includes both female and male riders. Will the female riders be given the chance to shatter the glass ceiling they've been competing against all their lives? Or will old world prejudices get in their way yet again?			My Father Supehero India \| 106 min Feature \| Drama Director: Darshan Ashwin Trivedi Synopsis: The film revolves around slum dweller Kanku, whose parents are street vendors. Kanku would stay with her uncle, while her parents would go to work. The uncle works in a villa as a create taker. Kanku is friends with the owner's daughter, 12 years old Kiara. Kiara is a cartoon fan and she loves watching Superhero cartoons on TV channels. On one such day, when Kanku comes to play with Kiara; Kiara tells her how much she loves Superheroes and that her father is a superhero. This thought strthe mind of Kanku.ikes
	My P.E. Teacher China \| 105 min Feature \| Youth Director: Yong Zhou Synopsis: This film told a touching story about Mr.Liu Haochen, the new physical education teacher at Nanwu Middle School, who insisted on defending the right of his students to have PE class.			Pirate’s Soul Russian Federation \| 83 min Feature \| Drama Director: Aisyuak Yumagulov Synopsis: A schoolboy Pasha Kostin is getting injured and slips into a coma. His friends conclude that his soul has moved into the watch dog called Pirate. His friends are looking for all sorts of ways to get the soul out of the dog and give it back to Pasha. In the end, the safe and proven method works - the princess kisses Pasha, the "sleeping beauty"
	Pops is Tops United States \| 57 min Feature \| Musical Director: Jake Blasini Synopsis: A musical journey thJake Blasini rough the home of Louis Armstrong.			Sihja, the Rebel Fairy Finland \| 80 min Feature \| Drama Director: Marja Pyykkö Synopsis: Sihja is a young, charming and a little outrageous fairy, who leaves her forest home. In the city, she meets a sensitive new friend Alfred (11). Sihja loves the newly found organized urban shapes and orderly habits that humans have. They bond quickly and have a lot of fun, until one day dead birds appear on the city streets.
	Small Town Heroes Malaysia \| 113 min Feature \| Drama Director: Ryon Lee Eng Keong Synopsis: Hero is from a single-parent family in the city. He is sent to this orphanage to stay and his mother promise to bring him home before Chinese New Year. Hero feels isolated when mingling with the kids and he firmly believes he is different from the others. Feng is impressed by Hero thought as he also believes that his stay in the orphanage due to his father hectic working lifestyle.			SpiderMable - a real life superhero story Canada \| 106 min Feature \| Adventure Director: Kelly Wolfert Synopsis: In the typical comic book superhero story arc, tragedy strikes, a superpower is revealed, and the hero must come to terms with their new abilities all while not losing track of who they are. But how often is that lived out in real-life ... especially by a child? Mable Tooke was diagnosed with cancer at age 4. As she endured chemotherapy, unique traits in her character started to develop ... characteristics that most people don’t recognize until they are adults.
	Snow Blaze China \| 92min Feature \| Drama Director: Mingming Chen Synopsis: A delivery girl Xueli from the remote countryside, to find their own father, resolutely decided to participate in the Winter Olympics, created a miracle with a super difficult acti			Youth News@PTS: Our Song Taiwan \| 42 min Feature \| Documentary Director: Chiang chih Chen, Hsieh chia ling, Ning Chang Born in 2000, they are already 20 years old. We wanted to find out what youngsters in the 21st century think about society and the future. For youngsters aged 18 to 20, our society recognizes them as adults and should be able to be responsible for their own lives. But with the majority of them still in school, they find life and the future a daunting challenge. However, the mixed feelings of growing up aren’t the main focus on mainstream media nor social media. Therefore, we invited people from this age group to submit videos to express their concerns. We also relayed their thoughts to a famous indie band in Taiwan, Your Woman Sleep with Others, and asked them to compose a song that represents this age group.