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Welcome to the 7th edition of the Children & Youth Film Festival organised by the International Children’s Film Festival of Cyprus, a non-profit association that has been focusing on cinema and its role in the lives of children and young people.

Our Festival combines films and education in a programme for children, teachers and parents. We aim to provide our audience with the opportunity to view and discuss a wide variety of films. The selection of films is made based on their educational merit and each year international recent releases are brought to Cyprus.

The Festival is divided into 4 different parts: Morning Screenings, Morning Workshops, Marathon Evening and Bicommunal Creative Day. In this catalogue you will find more information about each event, as well as a complete list of films that will be screened and their synopsis.

Camera, Lights, Action!

Welcome Message

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Τhe International Children’�s Film Festival of Cyprus has successfully reached its 7th year of existence. Throughout these last few years, the Festival has managedto provide a platform for Greek and Turkish Cypriot childrenand youth, as well as for the international community of Cyprus,to engage and collaborate in activities and projects aroundthe world of cinema.

This year’s edition aspires to strengthen the substantial bonds that have developed between the local public and cinema practices, through workshops and activities taking place throughout the Festival, whose programme will run from the 21st until the 26th of February, 2011.

Bearing in mind that today’s social educators actively seek new teaching methods for transmitting knowledge and skills to children and youth, but also for enabling them to explore their own thoughts and emotions around current social issues and beyond, this event aspires to constitute a significant platform for cinematographic education.

While various contemporary media are increasingly used in our daily lives to convey messages, it becomes vital for young people to be able to differentiate fact from fiction, to formulate unbiased views of the world around them, and to address important issues head on. The Festival attempts to support this complex process by educating children through the art of cinema and by drawing their attention to key topics regarding family relations, politics, society and the world.

Since 2003, the Ministry of Education and Culture has supported the International Children’s Film Festival as its main sponsor.

The Ministry undoubtedly shares the strong values underpinning the Festival’s activities regarding education and training, considering them essential in the formation of tomorrow’s citizens.

Our collaboration with the Festival is renewed this year, affirming the Ministry’s genuine and ongoing support towards the overall project. I would like to congratulate again the organizers, collaborators and friends of the Festival, for undertaking such an active role within the local cultural, educational and public domain.

Pavlos Paraskevas

Director of Cultural Services

A word from the Ministryof Education & Culture

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This is the second time that I have been invited to place the Children & Youth Film Festival of Cyprus under my auspices, an invitation which I have accepted with pleasure.If we try to recall fond memories from our childhood, I am sure many of them will be linked with our favourite films and television series that left their imprint in our minds. A well filmed production, with a well written scenario and poetic direction can entertain, raise awareness, touch, cultivate values and shape attitudes of life.

Our children are allowed to have access to and enjoy cinematographic productions, which respond to their needs and abilities. This right, which is ensured by the UN Convention of Children’s Rights, creates a responsibility for the State and for each of us as individuals, to respond to the needs of our children by providing productions and entertainment which are friendly to them and therefore protect them from productions that may harm their tender hearts or cultivate negative stances.

It is for these reasons that I fervently support cultural events like the Children & Youth Film Festival. Having the experience of previous years, I am sure that the films screened during this year’s Festival will be noteworthy and the children who have the opportunity to view them will benefit to a great extent. As I emphasized last year, the International Children’s Film Festival of Cyprus offers a quality intervention to the cultural life of our country, and parallel to that, a substantial contribution to the promotion of children’s rights in Cyprus.

I especially congratulate the organisers on the preparation of Teacher Packs, an aspect which makes attending the Festival even more important for children and educators. I would like to wish the International Children’s Film Festival of Cyprus well, and to continue to work with the same dedication which presents such a valuable contribution to the cultural field of Cyprus. And finally, I wish good viewing to all those who participate in this year’s event.

Leda Koursoumba

Children’s Rights Commissioner

Children’s Rights Commissioner’s Address

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Screening of

“Skirt Day”(La Journée de la Jupe)

Morning ScreeningsMorning screenings will be taking place in Nicosia

from Monday 21 – Thursday 24 February 2011 at Pantheon Art Cinema,

Nicosia. These screenings are open to schools and teachers, who need to

register their class in advance. Teacher Packs are also available for in-class

activities before and after you have seen the film.

