28th and 29th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience SCHLiNGEL

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SCHLiNGEL International Film Festival for Children and Young audiences is one of the largest platforms for current international children's & youth films in Europe. Every year in autumn, right in the week before the school holidays, the SCHLiNGEL festival showcase brand new productions from all over the world. With 67% European (non-national) programming SCHLiNGEL IFF is strongly focussed to show the variety of European culture and countries as well as the diversity of languages to our young audience. Always providing an outstanding programming for the respective age-group the proportion and constantly increasing numbers of implemented European productions is significant. Podium discussions, moderated Q&A's, workshops and the SCHLiNGEL Industry Forum accompany every edition. Afternoon and evening screenings during the festival period complement the festival’s program and include also the age group of families and adults. We are looking forward to the 28th and 29th edition of IFF SCHLiNGEL in 2023/2024 with up to 30 000 estimated visitors during each festival period. Constantly increasing the number of European works as well as the expansion of the festival in regard of satellite events and year-long activities we are expecting up to 50 000 attendees in total every year. IFF SCHLiNGEL is the largest film event within the upcoming Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025. Strategically planned joint activities with our international partner festivals ensure the sustainable circulation of European audio-visual productions around the world. IFF SCHLiNGEL also acquires the non-commercial rights of special films as well as comprehensive rights for the theatrical release, supports dubbing processes for the sustainable implementation of competition entries into German-speaking countries (Cinema, TV VoD and educational sector).