Children's Film Society, India

ndian Cinema is wonderful. When as a kid i

had watched three Indian movies they left Ia deep impact on me. Fifty-six years have

passed since then, but the images and the

sounds reverberate in my mind," Xiao Guiyun

who is Chairman of the China Film Association

said here today.

Xiao is heading the 17 - member Chinese

delegation to the 17th International

Children’s Film Festival which has a special

Focus on Chinese films.

As if to prove his point, Xiao enthusiastically

rendered a few lines from the song "awaara

hoon" from the film ‘Aawara’ by Raj Kapoor.

The Indian showman had become popular in

all countries of Eastern Europe and the

erstwhile Soviet Union when he visited those

countries in the late forties.

He wondered how Indian filmmakers came

up with such intense movies.

Nostalgia of Indian cinema remains fresh in the Chinese mind

A peep into the Wonderous World of Cinema

Hyderabad www.cfsindia.org Issue: 3 November 16, 2011

Gajju’sProgramme today

Having fun always comes with responsibility,

but the pleasure is greater when enjoyment

and learning come in a unique combination.

The workshops at the Festival are really

teaching us so much and though I have been

here before, I am still learning new things.

Five workshops have begun at different

venues in Shilparamam which will go on till 19

November. You can still register by calling

Satish at 9703160004.

Film Making

Dining Hall, 2.30-5.30 pm

Script Writing

Art Gallery, 2.30-4.30 pm & 4.30-6.30 pm

Film Appreciation

Shilparamam Garden, 2.30-4.30 pm

Animation

Shilpakala Vedika basement, 4.30-6.30pm

Puppet Making

Art Gallery, 2.30-4.30 pm & 4.30-6.30pm

at Media Centre, Shilpakala Vedika, 11.00 am

Basi Reddy, Director of ‘Seven Days in Slow

Motion’ in Hindi and Nag Gottab, Director of

‘Sikharam’ in Telugu

at Sampradaya Vedika, 4.30 pm

Why are the Arts integral to a Child's

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Press Meet

Open Forum

Speaking after screening of the film ‘The Star

and the sea’ directed by him and Li Qiankuan,

Xiao said "India has the largest film industry in

the world. Even as Hollywood is ruling cinema

the world over, India still manages to find its

place. We have much to learn from Indian

Cinema. I am planning to send a delegation

which can come to India and learn about film

making and try it out in the Chinese film

industry."

However, he added that "the Chinese Film

Industry is also making a rapid progress.

Children cinema has been developing."

"The Star and the Sea" had its Indian debut at

the Festival. The directors accompanied by the

actress of the film said six other children’s

films are to be screened and there are six

students from China participating in this

festival, some as a child jury.

Talking about their film, the directors said that

this is the first children’s film among the fifty

films they have made together. Li Qiankuan

said,"the movie is a real life story of the

greatest Chinese composer Xian Xinghai when

he was a kid.

Even after all the trouble he faced in life, he

never gave up his dream to become a

composer. It also portrays the intensity of a

mother's love.

It is like a learning experience for children that

no matter how difficult life is, one should

never give up and should have the courage to

overcome the hard times. Life has to be faced

with courage and fortitude.

The directors are not only partners in

filmmaking but also partners in real life. They

met at the Beijing Film Academy and films

brought them together.

The actress of the movie, Miao Miao, said that

she feels like home in India.

- Sneha Nemali

Children's Film Society, India

Screening Schedule

Date Time Name of Film Mins Age

16th 9:30 am Stanley Ka Dabba (Stanley’s Tiffin Box) IC 95 10+

12:00 pm Gorilla CW 10 10+

Gerald’s Last day CW 12 6+

Babioles CW 5 6+

Josette Und Ihr Papa (Josette and her daddy) CW 8 10+

Kuchao (A Gum Boy) CW 4 6+

Kosminen Kulkuri (The Cosmic Avenger) CW 10 6+

Leitmotif CW 8 6+

2:30 pm Woh (That Fellow) IC 82 10+

Wonder Land, Rock Heights, Shilparamam

Date Time Name of Film Mins Age

16th 9:30 am L’Illusionniste (How to Train your Dragon) CW 98 10+

11:30 am Lápis-de-cor (Colored Pencils) SC 16 6+

Ekti Kaktaliyo Galpo (A Coincidental Tale) SC 10 10+

Neuneinhalbs Abschied (Nineandahalf’s Goodbye) SC 14 10+

Adventures of Owen SC 14 10+

The Ball SC 11 10+

Bottle SC 6 6+

2:30 pm Un Cargo Pour L’Afrique (Cargo for Africa) CW 90 10+

Dream Land, Rock Heights, Shilparamam

CI-Competition International IC-India Competition SC-Shorts Competition LD-Little Director CW-Children's World IFC-In Focus China

Date Time Name of Film Mins Age

16th 9:30 am Den Kaempestore Bjorn (The Great Bear) CI 73 6+

11:30 am Wintertochter (Winter’s Daughter) CI 92 13+

2:30 pm Het Geheim (The Magicians) CI 90 10+

Magic Land, Rock Heights, Shilparamam

What I recommend for today…..and why

The Great Bear

Winter’s Daughter

Director: Esben

Toft Jacobsen |

Denmark / 2010 /

Col. / 73 mins

Jonathan’s kid sister Sophie whom he does

not like very much is kidnapped by a giant

bear. It is now that he realizes he must rescue

her.

