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Babookums: Seven Fantastic Stories
Lithuania| 1:19:00 Feature | Animation
Director: Tadas Vidmantas
There are small, interesting creatures and robots living in our world - babookums. Each of them, like a human being, is unique and interesting. What is more, each of them has a superpower that no one else in the world has. Everyday babookums experience the most unexpected adventures, solve problems, explore the outside world, deal with their emotions whether they’re sad or happy, and learn something new. Most importantly - friendship always wins here.. |
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How To Get Your Parents To Divorce
Canada | 1:23:19 Feature | Comedy
Director: Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
The movie tells the story of Justine (12) who believes that she will be happier once her parents divorce. The only problem is that they have no intention of doing so. Tired of the bickering and the heaviness at home since her mother's miscarriage, Justine rallies her friends to create their own court. Her plan will not go as planned and she will have to learn to communicate her pain so that harmony can return. The family film follows the extraordinary adventure of a group of pre-teens as they take their first steps towards affirmation. |
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Inventors
United States| 1:20:00 Feature | Animation
Director: Chip Lane
This year’s Invent-A-Con could be the last. Teams have three days to create an invention to save their contest. Team members work together but with conflicts but finally reconcile and achieve. We pull out to see a large lab with pleased handicapped kids equipped with devices that have been controlling our avatars. |
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Saleem
Jordan | 1:30:26 Feature | Animation
Director: Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha
After being forced to leave everything behind, Saleem, a young boy carrying the burden of his past, stumbles upon a treasure map and embarks on a life-changing adventure! |
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Listen Up
United States| 1:30:00 Feature | Drama
Director:Bess O'Brien
Listen Up is a film based on the lives of VT Teens, based on 8 months of research with more than 800 VT youth- script and songs co-written with teens. The film profiles the live show that toured VT in 2021 and showcases the many issues that young people are grappling with today and the resiliency they bring to the challenges that face them. |
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Road to Legacy - Abao: The Voice of a Nation
Taiwan | 42:05 Feature | Documentary
Director: ?
An accomplished musician, indigenous Taiwanese singer Abao is meticulous while crafting melodies. She pays attention to every detail and brings out the best in all of her collaborators, who praise her creative insights and amazing talents. But beyond techniques, it is perhaps her lyrical depth that best characterizes her work. Her award-winning music is an ode to the traditions of her people and delivers a strong message of hope: Music can unite cultures and promote understanding. |
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The Prairie Dog That Met the President
United States | 48:48 Feature | Musical
Director: Shandra McDonald
This interactive and engaging opera for young audiences is a fantasy based on some true events of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. A shy prairie dog and a gregarious magpie journey with members of the expedition from the Great Plains back to Washington D.C. via Louisiana and the Florida Keys. Along the way, both learn to appreciate the diversity of life they encounter and the value of friendship. The prairie dog finds his voice and ends up teaching the president a valuable lesson when he finally arrives at the end of his journey. |
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The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music
United States | 1:18:43 Feature | Documentary
Director:Julya Jara
Aunt Cynthia, a music history buff, teaches her niece Lauren about music genres born and formed by African American history and culture. Aunt Cynthia inspires Lauren’s curiosity about history by making it relevant to music. She uses the layers of a quilt to explain how African American music of the past connects to contemporary music. Lauren feels empowered by making the music cultural connection throughout generations.
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The Tale of the Frog and the Golden Orb
Germany | 1:30:00 Feature | Drama
Director: Chau Ngo the
Two brothers make a living by swindling valuable goods from royal houses through false courtship. They also try to obtain the dowry of the marriage candidate Princess Griseldis at Fels Castle. When the older brother Gai falls in love with her younger sister Matilda and thus gives up hope for a success of the actual plan, the younger brother Teo steals the golden ball of the king. The ensuing escape fails, and the brothers are banished to the eerie Shadow Forest. There, the exiles encounter the young fairy Fingerhut. She wants to help Gai but turns him to a frog who can speak.. |
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THE ZOO (Chidiakhana)
India | 1:55:00 Feature | Drama
Director:MANISH Tiwary
A young Bihari boy, Sooraj with a talent for soccer, arrives with his poor mother to live in Mumbai slums. He faces extreme odds from gang members of his new school. Hounded and cornered, Sooraj fights for his spot under the sun, his place in the Chidiakhana or the Zoo as his adversaries appear with animal heads to confront Sooraj. Things start to change when protection comes from unexpected quarters; a local Marathi gangster comes to their rescue and gives wings to his modest dreams. |
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Lost Love
China/Feeature/Drama
Director:Xianfeng Xu
Single dad live with his 5 years old son, when he found out his in the last stage of cancer, with the help of his good friend, they search the most suitable family for his son. |
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