Short Films - Short Adventures I part B
Runtime: 72 min. | Recommended Ages: 7-10
The films are screened under Greek subtitles
The program includes short films with a very rich message and fascinating aesthetic graphics. Brilliant stories about the power of love, the fight against difficulties and barriers - including social ones. They capture fleeting but profound moments of human connection and introspection.
The program is prefaced by Eleni Geroulanou, educator, writer and founding member of Library4all.
Shorts in this lineup:
LOLA AND THE SOUND PIANO
Animation dir. by Augusto Zanovello I 25min I
France, Poland, Switzerland
Lola is the older sister of Simon, aged 5, who lives in a world of his own. By observing him, she notices how sensitive he is to small, hidden sounds. With her friend Rolih, she decides to build a noise machine to communicate with him.
ON A SUNDAY AT ELEVEN
Fiction by Alicia K. Harris I 9min I Canada
Seven-year-old Angel performs her Sunday rituals. She goes to a make-up store teeming with products that promote Eurocentric beauty and then attends ballet class where she stands out as the only Black girl. Feeling excluded, she escapes into a dream world in which the Black women in her life dance around her as ballerinas with elaborate Black hairstyles. Angel is embraced by the elders in her church community, a place where she always feels loved and accepted. The film is an unapologetic celebration of Black hair and the powerful ancestral bond embedded in Black women that transcends the physical world.
OUR SUMMER OF FREEDOM
Animation dir. by Antoine Colomb I 22min I France I
Algiers, 1955. The war has not reached the city yet. Khadidja, Lyes, Ahmed and Philippe are four kids between 9 and 12. Malek, Khadidja’s big brother and her only family in Algiers, is arrested after a confrontation with the police at the market. Lyes, a resourceful street child, witnesses the scene and takes Khadidja in. From their shack on Kasbah’s roofs, the children will make everything possible to help Khadidja face this situation. Throughout the city, they’ll try to discover what’s hidden behind the mysterious notebook found in Malek’s belongings.