Cinemini | Extraordinary Animals

Children aged 2 to 6 experience their first cinema visit in our cozy screening room. On Sunday mornings, toddlers and preschoolers enjoy Taartrovers Cinemini, a special program where they immerse themselves in films and get to play in a stunning light landscape. During Taartrovers Cinemini, we screen beautiful, sweet, exciting, abstract, narrative, and sometimes challenging short films, specifically designed for toddlers and preschoolers. After the screenings, children play together in a light landscape made of various installations, allowing them to explore how light can create stories. They investigate form, projection, light, shadow, tales, movement, and color. How do shadows form? Where do images come from? How do shapes grow or shrink, and how do they disappear into nothing? And what stories can they find within these shapes? For adults, shadows are a given, but for children, it might just be a wizard that turns grown-ups into tall giants. PROGRAM Endless animal fun! Run, swim, tease, grow, change, and move. You can do it all in this program bursting with animal fun! WHERE IS KO? Jorn Leeuwerink, Emma van Dam & Robin Aerts, 2016 Netherlands 7 minutes Cas receives a rabbit for his birthday. But the next day, Ko has disappeared from his hutch. So what do you do? You go after him! On his quest, he meets Mole, and every time he surfaces, he finds a new surprise. Will he be able to find his new friend again? BIG WOLF AND LITTLE WOLF Rémi Durin, 2018 France 13 minutes Big Wolf lives happily alone under a beautiful tree until one day, a little wolf moves in with him. The little wolf eats his food, messes up his things, snores, in short: he’s quite a nuisance. But when the little wolf leaves, Big Wolf realizes just how much he misses his little companion. SOME LOGIC Rop van Mierlo, 2014 Netherlands 1 minute The pigeon parades across the page, bats sleep upside down, a fiery orange horse gallops through a white field, the crocodile pops its head out from the swamp, and two goats look at you curiously. Will you join the fantasy world of these colorful, cheerful animals? KUAP Nils Hedinger, 2018 Switzerland 8 minutes A tadpole misses the chance to become a frog and ends up alone. But there's so much to discover in the pond, and spring will surely come again next year. A small story about growing up.