The Best of the 2017 New York International Children’s Film Festival: Kid Flix 2

Explore new worlds without leaving the theater! Kid Flix 2 includes a selection of shorts made up of audience favorites and award winners from the 20th-anniversary edition of New York International Children’s Film Festival, the nation’s largest film fest for kids and teens.

Ages 8 and up

Outdoor Cinema
Tatiana Poliektova, Russia/Australia, 2014, 3m
The best cinema of all reflects what is right in front of us, in this homage to all things that capture our eye.

Riceballs
Shingo Usami, Australia, 2015, 10m
A father and son work their way past loss to strengthen cultural bonds in the unlikeliest of places: the lunchbox.

Nino & Felix 
Marta Palazzo & Lorenzo Latrofa, Italy, 2015, 8m
Nino and Felix, two boys thrown together by circumstance, must learn to work it out in fantastical fashion to find common ground.

Little Mouse
Ervin B. Nagy, Hungary, 2016, 7m 
Eleven-year-old “Little Mouse” is a naturally gifted swimmer who earned a spot at the Bucharest Youth Championship. Will she have what it takes to out-lap the big kids?

Welcome to My Life
Elizabeth Ito, USA, 2015, 9m
The animated high-school challenges of T-Kesh, your average Monster-American teenager.

Roger
Sonia Cendón, Sara Esteban, Arnau Gòdia, Ingrid Masarnau, & Martí Montañola, Spain, 2016, 7m
Roger is used to being the leading man in a stop-motion series. But when his good luck runs out on set, he must learn how to claw his way back…

Einstein-Rosen
Olga Osorio, Spain, 2016, 9m
Summer, 1982. Teo claims he has found the fabled Einstein-Rosen Bridge through space and time. His brother Óscar doesn’t believe him… at least not for now.

Dogtor
Rhea Dadoo, USA, 2016, 3m
It’s about friendship and reflecting on personal journeys. Also, dogs!

Heads Together
Job, Joris, & Marieke, Netherlands, 2016, 21m
Three friends must walk a day in each other’s shoes… and legs, and torsos.