Director: Johannes Schmid | Germany, Poland

/ 2010 / Col. / 92 mins

Eleven year old

Kattaka learns he

has a biological

f a t h e r w h o s e

identity was kept secret from him all these

years. He must now search for this father, a

Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored

in Gdansk, and she sets out along with her

friend Knäcke and the ageing Lena.

Director: Joram Lürsen | Netherlands / 2010 /

Col. / 90 mins

Young Sylvie vanishes during a magical

disappearing trick being performed by her

friend, eight-

year-old Ben

Stikker and his

father, Now Ben

must find Sylvie

and save his

father who is being blamed.

The Magicians

Stanley Ka Dabba

Stanley’s Tiffin Box

Director: Amole Gupte | India / 2011 / Col. / 95

mins

Stanley, a popular fourth grader fails to turn

up in school when he is warned by his Hindi

teacher Khadoos for not bringing his lunch

box or ‘dabba’. The reason is revealed only

when one day he brings a lunch box for

Khadoos.

Children's Film Society, India

Gorilla

Gerald’s Last Day

Babioles

Josette and Her Daddy

A Gum Boy

The Cosmic Avenger

Director: Hanna Bergholm | Finland / 2009 /

Col. / 10 mins

A l l i i s a s ruf fy

tomboy who wants

to play with her

sister and her sister’s

best friend but the

big girls prefer to play with their dolls. Alli does

everything she can to join the girls.

Director: Justin and Shel Rasch | USA / 2009 /

Col. / 12 mins

Gerald the dog is

s c h e d u l e d f o r

termination at the

Dog Pound at five

today, unless he can

fine someone to take

him home. But can he?

Director: Mathieu Auvray | France / 2010 / Col.

/ 5 mins

Lost in a garbage

dump and looking

for some human

attention, Little

Rabbit tr ies to

reach the city with his new mate Little Indian.

Director: Izabela Plucinska | Germany / 2010 /

Col. / 8 mins

Josette wants to play,

but daddy has to get

ready for work. So he

says ‘Try to find me’

but she cannot find

him. Where is Papa?

Director: Masaki Okuda | Japan / 2010 / Col. / 4

mins

Kuchao prefers to

chew gums when

other kids release

balloons into the air,

as this takes him into

the world of airplanes and rockets.

Director: Mariko Harkonen & Ismo Virtanen |

Finland / 2010 / Col. / 10 mins

Robot mailmen To and

X-Moo who deliver mail

around the universe

look into a parcel their

shuttle bumps into. It is only an adorable

teddy, but they have broken rules.

Director: Jeanette Nørgaard, Mette Ilene

Holmriis, Marie Jørgensen, Marie Thorhauge |

Denmark / 2009 / Col. / 8 mins

T h e l a s t l o n e l y

member of a jazz

band lives through his

music and the daily

visits of a white cat.

One day he is overwhelmed by nostalgia and

gets a crazy idea …

Director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta | India /

2011/ Col. / 82 mins

Forced to stay

with a grumpy

faced Mary aunty

and a lonesome

g r a n d f a t h e r ,

Little Poupe’s life takes a turn with the arrival

of a circus troupe with strange creatures.

Director: Dean Deblois & Chris Sanders | U.S.A

/ 2010 / Col. /98 mins

Hiccup, who lives

on the island of

B e r k w h e r e

fighting dragons

is a way of life, is

not taken seriously. But when he encounters

an injured dragon, he carves a new future of

the entire tribe.

Director: Alice Gomes | Brazil / 2010 / Col. / 16

mins

Cláudio loves

to draw and

thinks drawing

a c o l o u r e d

portrait of his

dead father will make him come back home.

He gets three coloured pencils, but his mother

allows him to use only one each day.

Director: Tathagata Singha | India / 2009 / Col.

/ 10 mins

Babai’s dislike

for studying

m a k e s h i s

mother angry.

One day his old

neighbour gifts him a magic marble that can

even summon the King of Fish.

Leitmotif

That Fellow

How to Train Your Dragon

Colored Pencils

A Coincidental Tale

Nineandahalf’s Goodbye

Adventures of Owen

The Ball

Bottle

A Cargo to Africa

Director: Halina Dyrschka | Germany / 2010 /

Col. / 14 mins

Piet is six

and wants a

l i t t l e

b r o t h e r ,

but gets a

hamster instead. Can ten year old Tom explain

this to her?

