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The Movies for Kids programme comes with six movies for family audiences
Thousands of children between the ages of 6 and 11 will enjoy a screening in the Velodrome of a movie linking cinema and science in an activity jointly organised by the San Sebastian Festival, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Filmoteca Vasca. This time round, Ikastetxeak Belodromoan will focus on extraterrestrial life, a subject as classical for the cinema as it is topical for modern science.
The Velodrome’s giant screen will show Little Allan – The Human Antenna / El incidente alienígena del pequeño Alan (Alan giza antena), an animated Danish movie directed by Amalie Næsby Fick on a little alien girl’s relationship with an 11-year-old boy and his UFO-obsessed neighbour. The screening of the film, dubbed into Basque, will be accompanied by an original introduction coming with several surprises. During the sessions, the Velodrome will turn into a temporary improvised Astronomical Observatory to connect with the immensity of the universe and ask ourselves, from a scientific point of view, whether life on other planets is possible.
The guest scientist this year will be the astronomer Naiara Barrado-Izagirre from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Barrado has been working for years with the Planetary Sciences Group at the Bilbao School of Engineering, focussed on the study of Jupiter’s dynamic atmosphere, using data received from space missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Cassini and Juno probes, as well as observations with myriad telescopes standing on Earth. The astronomical images are collected both in professional and amateur observatories dotted over the globe and feed the IOPW/PVOL database managed from their own research group. Naiara will guide us through this pre-screening journey.
Since 2019, the screenings for schoolchildren programmed by the San Sebastian Festival enjoy the collaboration of the DIPC and the Filmoteca Vasca. With the slogan Donostia. City of Film, City of Science, more than 13,000 students from some 80 schools attend the six showings at the Velodrome running in the morning, on Friday 20th September and from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th inclusive.
Movies for Kids
On the other hand, the San Sebastian Festival will present a selection of six titles for family audiences at its 72nd edition. During the first weekend and the second Saturday of the event, the Príncipe cinemas will host the screenings of the Movies for Kids section, including six animated movies. All can be seen dubbed into Basque thanks to the collaboration of Zineuskadi in the framework of the Zinema Euskaraz programme.
Directed by Diego Cagide and Diego Lucero, Robotia is a co-production between Argentina, Spain and Costa Rica set in a world inhabited by androids in which a girl dreams of playing football despite being told not to by her family.
A girl abandoned by her mother as a child embarks on a cruise during which she will make unexpected discoveries in Deep Sea / Deep Sea. Viaje a las profundidades (Deep Sea. Sakontasunera bidaia bat), directed by Tian Xiaopeng.
Patrick / Butterfly Tale (Patrick. Heroi txikiak. Balentria handiak), a German-Canadian co-production signed by Sophie Roy, tells the tale of a gutsy one-winged butterfly who stows away in a trailer to make the journey of a lifetime.
The Spanish-Chinese production from Salvador Simó and Li Jianping, opening film of the last Malaga Festival Dragonkeeper / Guardiana de dragones, (Dragoi-jagolea), is also included in the Made in Spain section and narrates the adventures of a young girl who helps the last living dragon to escape from ironclad dungeons.
Crazy Kwai Boo: Sanxingdui Spirited Away / Bill Kwai y el asalto al museo (Boo Kwai eta museoaren lapurreta) is a film from Yunfei Wang follows the adventure of a very naughty boy who accidentally arrives in a parallel universe thanks to one of his inventions.
Completing the Movies for Kids section is A Giant Adventure / Una aventura gigante / (Abenturaerraldoia), directed by the Peruvian Eduardo Schuldt, in which three friends embark on an unexpected journey taking them to an unknown world inspired by the Nazca culture.
Ikastetxeak Belodromoan
Allan is 11 years old, and in his lonely summer he ends up acting as a human antenna for his UFO-obsessed neighbour. But the only thing they find is Britney, an extraterrestrial girl who is doing a school project about the primitive human race. Now Little Allan has to help her get home, while she becomes fascinated with the human species.
Movies for Kids
A Giant Adventure tells the story of Sebastian, Sophia and little Wawa, who will embark on an unexpected and extraordinary journey that will take them to an unknown world inspired by the Nazca culture.
Kwai Boo, a very naughty boy, accidentally arrives in a parallel universe thanks to one of his inventions. From this new world escapes a mysterious man who steals the precious Golden Staff of Ancient Shu from the city’s museum. Bill and his friends will be dragged into a crazy adventure to recover the relic. Will they manage to overcome all the obstacles to find the Golden Staff and return home?
Shenxiu, a girl abandoned by her mother as a child, embarks on a family cruise on vacation. One night, following a call originating from the sea, she ends up in an elegant restaurant located in an old submarine. What she doesn't suspect is that it all has something to do with her mother.
These are dark times in the ancient Chinese empire. Dragons, once friends and wise allies of men, have been thrown into ironclad dungeons. In a faraway fortress, a young girl helps the last dragon to escape.
A gutsy and loveable one-winged butterfly named Patrick stows away in a trailer to make the journey of a lifetime. With his best friend, a caterpillar named Marty, and Jennifer, a butterfly who is afraid of heights, Patrick will become an unlikely hero. But first, he must face his greatest fear and embrace his unique feature to triumph over adversity while battling changing weather patterns, humans and three evil birds hell-bent on revenge.
In a world inhabited by androids who live, dream and play, two robots are built in the same factory. With the same materials and at the same time. But years will go by before they can get together. Alex, who has an obvious manufacturing defect, is sent by his parents to a small school in the suburbs, whilst Bibi is raised in a conservative and enormously demanding environment, controlled by her parents and teachers. Alex and Bibi love football. He thinks he can't play. She's not allowed to. Yet they meet up with a group of marvellous and exciting robots at the football pitch. And when the chance arises to enter children's competition, Alex and his friends will do everything possible for Bibi to join in, showing everyone just what she's capable of to make her dream come true.
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