Save $20! With the Children’s FilmFest Flex Pass, you can enjoy up to four films, including our Children’s FilmFest selections and our special screening of The Empire Strikes Back, plus the Children’s FilmFest Opening Party Extravaganza, for one low price. Use the pass any way you like—four admissions to one film, two admissions to two films, one admission to four films and the party, and so on. Bring the entire family . . . but be sure to join us!
Ever wonder what the rest of the world watches for family entertainment? Every year, the Mill Valley Film Festival Children’s FilmFest gives you the happy answer. We show an exciting collection of family and children’s feature and short films from around the world, handpicked from international festivals and submissions. This year, our foursome sums up everything that’s great about international film.
Our comedy, EEP!, mixes funny but incisive observations on the human animal from the perspective of a little bird-girl. Coming-of-age movie,
Coming-of-age movie, The Indian, follows a young Peruvian boy who goes searching for his identity after being adopted by a Dutch family. The Goonies have nothing on the greatest young gang of misfits, known as The Crocodiles. And in Twigson, the poignant story of a boy so lonely he befriends a talking twig is told with a blend of live action and animation. Three of our features are matched with terrific short films. Syawal Was Very Scared sees the tragedy of a tsunami through a child’s therapeutic drawings. Good Night, Let the Bedbugs Bite! is an animation by local artist Sara Klein and a group of young animators from Croatia. And Xanadu Productions, another local gem, presents a schoolyard fantasy with a very unique substitute teacher in The Silk Road.
CHILDREN’S FILMFEST PROGRAMS
EEP! with Good Night, Let the Bugs Bite
The Indian with Syawal Was Very Scared
The Crocodiles
Twigson with The Silk Road
CHILDREN’S FILMFEST OPENING PARTY EXTRAVAGANZA
Saturday, October 9, 12:30 pm
142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley
$5 PARTY09
Join us after our opening weekend films in San Rafael and Mill Valley for a Children’s FilmFest party including balloons, prizes and many other entertainment surprises, all served with a finger food après-lunch by Whole Foods Market (with ice cream of course!). And even some short films! It’s all happening at 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. Adults must be accompanied by children.
About Subtitles
To enhance our very young viewers’ appreciation of foreign-language movies, we provide the unique service of having actors read subtitles aloud. Where we can, we play the readings through individual headphones, to allow those who do not require the service to experience the film without hearing the reader. We have a limited number of headsets, and offer them on a first-come, first-served basis to young people only. Films with readers are marked thus:
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Age Recommendations
Please bear in mind that the age range following each children’s film program description is a suggestion only. It may only refer back to a program’s length or to its subject matter, while it cannot adequately address everyone’s sense of appropriate or inappropriate content. Each child is different, and each parent has different standards.
Ever wonder what the rest of the world watches for family entertainment? Every year, the Mill Valley Film Festival Children’s FilmFest gives you the happy answer. We show an exciting collection of family and children’s feature and short films from around the world, handpicked from international festivals and submissions. This year, our foursome sums up everything that’s great about international film.
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