in 28th Schlingel – IFF for Children and Young Audiences, Chemnitz
How important are film festivals for children and youth? How much do films intended for the young(est) people influence their worldview? Can they face the challenges of real life mirrored on the big screen while learning from it? These are some questions to which the best answer was given by the 28th edition of the International Film Festival “Schlingel” between 23-30th September. Impeccably organized, with many guests representing almost all of the films and a dozen jury members, this festival in the charming town of Chemnitz in Saxony, eastern Germany, met all the challenges set before each edition, offering a wonderful energy that could be felt before and after each screening. Movies, their authors, and protagonists “gave” us stories in which they face fear, uncertainty, love, growing up, maturing. They came from different paths of social life and various parts of the world, facing us with it in the best possible way, with the eternal question: What kind of world do we, the adults, leave for them? Because, no matter how cliché it sounds, the world belongs to the young people. In this way, once again the power of the seventh art was shown in action, which, despite the popularity of social networks, still remains inviolable, at the very top.
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