To make a booking or download the teacher packs

please go on line to www.icff cy.organd fi ll out the application form.

If you need other information

contact us on 99 957 518

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Programme

monday

21 February 20118:30 - The Indian (75‘), The Netherlands 2009, English & Greek subtitles - Group 211:00 - Selection of Shorts: Choo Choo, Lost & Found (24‘), silent films - Group 1

tuesday

22 February 20118:30 - The Crocodiles (97‘), Germany 2009, English & Greek subtitles - Group 311:00 - The Indian (75‘), The Netherlands 2009, English & Greek subtitles - Group 2

wednesday

23 February 20118:30 - 400 Blows (99‘), France 1959, English & Greek subtitles - Group 411:00 - Selection of Shorts: Choo Choo, Lost & Found (24‘), silent films - Group 1

thursday

24 February 20118:30 - Skirt Day (88‘), France 2009, English & Greek Subtitles - Group 511:00 - The Crocodiles (97‘), Germany 2009, English & Greek subtitles - Group 3

Group 1 = 3-6 years old

Group 2 = 7-9 years old

Group 3 = 10-12 years old

Group 4 = 12-14 years old

Group 5 = 15+

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Animation - Eleni TsangariFiction Filmmaking Video Clip - David Hands

Documentary - Ivan Charalmbous

Workshop times are 9:00 - 13:00 and they last for 4 consecutive days.

To reserve your class a spot

in the workshops

please go on line to

www.icff cy.organd fi ll out the application form.

If you need other information

contact us on 99 957 518

Morning Workshops

21 - 24 February 2011

This year morning workshops will give children and youth

the opportunity to be involved in the planning and making of films by

following all the steps involved in the creative process.

One of the goals of the 7th Children and Youth Film Festival

is to introduce participants to cinema, image, and sound.

Workshops will be taking place at CCMC and The Mills.

Register in advance.

Workshops will be held on the following topics:

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Friday 25 February 2011

The Evening Marathon will be open to the public and

it will give everyone the opportunity to enjoy a selection

of films from this year’s Film Festival.

These are the films we will be screening:

5:00 - The CrocodilesGermany 2009

Director: Christian Ditter97 min

7:00 - The IndianThe Netherlands 2009

Director: Ineke Houtman75 min

9:00 - ORPS - The MovieNorway 2009

Director: Atle Knudsen86 minFor a summary of the films please refer to page 12

Evening Marathon

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Bicommunal Creative Dayon VolunteerismSaturday 26 February 201110:00 - 15:00Children from all communities will meet at CCMC to partake in a selection of activities around cinema. Screening of films made during the morning workshops will also take place.

Cyprus Artefact Treasure in Action ProjectICFFCY in partnership with the Famagusta Cultural Centre, the Paphos Youth Centre, and CCMC , since October 2010, has been implementing a media education project regarding artefacts. The “Cypriot Αrtefact Τreasure in Αction” project aims to promote Mediterranean culture by creating cross curricular resources which highlight Cypriot artefacts. With the help of the Cyprus Artefact Τeam, Stefani, Marios, Epifanios, Naomi, Ioanna, Konstantinos, Petros, George, Arthur, Cesun, Ahmet, Öykü, Sude, Melis, Coşkun, Ekin, Süheyla, Meltem, Yağmur have been visiting museums and discovering Cypriot artefacts. In bicommunal groups, the children have created original stories about their chosen artefacts and produced five short animation films to be screened at the closing ceremony.

This media education project between the communities is building sustainable links between children from Famagusta and Paphos and promoting Cypriot culture. It is funded by the US Embassy’s Bicommunal Support Program in Cyprus.

Cyprus artefact team: Osman, Demetra, Esen, Orlhan, Phaedon, Alana, Mustafa, Hande and Bérangère.

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Screening of films made during Morning Workshops, Cyprus Artefact Treasure Project & Youth Team

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The ICFFCY Youth Team was born last year during our workshop sessions. This group of teenangers, nine of them at the time, made a very nice and original film about Children’s Rights entitled “Drawing a Smile”. For four of them, the experience of film making had to continue. They kept on meeting with their coach, and decided to write a script.Now, a year later, the script is complete, it is a rather long story about four teenagers, coming from different backgrounds, meeting on their common love for music, forming a band and going through crazy adventures. The Youth Team now is organising the shooting of this script, collaborating with CCMC and the Roof Top theater association. Their coach, film maker Julie Sandor, believes that there is an urge to teach our youth how films are made. We are surrounded by media that transpose our reality, we need to get some clues to be able to form accurate critical views on what we are nourished with. Making a film is the best way to understand how images are manipulated to serve the transmission of a message. This is one part, before that Cinema is an art, a way of expression, that involves poetic images first of all, and making a film is a great opportunity to become friends and have fun!