Director: David Cadiz | Canada / 2010 / Col. /

14 mins

Y o u n g O w e n

escapes a pestering

sister, demanding

m o t h e r, d e a d l y

games of dodge ball

and the pain of an unrequited crush by

entering the fantastic animated world of

Spaceman X, an

intrepid galactic traveller whose adventures

Owen has drafted in his sketchbook.

Director: Katja Roberts | United Kingdom /

2010 / Col. / 11 mins

L o n e l y

m i s f i t

A m y

Jones has

noticed a

new boy in h e r

street and begins to reach out to him.

Director: Kirsten Lepore | U.S.A / 2010 / Col. / 6

mins

A n u n l i k e l y

f r i e n d s h i p

d e v e l o p s

between a clump

of sand and a pile

o f s n o w !

Separated by the sea, the duo communicates

love through a bottle.

Director: Roger Cantin | Canada / 2009 / Col. /

90 mins

Norbert is

i n

Canada

b u t

wants to go

b a c k t o Afric

a where he worked for twenty years. But he

must find a place for his pet monkey Trotsky

before he can go.

Children's Film Society, India

Edited by B.B. Nagpal on behalf of the Children’s Film Society, India, Films Division Complex, 24, Dr.G.D. Marg, Mumbai-400 026.

Design Seshu Kumar MVV, Satya T, Guru J

Photos Kotnis Murali Krishna, Chillam Charla Suresh Kumar, D.S. Chakravarthi, D. Yuva Raj

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Festival Office CFSI, Camp: Shilparamam, Madhapur, Hyderabad.

Our Young and

Energetic JuryApart from the four adult juries which are

judging the films in various Competitive

sections, there are separate juries of children

for the International Competition, the Indian

Competition, and for the Short films

competition. There is no separate children's

jury for Little Directors. After all, how can we

judge children who are our own age?

Akshay Rajpurohit 11, Rajasthan

Ashwathy Jai Kumar 15, Andaman and

Nicobar Island

Muvva 11, Hyderabad

Samuela Nematchova 15, Chicago

Ma Yue Xin 12, China

Kajal Bharti 12, Jammu

Narsang Nayak 12, Chhatisgarh

Nishant Banga 14, Delhi

Ben 14, Chicago

Kuhoo Mishra 14, Madhya Pradesh

Sang Dan Yu (aka Michael) 12, China

Anushka Joshi 15, Gujarat

Nikhil 15, Hyderabad

Kiran Maye 13, Hyderabad

Praniti Goturi 14, Hyderabad

International

India

Shorts

As I had promised, children are out to have a

lot of fun while in Hyderabad. Not only are

they getting to see the best of world cinema

for children, but also learn about filmmaking.

Five different workshops began as part of the

Festival: filmmaking, film appreciation, script

writing, puppet making and animation.

The workshops which will continue till 19

November have a minimum strength of

fifteen each.

Interestingly, film making proved to be the

favourite for most of the child delegates. Many

Children keen to learn filmmakingchildren were seen enrolling for this

workshop. The passion for filmmaking has

clearly taken deep roots among the young in

the country.

It was fascinating to see the enthusiasm of the

children, and their sense of participation was

infectious. It is clear that my little friend from

all over India have been charged with energy

on seeing my love for cinema, and have

already started working towards achieving

their goals.

-Deepti Thakur & Smrati Thakur

Well made children’s films can be

commercially viable: Khosa

Rajan Khosa, director of ‘Gattu’ which opened

the 17th ICFF, feels that children’s films can

also be commercially viable if they are made

with sensibility and a good script.

Addressing the first press conference of the

Festival at the Media Centre in Shilpakala

Vedika, he said that he was hoping to

commercially release the film.

Mr Rajiv Dwivedi, who represented the

Children’s Film Society, India, which has

produced the film, said the Society would

definitely go in for a commercial release of the

film.

Khosa said the film was shot on actual

locations in Roorkee where one can always

see kites all over the sky. He said most of the

children who acted in the film were from a

local school and he had trained them for two

months before taking them in his film.

Asked if he had faced any problems with

children, he said that he depended on the

children fully.

He would ask the main actor Mohammed

Samad to enact the scene on his own and

improvise wherever necessary, and would

give instructions to change only if he was not

impressed with the improvised delivery by the

actor.

Interestingly, the film was completed on 11

November this year (11.11.11).

Rajan Khosa came into the limelight with his

feature film ‘Dance Of The Wind’, which

premiered at Venice and won at Rotterdam,

Chicago, London, Nantes and other film

festivals.

He has made many shorts which include

‘Wisdom Tree’ and ‘Flower Girl’.

An alumnus of Royal College of Arts, London,

FTII, and NID, Ahmedabad, he is a voting

member of BAFTA.

The skies are full of kites but one kite, Kali

dominates. Gattu is a young street urchin who

sets out to find out how the kite Kali is always

winning over other kites, and who flies it.

Enthusiastic Children outside venues of Workshops