What you need to know:
The International Film Festival for Children (… and not so children) 2023 begins on August 8. Here’s everything you need to know.
The month of August has arrived and it is time for a very special film festival to be put together. Yes, we are referring to the International Film Festival for Children (…and not so Children) 2023 which is just about to start.
Do you want to launch together with your creatures? Or do you have kids at home and want to put together a plan for summer days? Well, take note that we bring you the details so you don’t miss anything.
Everything ready for the International Film Festival for Children (… and not so Children) 2023
The dates and venues
Like every year since 1995, La Matatena prepares to put together this great festival with which the little ones can enjoy great cinematographic proposals. So far there have been 28 editions with which culture and the seventh art are promoted among minors.
And yes: everything is ready for the International Film Festival for Children (and not so Children) 2023 that brings a lot of tapes that everyone can enjoy to the fullest in hybrid format, that is, virtually or in person, from August 8 to 13.
That being said, what are the venues? If you want to see the films that will be presented in virtual format, you can do so through the open TV broadcasts of Channel 22, Capital 21 and Channel 11. These are the functions that will be on television:
Well, there is the programming for the virtual headquarters. Now let’s see which are the face-to-face venues of the International Film Festival for Children (… and not so Children) 2023. The venues where the screenings will take place will be both in CDMX and in the State of Mexico. Here we leave the venues and here you can check the addresses:
– Emiliano Zapata Auditorium (San Salvador Atenco, Edomex).
– National Cinematheque
– Julio Bracho Hall of the CCU / UNAM Film Library
– East Lighthouse
– Aragon Lighthouse
– Lighthouse Cosmos
– Cinemania
– Benito Juárez Cultural Forum (Villa Panamericana housing unit)
– Utopia ship
– Goethe-Institut Mexico
– Zapotitlan Cultural Center
– Rosario Castellanos House of Culture
Here the program of the festival
The International Film Festival for Children (… and not so Children) 2023 did it again and brings us a program of top-level national and international content. The sections are Feature Films, Animated Shorts, Fiction Shorts, Children’s Shorts, La Matatena Shorts and Documentaries.
For this year in the Feature Films section, foreign films such as the German one stand out Chaos on the school tripthe Canadian Adventures in Asha Land, Dancing Queen from Norway and Franz’s Stories as a collaborative Austrian-German tape.
And of course, Mexico is not far behind, since in the section the striking animated film my house is elsewhere. Do you want to see the complete program by sections? Here we leave them complete.
There will also be special activities at the International Film Festival for Children (… and not so Children) 2023
Did you think that was it with the 2023 International Film Festival for Children (… and not so Children)? Well, if in addition to enjoying the great festival program you want to get involved in other activities, then you should know this.
The festival will have Camera-Etc Retrospectivewhere some short films made by girls and boys from Belgium will be shown, but with the Spanish dubbing of Mexican girls and boys.
And as a complementary activity to the official selection of films, there will be a special screening on Friday, August 11 at the Cineteca Nacional of the documentary The desert wagonby director Jorge Prior about a couple who have lived around the world with their mobile theater, entertaining families around the world against all odds.
Well that’s it. The International Film Festival for Children (and not so Children) 2023 has everything for an edition that looks unmissable. They already have all the dataand here the hand program in case of doubt– so enjoy.
