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Os festivais de filmes acontecem apenas por alguns dias e, infelizmente, poucas crianças têm acesso a eles, mas são uma fonte de informação fabulosa para encontrar um filme para crianças, as well as produtoras audiovisuais, escolas de animação and diretores / diretoras who offer the possibility of watching their films for free online.
Muitos festivais de filmes são dedicados às crianças — festivais de longas-metragens, curtas-metragens, filmes de animação, competitivos ou não.

© Christophe Defaye. Festival Internacional de Filmes para Crianças em Busan.
Some are very large like Chicago or New York with over 30,000 visitors a year, others are much smaller with just a few hundred, but all share the same wonderful mission: showing quality films to children.
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Para acompanhar os festivais internacionais de filmes infantis, criamos um banco de dados sobre festivais de filmes para crianças.um banco de dados sobre festivais de filmes infantis
Muito útil para diretores e diretores de festivais com quem estamos em contato. Permite entender a linha editorial de cada festival e, claro, descobrir novas obras-primas.
Uma lista não exaustiva de festivais de filmes em língua francesa.
Lista em ordem alfabética.
Local e data : Haute-Savoie department, June
Fundação : 1960.
Visitantes : 120 000
Prêmios : Crystal for feature film, short film and graduation film. Jury prize, audience award and many special prizes. Since 2017, young audience prize and junior jury prize.
Descrição : A world reference for animation cinema, the Annecy festival grew out of a meeting between a Haute-Savoie film club and the JICA (International Animation Film Days), which had taken place since 1956 alongside the Cannes Film Festival. The JICA moved to Annecy in 1960 and eventually became the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The MIFA (International Animation Film Market), created in 1986, takes place during festival week.
Local e data : Alpes-Maritimes department, October
Fundação : 2018
Descrição : The Cabrioles festival in Alpes-Maritimes, organised by the Ciné-Cabris association, offers children aged 3 to 10 animated films for young audiences, workshops, exhibitions and cinema snack sessions.
Local e data : Aisne department, March–April
Fundação : 1983
Visitantes : 40 000
Prêmios : Grand Prix Ciné Junior, Prix CICAE, Prix du Grain à démoudre, Prix des Collégiens, Prix du public.
Descrição : The Ciné-Jeune festival of Aisne, the first young-audience film festival created in France, takes place in Saint-Quentin and 25 other venues across the Aisne department. The Cine-Jeune association, whose aim is to promote quality cinema for children, organises media education activities in schools and other institutions serving young people.
Local e data : Val-de-Marne department, February
Fundação : 1990
Visitantes : 25 000
Prêmios : Grand Prix Ciné Junior, Prix CICAE, Prix du Grain à démoudre, Prix des Collégiens, Prix du public.
Descrição : The Cine Junior festival, organised by the Cinéma Public association, allows children and teenagers in Val-de-Marne to discover quality French and foreign films, with the aim of awakening the artistic sensibilities of young audiences. The festival publishes educational dossiers offering teachers topics for reflection.
Fundação : 1979. A children's section was created in 2015.
Local e data : February
Visitantes : 100,000 including 35,000 children
Descrição : The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is the world's largest cinema festival dedicated to short films. In terms of audience and professional attendance, it is the second-largest French film festival after Cannes. In 2015, a Young Audience competition was held for the first time. Cannes Film Festival.
Local e data : Normandy, November
Fundação : 2000
Descrição : The association's main mission is media education for young audiences. The Du Grain à démoudre cinema festival, whose programming is entrusted to 30 young volunteers aged 12 to 25, takes place in Gonfreville l'Orcher, Le Havre and Harfleur.
Local e data : Lans-en-Vercors, December
Fundação : 1987
Descrição : Jeunes Bobines is a young-audience cinema event offering a selection of films featuring characters played by children.
Local e data : Seine-et-Marne, January to May
Fundação : 1993
Visitantes : 30 000
Descrição : L'enfant et le 7e art is an itinerant festival spread across 18 towns in Seine-et-Marne. Organised by the Aux 4 coins de l'enfance association, the festival initiates cinema events to give young viewers a taste for cinema that is lively, creative, sometimes demanding and often different, inviting them to open up to the world, its cultures and its differences. Targeting schoolchildren, middle-school and high-school students, it offers a selection of animated films, fiction and documentaries, along with educational dossiers.
Local e data : Paris, October
Fundação : 2002
Visitantes : 16 000
Prêmios : Prix des Classes Jury, Prix du Jury Professionnel, Prix du Public, Special Mention.
Descrição : Initiated by the Paris city council and produced by the Enfances au Cinéma association, Mon Premier festival takes place every year in Paris during the All Saints' school holidays. Dedicated to young audiences from age 2, its aim is to awaken the youngest children's curiosity for the 7th art through a playful and educational approach to cinema.
Local e data : La Bourboule, June
Fundação : 2002
Visitantes : 16 000
Descrição : The Plein la bobine association's goal — both during the festival and throughout the school year — is to promote quality films in order to awaken the artistic curiosity of children and young adults. During the festival, educational materials for teachers allow for playful work with children after screenings.
Local e data : Biarritz, October
Fundação : 2013
Descrição : The festival's commitment, in the spirit of an educational platform, is to guide children in the production and reception of images, teaching them to speak and read this specific yet universal language.
Local e data : Online, March–June
Fundação : 2020
Visitantes : 350 000
Prêmios : Children's Award.
Descrição : The Films pour enfants association created the Takorama festival under UNESCO patronage during the 2020 lockdown, enabling children to stay in touch with teachers and discover cultural diversity through universal messages such as humanism, ecology and poetry. The high participation in 2020 led this one-off event to become annual. The festival, aimed at teachers and their students, is entirely free. Each teacher enrols their class and offers students educational activities following the film screenings. In a positive spirit, each child votes for their favourite film, shares their opinion and connects with others.
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