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Little Kid Flicks 2024

Ages 5 and up

A composite of four images from Little Kid Flicks.

Jump-start your little one’s love of cinema with a program of cartoons from around the world.

Join us for a screening of animated shorts from the 2024 New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYCIFF). Each short is selected to charm all audiences and to introduce our youngest viewers to their very first movie theater experience. (Approx. 67 mins., DCP)

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Clockwise from top left: Coquille, My name is Edgar and I have a cow, Tabby McTat, Pufferfish, courtesy of NYICFF.

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Program lineup

Pufferfish (Kugelfisch, Julia Ocker, 2022, 4 mins., Germany)
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish must act as tough as possible—but looks can be deceiving. No dialogue.

Forever Seven (Für immer Sieben, Antje Heyn and Alexander Isert, 2024, 9 mins., Germany)
The greatest treasure of the wooden crate Mouse finds may just be the possibilities it holds. In English.

Coquille (Multiple directors, 2023, 6 mins., France)
After losing his shell, hermit crab Bernard must face the dangers of the beach to find a new home. No dialogue.

My name is Edgar and I have a cow (Jmenuju se Edgar a mam kravu, Filip Diviak, 2023, 8 mins., Czech Republic, Slovakia)
When Edgar rescues a newborn calf from a food factory, he learns that raising a cow isn’t as easy as it seems. In Czech and Slovak with English subtitles.

Hoofs on Skates (Kanopos ir pačiūžos, Ignas Meilūnas, 2024, 12 mins., Lithuania) 
Two friends discover the joys of the ice—both above and below. No dialogue.

Tabby McTat (Jac Hamman and Sarah Scrimgeour, 2022, 25 mins., United Kingdom)
The Oscar-nominated (and NYICFF Award-winning) 
Magic Light Pictures returns to share the adventure of a tabby street cat and his busking friend. In English.

Presented in partnership with New York International Children’s Film Festival

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
National Endowment for the Arts 
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Greater Columbus Arts Council
 
The Wexner Family 
Institute of Museum and Library Services
 
Mellon Foundation 
Every Page Foundation 
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc 
Nationwide Foundation 
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation 
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Ohio State Energy Partners 
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman 
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle

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Little Kid Flicks 2024