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kidFLIX Film Festival of Bed Stuy (8/19/22)
Brooklyn’s longest running film festival for kids is baaaack! Inspired by the theme Sankofa: Back to the Future, the 2022 season of KIDflix Film festival celebrates the power of our collective past to propel us forward.
Screening every Friday in August from the 5-26th, this year’s selection of family-friendly films (ages 6+) are inspired by Afrofuturism, sci-fi, intergenerational tales and fables, and more. Presented by MoCADA, African Film Festival, WarnerMedia, and AT&T, with ice cream by Brooklyn’s own Creme & Cocoa.
Join us on the park lawn at Herbert Von King Park (670 Lafayette Avenue @ Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn) a 6:00-9pm.
AGES: 6+
SHORT FILM: Into the Woods (Nigeria, 2022)
DIRECTOR: Critics Company
LANGUAGE: In English
RUNNING TIME: 29minutes
SYNOPSIS: Follow three teenagers’ journey into a community forest on a quest to find diamonds in a forbidden temple that no one has ever seen only heard of. The scare and hunt begin when the forest begins to haunt them. Will they ever get out?
FEATURE FILM: Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters (Nigeria, 2020)
DIRECTOR: Bisi Adetayo
LANGUAGE: In English
RUNNING TIME: 1hour 20minutes
SYNOPSIS: A precocious, self absorbed little girl finds herself in wildly unfamiliar territory. There, she encounters a band of highly unusual characters who change the course of her destiny.