Thursday, November 28, 2013

Karachi Int’l Children’s Film Festival begins

KARACHI: The third Karachi International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF) opened in the city with 38 films from 21countries including 13 films from Pakistan.

The festival that would continue till Nov 29, is offering morning programmes for schools everyday and special evening shows for families on the last day.

Organised by the Teachers’ Resource Centre (TRC) and Little Art, the film festival offers a unique opportunity for schools to expose their students to high-quality and meaningful entertainment.

For the last two years, TRC and Little Art have been organizing the festival with overwhelming response from children, parents and schools.

The KICFF is a sister festival of the Lahore International Children’s Film Festival, which is in its fifth year in Lahore.

The films have been carefully selected from 400 entries that were received from 35 countries.

The Teachers’ Resource Centre (TRC) is a non-profit, non-government organisation, dedicated to improving the standards of education in both government and private sector schools in Pakistan.

The films that are being screened also include Guddu ke Guddi from Pakistan.

It is a beautiful animated story of a young boy who loves catching kites from the Lahore sky. He struggles to catch a kite, but decides to give it away to another child. What happens next is a surprise.

Bubble is another entry from Pakistan and is a story of friendship between two children, who share similar issues and understand each other.

Coloured Pencils from Brazil is the story of a poor 9-year-old boy who lives with his mother and loves to draw. Claudio nurtures the idea that drawing a coloured portrait of his estranged father will make him come home.

Claudio obtains three magical coloured pencils, but his mother allows him to use only one colour per day. Thereafter, each colour will have an influence on Claudio.

Stoneflies cannot fly, they are too heavy and their wings cannot carry them.

But Ferdi’s biggest wish is to fly. So, he sets out to a journey to learn how to fly.On his way, he meets several stones whom he asks about the art of flying, but none of them is really able to help him.

When he had already given up all hope and accepts his fate, he meets a little girl and his dream comes true.

Bitseller from Spain is about what happens to a traditional writer when he has to change his old typewriter for a computer.

The Centipede and the Toad from France is set in a far away forest where the gracious, lissome centipede is admired by all the other creatures, except for an old toad who is haughty and jealous, who hates him. One day, the toad decides to get rid of the centipede. pr

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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