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OCT 27——————NOV 05 Film Festival Oct / Nov — 2017 Oct Be Bold. Be Breathtaking. legacy 34th Anual 34th Annual Since 1983, the core of our mission has been to OCT 27——————NOV 05 seek out and champion films that not only rep- resent the best of their kind, but can adequately speak to the experience of contemporary kids and teens.
Chicago International ChicagoToday, we find this to be justInternational as important, if not more so, since we live in a time obsessed with instantaneous connectivity. We now have the ability to know what’s going on in Peoria as quickly as | | London, Tokyo, Tehran, or Burkina Faso.| Once dis- tant locations are now only a click away. | Children s Children s CChildrenhildrenThis is one reason why we are so exciteds about thes Film bold, global narratives presented in our official OCT 27——————NOV 05 selection. They are articulate about the successes and challenges kids and teens experiences all around the world. They are mesmerizing in their beauty, skill, and freshness. They are, in a word, Film Festival Film Fest breathtaking. We are proud to share these films with Chicago and can’t wait to see you at the cinema! Oct / Nov — 2017 Oct / Nov — Facets.org Our Team 2 Our Mission 3
Milos Stehlik, Founder & Artistic Director, Facets The Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Mary Visconti, Executive Director, Facets aims to set an internationally-recognized standard Ann Vikstrom, Festival Director, CICFF of excellence in film production for children and Matt Kaszanek, Festival Manager, CICFF youth. Paul Gonter, Marketing Director, Facets Kathleen Beckman, Education Director, Facets We strive to support the work of talented and Elsa Torner, Festival Liaison 2017 dedicated filmmakers by showcasing international films of the highest quality and awarding prizes in multiple categories of production formats and Contact us Field trips & groups Ad sales genres. We also provide professional forums to [email protected] [email protected] enable quality children’s films to gain increased dis- 773-281-9075 x3040 773-281-9075 x3021 tribution and access to wider audiences. The film experiences of young viewers are deepened through Ticketing Workshops a broad range of programs which extend Festival [email protected] [email protected] film viewing into discussion and learning. 773-281-9075 x3037 773-281-9075 x3037
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Book a Field Festival Field Trips are a fun way to introduce your General GENERAL ADMISSION GENERAL ADMISSION Trip today students to diverse, global perspectives. Admision KIDS ADULTS Online: Purchase facets.org/cicff/ Our main goal is to inspire the next generation of In person at venue $6 $10 field-trips creative, empathetic thinkers through independ- box office Email: Online: [email protected] ent film. This is a big task, but with over 30 years of facets.org/cicff Phone: practice we’ve perfected the approach. By phone: 773-291-9075 (773) 281 9075 FACETS MEMBERS FAMILY PASS x3040 x3037 Exciting content Email: Can’t fit a Field Trip [email protected] into your schedule right We curate innovative, intellectually engaging $5 $45 now? Don’t worry, international films that approach youth and the we offer Festival Field Become a member at Admits up to 4 kids or adults Trips before and after world they inhabit with emotional complexity. facets.org/members to all screenings. official dates. Just ask about them when you book. Facilitated engagement Our media educators are trained to engage Tickets your students in pre- and post-screening discus- sions that inspire them to explore different Field Trips GROUP OF 25+ GROUP UNDER 25 $6 Groups of 25+ cultures, increase media literacy, and engage $6 student in critical thinking. STUDENT STUDENT $6 $7 $7 The right tools Groups under 25 Chaperones Free based on 10:1 ratio Chaperones Free based on 10:1 ratio $7 per student Our Group Screening Curriculum is aligned with $10 for each additional chaperone $10 for each additional chaperone
Chaperones Common Core Standards, and gives you a range Free based on 10:1 ratio$10 for each of activity and assessment options. additional chaperone Meet the filmmakers Refreshments $3 per person We welcome dozens of international filmmakers Includes 16oz popcorn and small soda. who lead interactive Q&As following many of our Only available at the Facets venue. screenings. 7 Venues 8
Our venues span all of Chicago, from the South Lake Forest Shore to the North Shore.
Main 1 2 Venues Facets Music Box 1517 W Fullerton Ave Theatre Chicago, IL 60614 3733 N. Southport Ave. Chicago, IL 60613
Partner 3 4 Wilmette Venues University of Chicago: Alliance Reva & David Française 6 Logan Center 1517 W Fullerton Ave for the Arts Chicago, IL 60614 915 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637
5 6 Instituto Wilmette Cervantes Theatre 31 W. Ohio St. 1122 Central Ave. Chicago, IL 60654 Wilmette, IL 60091 7 Chicago 2 7 8 Davis Gorton 1 Theater Community Center 4614 N. Lincoln Ave. 400 E. Illinois Rd. 4 Chicago, IL 60625 Lake Forest, IL 60045 5
Hyde Park 3 Oct 27 —— legacy Schedule Nov 5, 2017 14
PreK—1 Tots ages 1—6 25
grades 2—4 Big Kids ages 6—10 31
grades 5—8 Tweens ages 10—13 37
grades 9—12 Teens ages 13—17 55 Facets.org Saturday Festival Sneak Peek: 11 October Wee Beasties 28
WTTW and Spiffy Pictures invite you to a Showtimes sneak peek of “Nature Cat”, the cool Free & open Saturday October 28, 2017 — 9:30am animated series for kids ages 3-7, which Wilmette Theatre — Theatre I airs nationwide. Designed to encourage 85 minutes to the public children to explore and develop con- nections with the natural world, “Nature Cat” follows Fred, the house cat who becomes a superhero explorer of the great outdoors. The production team will be at the event to share some “behind the scenes” insights. Very special guest, Nature Cat himself will also be at there for a full-on photo-opp with guests following the show!
Opening & Closing Night 13 Celebrations
October 27 & November 05
Opening Night Closing Night
All Ages All Ages
We’re celebrating the opening of the At Closing Night of the 34th Chicago Festival in style this year with a collection International Children’s Film Festival, we of short films that best represent this invite filmmakers, Festival friends, and year’s Official Selection. From cutting-edge VIP guests to watch an exclusive selection animation, to challenging stories about of short films before we give out awards, kids living life in the real world, the films including the prestigious Oscar-qualifying in this year’s Festival are truly bold and categories. This event is invite only. breathtaking. This event is invite only.
