Kids Culture Film: Kooky

Kids Culture Film Series launches their fifth season with a return of the box office hit—KOOKY!
This is the film that started it all!
SUNDAY SEPT 11th 12:45pmClassification: PG (Coarse language)
Recommended Ages 6 and up
$10/$7 at the door
Doors open at 12:15

“It’s amazing what Jan Sverák (Kolya) and his team have achieved here with the simplest of means. Cutting between live actors and a real forest alive with puppet and stick animation, Kooky tells of a small, red, sawdust-filled toy bear lost in a rather charming and exciting adventure fantasy. There were concerns that this new English-language version would lose some of the special flavour of the Czech, but Sverák has supervised an exemplary translation. With naturalistic cinematography and deliberately low-tech, labour-intensive puppet animation, Kooky comes off like a cross between The Wind in the Willows and Jan Vankmajer’s early work. It’s a quasi-Animal Farm power struggle amongst gnarly forest flora and fauna at the same time as being a sweetly old-fashioned celebration of childhood imagination that adults will thoroughly enjoy.Six-year-old asthmatic Ondra (Ondrej Sverák, Jan’s son) converses with his stuffed toys as if they were alive. After he reluctantly agrees to let his mother discard his favourite, Kooky, he begins to obsess over Kooky’s fate. The puppet action begins as Ondra imagines Kooky escaping from a massive garbage dump, dotted with the broken remains of abandoned toys. Trying to make his way home, Kooky is pursued by two twisted plastic bottles, and loses his way in a magical—as opposed to special effects-fake—forest full of mysterious creatures. Will Kooky make it home?  With marvelously humorous dialogue and production design to take your breath away, Kooky truly is a cinematic fable for all ages.”  2011 VIFF.ORG

This is a fundraiser!  Net proceeds go to buying headsets for our next subtitled film so our young audience can have the subtitles read to them each personally—thanks to VocalEye!

SPECIAL THANKS to our partner Reel 2 Real International Film Festival For Youth r2rfestival.org
Thank you to:
The Georgia Straight
Biograf Jan Sverák
Gramma Publishing
The Poster Squad
Rebecca Ellway

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