During PFA's new International Children's Film Festival, children can gain a sense of how large--and at the same time, how small--the world really is in award-winning features from Europe, Canada, South America, Indonesia, and Japan that deal with a range of childhood experiences and interests. From Vincent and Me, about a young artist who apprentices herself to Van Gogh, to the delightful Astrid Lindgren adaptation The Children of Bullerby Village; from a childhood summer on the Argentine pampas in Summer of the Colt to the fantasies of a feisty German tomboy in The School Ghost; from a Halifax orphan and his pirate adventures (George's Island) to two Indonesian boys dealing with a very real world of class prejudice in My Sky, My Home; and finally, from a live rendition of African folktales to a demonstration of origami, these programs offer children a unique chance to expand their fantasies and their knowledge. (English subtitles and intertitles will be read aloud.) The International Children's Film Festival is programmed at PFA by Linda Artel, curator also of Films for Big and Little People. That series hosts the annual Teddy Bear Parade and Film Festival on November 30 and December 1.