Showtimes Showtimes Sunday November 5, 2017 — 6pm Friday October 27, 2017 — 7pm Facets — Theater I Facets — Theater I 90 minutes 90 minutes Fri, Oct 27 14 Sat, Oct 28 15
Facets Music Box Music Box Insituto Alliance Facets Facets Music Box Music Box Wilmette theater I theatre I theatre II Cervantes Française theater I theater II theatre I theatre II theatre I
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Dream Team Bearing Down Festival Sneak Learn to Fly I Got This Robby & Peek: 9:30am (52min) 10:00 Halloween: Thinking Caps 10:00 9:30am (61min) Toby’s Fantastic Wee Beasties Page 27 Page 26 9:45am (67min) The Legend Monsters Buddy Up Voyager Page 29 in the Moat 9:30am (85min) of Timm Thaler... Page 11
9:45am (92min) 10:00am (79min) Page 28 10:00am (82min) 9:45am (102min) 11:00 Page 33 Page 30 11:00 Halloween The Legend of 10:15am (84min) Page 35 Stories Timm Thaler... Page 27
10:15am (122min) 11:00am (77 minutes) On Top of the Out and About On Wheels Page 51 Page 40 12:00 12:00 World Setting the Bar
11:00am (102min) 11:45am (72min) 11:45am (87 minutes) Page 51 Page 47 11:45am (94min) Page 35 12:00pm (73min) Page 47 1:00 1:00 Fantasy Page 49 Fantastic
Quiet on Set! 1:00pm (73min)
2:00 2:00 Page 39 1:30pm (67min) Page 35
3:00 3:00 Oddsockeaters Lights, Camera, Action 3:15pm (57min) 4:00 4:00 3:00pm (87min) Page 42 Page 46
5:00 5:00 Napping Princess Teen Lens
5:15pm (58min) 6:00 6:00 Page 58
5:00pm (115min) Page 45
7:00 Opening Night 7:00 Spindrift Celebration The End of
Dreams 7:00pm (69min) Page 49 8:00 7:00pm (90min) 8:00 Page 13 7:15pm (92min) Page 50
9:00 9:00 Birdboy: tots big kids The Forgotten tweens Children teens 9:00pm (76min) all ages 10:00 10:00 Page 56 Sun, Oct 29 16 Mon, Oct 30 17
Facets Facets Music Box Music Box Facets Music Box Music Box Alliance Insituto Reva & David theater I theater II theatre I theatre II theater I theatre I theatre II Française Cervantes Logan Center
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Learn to Fly Next Door Spy Mountain Dream Team Bearing Down Halloween:
10:00 9:30am (57min) Vampire Miracle: An 10:00 Halloween: Monsters in Mr. Frog Page 29 Sisters 9:30am (78min) Unexpected 9:45am (62min) Cloudboy Revolting Rhymes the Moat
Page 45 Friendship Page 27 9:45am (81min) 9:45am (82min) 9:45am (94min) Page 26 Page 33
11:00 Page 44 11:00 On My Way 10:00am (97min) Cloudboy 10:00am (96min) Page 52 10:15am (98min) 10:00am (106min) Page 40
Page 38 Page 44 11:00am (66 minutes)
Page 34 Vampire 11:00am (78min) Shiverstone Where to go Spindrift No Bullies, 12:00 Sisters 2: Bats Page 38 Castle 12:00 From Here Please! Higher
in the Bell Ground
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11:45am (93min) 11:45am (94min) 11:45am (89min) Page 46 11:45am (94min) Page 49 Page 53 Page 49 1:00 Halloween: Page 52 1:00 Heads Gonna Roll Vampire
1:00pm (87min) Sisters 3: Journey 2:00 Page 40 to Transylvania 2:00
1:30pm (95min) Page 53 3:00 Oddsockeaters 3:00 Tune Up
4:00 3:00pm (87min) 4:00 Page 46 3:15pm (80min) Page 52
5:00 Into the Blue 5:00 Penny For Them
6:00 5:00pm (92min) 5:15pm (74min) 6:00 Page 41 Page 48 Wallay
7:00 The Girl 7:00 Without Hands Crickets 6:30pm (83min) Page 59
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9:00 Edgy 9:00 tots big kids Animation tweens
teens
all ages 10:00 9:00pm (91min) 10:00 Page 57 Tue, Oct 31 / Halloween 18 Wed, Nov 1 19
Facets Music Box Music Box Alliance Insituto Reva & David Facets Music Box Music Box Alliance Insituto Reva & David theater I theatre I theatre II Française Cervantes Logan Center theater I theatre I theatre II Française Cervantes Logan Center
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STEM: The Lila’s Book New Places, New New Horizons, Come Join Us Follow the 10:00 10:00 World Around Us Beyond the Halloween Things No Limits Window Horses Here’s the Plan Leaders
Pages Stories 9:45am (59min) Halloween: Goodbye to Monsters in Page 29 9:45am (77min) 9:45am (83min) 9:45am (81min) All That Page 33 9:45am (90min) 9:45am (96min) the Moat Page 45 Page 27
11:00 Page 29 Page 43 11:00 10:00am (95min) 10:00am (97min) 10:00am (94min) 10:15am (82min) Page 38 Page 40 10:15am (91min) Page 41 Page 33 10:00am (110min) Page 57 Page 59 Oddsockeaters Long Ago Tales Fractured Fairy Miles Ahead On Wheels It’s STEM-tastic! 12:00 Tales 12:00
11:45am (89min) 11:45am (80min) 11:45am (90min) Page 39 11:45am (91min) 11:45am (92min) Page 42 Page 43 1:00 11:45am (107min) 1:00 Page 44 Page 47 Page 46
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It’s the End of Crossroads the World as We 7:00 Know It 7:00
6:30pm (78min) 6:30pm (74min) Page 58 Page 56
8:00 Birdboy: 8:00 Paying it The Forgotten Forward Children
8:00pm (76min) tots 9:00 Page 56 9:00 8:00pm (92min) Page 47 big kids tweens teens all ages 10:00 10:00 Thr, Nov 2 20 Fri, Nov 3 / School Holiday! 21
Facets Music Box Music Box Alliance Insituto Reva & David Facets Davis Davis Davis Wilmette Wilmette theater I theatre I theatre II Française Cervantes Logan Center theater I theatre I theatre II theatre III theatre I theatre II
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Whole New Day No Bullies, Action Plan On Top of the Tales from the Beyond the 10:00 Please! Get Up, Wind in the Come Together World 10:00 Lakeside Out and About 9:30am (51min) Pages
Stand Up Napping Reeds Lotte & Luise: Page 30
Princess Whole New Day Twins on Board
9:45am (92min) 9:45am (92min) 9:45am (88min) 9:45am (95min) 9:45am (94min) 10:00am (87min) 11:00 Page 46 Page 32 11:00 Page 50 10:30am (51min) Page 38 10:00am (92min) 10:00am (94min) Page 47 Page 35 Cloudboy Page 30 Page 53 Page 39
The Wait It’s STEM-tastic! The Wait Just Me, Myself, 10:15am (113min) Spindrift Page 43 12:00 12:00 10:15am (135min) and I 11:00am (98min)
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11:45am (78min) 11:45am (78min) 11:45am (75min) 11:45am (85min) 11:45am (89min) Page 51 Page 51 Page 28 Page 42 Page 49 1:00 1:00
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7:00 Dreaming of 7:00 In a Heartbeat Denmark
7:00pm (58min) Page 57 7:00pm (73min) 8:00 8:00 Page 41
9:00 Edgy 9:00 Swagger tots big kids Animation tweens
teens
9:00pm (83min) all ages 10:00 9:00pm (91min) 10:00 Page 58 Page 57 Sat, Nov 4 22 Sat, Nov 4 23
Facets Alliance Davis Davis Davis Wilmette Wilmette Reva & David theater I Française theatre I theatre II theatre III theatre I theatre II Logan Center
9:00 9:00 A Festive Wind
Thinking Caps Dream Team 9:15am (66) Out and About 10:00 9:30am (59min) Page 26 Peppercorns 10:00 9:30am (52min) Page 30 Page 27 Adventures and the Curse of 9:45am (67min) Await the Black King Family Fun Page 35
10:15am (60 min) 11:00 Stick to It Like Pages in Page 26 10:00am (97 min) 10:30am (59 min) 11:00 Next Door Spy a Book Page 48 Page 32 Here’s the Plan
Dream Big
11:00am (72min) 11:00am (82min) 11:00am (78 min) Page 33 12:00 Page 50 12:00 Page 45 11:15am (74min) 11:30am (71min) Page 41 Page 32
1:00 Odd is an Egg 1:00 On Wheels
1:00pm (68 min) Page 34 1:00pm (72min) 2:00 2:00 Page 47 Window Horses
3:00 Poles Apart 3:00 2:00pm (90 min) Page 59
3:00pm (65min) Page 48 4:00 4:00
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7:00 Goodbye to 7:00 All That
7:00pm (71 min) 8:00 Page 57 8:00
9:00 It’s the End of 9:00 tots big kids the World as We tweens Know It teens 9:00pm (78 min) all ages 10:00 Page 58 10:00 Sun, Nov 5 24
Facets Davis Gorton Community Wilmette Wilmette theater I theatre II Center theatre I theatre II
9:00 Tots Just Me, Myself, Adventures and I Await Just Me, Myself, 10:00 9:30am (60min) 9:30am (60min) and I Page 28 Action Plan Page 26 9:45am (60min) Page 28
Lotte & Luise: 11:00 New Kids on 10:15am (72min) Twins on Board Champions of the Block Page 32 Amsterdam
11:00am (74min) 10:45am (93min) 11:00am (71min) 12:00 Page 34 Page 43 Page 38 PreK—1 Whether characters are venturing off to ex- Just Me, Myself, Oddsockeaters and I ages 1—6 plore new horizons or are learning how to 1:00 Keep Going 12:30pm (60min) Goodbye to Page 28 All That make new friends, these fun films for tots are
12:30pm (87min)
Page 46 sure to encourage independent thinking 1:00pm (81min) 2:00 Page 42 Action Plan 1:00pm (71min) Page 57 and spark the imagination.
2:00pm (72min) 3:00 Ticket to Ride Page 32 Subtitles
P Profanity V Violence M Mature Themes 3:00pm (79min) 4:00 Page 51 Adventures F Extremely Course Language Await 4:00pm (60min) Page 26 5:00
6:00 Closing Night Ceremony
7:00 6:00pm (90min) Page 13
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A Festive Wind Adventures Await Bearing Down Buddy Up Come Join Us Dream Team
Ages: 2+ Ages: 2 – 7 Ages: 5+ Ages: 4 + Ages: 4 – 8 Ages: 2+
Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program This program is a collection of very best Adventure awaits the characters in these The animals and other creatures in this This program features two featurettes with The characters in these films know it’s impor- These films prove that when friends take animated films from France and French- films as they discover new sights, horizons, collection are determined to push themselves, two groups of fun friends, Kiwi and Strit, then tant to stick together and include everyone in time to get to know each other, they can speaking countries. and friends. but do they know their limits? Snipp, Snapp, and Snut. the fun. do great things.
