Cinemini | Day and Night

Children aged 2 to 6 years will experience their first cinema visit in our cozy film hall. On Sunday mornings, toddlers and preschoolers enjoy Taartrovers Cinemini, a special program where they watch films and get to play in a beautiful light landscape. During Taartrovers Cinemini, we screen lovely, exciting, abstract, narrative, and sometimes challenging short films specifically for toddlers and preschoolers. Then, visitors engage in playful activities within a light landscape, made up of various installations that allow children to discover how light can create stories. They explore shapes, projection, light, shadow, stories, movement, and color. How are shadows formed? Where do images come from, how do shapes get bigger or smaller, and how do shapes disappear into nothing? And what stories can they see in those shapes? For adults, shadow is something obvious, but for children, it might be a wizard creating long giants from adults. PROGRAM What do you do at night? When it’s nighttime and it seems like the entire world is asleep, there is so much going on! The sun prepares for her next rise, bats wake up to go on adventures, the moon goes missing for a bit, and a snuggle thief is on the loose. Stay awake and take a look into the night! THE TINY PRINCE Zoïa Trofimovaz, 2003 France 7 minutes When the sun rises on the horizon, it's covered in spots. A little boy tries to clean the sun. LUCE AND THE ROCK Elena Walf, 2015 Germany 4 minutes When night falls on the farm, a little bat wakes up. Oh, how wonderful it would be to bark with a dog or crow with a rooster... and to jump and dance! The little bat wants someone to keep him company. He doesn’t want to be alone and looks for a friend. Will he find someone? SOONER OR LATER Jadwiga Kowalska, 2007 Switzerland 5 minutes A squirrel and a bat happen to meet. Where the squirrel lives during the day, the bat does so at night. Thus, different worlds come together, starting a journey for two lonely figures. WHERE IS MY MOON Mi-young Baek, 2017 South Korea 6 minutes The story of a child who cannot sleep and a fish that is just waking up. They meet and together go on an adventure to find the lost moon. WE ARE NOT AFRAID Virgine Costa, 2019 France 4 minutes The stuffed animals of the children in the orphanage are stolen at night. Who is the thief? And who can stop him?