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Ever wonder what the rest of the world watches for family entertainment?
The Mill Valley Film Festival’s Children’s FilmFest provides the answer. With a focus this year on Northern Europe, the 15th Children’s FilmFest brings some cold noses but warm hearts to the Bay Area. Young female heroines abound, with Stella and the Star of the Orient leaping through time, and a crew of feisty girls (and a black cat) defying ghosts in The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat. Short films feature a girl who finds a unique way to combat her parents’ infatÂuation with a pet cat (Love Child), a mother passing on her imaginary friends to her daughter (The Faeries of Farthingale) and a sly young woman who sneaks off to the woods to practice some benign witchcraft (Dragonflies, the Baby Cries). Boys hold their own when Ricky Rapper finds time to romance a fellow 10-year-old neighbor and also do battle with an evil aunt. And an aspiring young knight is thrust into the limelight when he has to deliver The Letter for the King.
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Children’s FilmFest Programs
Stella and the Star of the Orient, with Dragonflies the Baby Cries Ages 6+
The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat, with The Faeries of Farthingale, Ages 6+
Ricky Rapper with Love Child, Ages 6+
The Letter for the King, Ages 8+
Children's Filmfest Opening Party Extravaganza
Sunday, October 11, 12:30 pm 142 Throckmorton Theatre.
$5 - Ticket Code: PARTY11
Join us after our opening weekend film in Mill Valley for a Children’s FilmFest Extravaganza party including some of the BEST face painting in the entire world! Balloon twisting! Music! A finger food lunch by
Whole Foods! And even some short films! 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. When we can, we play the readings through inÂdiÂÂvidual headphones, to allow those who do not require the service to have an equally pleasurable film experience. We have a limited number of headsets, so we offer them on a first-come, first-served basis to young people only.
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.