Shorts: The Penguin, Daisies and Dragons, Shorts: Opposite Day, Zoo Story, Polo: The Shorts: Spider Web, Show with the Mouse: Shorts: Kiwi & Strit, Snipp, Snapp, Snut Shorts: Miru Miru, Kit ‘n Kate: Making Shorts: The Tiniest Man in the World: “Little Polo: The Day Polo Visited Space, Polo: Day the Ladder Came Down from the Moon, “The Princess and the Pea”, Swiff, Jubilee, The Friends, Balloon Barnyard: Puppy Day, Referee”, Suriphobia, The Totems Family Song, The Day the Krapos Brothers Stole Polo’s The House, The Penguin, The Adventure Fruits of Clouds, The Bearytales, Klump: Countries: Denmark, Sweden Weasel, Piglet’s Journey, Gokurosama, A Bit Lost, Tweet Hearts: “Well Hatched”, Reflection, Polo: The Day the Ladder Came of the Afternoon, Jazzoo, The Yummigold “Back on Track”, Grizzy and the Lemmings: Language: Nonverbal Bottersnikes & Gumbles: The Monster Konigiri-Kun – Kitchen Sports Day, Be-Be- Down from the Moon, A Bit Lost, The Garden, Waikiki “Cellular Bear” in the Moat Bears: “The Porcupotamus”, The Pocket Man, Pocket Man, A Festive Wind, The Unicorn How Shammies Got Well, Polo: “The Day Countries: Germany, Czech Republic, France, Countries: Russia, Germany, France, Czech Showtimes Countries: France, Russia, Cyprus, Australia, the Krapos Brothers Stole Polo’s Reflection”, Countries: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Taiwan, Sweden, USA, Latvia Republic Saturday October 28, 2017 — 10:15am Slovenia, Latvia, France, England Pirate’s Gold Georgia. Languages: Nonverbal, English, French with Languages: Nonverbal, German, Czech with Facets — Theatre II Languages: English and nonverbal Languages: Nonverbal, French with English English subtitles English subtitles 84 mins Countries: France, Argentina, Turkey, USA, subtitles Germany, Japan, Russia, Latvia Showtimes Languages: Nonverbal, English, French with Showtimes Showtimes Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 9:45am English subtitles Showtimes Saturday November 4, 2017 — 10:15am Saturday October 28, 2017 — 9:30am Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Saturday November 4, 2017 — 9:15am Davis Theater — Theatre I Music Box Theatre — Theatre I 81 minutes, including media education Alliance Française 60 minutes 61 minutes Showtimes 66 minutes Saturday October 28, 2017 — 9:30am Sunday November 5, 2017 — 9:30am Monday October 30, 2017 — 9:45am Facets — Theatre I Wilmette Theatre — Theatre I Music Box Theatre — Theatre I 52 minutes 60 minutes 81 minutes, including media education Themes: Persistence, dare to test limits, Monday October 30, 2017 — 9:45am Sunday November 5, 2017 — 4:00pm knowing limits, manage expectations, Facets — Theatre I Gorton Community Center deduction 62 minutes, including media education 60 minutes Field Trip Grades K – 2+ Themes: Empathy and compassion, inclusivity, saying sorry, good decisions, new friends, teamwork Field Trip Grades PreK – K
Saturday November 4, 2017 — 9:30am Wilmette Theatre — Theatre I 52 minutes Tots 28 29
Festival Sneak Peek I Got This Just Me, Myself, and I Learn to Fly New Places, New STEM: The World Ages: 3+ Ages: 4 – 8 Ages: 4+ Ages: 2 – 5 Things Around Us
Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Ages: 2 –5 Ages: 4 –8 Join us for this very special free event with When it’s time to figure out a solution, the The characters in this collection are curious Creative problem solving involves looking at Shorts Program Shorts Program fantastic friends and a “sneak peek” of characters in these films are eager to about themselves, their friends, and about the one thing from many different perspectives, Festival films for the little ones. When you buy start problem solving, no matter what the world around them. sometimes over and over again. Persistence Time for new things! The confident characters The world around us is changing. It’s easy to a ticket to the event, you are automatically challenge is. pays off for the characters in these films. in this collection of animated shorts are look- see that. But it’s harder to see what creates entered to win a Festival Family Pass. Shorts: The Tiniest Man in the World: Traffic ing to try new things. these changes and what the consequences are. Shorts: Spider Web, Swiff, The Show with the Officer, Zoo Story, Polo: The Day the Ladder Shorts: Tiniest Man in the World: Chopsticks, Shorts: Pocket Man, Polo: The Day Mouse: “The Princess and the Pea”, Jubilee, Came Down from the Moon, The House, The Hippo Hop, The Pocket Man, Treetop Family: Shorts: Zoo Story, The Tiniest Man in the Shorts: 1 Minute Nature: Jellyfish Weather, Polo Visited Space, Nature Cat: Ocean My Auntie’s Tall Tales: “The Cast Away”, The Little Starfish, Coin Operated, Leo & Tig: The Sparrows Learn to Fly, Miriam’s Hen’s Dream, World: “Chopsticks”, Konigiri-Kun – Kitchen Origins of Life: “First Sunrise”, Big Boom, Commotion Fruits of Clouds, Bottersnikes & Gumbles: Mysterious Cave, Miriam: By the Lake, The Pirate’s Gold, BaDaBoo: Boat Trip, Coin Sports Day, Polo: “The Day the Ladder The Fruits of Clouds, Weasel, The Unicorn, “The Monster in the Moat”, Klump: “Back on Pocket Man, Shadowfox Operated, Moonwolves Came Down from the Moon”, The House, The Show with the Elephant: “The Environmental Countries: France, USA Track” Penguin, A Bit Lost, Pocket Man, BaDaBoo: Special” Languages: Nonverbal, English, French Countries: France, Argentina, Czech Republic, Countries: France, Argentina, Switzerland, “Boat Trip” with English subtitles Countries: Russia, France, Germany, Denmark, France, Croatia, USA, Russia, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Canada, Estonia, Belgium, Countries: Netherlands, Mexico, Russia, Czech Republic, England, Germany Germany USA, Sweden Countries: Czech Republic, France, Argentina, Czech Republic, Slovenia, France, Belgium, Languages: Nonverbal, German, Danish, Languages: French, Croatian, English, Languages: Nonverbal Japan, Belgium Germany Showtimes English with English subtitles German, and nonverbal with English subtitles Languages: Nonverbal, French with English Languages: English, Spanish, Huichol, Nonverbal, French, German with English Saturday October 28, 2017 — 9:30am subtitles subtitles Wilmette Theatre — Theatre I Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes 85 mins Friday October 27, 2017 — 9:45am Showtimes Friday October 27, 2017 — 9:45am Friday November 3, 2017 — 11:45am Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I 67 minutes, including media education Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 9:45am 92 minutes, including media education 75 minutes, including media education Reva & David Logan Center Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 9:45am Themes: Persistence, creative problem solving, 59 minutes, including media education Facets – Theatre I Themes: Creative problem solving, deduction, Themes: Identity, be true to yourself, self teamwork 90 minutes, including media education initiative, leadership vs others comparison, adventure, bravery. Themes: Try new things! Field Trip Grades PreK – K Themes: Sustainability, environmental change, Field Trip Grades PreK – K Field Trip Grades K – 2+ Field Trip Grades K+ interdependent relationships in ecosystems; Sunday October 29, 2017 — 9:30am lifecycles Sunday November 5, 2017 — 9:30am Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I 57 mins Field Trip Grades K – 2 60 minutes Sunday November 5, 2017 — 9:45am Wilmette Theatre — Theatre II 60 minutes Sunday November 5, 2017 — 12:30pm Gorton Community Center 60 minutes Tots 30 Big Kids Thinking Caps Whole New Day grades 2—4 Growing up often means stepping outside Ages: 5+ Ages: 4 –8 ages 6—10 of your comfort zone and being open to new Shorts Program Shorts Program ideas. These films feature big kids with big The characters in these films put their thinking Time for new things! The confident caps on to figure out many puzzling situations, characters in this collection of animated dreams, making big decisions about family, from space exploration to knitting spiders. shorts are looking to try new things. friends and the future. Shorts: The Tiniest Man in the World: “The Shorts: Zoo Story, The Tiniest Man in the Sweater”, Opposite Day, Koyaa – Naughty World: Chopsticks, Konigiri-Kun: Kitchen Toy Car, Polo: The Day Polo Visited Space, Sports Day, Polo: The Day the Ladder Came Balloon Barnyard: “Puppy Day”, Spider Down from the Moon, The House, The Web, A Bit Lost, How Shammies Played Hide Penguin, A Bit Lost, Pocket Man, BaDaBoo: Subtitles and Seek, The Penguin, The Pocket Man, Boat Trip The Tiniest Man in the World: “Traffic Officer”, P Profanity V Violence M Mature Themes Coin Operated Countries: Czech Republic, France, Argentina, Japan, Belgium Countries: France, Argentina, Germany, Languages: French and nonverbal with F Extremely Course Language Slovenia, Australia, Russia, Latvia, English subtitles Switzerland, Georgia, USA Languages: Nonverbal, English, French with English subtitles Showtimes Friday November 3, 2017 — 9:30am Wilmette Theatre — Theatre I Showtimes 66 minutes, including media education Friday October 27, 2017 — 10am Themes: Manage expectations, Alliance Française deduction, creative problem solving, 79 minutes, including media education persistence Themes: Manage Expectations, Deduction, Field Trip Grades K – 2+ Creative Problem Solving, Persistence Field Trip Grades K – 2+ Friday November 3, 2017 — 10:30am Davis Theater — Theatre I Saturday November 4, 2017 — 9:30am 51 minutes Facets — Theatre I 59 minutes Big Kids 32 33
