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Event
Children's Film Festival Seattle 2025 - Strength & Resilience [In-Person Only]
Wed Jul 23: 5.30pm PDT
Sun Jul 27: 12.00pm PDT
$15 General Admission
$7 Youth (0-17 years)
About
(Various Directors, 2024, Various Countries, 120 min plus 10 minute intermission)
Throughout life we are presented with challenges that at times make things feel particularly difficult, and even hopeless. However, remaining resilient and strong through these moments often makes for some of the most important moments of growth in our lives.
The films in this program feature a mix of stories featuring difficult moments and the people who stick it out and come out on the other end completely changed, as well as some stories that teach you to slow down in order to figure out solutions to difficult problems. While it might not always be sunshine and rainbows, theres always a light at the end of the tunnel.
Films In This Program Include:
FEATURE FILM:
Timir (Nikolay Koryakin, 2024, Russian Federation 90 minutes, in Yakut with English subtitles)
A boy named Timir is going through some tough times in his life. At one moment, he loses his dearest person his mother. The child welfare department directs him to his biological father in the village, hoping that he will find support there. However, from the first days in the village, Timir cannot connect with anyone. He struggles to establish a relationship with his father. Moreover, he is being bullied at school, especially by a classmate who lives next door to him. One day on his way home, which passed through a forest, Timir encounters a strange man with whom he strikes up a conversation. During this conversation, he learns that it is a lost spirit caught between two worlds.
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SHORT FILMS:
17 O Clock (Flaka Kokolli, 2024, North Macedonia, 9:53, no dialogue)
A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside the four walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood.
Nainais Recipe (Daya Lee, 2024, United States, 2:59, in English and Yue Chinese with English subtitles)
After a turbulent day at the restaurant leaves Nainai in tears, her grandson Sho decides to step up to save the dumpling shop.
Nube (Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, and Christian Arredondo Narvaez, 2024, Mexico, 7:37, no dialogue)
After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow, Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
A Small Garden By the Window (Jonghoon Lee, 2024, Republic of Korea, 4:35, no dialogue)
Early Morning. Architect picks ripe cherry tomatoes from a small garden by the window to pack a lunchbox for work. Eco-energy flows from the tomato vines. This eco-energy, born from small acts of environmental stewardship, accompanies the architect as they head out to the frontlines of the climate crisis once again.
Baseball Blues (Sadie Coelho, 2024, Canada, 2:21, in English)
In this stop motion short, a young baseball player overcomes parental pressures and learns the value of sportsmanship and friendship.
The Other Planet (Collective 10 Children, 2024, Belgium, 5:47, no dialogue)
The Red Planet is under attack. Its inhabitants are forced to leave. They land on the Blue Planet, where people are not particularly welcoming
How rnomelj Got its Name (Drutvo Slon, 2024, Slovenia, 2:03, in Swiss German with English subtitles)
The story of a miserly miller and a fairy who cast a spell on his mill to grind only black flour. The story of how a small town in the south-east of Slovenia got its name. We made the film entirely on sacks of flour, which we drew with charcoal and chalk.
Three Colours (Lana Gredelj, 2024, Croatia, 9:56, in Croatian with English subtitles)
Three Colours is a short film about the perception of life after a personal loss. Using experimental visuals, land-art and soundscapes, the natural world becomes a decor to express the unsayable.
Blink (Hadai Khan, 2024, Australia, 3:56, English)
Blink is a stop motion film that explores the notion that everyone sees the world differently based on their past experiences. The animation was written and produced by grade 5/6 students at Belle Vue Park Primary School with a music score composed by students at Doveton College.
The Cicada (Seoyeon AHN, 2024, Republic of Korea, 9:27, in Korean with English subtitles)
The Cicada, who seems to have moved into an empty cave, tells his story. In three different scenes, he talks about meaningful dreams and lingering feelings from the past, things he can choose in his current life and their limitations, and a decision that he finally makes.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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Accessibility
Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at maria@nwfilmforum.org
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