For Group Tickets <a href="https://facets.formstack.com/forms/cicff40_group_screening_request" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> This program of shorts provides an opportunity for young viewers to think about the feelings and experiences of their peers. There is an opportunity to think about what it might feel like to be new or different or to have different family practices or ways of seeing the world. The films also encourage viewers to be proud of who they are. For Ages 8-10 | 76 minutes | Presented in English and original languages with English subtitles Themes: Making Friends/Friendship (SEL), Other IDENTITIES and Experiences (Diversity and Inclusion), Grief/Loss

Fruits Our YouTube channel, The Universe Within, tackles daily societal issues through art, accessing core wisdom and guidance within individuals that can be hard to access via intellect alone. Sparked by quotes from the Baha’i Writings, our global collective of 60+ artists, from many cultural and religious backgrounds, creates animated films and original songs. Diverse guests react to the art, further enriching perspectives. Our mission: celebrate the universe folded within each of us. In this special short animated film, we've teamed up with 10-year-old Thomas from North York, Canada, illustrating his vision on the Baha'i quote: "Ye are all the fruits of one tree, the leaves of one branch.”

Fruits

Cold Lunch The bell rings for Lunch at an elementary school. A flurry of arms grasp at brown paper bags, but a Korean-American girl is surprised to find a tupperware in her backpack. It is full of Japchae noodles. Compared to her friends, who brought sandwiches, she feels out of place. She thinks everyone will be disgusted by, so she conceals everything, but her lunch refuses to hide!

Cold Lunch

Chocolat Chaud Three children come across the notion of grief and try to find answers through a tale from Papuan New-Guinea, telling the creation of death itself.

Chocolat Chaud

The Road to Victory Priya has been training in a taekwondo club since many years. Slowly, she start to develop a strong jealousy towards Rose, the new student of the club.

The Road to Victory

Serendipity The Lantern Festival is coming. Zhen zhen really hope the lantern he made could win approval from his friends, but it was broken in front of them because of his careless. He lied that he still have one, and accidentally picked up a fish lantern dropped by the village lantern team on the way home. The fish lantern was beautiful and delicate, but while he showed it off to his friends, he found that the loss of the fish lantern would cause punishment to the uncle who was in charge of the transportation. In the end, the fish lantern he picked was not as highly regarded by his friends as he thought. At the same time, he realized that his selfish behaviour would not bring him true happiness, so he made up his mind to return the fish lantern and was finally forgiven by the uncle.

Serendipity

Head in the Clouds Alfonso, a young squirrel, always has his head in the clouds. He loves watching them and sometimes takes snapshots of them. His parents and friends find it hard to take his hobby seriously. But cloud-gazing is not always easy – Alfonso sometimes has to be as brave as some of the great explorers of our times...

Head in the Clouds

George-Peterland Five eight-year-olds founds the imaginary world ”George-Peterland”. A dreamy forest land with cute chickens, to which you can travel by just shutting your eyes. When rules takes over the imaginary world, it becomes a nightmare. YOU SHALL NOT EAT CHICKEN. YOU MUST LOVE YELLOW. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN THE CHICKEN GOD.

George-Peterland

Namaste Yoga When Shiv, a 10-year-old boy who is ashamed of being Indian, gets into a fight at school, the only way to avoid suspension is by doing mandatory lunchtime yoga classes.

Namaste Yoga

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PROUD TO BE ME (Ages 8-10)

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