Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival: Program 2
BAICFF: A Playdate for the Imagination is where education and imagination collide. The festival offers families a cinematic view of the world’s varied cultures and traditions. The films inspire curiosity and conversation, and allow children to experience a wide range of cultural perspectives.
The Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival began as a creative community event to support education programs that foster global understanding and cultural exchange. Between 2009 to 2021 BAICFF produced 13 annual festivals and presented over 500 family-friendly films of high artistic value from around the world, and held workshops for nearly 900 children designed to introduce kids to the world of animation and live-action filmmaking.
Graveyard Jamboree with Mysterious Mose by Screen Novelties, 5 mins, USA.
Dead Pirate Mysterious Mose has a rousing bone-yard bash!
Lego Adventure in the City by Rogier Wieland, 3 mins, 17s, The Netherlands.
A snake has to save his city from “the grey”! It is better then the Lego Movie because it is all
real!
The Making of Lego Adventure in the City – 3 mins
See behind the scenes of how Lego Adventure in the City was made. You won’t believe how many Legos they had to use!
Odd Dog by Keika Lee, 4,30 min, USA.
Watch as the cat entertains the boy with his crazy dog-like antics to win the boy over and see if the two end up becoming best friends.
Bottle by Kirsten Lepore, 5 mins, USA.
The story of two unlikely penpals: one a mound of sand, the other a pile of snow.
Persevere: The Wilma Rudolph Story * wrote and preformed by kids * by Lisa Rossi and Tony Saxe, 10 mins, 54s, USA.
The students of one second grade class at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, CA share the journey of Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph.
Nube directed by Christian Arredondo Narváez & Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, 7 mins, 30s Mexico 2024.
Noma, a puffy white cloud realises that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
Pigeons directed by Zazie Capobianco, 2 mins 52s UK 2025
Did you know there is no difference between pigeons and doves? Well you will, and much more, in this light hearted animated documentary about our ubiquitous avian neighbor.
( Notes on ) Biology by Danny Madden, 5 mins, 41s USA.
A bored high-school student turns his biology notes into a wildly adventurous flip book.
CARDBOARD directed by J.P Vine 8 mins, 5s UK 2025.
A single dad fears he’s failed his family but his kids create an imaginative game, and Dad has a choice: dwell in the past or join them on their intergalactic adventure.
Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella, 6 mins, Argentina.
In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.
Éiru by Giovanna Ferrari, 13 min Ireland, 2024.
Cartoon Saloon’s latest short – When the water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it.
