Programme 2009

CYRK
Włodzimierz Haupe (Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych)
Poland, 1954, 35mm, 14'10''

A puppet film about five children in a circus - a Chinese, an Indian, a Polynesian, an African and a Polish boy.

NIESPODZIANKA
Teresa Badzian (Studio Miniatur Filmowych)
Poland, 1965, 35mm, 11'

This film instructs young audiences how to handle machines properly. Some animated toys sneak into a box, in which they find building implements. A builder's lift, which they have started in the wrong way, threatens their safety, but the brave little harlequin manages to press the proper switch.

KWARTECIK
Edward Sturlis (Studio Se-Ma-For)
Poland, 1965, 35mm, 7'5''

A little girl practices music and even the figures standing on the baby grand piano become bored with the monotony of her exercises and wait eagerly for her to stop playing so that they can begin their vivacious rhythmic and merry dance.

KUNDELEK
Lidia Hornicka (Se-Ma-For Film Studio)
Poland, 1969, 35mm, 6'18''

A story of a little dachshund, the only one among his brothers and sisters who has a twisted tail. The little dog suffers a lot because of it, as even his mother, brothers and sisters, pure-bread as they are, chase him away. However, the tears of a sympathetic girl straighten the dog's tail up.

A JE TO!: OBRAZ
Lubomír Beneš (Československá televize Bratislava)
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), 1979, 35mm, 8'20''

Framing a photo can be a huge undertaking, especially if you first saw the frame.

SYLISTÄ SYLIIN
Marika Väisänen (Kinotar Oy)
Finland, 2008, digiBeta, 15'

A partially animated children's documentary film about nine-year-old Oona whose parents are divorced. Since her father's move to another town, Oona has traveled alone to see him every other weekend. During the train ride Oona ponders what it is like to be raised in two homes and why grownups don't want to be together.