Shorts for 7+: Program 2 - Bay Area International Children's Film FestivalBay Area International Children's Film Festival


Shorts for 7+: Program 2
SCREENINGS Planetarium Theater 2, Saturday, Feb. 22, 3:30pm – 4:30pm Megadome Theater 1, Sunday, Feb. 23, 3pm – 4pm Total Runtime: 62 minutes

Schoolhouse Rock: The Preamble	3m, USA
	A song about the US Constitution, with a focus on its opening statement of principles, the Preamble.
Directors: George Newall, Tom Yohe

Kitten Witch	9m, New Zealand
	A young kitten wants to be a witch’s familiar, and must pass a test or she will forever be just a simple cat. Yet the witch sees something in the kitten she does not expect.
Director: James Cunningham

London’s Home	6m35s, USA
	When a fire destroys the apartment that nine-year-old London and her family have called home for years, everything changes. Where will they stay? London and her family must adapt to the disaster and change their idea of “home.”
Director: Kristen McGregor, Jennifer Treuting

Gunpowder	5m30s, France
	lt’s teatime, but unfortunately for Phileas, all of his teaboxes are empty. He decides to go get some tea from the source — in China!
Directors: Romane Faure, Nathanael Perron, Léa Detrain, Benoît de Geyer d’Orth, Pei-Hsuan Lin, Anne-Lise Kubiak

Sh’hab	13m, Qatar
	Upon hearing a myth about falling stars, a young girl’s curiosity is sparked. When night falls on Al Wakrah village, she sets out on her father’s boat, with the assistance of her older brother, to chase the fabled comets.
Director: Amal Al-Muftah

Aripi	8m11s, Moldova
	A child who dreams of the freedom of flight grows up to be an astronaut. In the capsule of his spacecraft, problems cause the ship to lose control, and during the crash the astronaut will once again spread his wings and return to childhood.
Director: Dmitri Voloshin

Baitullah	6m40s, India
	Millions of children are engaged in labor in India, their childhood dreams never realized due to their lack of education. This is the story of just such a child, who survives the maddening metropolis of Mumbai as he waits for someone to notice him.
Director: Jitendra Rai

Florigami	5m36s, Croatia
	A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants, as it struggles every day to survive.
Director: Iva Ćirić

Schoolhouse Rock: Sufferin’ Till Suffrage	4m, USA
	A brief history of the women’s suffrage movement presented by a voting-booth superheroine.
Directors: George Newall, Tom Yohe