Cinemini: A Magical Movie Adventure

Children aged 2 to 6 have their first movie experience in our cozy cinema. On Sunday mornings, toddlers and preschoolers enjoy Taartrovers Cinemini, a unique program where they watch films and play in a magical landscape of light. During Taartrovers Cinemini, we screen beautiful, charming, exciting, abstract, narrative, and sometimes challenging short films specially made for toddlers and preschoolers. After watching, children play together in a light landscape filled with various installations that let them discover how light can create stories. They explore shapes, projection, light, shadow, movement, and color. How do shadows form? Where do images come from? How do shapes change size or disappear? What stories can they see within the shapes? For adults, shadows are a given; for children, they might be magic that makes grown-ups into tall giants. PROGRAM What do you want to find? What are you looking for? A home, a cat in a container, yourself, or the other sock? This film program has it all! **ALFRED SEEKS A HOME** Arnaud Demuynk, 2023 Belgium 11 minutes Alfred is searching for a new cozy place, a treehouse to feel at home again. Where can he go when he must leave his own spot? Alfred encounters various homes but finds no welcome. A long bird feels lonely, as his neighbors have moved. What will he do when Alfred knocks on his door? **WHAT'S IN THE BOX?** Bram Algoed & Pieter Gaudesaboos, 2023 Belgium 9 minutes A girl is looking for a cat that travels around the world in a large container. The cat travels by plane, ship, and train, first in a big box and finally in a small one. After many adventures that almost go wrong, he eventually reaches the girl. **MOONFLOWER** Natalia Chernysheva, 2023 France, Russia 5 minutes A sunflower seeks and finds its own path. It chooses to sleep during the day and, at night – when everyone else sleeps – to bask in the moonlight. Moonflower is a funny, graphic short animation that reminds us that it's perfectly fine to choose your own way. **WASHING MACHINE** Gurli Bachmann, 2022 Germany 7 minutes Two socks are completely in love with each other. But during the spin cycle, they suddenly get lost. One sock ends up back in the drawer, but the other is nowhere to be found. Will these two love-struck socks find each other again?