The Kids and Youth Film Week to be held parallel to the 8th International Film Festival has now grown out of its infancy and can claim its own rightful place in Dortmund alongside the film programmes for the "adults". Over the week, we will be offering a total of ten films in two separate strands that will appeal to all age groups between six and eighteen.The audience we are aiming for is the school one.

In addition to topicality, two criteria were used in selecting the films: on the one hand, the overall theme of the Festival and, on the other, films made by women directors. What might sound like a restrictive strategy was easily vindicated this year. Four of the films on show are the work of young female directors.

After the films have been shown, the school students will be encouraged to process their reactions, this in collaboration with Cologne Institute of Cinema Studies whose staff will be providing special lesson materials for the schools to use, materials based in this case on ALASKA.DE and SWETLANA.

Also, within the framework of a project week held ahead of the Festival, students at Dortmund Gartenstadt High School made their own cartoon films which will be given a public screening at the Kids and Youth Film Week.

Films:

ALASKA.DE (Esther Gronenborn, D 2000)
BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (Jamie Babbit, USA 1999)
CIRKELINE - GROSSTADTMÄUSE (Jannik Hastrup; DK 1998)
EMPORTE-MOI (Léa Pool, CDN 1998)
ENGELEIN (Urban Gad, D 1913)
KRÜMELCHEN (Maria Peters, NL 1999)
SWETLANA (Tamara Staudt, D 1999)
TSASIKI - TINTENFISCH UND ERSTE KÜSSE (DK/S/N 1999)
VERGISS AMERIKA (Vanessa Jopp, D 2000)
ZORNIGE KÜSSE (Judith Kennel, CH 2000)