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The International Kids Film Festival (IKFF) brings its 6th variation to Bengaluru connected November 23. IKFF, titled a “first-of-its-kind”, is simply a planetary movie festival presented by School Cinema and organised by LXL Ideas. The festival features 75 award-winning children’s films from 20 countries successful 15 languages, hosted from November 14 to November 30 by schools crossed India.
IKFF presents opportunities to children by showcasing films and hosting online workshops to thatch children the assorted characteristics of filmmaking and holding the World’s largest pupil filmmaking contention to supply a level for young filmmakers to grounds their talents, winners correspond India arsenic Jurors astatine spouse festivals.
IKFF 2023 partners with International Festivals including Busan International Kids & Youth FIlm Festival (BIKY), South Korea, Giffoni FIlm Festival, Italy, Children’s Film Festival Seattle and Providence Children’s Film Festival, USA. The festival invites radical from crossed the satellite arsenic Jury members with unit specified arsenic Alexandros Kostopoulos, Director/ Screenwriter from Greece, R Balki, Filmmaker from India and MArie-Pauline Mollaret, Head of Short Films Committee astatine Cannes Festival, France.
With 9000 schools successful 20 countries hosting IKFF successful 2019, the movie festival aspires to usage Film Pedagogy to contiguous children with the magic of planetary films, utilizing it arsenic a means of education. The Festival Director of IKFF and MD, LXL Ideas, Syed Sultan Ahmed says that, “Visual storytelling is an indispensable beingness accomplishment successful a satellite dominated by audio-visual content. Very fewer kids get an accidental to enactment successful movie festivals. So, we astatine LXL Ideas came up with a elemental idea: if ‘Kids don’t spell to movie festivals, let’s instrumentality the festival to the kids.’ This thought gave emergence to IKFF, a school-based movie festival.” Hence, the festival made its mode to India with 7.5 cardinal students participating from 26,000 schools crossed the country.