The secret formula: one hour tape and one (only one, be fair!) day to record, then choose 10 minutes max. out of this, make a chronological editing, don’t add any music on it to make it nicer (you can though record music while actually filming), be sincere and you will obtain your day on film.

Pavlos ChristouFatosh OlgasherRobyn De JagerMehmet Sah

Message from Youth Team

Youth Team Members

My Daya free style exercise to be screened at Closing Ceremony p

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The Youth Team is a project of ICFFCY Association

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The Crocodiles

(Vorstadtkrokodile)

Germany 2009

Director: Christian Ditter

97 min

Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with

his young, single mother wants to

join the coolest gang in the area, the

Vorstadtkrokodile. But the ‘entry test’

goes wrong and his life is saved by

Kai, who is desperate to join too. But

Kai is wheelchair bound and unable

to even run away when things get hot.

When Kai witnesses a break-in, he

suddenly becomes of great interest to

the gang, being the only witness. He

will talk only if he can join. With his

help, imagination and courage, the

group sets off to solve the case and

take on the apparently unbeatable

criminal gang.

Awards: LOLA German Film

Award for best national

Children Film 2010

Skirt Day(La Journée de la Jupe)

France 2009

Director: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld

88 min

Sonia Bergerac is a teacher at a school for

‘difficult’ children. The considerable problems

she encounters in adapting to her new

workplace are compounded by her husband’s

decision to leave her and before long she is

on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Sonia

wears a shirt to work, although the school’s

headmaster has prohibited his female staff

members from doing so. Wearing a skirt

certainly does not give others the right to treat

her badly. She just wants to teach. One day,

Sonia comes across a gun in one of her pupil’s

school bags. Surprised, she grabs it, and

amidst the confusion accidentally fires a shot.

The bullet injures a pupil’s leg. The situation

soon turns into a hostage drama.

THE INDIAN (De Indiaan)The Netherlands 2009Director: Ineke Houtman75 minKoos (a little boy of almost eight) very much wants to look like his typically Dutch father, which is not an easy thing, as Koos has been adopted from Peru and is rather small and of dark complexion. One day he sees a Peruvian boy playing a strange kind of music outside the supermarket and discovers that he, like the boy, is of Indian origin. From that on, despite his Dutch parents, he tries his very best to be a true Indian..

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ORPS - The MovieNorway 2009Director: Atle Knudsen86 minORPS is about a group of friends – Ikko,

Amalie, Babb, Murmel and Ling, who play

in the Gamle Tomter Brass Band. The

annual event is approaching: The Norwegian

Championships. But one great obstacle, or

rather a person, stands in their way: Their

Conductor, the famous cornetist Elsebeth Bull.

Elsebeth is an extremely evil, manipulating

lady, who in a treacherous way decides to

push the gang out of the band. Determined

to win the Championships, she wont let

anything stand in her way. The friends decide

to start their own band, which they call ORPS.

Together with the tomboy Jannik and the

band’s former conductor – the eccentric Morris

– they take up the fight for the Norwegian

Champion Title. Despite great obstacles the

friends stick together – because that is what

good brass band spirit is all about!

film synopsis

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Lost and Found

United Kingdom 2008

Director: Philip Hunt

Animation

24 min

One day, a boy finds a penguin on his

doorstep. Deciding it must be lost, the

boy decides to take it home, even if that

means rowing all the way to the South

Pole.

Angry ManNorway 2009Director: Anita KilliAnimation20 min

Angry Man is a film about secrets that shouldn’t be secret. When the mommy-fish does, Boj has had enough. And get power from his own fantasy to go further.

TrampolineAustralia 2009

Director:Miranda Nation

13 min

The story of a little girl who

longs to fly.

