Cinemini | Weather and Wind: A Magical Film Experience for Little Ones

Children aged 2 to 6 will experience their first cinema visit in our cozy screening room. On Sunday mornings, toddlers and preschoolers can enjoy Taartrovers Cinemini, a unique program where they watch enchanting short films and then play in a beautiful light landscape. During Taartrovers Cinemini, we screen beautiful, delightful, exciting, abstract, narrative, and sometimes challenging short films tailored for toddlers and preschoolers. After the films, children engage in play with various installations in a light landscape, discovering how light can create stories. They explore form, projection, light, shadow, stories, movement, and color. How do shadows form? Where do images come from, how do shapes change in size, and how do they disappear? For adults, shadows may seem trivial, but for children, they could be a wizard that turns adults into towering giants. **PROGRAM** What will the weather be today? Weather can be hard to predict. It can rain, it can (very hard) blow, or it may be so beautiful that you can spend the whole day at the beach. One thing is certain: there are four seasons in a year – sometimes even in one day! **THE LAST AUTUMN DAY** Marjolaine Perreten, 2019 Switzerland 7 minutes The autumn leaves are stunning with their yellow, red, and brown colors, but winter is coming. The forest animals make the last preparations for a special race. Winter is announced by the arrival of the ice, and the starting shot is fired for the hare, fox, beaver, bear, and the rest. They all ride in homemade vehicles and help each other find their way to the finish line and their cozy winter shelters. **IN THE WIND** Yawen Zheng, 2014 United States 1 minute In a large forest where monochrome birds live, each bird has found its place in a tree that resembles it. What happens when a bird suddenly has two colors instead of one? **RAIN SONG** Yawen Zheng, 2012 United States An adventurous boy helps a red fox collect rainwater. They play together all day! But when the fox leaves, the boy misses him dearly... **WIND** Robert Löbel, 2013 Germany Daily life for people living in a place where it often blows very hard may seem challenging... But they know exactly how to deal with it! **LITTLE DROPS** Meikeminne Clinckspoor, Maarten van Voornveld, Lilian Sijbesma, 2013 Netherlands Little Drop lives in the 'Everything Shop,' a store where you can find anything you can imagine. Curious, she embarks on extraordinary adventures with the children who come into the shop. In the episode 'Sea,' Little Drop ensures that Mare can still go to the sea despite the rain – in the shop!