Action Plan Dream Big Family Fun Follow the Leaders Halloween: Monsters Like Pages in a Book Ages: 8+ Ages: 5+ Ages: 5 –8 Ages: 6 –9 in the Moat Ages: 8+
Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Ages: 6 –10 Shorts Program These characters and critters are on the go! Being open to new ideas, friends, and The families in these short films make The characters in these films are excited The stories in this collection of shorts from Shorts Program With a plan in hand, or is that a paw? perspectives allows the characters in these family time fun, whether one-on-one or about new friends and experiences. France and French-speaking countries films to go on unexpected adventures. with the whole gang. Scary monsters and ghosts are no match are page-turners, with gorgeously illustrated Shorts: Spider Web, Mr. Carton: Collision, Shorts: The Bearytales, Miru Miru, The Gift, for the characters of these animated films. settings and lovingly-limned characters. The Pocket Man, Rouff, Show with the Mouse: Shorts: Mr. Carton: Collision, The World’s Shorts: Jiffy, The Totems Family Song, The Intruders, The Butterfly, Apple Tree House: The Princess and the Pea, Jubilee, The Fruits Middlest Fish, The Fruits of Clouds, Tweet Hearts: Well Hatched, Tweet Hearts: Election, Little J and Big Cuz: Hopalong Shorts: 1 Minute Nature–Pirates, Wolfie the Shorts: Habitat, Not Just Another Commute, of Clouds, Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver, Daisies and Dragons, Nimbus, the Cloud Skillfully Protected, We Say Night Night, Bunny, Live from the Moss: “The Ghost of A Festive Wind, Little Match Girl, The Unicorn, The World’s Middlest Fish Catcher, Finding Home, Odd is an Egg Little Tot: Memory Games, Miriam’s Stray Countries: Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Forest Dwellings”, Slimelab, Ghostboy, The Wind in the Reeds Dog, Treetop Family: Sparrows Learn to Turkey, Norway, Canada, England, Australia Atchoo: “The Great Nightmare”, Troubling Countries: Russia, France, Switzerland, Countries: France, Norway, Czech Republic, Fly, Zoo Story, Zou: Zou’s Camouflage, Languages: Czech, English, Arabic, Monsters: “There’s a Monster in the Fridge”, Countries: Switzerland, France, Belgium Georgia, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada, France, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark Guess How Much I Love You: The Lucky Egg Norwegian, and Spanish with English subtitles. Bottersnikes & Gumbles: “The Monster in Languages: Nonverbal, French with English Norway Languages: French, Norwegian, Nonverbal, the Moat” subtitles Languages: French, German, Norwegian, and Danish with English subtitles Countries: Spain, USA, Germany, Denmark, nonverbal with English subtitles. Estonia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Showtimes Countries: Netherlands, USA, England, Italy, Australia Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 9:45am Colombia Showtimes Showtimes Languages: Nonverbal, English, Spanish, Reva & David Logan Center Languages: Czech, English, Spanish with Saturday November 4 — 11am Showtimes Danish with English subtitles. Saturday November 4, 2017 — 11:30am 77 minutes, including media education English subtitles Alliance Française Davis Theater — Theatre I Thursday November 2, 2017 — 9:45am Themes: Get-along, inclusivity; don’t judge a 72 minutes Music Box — Theatre I 71 minutes Showtimes book by its cover, new friends, standing out Showtimes 92 minutes, including media education + fitting in,civic duty and being positive voice Saturday November 4, 2017 — 10:30am Themes: creative problem solving, deduction; for community Friday October 27, 2017 — 10am Davis Theater — Theatre III persistence Instituto Cervantes 59 minutes Field Trip Grades 1 — 3 82 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 3 — 5 Themes: Manage expectations, troubleshooting, bravery Sunday November 5, 2017 — 10:15am Davis Theater — Theatre II Field Trip Grades 1 — 4 72 minutes Sunday November 5, 2017 — 2pm Monday October 30, 2017 — 9:45am Gorton Community Center Reva & David Logan Center 72 minutes 82 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 1 — 4
Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 10:15am Music Box Theatre — Theatre II 89 minutes, including media education
Field Trip Grades 1 — 4 Big Kids 34 35
New Kids on the Block Odd is an Egg On My Way Out and About Quiet on Set! Robby & Toby’s Ages: 7+ Ages: 7+ Ages: 5+ Ages: 7 –10 Ages: 7+ Fantastic Voyager
Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program Ages: 8+ P The characters in this collection are up for In this collection, the characters get out This year’s collection reflects the best films The characters in this collection of animated It is not easy to stay inside proscribed Feature Film shorts learn how to accept new challenges boundaries or roles for the characters in this going on adventures and trying new things, of their comfort zones, make new friends, by the top young filmmakers from around when they’re no longer the center of attention. collection of films. They are dreamers and of course, with the encouragement of family and even make a difference. the world. Handy with everything science-centered, Toby members. takes after his parents and loves to invent, explorers. Shorts: Home, Sweet Home, Journey, IQ, The Shorts: Wolfie the Bunny, Little J and Big Shorts: 1 Minute Nature: My Hamster and fix, and build things. When an extraterrestrial Shorts: Tweet Hearts: Well Hatched, The Little Spider, Crack, The Day They Met Cuz: Hopalong, Pigtail and Mr. Sleeplessness, Shorts: Daisies and Dragons, Rouff, The Me, The Bearytales, Spider Web, Jubilee, robot crash-lands in a nearby field, Toby House, Opposite Day, Jiffy, The Totems Family Clive, Sweet Moon, Rojas, The Corn Festival, Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle Unicorn, Princessboy, The Fruits of Clouds, Weasel, Klump: Back on Track, The Fruits of faces the biggest adventure of his life. Will he Odd is an Egg, Nimbus: The Cloud Catcher Song, Grandma Pina’s Noodles, Henriyeti: Moonlight, People are Islands, Panic Countries: USA, Australia, Latvia, Mexico Clouds, The Unicorn be able to reunite the Robby the Robot with Sock It to Me, Yeti!, Tweet Hearts: Skillfully Stations, Little Markus Languages: English, Spanish with English Countries: France, Belgium, Germany, his family? Protected, The World’s Middlest Fish, Klump: Countries: Netherlands, Czech Republic, subtitles France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Countries: Croatia, Spain, Mexico, Belgium, Back on Track, In the Mood for a Swim, My Russia, France, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium Directed by Wolfgang Groos Brazil Russia, German, Canada, England, Australia Auntie’s Tall Tales: The Cast Away Languages: English, Czech, German, and Languages: Nonverbal, English, Dutch, French, Countries: Germany Languages: Nonverbal, French, Swedish, nonverbal with English subtitles. Showtimes Norwegian with English subtitles. Countries: Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, German, Russian, Spanish in English Subtitles Languages: German with English subtitles USA, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark Sunday November 5, 2017 — 11am Languages: Nonverbal, English, Spanish, Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Showtimes Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish with Showtimes Showtimes 74 minutes Friday October 27, 2017 — 11:45am English subtitles Saturday October 28, 2017 — 1:30pm Saturday October 28, 2017 — 9:45am Saturday November 4, 2017 — 1pm Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Facets — Theatre II Music Box Theatre — Theatre II Facets — Theatre I 87 minutes, including media education 68 minutes 67 minutes 102 minutes Showtimes Themes: Adventure, teamwork, respecting Sunday October 29, 2017 — 11am environment and fellow creatures, manage Facets — Theatre I expectations 66 minutes Field Trip Grades 2 — 4
Friday November 3, 2017 — 10am Davis Theater — Theatre III 87 minutes, including media education
Field Trip Grades 2 — 4
Saturday November 4, 2017 — 9:45am Wilmette Theatre — Theatre II 67 minutes 36 Tweens37
grades 5—8 Whether you’re looking for stories of trying ages 10—13 to fit in, romps through magical worlds or science fiction adventures, these films feature something bold and fresh for every tween.
