The French film Adama, directed by Simon Rouby, is the winner of the Best of Fest Award at the 2015 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. Adama also won The Liv Ullmann Peace Prize, and the Adult Jury Prize—Animated Feature Film. As twelve-year-old Adama is about to experience his boyhood rite of passage, he and his brother’s lives are changed forever. Adama lives in a remote African village, but his older teenaged brother Samba gets lured […]
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
NAME OF FESTIVAL: Chicago International Children's Film Festival
SINCE: 1983
WHERE: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
In 1983, Facets Multi-Media founded the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, the first competitive festival of films for children in the U.S.
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival