SHORT FILMS SELECTION #2(KIFF 2024)

(1st Movie Experience)

HUNGRY BEAR TALES IN CINEMAS

Czech Republic | English | Chinese Subtitled | 40 min

Director: Alexandra Májová, Kateřina Karhánková

Unlikely best friends Ned and Mishka, a big bear and a tiny one, share a forest home and constant hunger. Their misadventures finding food always end happily.


The Smeds and the Smoos

UK | English | Chinese Subtitled | 26 min

Annie Awards (2024) – Nominated for Best Animated Special Production, Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Media Production
International Emmy Awards (2023) - Kids: Animation Winner
Shanghai International TV Festival (2023) – Nominated for Best Animation, Best Storytelling (Best Writing) Animation

Director: Samantha Cutler, Daniel Snaddon

Based on the enchanting outer space adventure written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, the UK’s best-selling picture book duo. On a faraway planet, Janet and Bill meet in the Wurpular Wood and fall in love. Their families, the Smeds and the Smoos, cannot accept the match after generations of division. But when the two run away to elope, the warring families have no choice but to overcome their differences and work together to find the young Smoo, and the young Smed.