Spend an art-filled day at the museum by visiting the galleries before or after the films to experience a variety of paintings, sculptures, and photographs, including our special exhibitions, Alex Da Corte: The Whale and Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling.

Admission is free and open to the public. Screenings begin at 11 am. Films are shown in the Modern’s auditorium, and seating is limited to the first 250 guests. Admission to the galleries is free for film festival guests. All ages are welcome!

Make plans to enjoy some delightful eats at Café Modern before or after the films, and shop for art-inspired merchandise and snacks at the Modern Shop.

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, July 16 at 11 am – Little Kid Flicks (67 minutes)

Inventive first films for ages 5+

In English or with English subtitles

Pufferfish/Kugelfisch
Germany | North American Premiere
Animation, Julia Ocker, 2022, 4 min
No dialogue

Forever Seven/Für immer Sieben
Germany | International Premiere
Animation, Antje Heyn & Alexander Isert, 2024, 9 min
In English

Coquille
Animation, Multiple directors, 2023, 6 min
No dialogue

My Name is Edgar and I Have a Cow/Jmenuju se Edgar a mam kravu
Czech Republic, Slovakia | New York Premiere
Animation, Filip Diviak, 2023, 8 min
in Czech; in Slovak; with English subtitles

Hoofs on Skates/Kanopos ir pačiūžos
Lithuania | World Premiere
Animation, Ignas Meilūnas, 2024, 12 min
No dialogue

Tabby McTat
United Kingdom | US Premiere
Animation, Jac Hamman & Sarah Scrimgeour, 2022, 25 min
In English

View all Little Kids Flicks short film listings online here.

Thursday, July 17 at 11 am – Big Kid Flicks (62 minutes)

Deep and daring films for ages 8+

In English or with English subtitles

Head in the Clouds/Tête en l’air
Belgium, France
Animation, Rémi Durin, 2023, 11 min
In French; with English subtitles

Goodbye Mamajee
France
Animation, Multiple directors, 2023, 7 min
In Tamil; with English subtitles

Lotus
United Kingdom | World Premiere
Live Action, Ollie Wolf, 2023, 9 min
In English

The Queen’s Flowers
United States | World Premiere
Animation, Ciara Leinaala Lacy, 2024, 11 min
In English

Karol, the Vampire Queen
Colombia | World Premiere
Live Action, Alfonso Acosta, 2023, 12 min
In Spanish; with English subtitles

Mum’s Spaghetti
United Kingdom | New York Premiere
Animation, Lisa Kenney, 2023, 11 min
In English

View all Big Kids Flicks short film listings online here.

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Spend an art-filled day at the museum by visiting the galleries before or after the films to experience a variety of paintings, sculptures, and photographs, including our exhibition Women Painting Women.

Admission is free and open to the public. Films are shown in the Modern’s auditorium, and seating is limited to the first 250 guests. Admission to the galleries is free for film festival guests. All ages are welcome!

Make plans to enjoy some delightful eats at Café Modern before or after the films, and shop for art-inspired merchandise and snacks at the Modern Shop.

SCHEDULE 

Thursday, August 4

11 am

NYICFF KID FLICKS ONE – Inventive first films for ages 3+

Share your love of cinema with your little ones with Kid Flicks One, curated to charm all ages and especially introduce our youngest viewers, ages 3+, to their very first screen experiences. Little Emi in The Yogi Walrus craves ice cream and always wants more, but learning to savor is the cherry on top. Meanwhile, in Kenya’s Symphony, a stubborn 5-year-old reluctantly heads off to a performance with her mom, but when the music starts, will a passion bloom? Young Mido wants to be part of the band but needs to adjust his wild and wooly style amidst a troupe of cool creatures in Mido and the Instrumals.

52 minutes, English, no dialogue, or with brief English subtitles 

1 pm

NYICFF KID FLICKS TWO – Daring & deep films for kids to dream big for ages 7+

With shorts for ages 7+, Kid Flicks Two audiences are ready for plenty of fun, plus deeper themes and multilingual films with English subtitles. Stop motion equals nonstop action in Wild Lea, as a feral Colombian cat goes from lonely to loved, but can she learn to settle down with her new makeshift family? And if kooky tales are what you’re craving, you’ll flip your lid over the hilariously absurd split personalities of Matilda and the Spare Head. In the documentary Dear Future Me, 6th graders wrote letters to their future selves; fast-forward to 2020 when the now 12th graders re-read them with alternately surprising, bittersweet, and hilarious results.

68 minutes, English and other languages with English subtitles 

Friday, August 5

1 pm

NYICFF VIVA KID FLICKS – Spanish language short films for ages 8+

New York International Children’s Film Festival Viva Kid Flicks celebrates the best Spanish-language short films from around the globe.

The brilliant Spanish-language tales in Viva Kid Flicks, with a range of kids’ perspectives, speak volumes in any tongue. NYICFF jury-award winner 3Feet kicks things off in style with Gonzálo, who tries his hilarious best to keep things clean to stay in the game; then orbit around Ailín and her mom, who work through love and challenges in the charming stop motion Ailin on the Moon. And see things grow curiouser and curiouser in a moving take on magical realism in the gorgeously filmed tale The Size of Things.

65 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles 

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