CFFS 2022 – Peculiar Pictures: Youth-Made Experimental Films (Ages 12+)
Feb. 11–20, 2022
In-person Screening:
Feb. 13 at 3:30 pm - Come early to catch the pre-show featuring the creations from the Cameraless Film Workshop!
To accommodate evolving public health recommendations regarding COVID-19, we are using a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival model in 2022. There are three categories of festival pass: VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person), all available here. Vaccination and DOUBLE-masking are required for NWFF patrons!
About:
This eclectic collection of youth-made experimental films showcases the imagination and innovation of tomorrow’s future filmmakers.
The in-person screening will include a pre-show featuring the creations from the Cameraless Film Workshop.
Header photo credit: Odyssey, dir. Ángela Blanco Ruiz
- Purchase your ticket through Northwest Film Forum’s Eventive virtual cinema. A free Eventive login is required.
- From the Eventive virtual catalog page, purchased tickets will appear under “My Content Library” under your user menu (upper-right). From the Eventive festival landing page, they will appear under “My Tickets” on the site’s menu bar (at top).
- Your confirmation email will also route you back to these pages to watch. (Can’t find it? Check spam!)
- If all else fails, please contact paul@nwfilmforum.org
- Purchase your ticket through Brown Paper Tickets; come to the show!
- You can also purchase a ticket on the day of the screening at Northwest Film Forum’s box office (1515 12th Ave, Seattle).
- If you have purchased a Hybrid or In-Person-Only Festival Pass, we’ll be able to look you up at Will Call by the name you purchased under.
For the sake of public safety, NWFF patrons ages 5+ will be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to double-mask while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them.
NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.
Films in this program:
LUMIERE
US Premiere!
Adolescence marks our first moves across life’s game-board, which is full of risk, discoveries, chance, failures and successes. Imagine that, as a teenager, you received a letter from your future self describing that game. How would you react?
(Manon Sabrier, France, 2021, 2 min, in French with English subtitles)
Klubok
North American Premiere!
An animated parable about the fictions that people invent in response to their thoughts, fears, and experiences.
(Surayyo Tashpulatova, Uzbekistan, 2021, 1 min, nonverbal)
Moments
World Premiere!
Walking the streets of Bukhara, you hear a lot; the walls in this historic city can talk.
(Hurshida Sherkulova, Evgeniya Papina & Surayyo Tashpulatova, Uzbekistan, 2021, 7 min, in Uzbek with English subtitles)
My Mother Looks Like a Microwave Oven
North American Premiere!
CW: My Mother Looks Like a Microwave Oven has a flickering animation style that may affect photosensitive viewers.
Our apartment is filled with household items. Some, lonely and forgotten, gather dust in closets and on shelves. Others are ever-present. Some are noisy; some are quiet. Just like people. Do people behave like things, or do things behave like people?
(DRF Children Animation Studio, Uzbekistan, 2021, 15 min, in Russian with English subtitles)
Dreams Squared
Seattle Premiere!
After dreaming of blue sheep, our hero finds himself in a nightmare’s nest. Will he be able to find the one way out?
(Oskar Bujger, Leda Gradski, Eva Romana Cvijetić, Kala Andrić, Mila Kranjčević, Lovro Biondić, Eva Japundžić, Lina Mlinarević & Laura Gotovac, Croatia, 2021, 3 min, in Croatian with English subtitles)
The Hole
West Coast Premiere!
A short story about struggling with loss, emptiness, and loneliness.
(Piotr Kaźmierczak, Poland, 2021, 3 min, nonverbal)
Odyssey
West Coast Premiere!
Odyssey tells the story of a migrant–of any migrant–who is forced to leave his home behind, becoming part of a deadly and violent Mediterranean odyssey that stains the sea red.
(Ángela Blanco Ruiz, Spain, 2021, 4 min, nonverbal with English subtitles)
Korridor
Seattle Premiere!
CW: Korridor has flashing images during the entire film that may affect some photosensitive viewers.
During their first coronavirus lockdown, in March 2020, a mother and her seven-year-old son collaborated on this playful, fantastical short film. They used only a clothes horse, a shiny hula hoop, and a lamp.
(Walter Duncan & Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Germany, 2020, 1 min, nonverbal)
Food Apnea
West Coast Premiere!
A personal thought process dealing with a complicated relationship to food.
(Alex Nabors, US, 2021, 1 min, nonverbal)
Hello Frisco
Seattle Premiere!
Why was the baby abandoned in a Victorian drain? And how can the four maids on a mission save its life? This playful, surreal, road movie pits four teens against the elements in a race against time.
(Ava Bounds, United Kingdom, 2021, 5 min, in English)
Lilly Goes Fishing
Lilly, a giant orange monster, embarks on an adventure at a lakeside fishing camp with her friend Fluffle.
(The Bum Family, Canada, 2019, 8 min, in English)
Perfect.
A stick figure realizes that “perfection” is more than what it seems.
(Daniel Epega, US, 2020, 3 min, nonverbal)
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⚠️ Please note: ⚠️
For the sake of public safety, NWFF patrons ages 5+ will be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to double-mask while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them.
NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.