Children will be able to enjoy three films in Basque at the San Sebastian Festival
Over 20,000 children will attend the morning screenings of ‘Ice Age’ on the giant Velodrome screen
‘Piccolo & Saxo’ and ‘Vinnare Och Förlorare’, at the Take Your Parents to the Cinema screenings
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Kids will also star in the San Sebastian Festival with two initiatives encouraging a first approach to films the big way. While it is possible to watch films in an increasing number of manners turning their attention towards ever smaller portable formats, the magic of enjoying cinema on the big screen is also an unbeatable experience for the new generations, the viewers of the future, offering them their first contact with the Film Festival.
With Big Films for the Kids, over 20,000 children will enjoy the morning screenings at the Velodrome, where Ice Age will be shown on the giant screen installed for the event. Pupils from the Basque ikastolas and schools in Gipuzkoa therefore participate in a unique experience, that of watching a film in a theatre for 3,000 viewers, with extraordinary dimensions, an event which has now been a huge success for years at the San Sebastian Festival.
Moreover, children also have the opportunity to do things their way: Take Your Parents to the Cinema is an initiative permitting the whole family to participate in screenings with tickets at the very special low price of €1, giving them the chance to discover European premieres. Piccolo, Saxo et Compagnie (Piccolo & Saxo) and Vinnare Och Förlorare are the two films to be screened under this initiative at the Principal Theatre on the 29th.
All three films will be screened dubbed into Basque especially for the occasion, thus permitting their distribution to other Gipuzkoan towns and villages in the future.
Similarly, the Velodrome will house the screening in a version dubbed into Basque of ARCTIC TALE, by Sarah Robertson and Adam Ravetch, a documentary for a family audience showing the effects of the climate change in the Arctic by following a family of polar bears and another of walruses.
TAKE YOUR PARENTS TO THE CINEMA
Nothing's going right on planet Music. All the instrument families are angry and are arguing all the time. It all began with the mysterious disappearance of the keys of G, F and C, and obviously each of the families accuses the other. It's a real mess: they are all just playing for themselves and nobody wants to know anything about the Full Orchestra. However, when a woodwind instrument, Piccolo, becomes the best friend of a brass instrument, Sax, the note C can hardly believe it. If they both become friends and decide to go in search of the lost keys together, you can be sure that they'll find great music just round the corner. The three of them then embark together on a great adventure with plenty of pitfalls and dangers on the way. The search for harmony is not an easy task!
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VINNARE OCH FÖRLORARE
Country: Sweden
Director: Kjell Sundvall
Cast: Frida Hallgren, Märtha Ferm, Daniel Gustavsson, Mona Malm
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There are thousands of ways to triumph in life. Fredrik is 10-year-old Magda's father; he's an entertaining man, an experienced jockey and, it would seem, appears to have found the horse of his dreams. But the horse is apparently determined not to win. Fredrik spends more and more time with his horse and less and less time with his daughter, who is practicing hard for the 60-metre race at school. As she doesn't see much of her father, Magda often goes to the bingo with her grandmother. There she meets Helena, a bingo employee who also wants to be a success in life. Helena may not be the woman of Fredrik's dreams, but she does teach him about life, love and being a father, which is what you really need to be a winner in life.
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BIG FILMS FOR THE KIDS
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ICE AGE
USA
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha.
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Twenty thousand years ago, the earth was a marvellous and danger-packed prehistoric world. The Ice Age started at around that time. The most unlikely herd of the moment was also taking shape: a headstrong mammoth called Manfred; a particulary loafing sloth called Sid, a sinister saber-toothed tiger named Diego and an acorn-mad squirrel known as Scrat. This misfit quartet is unexpectedly launched into an exciting adventure to return a human child to its parents, becoming the first heroes in the world.
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