Events

5:00P.M. – 6:10P.M.

Showcasing “Empathy”

* Excerpts of the films introduced in this session have been further edited and shortened for our web page.

Screening Schedule

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  • I046 I Love 'Mee'
  • Japan
  • The series aims to provide an introduction to comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in an entertaining, approachable way. This episode focuses on tickling. While often innocent, tickling can sometimes be unwanted, and can even be linked to sexual abuse. Tickling serves as a familiar topic from which to explore personal space, the concept of consent, and children’s right to bodily autonomy.

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  • I049 The animals at Petsy start school
  • Sweden
  • Animals at Petsy preschool encounter both great fun and major setbacks. What to do when someone is bullied for his name? What to say when your friend refuses to go to school? In this episode Wool the dog says stop to his friends’ intrusive hugs because even when friends mean well, they must always listen to the word STOP.

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  • E059 Het Klokhuis: Your body belongs to you
  • Netherlands
  • Inappropriate/transgressive sexual behavior is a serious social problem. In the episode a psychologist and a woman that experienced sexual abuse when she was a child, talk about the rules and experiences of touching. About when it’s nice to be touched, and when it is not. About that your body belongs to you, and you are in control/charge of it. About what you can do if something bad happens, and that it’s never your fault.

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  • E061 Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo
  • Canada
  • Forced to leave their country, Dounia and her grandparents set off in search of a new home. As she travels around the world in search of asylum, Dounia encounters many people and lives many great adventures. And when she encounters an obstacle that seems insurmountable, the wisdom of the ancient world comes to her rescue in the form of the nigella seeds and the legends of her country.

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  • Y001 All That Remains To Be Seen
  • Denmark
  • When Silas suddenly can’t find his friends in the schoolyard, Christina knows all too well what that means: He’s losing his eyesight, just like she did as a child. She knows how everything changes when your eyesight deteriorates. But how do you teach your child to be brave and confident in a world that is slowly going black?

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  • Y009 Spotless
  • Netherlands
  • During her menstrual period, 15-year-old Ruby does not dare to ask her mother for tampons or pads, because she knows that there is really no money for them. In order not to be a burden to anyone around her, she tries to solve it herself. A short drama introducing the subject of menstrual poverty, an unknown subject for many.

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  • L019 Medullas, time to heal
  • Colombia
  • Through an emotional dialogue between multiple personal stories of diverse women, each episode sensitively addresses the experiences of violation lived by the characters and related to discrimination, violence, and gender inequality. By sharing their real stories and experiences, they deconstruct and re-signify their own memory, which is also represented by the roots of a Nogal, Bogota’s flagship tree.

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  • L023 Young Plato
  • Ireland
  • Young Plato charts the dream of Elvis-loving school headmaster Kevin McArevey, a maverick who is determined to change the fortunes of an inner-city community plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty, and drugs. The all-boys primary school in post-conflict Belfast becomes a hothouse for questioning violence, as the headmaster sends his young wards home each day armed with the wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers.

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  • L064 Alone
  • Canada
  • Scared for their lives, Afshin, Alain, and Patricia left their home countries, alone. As unaccompanied minors, they had to start over in Canada, in hopes to live a better life. Mixing real-life footage and animated sequences, Alone is a tribute to hope: how can a child manage to reinvent himself in a new country, after having left everything behind, even his parents?