Children's Film Festival Seattle 2022

Peculiar Pictures: Youth-Made Experimental Films (Ages 12+)

Expired February 21, 2022 7:59 AM
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12 films in package
LUMIERE
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?
Closed captions available
Klubok
An animated parable about the fictions that people invent in response to their thoughts, fears, and experiences.
Moments
Walking the streets of Bukhara, you hear a lot; the walls in this historic city can talk.
Closed captions available
My Mother Looks Like a Microwave Oven
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?
Dreams Squared
After dreaming of blue sheep, our hero finds himself in a nightmare's nest. Will he be able to find the one way out?
Closed captions available
The Hole
A short story about struggling with loss, emptiness, and loneliness.
Closed captions available
Odyssey
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.
Korridor
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.
Food Apnea
A personal thought process dealing with a complicated relationship to food.
Hello Frisco
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.
Lilly Goes Fishing
Lilly, a giant orange monster, embarks on an adventure at a lakeside fishing camp with her friend Fluffle.
Perfect.
A stick figure realizes that "perfection" is more than what it seems.

This eclectic collection of youth-made experimental films showcases the imagination and innovation of tomorrow's future filmmakers.



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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. It shows the dichotomy behind the beauty of our sea, which can be considered both the birth of Western culture, and the grave of thousands of people in search of a future.


This youth-made film was programmed in partnership with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the International Organization for Migration's PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    4 minutes
  • Language
    Nonverbal
  • Country
    Spain
  • Premiere
    West Coast
  • Note
    with English subtitles
  • Director
    Ángela Blanco Ruiz
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