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Beyond the Pages Champions of Cloudboy Come Together Fantasy Fantastic Fractured Fairy Tales Ages: 9 –12 Amsterdam Ages: 9+ Ages: 8 –11 Ages: 11 Ages: 9 –12
Shorts Program Ages: 10+ Feature Film Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program The characters in these films have special Staying with his estranged mother in remote The characters in these come together as The science fiction and fantasy-themed These films explore the power of adaptation Feature Film powers to leap from book pages to the screen. mountainous area in Sweden, can Niilas learn individuals to lift up their communities films in this collection show us that the world from literature to animation. Each year, there is a competition between to disconnect from what he is familiar with through friendship and valuing traditions. is never as it appears to be. Shorts: Show with the Mouse: “The Princess the big city, local primary schools to see and connect with a new way of life? Is he Shorts: The Little Match Girl, Revolting and the Pea”, Beyond the Books, The which all-boys street soccer team is the best ready for adventure in the vast outdoors and Shorts: Bango Vassil, A Festive Wind, The Shorts: Poles Apart, Never Land, Maverick, Rhymes: “Part One”, “Part Two” Little Match Girl, The Unicorn, The Mountain Wind in the Reeds, Little Lunch: in a single-elimination tournament. All have can he rise to the occasion? Earthly People Countries: France, Switzerland, England of Sgaana, The Wind in the Reeds The Nightmare Before Graduation dreams of being a “pro” and the competition Countries: England, Belgium, Hungary Languages: Nonverbal, English Directed by Denise Janzee & Xander de Boer is the first step: will any of them make it -or Countries: Germany, France, Switzerland, Countries: Germany, France, Switzerland, Languages: English, Flemish, Hungarian with will they go home empty handed? Countries: Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Australia Belgium, Canada English subtitles Sweden Languages: Bulgarian, French, English, and Languages: German, Nonverbal, French, Directed by Denise Janzee & Xander de Boer Showtimes Languages: Dutch, Sami,Swedish with English nonverbal with English subtitles. English with English subtitles Countries: Netherlands subtitles. Showtimes Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 11:45am Reva & David Logan Center Languages: Dutch with English Subtitles Saturday October 28, 2017 — 1pm Showtimes 89 minutes, including media education Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Showtimes Thursday November 2, 2017 — 10am 73 mins Themes: Fairy Tales Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 10am Showtimes Sunday October 29, 2017 — 11am Instituto Cervantes Field Trip Grades 5 – 7 Alliance Française Sunday November 5, 2017 — 11am Music Box Theatre — Theatre I 94 minutes, including media education 95 minutes, including media education 78 minutes Wilmette — Theatre II Themes: Teamwork, new friends, empathy, Themes: Fairy tales, Myths, Folklore 71 minutes Monday October 30, 2017 — 10:15am creative problem solving, persistence, coming Field Trip Grades 4 – 6 Music Box Theatre — Theatre II together as a community. 98 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 5 – 7 Friday November 3, 2017 — 9:45am Themes: Adventure, problem solving, decisions Wilmette Theatre — Theatre II and consequences; bravery, persistence; 95 minutes, including media education identity; teamwork, empathy and engagement Field Trip Grades 4 – 6 with surroundings and others versus self- imposed isolation Field Trip Grades 5 – 7
Friday November 3, 2017 — 11:00am Wilmette — Theatre I 98 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 5 – 7 Tweens 40 41
Halloween Stories Halloween: Heads Halloween: Revolting Here’s the Plan In a Heartbeat Into the Blue Ages: 8+ Gonna Roll Rhymes Ages: 9+ Ages: 10+ P, M, V Ages: 12+ M
Shorts Program Ages: 10+ Ages: 11 –14 Shorts Program Shorts Program Shorts Program The spooky stories in the collection are fun The characters in this program will stop at Sometimes going out of one’s comfort zone The girls in this collection are not only have Shorts Program Shorts Program and frightening and include classics from nothing to pursue their passions. No matter and embracing the unknown is a good thing. big dreams, they also get things done. Roald Dahl. From the creators of the Academy Award From the creators of the Academy Award what comes in their way. The characters in this collection come to nominated “The Gruffalo”, comes a new nominated The Gruffalo, comes a new realize that love, friendship, and respect know Shorts: Spindrift, Darwin’s Cave, Threads, Shorts: Little Lunch: “The Halloween Story”, visionary adaptation of Roald Dahl’s wacky visionary adaptation of Roald Dahl’s wacky Shorts: Odd is an Egg, Little Mouse, Rouff, no boundaries. The Mountain of Sgaana, Large Soldier, Bui, Frogs’ Song, Revolting Rhymes: “Part Two” retelling of classic fairy tales. retelling of classic fairy tales. Jubilee, The World’s Middlest Fish, Kukuschka, Into the Blue Here’s the Plan Shorts: In a Heartbeat, Princess, Mrs. Countries: Scotland, Portugal, Canada, Israel, Countries: Australia, Iceland, France, England Shorts: Pica Pica, Heads Together, Revolting Shorts: Citipati, Tik Tak, Revolting Rhymes: McCutcheon, Ethnophobia, Heads Together Countries: Norway, Hungary, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia Languages: English, Icelandic, Nonverbal, Rhymes: Part One, Revolting Rhymes: Part “Part One”, Revolting Rhymes: “Part Two” France, Norway, Russia, Chile Countries: USA, Germany, Australia, England, Languages: Nonverbal, English, Portuguese, English with English subtitles Two Countries: Germany, Estonia, England Languages: Norwegian, Hungarian, English, Netherlands Hebrew, Croatian with English subtitles. Countries: Switzerland, Netherlands, England Languages: Nonverbal, English and nonverbal with English subtitles Languages: Nonverbal, English, German, Languages: Nonverbal, English, Dutch with Dutch with English subtitles Showtimes English subtitles. Showtimes Saturday October 28, 2017 — 11am Showtimes Showtimes Sunday October 29, 2017 — 5pm Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Showtimes Monday October 30, 2017 — 10am Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 10am Facets — Theatre I 77 mins Sunday October 29, 2017 — 1pm Instituto Cervantes Instituto Cervantes Friday November 3, 2017 — 7pm 92 mins Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 10am Facets — Theatre I 96 minutes, including media education 94 minutes, including media education Facets — Theatre I Instituto Cervantes 87 mins Themes: Dark, updated re-telling of beloved Themes: Teamwork, persistence, creative 73 minutes 97 minutes, including media education classics/time-bending twists & turns problem solving, personal goals Themes: Facing Fears, Coming together as Field Trip Grades 6 – 8 Field Trip Grades 5 – 7 friends to stop Monsters; Fractured Fairy Tales Saturday November 4, 2017 — 11:15am Wilmette Theatre — Theatre II Field Trip Grades 4 — 6 74 minutes Tweens 42 43
It’s STEM-tastic! Keep Going Lights, Camera, Action Lila’s Book Long Ago Tales Lotte & Luise: Ages: 8 –11 Ages: 11+ Ages: 11+ Ages: 8 –11 Ages: 11 –14 Twins on Board
Shorts Program The characters in this collection learn how Shorts Program Feature Film Shorts Program Ages: 9+ P determination can help us deal with daily These STEM-tastic films bring us on a journey Let your imagination run wild and bring it In this adventure through magical worlds, Have fun with these animated adaptations life and pursue our dreams. Feature Film through the amazing world of science, tech- to life on screen. Join fellow future children explore and discover the true of spellbinding literature, from the classic to nology, engineering, and math. filmmakers and film fans at this very special value of friendship, the power of fantasy, the modern. Based on the classic novel of the same name Shorts: The Mountain of Sgaana, Keep Going, shorts pro-gram of movies by kids, for kids. and how to stay in touch with your heritage by Erich Kästner, which was the source for Shorts: 1 Minute Nature: Jellyfish Weather, Far From Home, Thea, Scott + Julia Shorts: The Mountain of Sgaana, Minotaur, and culture, by reconnecting through the the popular “Parent Trap” films, the latest ver- Habitat, Big Boom, Origins of Life: Hedgehog’s Home, The Little Match Girl, Countries: Canada, Taiwan, Mexico, Norway, Shorts: Journey, The Diver’s Cloth Lying Empty, love of language. sion of Lotte & Luise follows the twins on Earthquakes, The Garden, The Odd Squad: Revolting Rhymes: “Part One” Netherlands A Baker’s Dozen, Stuck, In the Beginning, The summer break. Where did each girl inherit her Shapely University, Vitamin C, My Haggan Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Day They Met Clive, The Chase, Work, Boris & Directed by Marcela Rincon Gonzalez & Countries: Canada, Latvia, France, talents and abilities, how will they pull off Dream Spanish, Norwegian, Dutch with English Babette, Luke, Children of the World Felipe Morell Switzerland, England the switch without a hitch? What’s it like to be Countries: Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, subtitles. Languages: English, Nonverbal Countries: Croatia, USA, Belgium, Australia, Countries: Colombia part of a completely unexpected “blended” Mexico, Turkey, England, USA Ireland, Netherlands Languages: Spanish with English subtitles family? Languages: English, Spanish, Ch’ol, and Languages: Nonverbal, English, Dutch, nonverbal with English subtitles Showtimes Showtimes Directed by Lancelot von Naso Croatian in English subtitles Sunday November 5, 2017 — 1pm Showtimes Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 11:45am Countries: Germany Facets — Theatre I Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Languages: German with English subtitles Showtimes Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 9:45am 81 minutes Showtimes 90 minutes, including media education Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 11:45am Saturday October 28, 2017 — 3:15pm 96 minutes, including media eduation Themes: Fairytales, myths; rhymed verse Reva & David Logan Center Showtimes Facets — Theatre II 80 minutes, including media education Themes: Treasuring cultural heritage, love of Field Trip Grades 6 – 8 57 mins Friday November 3, 2017 — 10:15am language arts, valuing life of the imagination; Themes: Nature Conservation, human Davis Theater — Theatre II teamwork, adventure impact on environment, animal habitat 113 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 and species characteristics, observation Themes: Teamwork, identity, family of scientific technique, basic geometry. Field Trip Grades 4 – 6 Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 Sunday November 5, 2017 — 10:45am Thursday November 2, 2017 — 11:45am Wilmette Theater — Theatre I Music Box Theatre — Theatre I 93 minutes 85 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 Tweens 44 45
