Ages 8+

• Leaf Fall

  World premiere!
  Denizens of the sky and forest greet the change of seasons with beautiful music.​

  (Rim Sharafutdinov, Russia, animation, 2016, 5 min, nonverbal)

• Waikiki

  Seattle premiere!
  In a bakery, late at night, the cakes come alive, and a friendship blooms that love is too sweet to limit.

  (Maris Brinkmanis, Latvia, animation, 2017, 10 min, nonverbal)

• Hedgehog’s Home

  Seattle premiere!
  A needle-felted stop-motion animation for audiences young and old, based on a famous children’s poem by Branko Ćopić, a writer from the former Yugoslavia.

  
  (Eva Cvijanović, Canada and Croatia, animated, 2017, 10 min, English)

• Lili

  US premiere!
  Lili refuses to let go of her childhood when a sandstorm threatens to take it away.

  
  (Hani Dombe and Tom Kouris, Israel, animation, 2016, 10 min, nonverbal)

• Nina

  West Coast premiere!
  A study in solitude and enchantment, this is the story of a child’s day at the beach.

  
  ​(Kim Vanvolsom, Belgium, animation, 2015, 8 min, nonverbal)

• Homegrown

  Seattle premiere!
  Francis raises his son like a hothouse flower, but when the boy wants to feel the sun on his face, the father learns an important lesson.

  
  (Quentin Haberham, UK, animation, 2017, 9 min, nonverbal)

• The House

  West Coast premiere!
  Everything begins when a family leaves their tiny house in the suburbs. The house, however, just can’t just let it go.

  (Veronika Zacharová, Czech Republic, animation, 2016, 5:30 min, nonverbal)

• Negative Space

  Seattle premiere!
  In this film adaptation of poem, a boy connects with his father by learning how to pack a suitcase.

  
  (Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, France, animation, 2017, 5:30 min, English)

• Volcano Island

  West Coast premiere!
  A young, naive female tiger is chased by an old, white male tiger on a magical island.

  ​(Anna Katalin Lovrity, Hungary, animation, 2017, 9 min, nonverbal)

Content advisory: This program is a celebration of traditional animation and storytelling. Some stories may have a different pace and more abstract symbolism than children who have primarily watched CG animation are used to. “Lili” has scenes of a storm and danger that may be too intense for the most sensitive viewers. In “Volcano Island,” a tiger eats another animal in a very brief scene with no blood. “Negative Space” explores the loss of the main character’s father (as an adult).”