Country:Netherlands

Director:Victor Vroegindeweij

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

11 year old Chanaika, who lives with her mother in the colourful Afrikaaner neighbourhood of Rotterdam, wants to perform in an annual summer carnival with her best friends. We follow this eloquent young lady during dance classes and while trying on clothes for the parade with her pals. Chainaika’s live seems cheerful, but she has not had an easy ride. Recently, she personally kicked her father out of the house because he hit her mother.

Country:South Africa

Director:Odette Geldenhuys

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

Not two kilometres away from a quaint seaside resort is Zwelihle, still very much the Apartheid township it was ten years ago. Unemployment is high, illegal abalone poaching is rife and life is bleak. Desperate for survival, and needing a way to break into the white world of money and material comforts, a group of young boys took to singing ‘Santa Lucia’ on the streets of Hermanus to the delight of tourists.

Country:South Africa

Director:Brass Boys

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

The Young Brass Sounds was founded in 2005 to cheer on the Ajax Cape Town team. At every home game, the band is in the stadium, playing for the full 90 minutes. And its presence apparently helps: since the inception of YBS, Ajax Cape Town hasn’t lost a single home game. Brass Boys portrays the members of Young Brass Sounds. We see them during rehearsals and on the stands at different games, and the film gives an impression of the living conditions in their neighbourhood. The band keeps them off the street and away from gang related violence.

Country:United Kingdom

Director:John Henderson

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

A combination of live-action, animation, and special effects tells the fantastical adventures of Alice as she returns to Wonderland. Alice is a young girl who steps through a magical mirror and is transported from the real world into an enchanted one of talking insects, nonsensical questions, and reversals of logic. Her journey is marked by mostly incomprehensible encounters with quirky characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Red Queen and White Queen, and Humpty Dumpty.

Country:United States of America

Director:Walt Disney

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

Walt Disney’s very first films were conceived as a combination of live action and animation which was inspired by Through the Looking Glass. Disney had originally planned to film the book itself but as that project was delayed he commenced with this ongoing series of shorts which, once begun, occupied him for the next several years.

Country:United States of America

Director:Robert Stevenson

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

Set in rural Ireland, the film describes the adventures of Darby O'Gill, who spends more time in the pub telling tall tales of his encounters with leprechauns than looking after the country estate. Nearing retirement, the lord of the manor decides to bring in a younger man, Michael McBride, to take over. The leprechaun King Brian Connors lures Darby into his kingdom, trapping him "forever". Darby, however, manages through a trick to escape.

Country:United States of America

Director:Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

Blending traditional animation and live action, the film is set in a fictionalized version of 1947 Los Angeles, where animated characters are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons. In the movie's milieu, cartoon characters are a sapient species cohabiting alongside human beings, though unlike them, ‘Toons’ are not bound by the laws of physics. In an effort to discover why Roger can't keep his mind on his work, his boss R.K. Maroon hires washed-up private detective Eddie Valiant to investigate.

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Ryabov

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

Here an insignificant event can become a disaster for a child but the kindness of the child’s soul is capable to work a miracle… even to animate a tiny fish.