Discover the Petit Animac 2022 section, the paradise of animated cinema for children

LITTLE ANIMAC 2022, THE PARADISE OF ANIMATION CINEMA FOR CHILDREN

The special guest of this year’s Petit Animac will be the Galician producer and director Chelo Loureiro, who will present her feature film Valentina , starring a dreamy and cheerful girl with Down syndrome

You will be able to see about thirty short films, including: Hokkyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima (Polar Bear Bears Boredom) latest work by Koji Yamamura, one of the great contemporary authors; Born by Roberto Valle and nominated for a Goya , or Précieux by Paul Mas nominated for the César Awards of the French Academy, and will be released in Spain Ich habe keine Angst! (I’m Not Afraid!) short by Marita Mayer selected at the Berlinale

The children’s program will be complemented by three school sessions, with twenty short films selected and aimed at students in schools in the region, which this year will be in person at La Llotja, from February 28 to March 4, and also online

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On the weekend of March 5th and 6th , the children have an appointment in Lleida with the screenings of the Petit Animac , the section of the Mostra Internacional de Cinema d’Animació de Catalunya , organized by Lleida City Council, specially designed for the little ones in the house. At La Llotja and CaixaForum Lleida , children will be able to watch five sessions of the Petit Animac with a selection of 32 animated films (27 short films, 4 short films and 1 feature film) of 19 different nationalities and a dozen of which are being released in Spain.

Also, as last year, most of the children’s programming can also be followed online, from March 4 to 13, through the Filmin platform for in the national territory, an excellent opportunity to bring Animac closer to the homes of those who cannot travel to Lleida.

And for the schools and institutes of the region of Lleida, Animac organizes once again the School Sessions , with a selection of 22 short films from around the world, which this year can be followed in hybrid format: in person at La Llotja de Lleida, from February 28 to March 4, and online through Filmin . In total, more than 9,000 children and young people will be able to enjoy these sessions.

 

CHELO LOUREIRO, PETIT ANIMAC 2022 SPECIAL GUEST

The Petit Animac will have a special guest this year: the director and producer of Galician animation Chelo Loureiro , who will present on March 6 at Lleida the feature film Valentina (Spain, 2021), a story of overcoming and optimism starring a girl with Down syndrome who wants to be a trapeze artist. This is Loureiro’s debut as a director, after a long career as a producer and executive producer, having produced TV series, shorts, documentaries and feature films, largely with international co-producers who have won numerous awards. and tour festivals around the world.

Chelo Loureiro is currently producing the award-winning animated film Alberto Vázquez , Unicorn Wars , which will also be present in this edition of Animac with a work in progress where he will explain the process of creating the film, and which won the Goya Award for best animated short film with Decorado (2016), also produced by this year’s Petit Animac special guest.

In addition, Loureiro is in the pre-production phase of the feature films of Isabel Herguera (who was the director of Animac from 2003 to 2011), El sueño de la sultana , and sisters Sonia and Miriam Albert, Melita .

Loureiro will talk about her work as an independent animation producer at an Animac Campus conference on March 3, aimed at young school students. of animation that visit the Show.

 

PROGRAMMING OF THE SMALL ANIMAC 2022 PROGRAMMING

The Petit Animac is the section of the Show specially designed for children, and aims to introduce them to the world of animation and its various techniques, and to encourage his curiosity and taste for cinema, with proposals from different countries of origin. The screenings of the Petit Animac will take place at La Llotja and CaixaForum Lleida.

In addition to the feature film Valentina , which will be screened in the session Petit Animac 5 , on March 6 in at 12.30 pm at La Llotja, children visiting Animac will be able to enjoy four more children’s sessions, with some thirty short and newly created short films from all over the world.

The Petit Animac 1 Short & amp; Sweet (all audiences +0) where you can see the short film La mama és pura pluja (France, 2021) directed by Hugo de Faucompret and recently released, which tells the story of the adventures of Jana, a girl who wants to celebrate Christmas with her mother, who goes through a small depression, but, without warning, they send her to her grandmother’s house. This film can only be seen in the session of the Petit Animac 1 of CaixaForum Lleida.

