The tenth annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, featuring films and videotapes from about a dozen countries, runs from Friday, October 8, through Sunday, October 17. In the listings below, films and videos not identified by country are from the United States. All screenings are at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Single tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children and Facets members; a pass good for four films is $15 for adults, $10 for children. For more information call 281-9075.
Ten shorts including Jessica Yu’s Sour Death Balls, Girish Rao’s The Threads from India, the collectively made Madre Tierra from Uruguay, and the collectively made, animated Rights From the Heart from Canada. (7:30)
A little boy gives his kid sister an elephant in this German feature by Karola Hattop. To be shown with two animated shorts. (10:00 am)
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Ed Counts’s Joey Learns to Fly, John Clark Matthews’s Mouse Soup, Alexander Tatarsky and Igor Kovalev’s Russian American Here Comes the Cat, Millie Goldsholl’s Rebellion of the Flowers, Christopher Hinton’s Canadian Blackfly, Christina Schindler’s German Gutter Pirates, and Mihail Badica’s Danish The Tinderbox. (Noon)
Marcus Cole’s English video is about an international network of children looking for a kidnapped pony that has been taken to Krakow. To be shown with Brian Sobaski’s animated video Brain Yardski’s ABC’s. (Noon)
Honoring the Rights of the Child
Cathy and the Ghosts
