The film "Glavonja" opened Kids Fest with a story about diversity

On Saturday, October 17, the 22nd Kids Fest started in Belgrade's MTS hall. It was opened by the film "Glavonja", which won two awards yesterday at the Junges Film Festival in Cologne: the children's jury for the best film and the audience award.

The film has won seven awards so far, including three Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival. while more than 80.000 viewers watched it in the region

"Glavonja" is an exciting story about family, friendship and autism, a Croatian-Slovak co-production by director Marina Andrea Škop, in the production of which Slovenia, Latvia and Serbia also took part.

A question of diversity

The main character is ten-year-old Alice whose parents have mysteriously disappeared. In her search for them, she is helped by a team of boy detectives, as well as her autistic brother.

"We want to present the issue of diversity in a way that is acceptable to children, and to encourage parents to openly talk with children about delicate things, about the challenges of growing up, the strength of togetherness," director Marina Andrea Škop told the media.

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The main actress, the girl Marta Mihanović, invites her peers to watch "Glavonja" because, as she said, it is a movie that will entertain them and teach them to accept children and people with autism.

"You will see that they are not so different from us," said Marta Mihanović.

The production company from Belgrade "This and That Productions" did not receive funds from the Film Center of Serbia for this film.

"Glavonja" already had around 70.000 viewers in Croatia. It will arrive in Serbian cinemas on October 22, distributed by MegaCom Film.

18 movies

There are 18 films on the Kids Fest program.

Among the premieres, the organizers single out the film "Iron Boy" about a boy who has a balance problem, and the documentary "Whisper of the Forest", which encourages environmental awareness among children through an unusual trip to untouched nature.

The youngest audience is also waiting for the synchronized animated films "Julian" and "Lost Lucy", then "Guardian of the Camphor Tree", "Children of Freedom", "Born in the Jungle"...

As in previous years, some of the most watched films from the past season will be reenacted - "Hajduk in Belgrade", "Skokoumci", "Vajana"...

Kids Fest lasts until October 24 in 16 cinemas in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Niš, Čačak and Šabac.

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