Miles Ahead Mountain Miracle: An Mr. Frog Napping Princess New Horizons, Next Door Spy Ages: 13+ Unexpected Friendship Ages: 8 –11 Ages: 12+ No Limits Ages: 9+
Shorts Program Ages: 11 –13 M, F Feature Film Feature Film Ages: 9 –12 Feature Film The characters in these films make meaningful Ever heard of a werewolf? Well how about a This genre-bending film takes us into the Agatha-Christine—or A.C. for short—is a cool Feature Films Shorts Program connections by having open hearts and minds. werefrog? What appears to be an ordinary machine-driven future, where it turns out wak- customer. She runs a private eye business, Amelie is sent to a special mountain clinic ing and dreaming are far more intertwined Come along on a journey with no horizons specializing in surveillance. But when A.C. is Shorts: Threads, Ships Passing in the Night, class with ordinary children and an ordinary after a life-threatening asthma attack, than they appear. From the director of the and no limits to see what is in store for the hired to crack a case, she uncovers a mystery Darwin’s Cave, Poles Apart, Scrap Dolls, Far teacher is not actually what seems. The teach- where she hears a legend about a magical anime series, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone characters. that goes even deeper than she expected. From Home er, Mr. Frans, sometimes turns into a frog! healing ritual. On top of that, her parents This is very inconvenient, as the new and very Complex. Shorts: The Gift, The Butterfly, Giant Sweet And she’s under pressure from others to “fit in” Countries: Canada, Germany, Portugal, are constantly arguing while they go through strict headmaster has his eye on anything & Chocolate Marshmallows, Bango Vassil, and ditch the detective duds, quit the biz and Singapore, USA, Mexico a divorce. Can she allow the kindness of a Directed by Kenji Kamiyama out of the ordinary—good thing the smart Sita Spotlight on Merna, Hello Salaam all - the clock is ticking! Languages: English, Ewe, Italian, Arabic, practical stranger to help her, or will she stay and her buddy, Wouter are on-hand to sort Countries: Japan Tigrinya, Portuguese, Spanish, and nonverbal Countries: Germany, Canada, Netherlands Directed by Karla Von Bengsston within long-set, self-imposed boundaries? things out. Languages: Japanese with English subtitles with English subtitles Languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Caution: constant and extremely coarse Countries: Denmark Bulgarian, Dutch, Afghan with English languages. Directed by Anna Van Der Heide Languages: Danish with English subtitles subtitles Countries: Netherlands Showtimes Showtimes Directed by Tobias Wiemann Languages: Dutch with English subtitles Saturday October 28, 2017 — 5pm Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 11:45am Countries: Germany, Italy Showtimes Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Facets — Theatre I Languages: German with English subtitles 115 minutes Sunday October 29, 2017 — 9:30am 91 minutes, including media education Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 9:45am Showtimes Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Thursday November 2, 2017 — 10:15am Facets — Theatre I Themes: pay , empathy, coming together Monday October 30, 2017 — 10am 78 minutes Showtimes Music Box Theatre — Theatre II 83 minutes, including media education tho’ miles apart, friendship starts with small Alliance Française 135 minutes, including media education Saturday November 4, 2017 — 11:00am gesture. Sunday October 29, 2017 — 9:45am Themes: Refugee, immigration adaptation, 106 minutes, including media education Wilmette Theater — Theatre I Music Box Theatre — Theatre II Themes: Humans versus machines comparison of experiences growing up in Field Trip Grades 8+ Themes: Empathy, helping others, friendship, 78 minutes 94 minutes relationship; shojo (fantasy), mecha anime different countries, dare to dream, identity, animals and their habitats, natural predators, (robot controlled by humans); sci-fi fantasy. self-expression, persistence characteristics. Real-life fairy tales. Persistence, creative problem solving, girls Field Trip Grades 4 – 6 Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 in stem; family bonds and heritage. Field Trip Grades 8+ Tweens 46 47
No Bullies, Please! No Bullies, Please! Oddsockeaters On Top of the World On Wheels Paying It Forward Get Up, Stand Up Higher Ground Ages: 10+ M Ages: 9 –12 Ages: 10+ Ages: 10+
Ages: 8 –11 Ages: 11 –14 Feature Film Shorts Program Feature Film Shorts Program Hugo’s on a coming-of-age adventure and No matter where they’re from, the young 13-year-old Lucas adjusts to his new life in a The characters in this collection of shorts Shorts Program Shorts Program encounters the Oddsockeaters, small bandits people in these films have what it takes to wheelchair. He admires his classmate, free figure out ways to help out others, step it The characters in this collection find them- Bullying is a constant reality in school and in responsible for socks that go missing when dream big and achieve their goals. spirit Laís, who is determined to know more up, and pay it forward. selves against tough odds, and even tougher everyday life. But how we handle bullies we only have one left from a pair. Wacky and about her father whom she’s never met. To- customers. and being bullied really makes the difference. weird adventures ensue, as Hugo learns Shorts: Chickens for Kimaru, Jesser and gether, they hit the road, on a journey through Shorts: Scrap Dolls, Hello Papa, Mum’s Hair, valuable lessons along the way about family, the Sugarcane, Tsering: On Top of the the lush Brazilian countryside, on a road Walter & Alma, Blank Squares, Far From Shorts: #WhoWeAre: Albert and Aidan Shorts: School’s Out, Ellee, #WhoWeAre: the limits of greed, and the true meaning World, Spotlight on Merna, Kojo: A Short trip where they learn important lessons about Home, New Boy Sykes, School’s Out, Adija, The Origins of Life: Bonnie and Myra Brown, Ethnophobia, Documentary of loyalty. family, friendship, and what it really means Countries: USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Jealousy, The Butterfly, Büi, Geno, The Wind in Medium, Scrap Dolls Countries: Netherlands, Germany, USA to be “different.” Mexico, England the Reeds Directed by Galina Miklinova Countries: USA, China, England, India Languages: English, Swahili, Spanish, Languages: Nonverbal, English, Danish, Directed by Mauro D’Addio Countries: USA, Mexico, Canada, Iceland, Languages: English, Nonverbal, Hindi with Countries: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Nepalese, Arabic with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles. Georgia, France, Belgium, Switzerland English subtitles Croatia Countries: Brazil Languages: English, Spanish, Pai Pai, Languages: Czech with English subtitles and Languages: Portuguese with English subtitles Icelandic, French, and nonverbal with English English (dubbed) Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes subtitles Friday October 27, 2017 — 11:45am Wedneday November 1, 2017 — 8pm Showtimes Monday October 30, 2017 — 11:45am Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Reva & David Logan Center 94 minutes, including media education Saturday October 28, 2017 — 11:45am 92 minutes Showtimes 84 minutes, including media education Saturday October 28, 2017 — 3pm Music Box Theatre — Theatre II Themes: Dare to dream, identity, Thursday November 2, 2017 — 9:45am Facets — Theatre I 72 mins Themes: Identity, good decisions and persistence, career goals and aspirations, Facets — Theatre I 87 minutes, Czech with English subtitles. outcomes, personal and communal situation manage expectations Wedneday November 1, 2017 — 11:45am 97 minutes, including media education in turning situation around, personal Sunday October 29, 2017 — 3pm Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Field Trip Grades 4 – 6 Themes: Coming together as community, reflection, expression, breaking stereotypes Facets — Theatre I 92 minutes, including media education citizenship, identity, good versus bad and misconceptions, whom to reach out to 87 minutes, dubbed in English. Thursday November 2, 2017 — 9:45am Themes: Identity (heritage/physical abilities decisions and outcomes, peaceful opposition for support. Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 11:45am Reva & David Logan Center and adaptation), dare to dream, manage as individual, leadership. Field Trip Grades 6 – 8 Facets — Theatre I 94 minutes, including media education expectations, overcome obstacles, new Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 107 minutes, including media education, Field Trip Grades 4 – 6 friends/romance; coming-of-age, family roots, dubbed in English. persistence, road trip (adventure) Themes: Friendship, loyalty, outcomes of Field Trip Grades 5+ bad deeds (gluttony/greed), adventure Saturday November 4, 2017 — 1pm Field Trip Grades 5+ Wilmette Theatre — Theatre II 72 minutes Sunday November 5, 2017 — 12:30pm Wilmette Theater — Theatre I 87 minutes, dubbed in English. Tweens 48 49
Penny for Them Peppercorns and the Poles Apart Setting the Bar Shiverstone Castle Spindrift Ages: 12+ F Curse of the Black King Ages: 11+ Ages: 10+ Ages: 10+ P Ages: 11 –14
