Event

Best Buds

BEST BUDS

SAT. JANUARY 23 @ 3:30PM & SUN. JANUARY 31 @ 1PM
(73 min)
Age 8+

Friendship makes the world go 'round in this collection of animated and live action films from six different countries. No matter where you go, the unbreakable bonds formed by like-minded souls are the same.

Classic Film Fun: The Red Balloon
A Seattle youth-made film!
(Jonah Kozlowski and students Marley Brody, Averee Jessa Budden, Biana DeGrazia, Elise Finnan, Emma Finnan, Toa Ghatak, Frey Hebert, Silas Hughes, George Martin, and Aamina Mughal. USA, 2015, live action, 4:02 min) In English.
A remake of the classic French film, shot on the streets of Capitol Hill in Seattle!

Amicus
West Coast premiere
(Raúl Robin Morales Reyes, Mexico, 2014, animation, 5 min) In Spanish with English subtitles.
A street kid and a cat form an unbreakable bond of friendship, and rescue each other from all kinds of trouble.

Vitello Digs a Hole
West Coast premiere
(Dorte Bengtson, Denmark, 2014, animation, 8 min) In Danish with English subtitles.
A bored boy decides to make a trap to catch a new friend.

Mami
West Coast premiere
(Che Espiritu, Philippines, 2014, live action, 18:26 min) In Tagalog with English subtitles.
Best friends Siopao and Araw draw inspiration from random beautiful people in the city, in an attempt to draw the faces of their mothers whom they haven't known at all.

1997
North American premiere
(Goh Wei Choon and Jiahui Wee, Singapore, 2014, animation, 7:32 min) Nonverbal.
A boy and a girl who both feel like outsiders discover a soulmate in each other.

The Friend
North American premiere
(Maria Grabovscaia, Moldova, 2015, live action, 9:56) Nonverbal.
A girl decides to build her own best friend from scratch.

Me Buddy, Muhammad
Seattle premiere (Eleanor Walsh, Ireland, 2014, live action, 12:56) In English.Meet two boys who backgrounds are different, but whose ideas of friendship are the same.