Animation Ark for Toddlers: Animated Dreams for Children

Everybody knows that every red-cheeked Munchkin and slightly older troublemaker and

feisty school kid loves cartoons above all. Who wouldn’t like to escape through the door

of cinema straight to an unknown dazzling colourful fantasy world? Let the cinema be

an exciting secret passageway where you can meet all sorts of characters throughout

the lands and seas. Stories have the ability to teach something useful, make us laugh

away our worries or make dreams come true.

The children’s program is compiled of the best cartoons from all over Europe made in

the last five years. In many ways quite a diverse selection has been compiled through

which you can get a hint of the diversity of different cultures.

The Animation Ark for Toddlers offers exciting films that have been made using different

animation techniques: there are classical animation, the cut-out technique and this year

especially many puppet animations in the list of the program. Such diversity broadens a

child’s creative understanding and makes them interested in the world through the love

of films. The films are suitable for children from the age of four.

Would you like to take part in the adventures of an acorn with your friends Bee, Mr.

Spider and the Ants or would you like to fly to a colourful fantasy world with a Chinese

boy to save the universe? Or would you rather learn how to play Bach on a violin with

a meowing cat?

Everything is possible in the Animation Ark for Toddlers’s animated dreams! The fun

continues after the film with a life-size animation characters.

Linastuskava:

"Acorn Boy" (Läti / Latvia 2010, 10’)

"How the Shammies Bathed" (Läti / Latvia 2010, 7’)

"Chest of Drawers" (Soome / Finland 2011, 7’14’’)

"Grand Prix" (Hispaania / Spain 2011, 8’)

"Prince Rat" (Saksamaa / Germany 2011, 14’30’’)

"Dodu - The Cardboard Boy" (Portugal 2010, 5’)

"Violinplay" (Holland / Netherlands 2010, 1’45’’)

"Hu Lulu Hong Longlong Hua Lala" (Hiina / China 2009, 5’40’)

"Instrumental" (Suurbritannia / United Kingdom 2011, 4’50’’)

"Koyaa - The Extraordinary" (Sloveenia / Slovenia 2011, 3’)