NYICFF Kid Flicks One

Bigger, brighter, bolder—change is in the air in the compilation NYICFF Kid Flicks One, brimming with fun and clever stories of growth and transformation. If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming Kuap. Catching up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils in the winning doc Pen License. Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.

See below for the full list of films. The total program runs 60 mins. In English, or no dialogue.

Belly Flop

Dirs. Jeremy Collins, Kelly Dillon. South Africa, 2018, 5 mins. Animation. One girl is determined to make a big splash, but will she have the buoyant courage to pull it off?

Small Spark

Dirs. Animation, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin. France, 2019, 4 mins. Animation. You’ve heard of night owls and bookworms? Well both perfectly describe this mouse, who must find a way to continue his exciting bedtime reading when it’s lights out. 

Kuap

Dir. Nils Hedinger. Switzerland, 2018, 7 mins. Animation. If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming Kuap.

Pig on a Hill

Dirs. Jamy Wheless, John Helms. USA, 2017, 6 mins. Animation. Pig may be up high, but his nimble new neighbor, Duck, shows how the most important spot of all is one next to friends.

Pen License

Dir. Olivia Peniston-Bird. Australia, 2018, 9 mins. Documentary. Brushing up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils.

6:1

Dir. Sergei Ryabov. Russia, 2018, 3 mins. Animation.Checkers may seem like a game of child’s play, but can a losing cat nab a comeback?

Flipped

Dirs. Hend Esmat, Lamiaa Diab. United Kingdom, 2018, 5 mins. Animation. Little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.

Mi Abuelita

Dir. Giselle Pérez. Guatemala, 2018, 2 mins. Animation. Like everything Abuelita does, her tamales are filled with love, especially when her granddaughter gets to help out in the kitchen.

Preschool Poets

Dirs. Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun. USA, 2018, 2 mins. Animation. Samuel serves up some poetic proclamations about life, as definitively drawn from the three-foot perspective.

Brooklyn Breeze

Dir. Alex Budovsky. Colombia, 2017, 4 mins. Animation. New York City’s most populous borough gets the Busby Berkeley treatment in this charmingly upbeat ode to industrial Brooklyn that will have you tapping your steel-capped toes!

Raccoon & the Light

Dir. Hanna Kim. USA, 2018, 4 mins. Animation. Nighttime is a breeze for a nocturnal creature, but a spotlight shines in more ways than one in this Student Academy Award winner.

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