Shorts Program Ages: 9+ P Shorts Program Shorts Program Feature Film Shorts Program A penny for your thoughts? The girls in this The characters in this collection come Setting the bar higher and higher to achieve Stephan isn’t doing well in school and to help Animation can have a wild side and can Feature Film collection have a lot on their minds and are from different backgrounds, but learn that your goals in sports is a daily challenge. boost his grades, his parents decide to send deal with sophisticated themes with edgy not afraid of acting on their feelings, either. The Peppercorns are back to their high-tech by coming together everyone benefits. The characters in this collection are definitely him to boarding school at Shiverstone Castle. approaches to form and format. Caution: constant and extremely coarse sleuthing. This time, they solve the mystery up for it. Soon Stephan learns that Shiverstone is not language. of a legendary curse and bring a corporate Shorts: Giant Sweet & Chocolate Marsh- a snooty boarding school— quite the contrary! Shorts: My Life on Mars, Poles Apart, Citipati, conspiracy out into the open. While on a class mallows, A Festive Wind, Not Just Another Shorts: Can Johannes Do It? Archery, Little Habitat, Au Revoir Balthazar, Spindrift, The Commute, Poles Apart, Habitat, The Shorts: Creeling, Martina, Oh Martina, Large trip, Mia and Basti investigate a mysterious Mouse, Deep Water, Kids on the Silk Road: Directed by Ralf Huettner Garden, The Burden Shelter, Scrap Dolls Soldier, Among the Adults curse. Together they try to bring down the evil Girls Against Gravity Countries: Germany Countries: Netherlands, Czech Republic, Countries: Germany, France, Switzerland, Countries: Scotland, Spain, Israel, Denmark plot in an action-packed, daring adventure. Countries: Germany, Hungary, Denmark Languages: German with English subtitles Belgium, England, Norway, USA Russia, France, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium Languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew, Danish Languages: German, Hungarian, Mongolian Directed by Christian Theede Languages: Nonverbal, German, English, Languages: English, Czech, German, and with English subtitles with English subtitles. Norwegian with English subtitles nonverbal with English subtitles Countries: Germany Showtimes Languages: German with English subtitles Sunday October 29, 2017 — 11:45am Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Music Box Theatre — Theatre II Showtimes Sunday October 29, 2017 — 5:15pm Saturday October 28, 2017 — 12pm 93 minutes Saturday October 28, 2017 — 7pm Showtimes Saturday November 4, 2017 — 3pm Facets — Theatre II Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre II Facets — Theatre I 74 minutes Saturday November 4, 2017 — 10am 65 minutes 73 minutes 69 minutes Davis Theater — Theatre II Monday October 30, 2017 — 11:45am 97 minutes Music Box Theater — Theatre I 89 minutes, including media education Themes: Sci-fi, antasy,f identity, disconnection & reconnection, isolation Field Trip Grades 6 – 8
Friday November 3, 2017 — 11:45am Wilmette Theatre — Theatre II 89 minutes, including media education Field Trip Grades 6 – 8 Tweens 50 51
Stick to It Tales from the The End of Dreams The Legend of Timm The Wait Ticket to Ride Ages: 9+ Lakeside Ages: 9+ Thaler or the Boy Ages: 13+ M Ages: 12+ M Shorts Program Ages: 8 –11 Feature Film Who Sold his Laughter Feature Film Shorts Program What does it take to make a career dream In northern Iran, Arash lives a peaceful life Although pretty, popular, and a real leader, The would-be sweethearts in this collection Feature Film Ages: 9 –12 P or passion come true? The characters with his sister and parents, outside a re- fourteen-year-old Afghan refugee Rokhsar have to be smart about their emotions Willy Whistle’s big dream is to become a in this collection reveal just what it takes. mote village near a beautiful green forest. Feature Film has a lot of weight on her shoulders. Not and how the deal with relationships both Guardian, but his curiosity always gets him Everything changes when he takes his only does she have school and friends to deal new and old. Shorts: Little Mouse, King of Twirl, Alfredo, into trouble. The Verdies are the tiny, new horse on a secret ride.It is difficult to Timm Thaler may be poor, but he is rich with, but her family’s citizenship depends Tsering: On Top of the World, Kojo: A Short but brave guardians of the lakeside. When face the consequences of his choice, but with friends and has a positive outlook. on her. As they await the final decision on Shorts: Nadine, In a Heartbeat, Baba & Documentary, Oscar the lake is at risk when the enemies, the with the love and support of family, and the After finding a job working a swanky hotel, asylum status, will the burden and the stress Son- In the Hamam, The Mountain of he meets the evil Baron Lefuet who Countries: Hungary, Netherlands, Germany, Grimps and the swans, enter into alliance, tightly-knit circle of neighbors and friends, change Rokhsar forever? Sgaana, Final Call, Here’s the Plan, Heads makes Timm a sketchy offer: in exchange USA, Canada the Guardians are helpless! Will Willy he can hope to keep his equestrian dreams Together for his laugh, Timm will win every bet he Directed by Emil Langballe Languages: Hungarian, Dutch, Nepalese, be able to step up and help save the day? alive. Countries: Canada, USA, Germany, Portugal, makes. Now, Timm has everything he could Countries: Denmark English with English subtitles. Denmark, England, Chile, Netherlands Directed by Zsolt Palfi Directed by Mohammad Ali Talebi dream of, except there is no turning back Languages: Danish and Dari with English Languages: Nonverbal, English, Dutch with and the stakes are higher than ever. subtitles Countries: Hungary Countries: Iran English subtitles Showtimes Languages: Hungarian with English subtitles Languages: Persian with English subtitles. Directed by Andreas Dresen Saturday November 4, 2017 — 11am Countries: Germany Showtimes Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Languages: German with English subtitles Thursday November 2, 2017 —11:45am 82 minutes Sunday November 5, 2017 — 3pm Facets — Theatre I Friday November 3, 2017 — 9:45am Saturday October 28, 2017 — 7:15pm Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I 78 minutes, including media education Facets — Theatre II Showtimes 79 minutes 88 minutes, including media education 92 minutes Themes: Identity, family, immigration, Friday October 27, 2017 — 10:15am Themes: Personal leadership, bravery; community, support systems; overcoming Music Box Theatre — Theatre II patience, persistence, resourcefulness, obstacles, perseverance, surviving trauma 122 minutes, including media eduction problem solving; teamwork, friendship, as individual/family, understanding empathy; environmentalism. Themes: Fantasy, adventure; personal differences, representing adult issues while responsibility; friendship, teamwork, greater a minor, United Nations Rights of the Child. Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 outcomes of personal bad decisions, greed Field Trip Grades 8+ and its outcome Thursday November 2, 2017 —11:45am Field Trip Grades 5 – 7 Reva & David Logan Center 78 minutes, including media education Saturday October 28, 2017 — 11am Music Box Theatre — Theatre I Field Trip Grades 8+ 102 minutes Tweens 52 53
Tune Up Vampire Sisters Vampire Sisters 2: Vampire Sisters 3: Where to Go From Wind in the Reeds Ages: 12+ Ages: 10+ P Bats in the Belly Journey to Transylvania Here Ages: 8 –11
Shorts Program Feature Film Ages: 10+ Ages: 10+ Ages: 11 –14 Shorts Program In this collection of short films about the Dakaria and Silvania are 12-year-old fraternal The characters in this collection of animated Feature Film Feature Film Shorts Program power of music, we know music is part twins who’ve just moved to a new town, to films value friendship and coming together as of life, expression, identity and making start a new life. Like all tweens, they get used Back for a second “bite,” the Vampire Sisters The Vampire Sisters are back for final wild Families and friends are displaced due to individuals to lift the entire community. personal connections to traditions and to to the new school, new classmates, new throw themselves into a new adventure. adventure. The evil vampire queen Antansia many different reasons. The characters in Shorts: #WhoWeAre: Albert and Aidan Sykes, community. neighbors. Silvania just wants to fit in, while Vampire band Krypton Krax is coming to town, plots to kidnap the sister’s baby brother, these films, if they are refugees or volunteers, 1 Minute Nature: Blackbird, Spider Web, Dakaria just wants to be her true self— bringing not only excitement for Dakaria, but Franz. Now they must save their brother learn a lot from different cultures. Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver, Little J and Shorts: A Festive Wind, Oscar, Kojo: A Short there’s just one thing — they’re half-vampires also danger for everyone! Krypton Krax’s man- before the evil queen crowns Franz as her Shorts: Scent of Geranium, Safia’s Summer, Big Cuz: Hopalong, A Festive Wind, The Wind Documentary, Kunumi, The Native Thunder, going through puberty, who’ve just re-located ager Xantor is one their father’s biggest rivals, successor. Spotlight on Merna, Hello Salaam, Ahmad’s Walter & Alma to their mother’s country in Germany. and he has sworn revenge. in the Reeds Hair Countries: France, Switzerland, Canada, USA, Directed by Wolfgang Groos Countries: USA, Netherlands, Russia, Canada, Directed by Wolfgang Groos Directed by Wolfgang Groos Countries: USA, Netherlands Brazil, Denmark Countries: Germany Australia, France, Switzerland, Belgium Languages: English, Dutch, Arabic, Afghan Languages: Nonverbal, English, Portuguese, Countries: Germany Countries: Germany Languages: German with English subtitles Languages: English, Dutch, French, and Danish with English subtitles Languages: German with English subtitles Languages: German with English subtitles with English subtitles nonverbal with English subtitles
Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Sunday October 29, 2017 — 1:30pm Monday October 30, 2017 — 11:45am Sunday October 29, 2017 — 3:15pm Sunday October 29, 2017 — 10am Sunday October 29, 2017 — 11:45am Facets — Theatre II Thursday November 2, 2017 — 10am Facets — Theatre I Alliance Française Facets — Theatre II Facets — Theatre II Facets — Theatre II 95 minutes 80 minutes 97 minutes 94 minutes 94 minutes, including media education 92 minutes, including media education Themes: Refugee life, new immigrant Themes: Friendship, teamwork, empathy, perspective, manage expectations, hpn, community, living in harmony, inclusivity, empathy, standing out, fitting in, identity, new celebration friends Field Trip Grades 3 – 5 Field Trip Grades 6 – 8 Teens 55
grades 9—12 Approaching the coming-of-age experience ages 13—17 from multiple perspectives, filmmakers from accross the globe bring innovation and emotional complexity to these films about the teen experience.
