The 25th NYICFF sets the selection of short films,

March 2 2022

The Oscar-nominated New York International Children's Film Festival has announced the full lineup of short films for its 2022 event, which will be held March 4-19 at New York's SVA Theater. Established in 1997, the nation's largest for kids and teens and will feature over 60 new animated, live action, documentary and experimental shorts from 28 countries. Tickets are on sale on nyicff.org. (Use promotional code ANIMMAGNYICFF22 for a 10% discount on the first four tickets, excluding special events.)

This year, proudly celebrating its 25th anniversary, the 2022 Festival offers three exciting weeks of innovative, artistically distinct, fun, inspiring and vibrant new programs, carefully curated for a new generation of viewers aged 3-18. In addition to its dynamic film presentations, the Festival's short film screenings are its most popular offerings each year. From the eclectic Tots and Short Films One, Two and Three programs, to the POV organized by theme, highlighting the views of girls and women around the world, and Heebie Jeebies, with slightly chilling and wacky content, this short film - form cinema continually inspires audiences to look at things from a whole new perspective.

Short film programs will include world premieres of Antje Heyn's Meta (Germany) and Claude Delafosse's How I Got My Wrinkles (France), as well as regional debuts and must-see screenings of acclaimed animated works A Bite of Bone (Honami Yano, Japan), Mum Is Pouring Rain (Hugo de Faucompret, France) and the stimulating student short films Sanctuary (Eva Matějovičová, Czech Rep.), About a shelter for handicapped animals; and Wolf and Cub (USA), conceived by Marvin Bynoe and completed by over 80 CalArts students and professors after his sudden death in March 2020.

Selected shorts will also be screened in front of feature films, including Dumplings (Johanna Xue, USA), Gary the Duck (Ben Knight, USA), The Ocean Duck (Huda Razzak, USA), My Grandma Matilde (Miguel Anaya Borja, Mexico) and Polar Bear Bears Boredom, the latest from Japanese director Koji Yamamura.

The ocean duck | Polar bear brings boredom | Gary the duck

Visually imaginative and full of wit, stupidity, wit and inspiration, the Festival's signature short film programs are carefully selected from thousands of entries from around the world. Through NYICFF's curation of the best selections, audiences of all ages are invited to be amazed, delighted, challenged and inspired.

The Festival's 25th anniversary year brings two additional special short film programs, ¡Hola NYICFF !, which highlights stories in Spanish and Latin, and Celebrating Black Stories, a collection of short films from across the Festival spanning the joy, resilience and complexity of the lives of black youth. These two programs will be offered exclusively online starting March 14. Although both will appear on other programs throughout the Festival, showing them together amplifies their importance and provides a new context in which audiences can consider these essential stories.

Among the animation highlights in these programs is My Name Is Maalum (Luísa Copetti, Brazil), about a little girl from an Afro-Brazilian home. When her classmates tease her about her name, she discovers the adorable legacy of her name and her ancestors. The Portuguese-language short is making its North American premiere at NYICFF.

Additionally, Girls POV's first thematic edition, Science on Screen, looks to the past and present to celebrate the stories of diverse young scientists who are opening up creative ways to solve some of the world's greatest challenges. Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theater, with strong support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Watch all the films selected for NYICFF 2022 here.

Wolf and Cub | My name is Maalum | My grandmother Matilde

NYICFF jury winners qualify films to be considered for the 2022 Academy Awards in the Live Action and Animated Short Film categories. This year's esteemed jury is made up of:

Peilin Chou, producer (Beyond the moon, abominable)
Melissa Cobb, Vice President, Children and Family, Netflix
Geena Davis, Oscar-winning actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Madeline DiNonno, CEO, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media; President, Board of Directors of the Television Academy Foundation
Amy Friedman, Head of Kids & Family Programming, Warner Bros.
Elizabeth Ito, NYICFF Award-winning director (Welcome to My Life), creator of Netflix's Ghost Town
Kyle MacLahlan, award-winning actor (Twin Peaks, Dune, Inside Out)
Guillermo Martinez, Head of Story, Sony Pictures Animation (The Mitchells vss the Machines), Story Artist, Laika Studios (Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link)
Matthew Modine, award-winning actor and director (Stranger Things, Full Metal Jacket)
Ramsey Naito, President, Nickelodeon Animation; President, Paramount Animation; Oscar-nominated producer (The Boss Baby)
Mark Osborne, Oscar-nominated director, screenwriter, producer and animator (Kung Fu Panda, The Little Prince)
Peter Ramsey, Academy Award-winning director (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rise of the Guardians)
Ira Sachs, award-winning director (Little Men, Love is Strange); founder and Executive Director, Queer / Art
Uma Thurman, Oscar-nominated actor (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2); Board of Directors, room to grow
Nora Twomey, Oscar-nominated director (The Breadwinner, The Secret of Kells); co-founder, Cartoon Saloon

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