Also, the Animac 1 Short & amp; Sweet will also feature 9 short films, including the Spanish premiere of Papa Is Big, I Am Small (Italy, 2021), a story Short and tender about a girl who says goodbye to her sailor father who goes away on a trip, directed by Masha Rumyantseva and Anya Ru , the latter will visit the Animac to present the film.

Short films such as Torokerumono (Japan, 2020) by director Takahiro Nishizawa will also be screened, with imaginative shapes that blend in with the sweetest visual experience; Che meraviglia (Italy, 2020), the story of a creature’s emotions during the first confinement of Covid-19 directed by Alessandra Atzori and Milena Tipaldo, which will be premieres in Spain, as will Mushroom Mushrooms (France, 2020) directed by Léa Fabreguettes; Where Do They Come From? (And Where Do They Go?) (Denmark, 2021) by Christen Bach, a meditative road trip with animals; the adventures in a spaceship of a small ball of rice in Konigiri-Kun Ensoukai (Konigiri-Kun Concert) < (Japan, 2020) by Mari Miyazawa, and Das Lied auf meiner Schmusedecke (The Patchwork Song) (Germany, 2021), the music video for the children’s series Patchwork Pals by Angela Steffen. The short Katu Katu (Lithuania, 2021) by Giedrė Narušytė Boots will be released in Catalonia where a caterpillar plays with kittens and wants to fly, and you can also see Blip (United States, 2021) directed by Hanquig Sun, which delves into the sense of isolation caused by digital technology.

The Petit Animac 2 session (all audiences +3) will feature 5 short films and the short film Superworm (UK, 2021), a comedy animated with a worm as the protagonist, directed by Jac Hamman and Sarah Scrimgeour and based on the book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, authors of hits such as El Grúfal and The Drag Zog , among others.

Shorts of Petit Animac 2 include the Spanish premiere of Ich habe keine Angst! (I’m Not Afraid!) (Germany and Norway, 2021) directed by Marita Mayer and selected at the Berlinale, starring a child facing his fears. The producer of this film, Fabian Driehorst , will be in Lleida to present the film.

The short film nominated for the Goya Nacer (Spain, 2021) directed by Roberto Valle will also be screened, which tells the story of a boy who discovers that he will have a little brother and how he does it. in the face of unknown emotions, and The Extraordinary Story of La Bruna (Spain, 2021) directed by Marc Riba and Anna Solanas, the Catalan animators in stop motion with the longest career international, which tells the story of a beaver girl who on a St. John’s night a strong wind takes her away from home. You can also see the Mexican short film Mi abuela Matilde (Mexico, 2021) by director Miguel Anaya Borja, which explores the relationship between a girl and her grandmother who hides a childhood secret, which will also be released in Spain, and Kā Lupatiņi ceļoja (How Shammies Traveled) (Latvia, 2020) directed by Edmunds Jansons, which tells the adventures of children traveling home with their eyes closed.

The 8 Petit Animac 3 (all audiences +6) will screen 8 short films and the short film Panique au village: Les Grandes Vacances (France, Belgium and Switzerland, 2021), by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier, a story of Indians and cowboys who want to build a boat and go on an adventure.

The session of Petit Animac 3 is completed by eight short films starring animals, including the latest work by one of the great contemporary authors, Koji Yamamura, with Hokkyoku -Gum Suggoku Hima (Polar Bear Bears Boredom) (Japan, 2021), a fun and somewhat surreal song about a bored bear and playful sea animals.