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Once Upon a HillSweden 2010Director: Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz,Anna Klara AhrenDocumentary, 29 min

Views towards the sea, insights into secret rooms, going downtown, diving into books. We follow four children who are shut-in in their daily life in a segregated area on the top of a hill in Valparaiso, Chile. Being little, being big, being strictly brought up or not having a friend. Poetic photography takes us through changes of moods, winds, weather and thoughts. The children’s storytelling is strengthened by animations of comic strips drawn by themselves and it all culminates with the printing of their own magazine, made by children, for children.

Little Miss EyeflapNorway 2009Director: Iram Haq9 min

Through a shortaesthetic animationfilm with real actors, we follow a young immigrant girl’s hesitant steps into the Norwegian reality. For the first time, Skylappjenta has to find her way in life alone, as an assimilated Pakistani who belongs nowhere.

MelvinSweden 2009Director:Magnus HolmgrenAnimation9 min

A story about Melvinthe turtle, who is tiredof life and on his 150th birthday meets an enormously energetic mayfly. Pakistani who belongs nowhere.

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classic films

CCMC’s Youth Media

400 Blows(400 Coups) France 1959Director: Francois Truffaut104 min

Intensely touching story of a misunderstood young adolescent who left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. Awards: Best Director Award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, Critics Award of the 1959 New York Film Critics’ Circle and Best European Film Award at 1960’s Bodil Awards.

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One Day on Earth

Total Running Time:

Camera: Natalie Konyalian & Yeliz Shukri

Edit: Simon Hustings

Members of the Cyprus Network for

Youth Development explore the Old

Nicosia Airport asking the question

“Why should Greek Cypriots & Turkish

Cypriots live together?” This video was

made as part of the One Day on Earth

project, a global initiative to gather

footage from around the world on

10/10/10.

Alp & AnnaTotal Running Time: 4:03Camera & edit: Vasia Markides

This short film features two inspiring 18-year-olds - Alparslan Balci, a Turkish Cypriot and Anna Leonidou, a Greek Cypriot. Living on the divided island of Cyprus, these two young people are active members of Youth Activism project - a UNDP-ACT initiative that aims to encourage and inspire the youth of Cyprus to actively participate in the efforts for a peaceful solution of the Cyprus problem. Alp and Anna are friends, who have worked on joint activities implemented by the project in order to engage young people in peace building, to empower and support them to play an active role in the reconciliation process and to build support structures for them to continue in youth activism. Here, they talk about their work together, and their view on the situation in Cyprus.

CCMC ShowreelTotal Running Time: 02:20Camera & edit:Simon Hustings &Alana Kakoyiannis

High-energy showreel, showcasing the work of the centre in creating productions and offering training workshops and dedicated support for local non-governmental organisations.

One StreetS FestivalTotal Running Time: 3:08Camera & edit:Natalie KonyalianOn Saturday 5 June, a group of young people from the Cyprus Network for Youth Development organised a mobile street festival that took place at three points of the divided Nicosia street - Ledra/Lokmac�. The festival, called ‘One StreetS; included capoeira, drumming circles, live bands, djs and various dance groups. The purpose of the festival was to bring people together and celebrate multiculturalism along this main shopping street in Nicosia, which has been divided since 1974. A checkpoint between the two halves of the street opened in April 2008.

For more information about CCMC please visit:

www.cypruscommunitymedia.org

& for the Cyprus Network for Youth Development and Youth

Activism: www.multiculturalcyprus.org

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Thank YouICFFCY would like to thank all their sponsors, partners and friends for their valuable support in this year’s festival.

A big thank you to all the schools and students who participated in the Morning Screenings and Morning Workshops.

ICFFCY Board: Eva Argyrou, Berangere Blondeau, David Hands & Francoise Arnould

ICFFCY Team:

Amalia Macris - Project Coordinator

Louise Thomson - Deputy Project Coordinator

Sofia Ema Leitao - Administration Coordinator

For more information:

info@icffcy.net - www.icffcy.org

Tel: +357 22 875 242

Fax: +357 22 875 243

Mob: +357 99 957 518

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Main sponsor:

Sponsors:

Offi cial Carrier: Media Sponsors:

Graphics:

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Ministry

of Education & Culture

The Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC), in partnership with UNDP- Action for Cooperation and Trust, supports local organisations and community groups in their communications by providing training, support and creative productions.

Under the auspices