Date: April 26, 2025
Time: 16:40
Title: Fest Anča: Best Animated Films for Children 2024 | For Kids
Location: Kino Lumiere (K1), Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Organizer: Kino Lumiere (K1), K1

Event Description
Fest Anča: Best Animated Films for Children 2024 | For Kids

This selection of films at Fest Anča: Best Animated Films for Children 2024 presents a collection of the best contemporary short films for children that you won’t see anywhere else. The organizers of the Fest Anča festival have curated this program to provide unforgettable visual and storytelling experiences for children and their parents, offering a global selection of films primarily intended for young audiences and families. The program is a representative mix filled with fun, educational content, unique artistic approaches, imaginative visual styles, and original techniques that only auteur animation can offer to children.

Recommended Age: 4 years and up

Films in the Program:

• Return Home (Eva Matejovičová, 12 min, 2024, Czech Republic)
  After a forest fire caused by humans, a young bark girl loses her family, suffers burns on her hand, and has to navigate the dangerous human world on her own.
• Inflatable Fish (Julia Ocker, 4 min, 2023, Germany)
  In an ocean full of big, mean fish, an inflatable fish tries to look as big and strong as possible.
• Wringing (Gurli Bachmann, 7 min, 2022, Germany)
  During a wringing in the washing machine, a sock is initially afraid of getting lost, until it discovers other clothes trying to form a friendship. A pair of socks eventually learns to accept their differences. This film emphasizes themes of friendship and openness.
• Rain Boy (Barbara Brunner, 5 min, 2023, Switzerland)
  A rain boy, an unconventional gardener who grows clouds from droplets, accidentally injures the vain sun, but in the end collaborates with the clouds to restore the sunny mood despite gloomy predictions.
• Butterfly (Suncana Brkulj, 8 min, 2024, Croatia, Denmark)
  A community of garden creatures contributes to the flow of life through water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, it faces an unknown situation.
• Exchange (Myojung Noh, 5 min, 2023, South Korea)
  Tyrano, who plays tennis alone, meets Brachim, but their attempt to play together is hampered by Brachim’s frequent falls. Despite Tyrano’s effort to protect Brachim from injury, Brachim’s waning interest in tennis raises questions about their compatibility as partners.
• Battery Mom (Seungbae Jeon, 9 min, 2023, South Korea)
  Battery Mom works on various tasks. When the children are asleep, she discovers the Christmas tree in the children’s room is on fire. She quickly runs to the fire alarm to save the sleeping children…