You can also watch Damn It! (Germany, 2021) directed by Elena Walf, which will be released in Spain and is a fable between good and evil; 6 pattes sous terre (France, 2021), by Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, also premiered in Spain, with a cat chased by the ghost of a mouse; Kiko et les animaux (France, 2020) by Yawen Zheng, which tells the story of a child who has to learn to respect animals; Al Tabbab (Qatar, 2021) by Khalifa Al-Mana, with the adventures of a boy, his father and a goat, who make an offering to a mysterious monster of the sea; V lese (In the Woods) (Czech Republic, 2021) directed by Ivana Ceskova, a story about the connection between nature and people, with a badly injured child and forest spirits that help him; Kuku (Cuckoo) (Czech Republic, 2020), directed by Daniela Hýbnerová, a short animated documentary that humorously describes how cuckoos lay eggs in the nests of other birds. and Nuisibles (France, 2021) by Juliette Laboria, with a summer story starring a group of children and an army of wasps.

As for Petit Animac 4 (all audiences +6), children will find 5 short films and the short film Moules-Frites (France, 2021) directed by Nicolas Hu, and which narrates the adventures of a very stubborn girl who wants to learn to sail.

Among the short films in the Petit Animac 4 session is A Menina Parada (Portugal, 2021) directed by Joana Toste, starring a girl who is forced to stop traffic and moves people’s hearts, because she has lost sight of her mother and does not want to move in the middle of a pedestrian crossing to find her.

You can also watch the short Elevator Alone (Greece, 2021) by Anastasia Papadopoulou, which is inspired by everyday life and the difference between how people behave. when she is alone and the socially acceptable behavior that individuals adopt when they are in public space, such as in an elevator; Black Slide (Israel, 2021) directed by Uri Lotan, which tells the story of a boy who, through a journey on a terrifying giant slide, prepares for events that are about to take place in your home; La primavera siempre vuelve (Spain, 2021) by Alicia Núñez Puerto, which tells the story of a grandmother who teaches her grandchildren how to plant in small pots, and Děti ze Všehovíc: Jak ho našli (Children of Gainmore: How They Found It) (Czech Republic, 2021) directed by Petr Mischinger, which describes the adventures of Kindergarten find a magic stone that transforms into a spaceship.

 

SCHOOL SESSIONS ARE ATTENDED AT THE BOX AGAIN AND ALSO ONLINE AT FILMIN

The Animac 2022 Children’s Program will be completed with School Sessions , aimed at school students (from preschool to high school), that this year will have a hybrid format with face-to-face screenings at La Llotja de Lleida and also online through Filmin. In total, it is estimated that more than 9,000 children and young people in the area will be able to enjoy these sessions.

As in other editions, three School Sessions will be scheduled with a selection of 22 animated short films adapted to the different academic years: a session for students in Early Childhood Education and Initial Cycle (from 3 to 7 years ), with eight extraordinary stories; a session for those in the middle and upper cycle (from 8 to 11 years old), with eight shorts where the imagination is the protagonist, and another for those in secondary education (ESO, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training), with six shorts with stories of the multiverse.

Among the short films selected in the School Sessions is Paul Mas, nominated for the César Awards of the French Academy.

More than 6,400 students from 42 schools and 12 are expected to attend the Face-to-Face School Sessions at La Llotja from February 28 to March 4. institutes of Lleida city and province.

As for the Online School Sessions , more than 3,000 students from 22 schools and 5 high schools in the Lleida region will take part. With this online format, students will be able to enjoy the screenings at their schools without having to travel and, as every year, they will have the usual material provided in schools to accompany the viewing of the animated pieces. .

 

ANIMAC 2022 ‘FORCES OF IMAGINATION’, ATTENDANCE IN LLEIDA FROM 3 TO 6 MARCH AND ONLINE FROM 4 TO 13 MARCH

The 26th edition of Animac , organized by Lleida City Council in person from 3 to 6 March and in online format from 4 to 13 March, will be central theme The Force of Imagination and will feature the best of animation cinema, with monographic and retrospective sessions of films that explore the subject of imagination and its expressive power, as well as a careful selection of newly created short and feature films from around the world, lectures and masterclasses for animation lovers.