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Birdboy: The Forgotten Crickets Crossroads Dreaming of Denmark Edgy Animation Goodbye to All That Children Ages: 15+ M, F Ages: 15+ Ages: 16+ P, M Ages: 14+ Ages: 14+
Ages: 15+ M, V Shorts Program Shorts Program Feature Film Shorts Program Shorts Program The young women in this collection are having The characters in this collection of cross- Smart, good-looking, and full of life, teen We’re excited to present the freshest, most The characters in this collection of animated Feature Film trouble communicating to their intended generation friendship are unlikely companions Wasi has made friends and works hard at interesting international animated films. shorts are looking forward to moving on with With iconic characters and a storyline that audience. They want to say something, but all who find themselves in cahoots. integrating after the harrowing escape from their lives. explores universal themes of hope, despair, we hear are crickets. Caution: Constant and his home country. A sobering look at a very Shorts: Poles Apart, Drop by Drop, I Am Shorts: Poles Apart, Not Just Another and salvation with humor and grace, “Bird- extremely coarse language. Shorts: Not Just Another Commute, We Are topical reality for teens across the globe, Here, Volcano Island, Minotaur, Au Revoir Commute, I Am Here, Kukuschka, Au Revoir boy” pushes the boundaries of animated Just Fine Like This, Fortune Teller, Different Dreaming of Denmark follows the complex life Balthazar, Totems, The Shelter, The Burden Balthazar, The Shelter, The Burden Shorts: Far From Home, What the Eye Doesn’t Bayern storytelling in exciting new directions. Based of the Afghan refugee as he nervously awaits Countries: England, Portugal, Canada, See, Among the Adults, Crickets Countries: Singapore, France, Belgium, on graphic novel, the film is an intense, ma- Countries: France, Belgium, Tunisia, Spain, news of permanent residence acceptance. Hungary, Latvia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Norway, cabre coming-of-age tale. Woven throughout Countries: Mexico, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany Caution: contains extremely coarse language. Norway, Sweden Sweden are popular dystopian themes, combined Isreal Languages: Nonverbal, English, German, Languages: Nonverbal, English, Portuguese, Directed by Michael Graversen Languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish, and with stunning and variegated animation styles Languages: Spanish, French, Danish, Hebrew Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles. Norwegian, Swedish with English subtitles. nonverbal with English subtitles to present a truly unique work. with English subtitles Countries: Denmark Languages: Danish with English subtitles Directed by Alberto Vazquez & Pedro Rivera Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Showtimes Countries: Spain Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 6:30pm Sunday October 29, 2017 — 9pm Showtimes Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 10:15am Languages: Spanish with English Subtitles Sunday October 29, 2017 — 7:15pm Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I Music Box Theatre — Theatre II Facets — Theatre II 74 minutes Thursday November 2, 2017 — 7pm 91 minutes 91 minutes, including media education 78 mins Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Thursday November 2, 2017 — 9pm 58 minutes Field Trip Grades 9+ Facets — Theatre I Saturday October 28, 2017 — 9pm 91 minutes Facets — Theatre I Saturday November 4, 2017 — 7pm 76 minutes Facets — Theatre I 71 minutes Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 8pm Facets — Theatre I Sunday November 5, 2017 — 1pm 76 minutes Wilmette Theater — Theatre II 71 minutes Teens 58 59
It’s the End of the Swagger Teen Lens The Girl Without Wallay Window Horses World as We Know It Ages: 15+ P, M, F Ages: 15+ Hands Ages: 14+ M Ages: 13+
Ages: 15+ P, F Feature Film Shorts Program Ages: 16+ M Feature Film Feature Film A poetic documentary about eleven middle- Teens take over the camera in this collection When Ady’s single father can no longer Stuck flipping burgers, Rosie Ming is secretly a Shorts Program Feature Film schoolers and teens growing up in one of of youth-produced films. support his son, he sends him from urban self-published poet. One day, she’s invited The characters in this collection take the the most challenging areas in the outskirts In this stunningly gorgeous and innovative France to live family in Africa. At first, Ady to a prestigious international poetry festival in Shorts: Fairytale Fallout, I’m Afraid, Escape phrase, “I think, therefore I am,” to the of Paris. Caution: Constant and extremely animated film based on the Brothers Grimm is excited to spend a relaxing summer in his Iran, where she may meet long-gone father. from the Zoo, You Will Be Able, Baffi Spioventi, absolute limits. coarse language. story, a miller sells his daughter to the devil father’s homeland, but upon arriving in the Can she find her own poetic voice and embrace The Mask, Blue Inventor, Jonah Davenport: to help save the family business. “Mr. Lauden- remote village Ady is introduced to new family her never-before glimpsed heritage? More the Peak of Percussion, Journey, New Steps Shorts: Habitat, Grounded, I Am Here, Au Directed by Olivier Babinet bach’s drawing eschews clean ink lines for members, a new culture, and discovers a imminently, can she carry her own in the big Revoir Balthazar, Poles Apart, Connect, Drop Countries: Canada, Brazil, Ukraine, Belgium, poetry slam? Featuring the voice of Sandra Oh. Countries: France a minimalist and impressionist aesthetic. He different side of himself, as well. He quickly by Drop, Martina, Oh Martina, The Burden Korea, Poland, USA, Australia, Spain allows the water color swatches that stand realizes he needs to turn his situation around Languages: French with English subtitles Directed by Ann Marie Fleming Countries: Switzerland, France, Canada, Languages: English, Portuguese, French, in for characters and landscapes to create a if he wants to return to France. Caution: England, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden Spanish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Korean with dreamlike world that appears poetically Constant and extremely coarse language. Countries: Canada Languages: Nonverbal, English, Portuguese, Showtimes English subtitles endless.” (New York Times) Languages: English Spanish, Swedish with English subtitles Directed by Berni Goldblat Friday November 3, 2017 — 9pm Directed by Sébastien Laudenbach Countries: France Facets — Theatre I Showtimes Showtimes 83 minutes Countries: France Languages: French, Dioula with English Showtimes Saturday October 28, 2017 — 5:15pm Languages: French with English subtitles subtitles Wednesday November 1, 2017 — 10:00am Tuesday October 31, 2017 — 6:30pm Facets — Theatre II Alliance Française Facets — Theatre I 58 minutes 110 minutes, including media eduction Showtimes Showtimes 78 minutes Themes: Poetry, immigration, Iranian history, Sunday October 29, 2017 — 7pm Saturday November 4 — 9pm Monday October 30, 2017 — 6:30pm cross-cultural marriage, search for family Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I Facets — Theatre I connections, finding artistic voice; identity, 76 mins 78 minutes 83 mins travel & adventure, bravery. Field Trip Grades 7+
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