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  • London Children‘s Film Festival preview 2006

  • By Sara O‘Reilly

    Posted: Fri Nov 10 2006


  • Festival Highlights

    ‘We Shall Overcome’
    Denmark 2006, Niels Arden Oplev, 106 mins. (Rio, Nov 18 3.15pm; Ciné Lumière, Nov 25 3.30pm, in Danish with subtitles.)
    Set in the 1960s, this is the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows Martin Luther King’s words by heart and has the courage to stand up to a brutal headmaster when even the adults around him are cowed. Age 12+.

    ‘Azur and Asmar’
    France 2006, Michel Ocelot, 100 mins. (Barbican, Nov 18 11am; Ciné Lumière, Nov 25, 6.30pm, in French with subtitles.)
    An ‘Arabian Nights’-style animated fairytale. Age 7+. Feature continues

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    ‘Rounding First’
    USA 2005, Jim Fleigner, 97 mins. (Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue, Nov 18 10am; Tricycle, Nov 25 4pm.)
    Three boys break out from summer camp to uncover their families’ sad secrets. An impressive comedy threesome in a film about friendship and the lies parents tell. Age 7+.

    ‘Flushed Away’
    UK/US 2006, David Bowers & Sam Fell, 85 mins. (Barbican, Nov 24 6.15pm.)
    Preview of Aardman Animations’ latest, about a pampered rat who gets flushed down the loo in his swanky penthouse apartment. Age 5+.

    ‘Fast Food Nation’
    USA/UK 2006, Richard Linklater, 114 mins. (Broadway, Nov 21 8pm).
    Preview of the film based on Eric Schlosser’s book lifting the burger bun on the fast food industry. Age 15+.

    DocHouse triple bill: ‘Deported’
    Sweden 2005, Katarina Johansson, Ulrika Widmark, 45 mins. (Barbican, Nov 23 6.30pm, in Albanian and Swedish with subtitles.)
    In 1999 13-year old Quendressa’s family fled the Balkan war and went to Sweden. Now deported, they’re back in Pristina, Kosovo, but the kids no longer speak Albanian. Home is a single room, school is hard and sympathy in short supply.

    + ‘Punam’ (In Nepali and Timing with subtitles.) Nine-year-old Punam Tamang lives in Nepal. Her father works double shifts to pay his children’s school fees and Punam’s taken care of her younger siblings since her mother died when she was five.

    + ‘Martyr Street’ (In Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles.) Prize-winning doc about two schoolgirls, one Jewish, the other Palestinian, who, despite living metres apart in the West Bank occupied territories, have never met.

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