Mini-Sized Square Eyes - Bestival of the Festival!

The Goat Herder and His Lots and Lots and Lots of Goats (2012). Part of the Mini-Sized Square Eyes - Bestival of the Festival! film screening programme.

Listing details: Mini-Sized Square Eyes - Bestival of the Festival! film programme

When: 11am Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the September/October school holidays, 2 - 11 October

Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington

Ticket price: $6 children / adults and under 5s free / groups with four children over 5 $20

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Mini-Sized Square Eyes - Bestival of the Festival!

Whether you loved them, or missed them at the NZIFF, our favouritest short films from both “Animation for Kids” and “Toons for Tots” are back again, for one last Wellington season.

Curated by Malcolm Turner and Nicola Marshall, this collection of animated gems come from far and wide - and includes the festival-hit Room on the Broom, adapted from Julia Donaldson’s best-selling book.

The Mini-Sized Square Eyes - Bestival of the Festival! programme is made up of a range of fascinating and fun short films ideal for those aged 4 - 7. The running list is below:

The Goat Herder and His Lots and Lots and Lots of Goats

Will Rose/UK 2012/7 mins
So many hills, so many goats, but only one little goat herder.

Monstersinfonie

Kiana Naghshineh/Germany 2012/3 mins If you’re brave and show them who’s the boss, your monsters can become a really great little orchestra.

The Little Bird and the Leaf

Lena von Döhren/Switzerland 2012/4 mins One little bird’s adventure trying to water the last leaf at the end of the branch.

Macropolis

Joel Simon/UK 2012/7 mins
Rejected by the toy factory, a rubber dog and kitty duo set out to find their friends who were sent to the shops.

Pl.ink!

Anne Kristin Berge/Norway/Poland 2011/3 mins A hyper-imaginative toddler takes his father on a colour-splattered rollercoaster ride that zooms right into the middle of some paintings.

Paper Touch

Hui-Ching Tseng/Taiwan 2011/5 mins

An amazing origami action overload of paper cut-outs and corrugated cardboard shapes marching, climbing, dancing and jumping on a mission to create a pinball machine.

Choir Tour

Edmunds Jansons/Latvia 2012/5 mins

It’s a thoroughly splendid free-for-all when a famous boys’ choir breaks away from their conductor for a moment of harmonious mayhem.

A Girl Named Elastika

Guillaume Blanchet/Canada 2012/4 mins

You are not gonna believe your eyes! A whole, way-cool movie made out of nothing but pins and rubber bands.

Snack Attack

Andrew Cadelago/USA/Canada 2012/5 mins

Waiting to board the train, an old lady just wants to eat her cookies in peace. But someone else has their eyes on them as well.

Room on the Broom

Max Lang, Jan Lachauer/UK 2012/25 mins

From the makers of The Gruffalo comes this heart-warming adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book about a friendly witch and her self-centred cat who zoom their friends off on a unique journey.

(total programme runtime = 68 mins)

The Mini-Sized Square Eyes - Bestival of the Festival! programme will screen during the September/October school holidays: 11am Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 2 - 11 October. At The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington.

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