Animation creates a magical world for all ages, and the Kindergarten Program is maybe the most magical place you can enter. As the most important of the audience segment of Fredrikstad Animation Festival, a program for the smallest of us is curated to accommodate their demand for good quality stories and artistic animated films. The program for kindergarten can also push boundaries for the adult audience and gives an artistic view on issues like inclusiveness, motherhood and identity. Big questions that are a never ending discussion, so why not start early?

Battery Mommy works in various stuff such as soap bubble guns, cameras, and thermometers in the nursery. During the children's nap time one winter day, Battery Mommy finds out the Christmas tree in the nursery is on fire. At that moment, she urgently runs to the fire alarm to safely rescue sleeping children. Chung Nam (Born 1979, South Korea) In 2009 Nam graduated from Chung-Ang University of Advance Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film. He is working at Toyville Studio as Animation Director.

Battery Mommy

Andulis, the little bat, wakes up at the wrong time and discovers that he, unlike his fellow bats, loves sunlight and warmth. After making friends with Little Mouse who looks almost like him, Andulis is surprised to find out that unlike in the bats house everything is not upside down in Little Mouse’s house. Dace Rīdūze (born 1973 in Cesis, Latvia) From 1988-1992 Rīdūze studied at the Applied Art Secondary School followed by studies at Riga Pedagogical and Educational Highschool as a school theater director and teacher of art. In 2001 Rīdūze received an M.A. at Latvian Academy of Pedagogy and Psychology. In 1997 Rīdūze started working at Film Studio Animacijas Brigade ltd. as an animator, and since 2000 they have also been a film director.

Upside down

Ten-year-old Eden feels forgotten by and invisible to her parents, who often quarrel or are busy with other things. To escape the boredom and loneliness, Eden has created a secret escape in the garden, where she lies on a blanket and eats cookies. One day something very peculiar happens. Eden has constructed a spyglass, using two empty toilet paper rolls, which she soon understands is magical. Malin Erixon’s previous films have been screened at film festivals all over the world, for example at the Sundance Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Nordisk Panorama, and Stockholm International Film Festival, as well as at places like Studion at the Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm and Liljevalchs Art Gallery. She has received several nominations and awards for her work. For instance, in 2015 she was nominated for a Swedish Film Academy Award, Guldbagge, and in 2022 she received the Liljevalchs and San Michele Foundation scholarship. Previous films include Benjamin's Flowers (2012), But You Are a Dog (2014) and Sleep Incidents (2016) as well as the documentary short series "THE ASSEMBLY - interviews from the middle of everything" (2020).

The Spyglass

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