Kids and Teens | TEENS. 10-12 Y.O.
Kyiv Cultural Cluster

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This program features a selection of animated films for teenagers aged 10–12 that balance lightness with emotional depth. The characters experience first love, self-discovery, anxiety, shame, and the need for support. From monsters trying to fit in, to kids escaping into games or wandering through nighttime adventures, each story reflects a part of growing up. Animation offers a way to see yourself from the outside and feel less alone in your feelings. These are gentle, imaginative, and touching stories that open a path to understanding both yourself and the world around you.

Running time 75 min.

  • Monster
    Piers Goffart, Eric Giessmann

    Germany | 04:51 | 2024

    A monster, desperate to fit in among humans, hides behind a human disguise but is forced to confront the truth about himself when a visit to an indoor pool leads to a dramatic unravelling of his identity.

  • The Drive Home
    Amy Gray

    United Kingdom | 02:38 | 2024

    Three tired friends, driving home from a music festival, find themselves stuck in traffic. Frustrated they decide to turn off on to the small, unfamiliar country roads. As the group inevitably find themselves increasingly lost tensions within the car rise.

  • GIFTED
    Takeshi Sone

    Japan | 01:56 | 2025

    The boy with supernatural powers fell in love with a girl who mistakenly believes she is a psychic. She keeps jumping into danger, and the boy continues to protect her.

  • BRICKS
    Alonso Flores San Martín

    Chile | 03:25 | 2024

    A teen tries to kill time during a long bus ride by playing BRICKS, his favorite video game, on a portable console. But his obsession with the game makes him lose track of time and reality.

  • Banjo Girl
    Kater Becker

    Netherlands | 05:36 | 2024

    A cozy adventure about a girl who boards a train in search of belonging.

  • Polliwog
    Julia Skala

    Germany | 09:13 | 2024

    On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.

  • Following : Momentary appreciation of an unrequited love
    Myeongji Lee

    Republic of Korea | 03:55 | 2024

    The child becomes busy when school is over. He secretly follows his friend again today.
    The child talks about the feelings of his first love, soft or itchy and light or heavy.

  • Ride on the wind
    Jianghang Li

    China | 10:37 | 2023

    This work tells the story of an old man who takes care of his grandmother who is suffering from hemiplegia. In order to make her happy, the old man decides to make a butterfly shaped kite and fly it with her in a special way.

  • Lets print the animation!
    Group project aged 9- 13

    Slovenia | 00:57 | 2025

    The film, printed at the International Centre of Graphic Arts, draws inspiration from the exhibition Victor Vasarely: In Echo. Just as Vasarely's art explores optical illusions, movement, and geometric patterns, the film weaves together visual elements that create hypnotic effects and dynamic compositions. The film was printed "frame by frame"

  • #Yacht
    Pablo Anasse, Loane Baumer, Marine Bouvier, Marie Malaval, Maxence Mouttou, Florence Susanna

    France | 05:07 | 2024

    A superficial couple spends an afternoon on a yacht until their routine is thrown off.

  • Kompost
    Ursina Rubin, Luzia De Caro, Vanessa In-Albon

    Switzerland | 04:58 | 2024

    While Lucy's head is stuck in the compost bin, she has an out-of-body experience that allows her to witness firsthand the ever-changing world of compost.

  • Back to NOW
    Chien-Ju Hiung

    Taiwan | 4:21 | 2024

    Feel the ground beneath you. We are constantly supported by the earth.

  • Meteoria
    Linn Grankull

    Sweden | 04:28 | 2024

    A summer night's trip to an empty museum in the middle of a meteorite crater takes a magical turn when a star bursts through the cloudy sky. As it plunges into the museum the world is transformed into a sea of life, myth and times long past.

  • The Night Boots
    Pierre-Luc Granjon

    France | 12:29 | 2024

    While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots. There, a strange beast, curious and solitary, will lead him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal creatures that live there, and so as not to be alone again, will try to delay the child's departure as long as possible.