2023 KIDS FIRST! Film Festival Selections
The Coalition for Quality Children’s Media (CQCM) is pleased to announce the films that have been accepted for its 2023 KIDS FIRST! Film Festivals. KIDS FIRST! partners with more than 30 venues nationwide and screenings will take place between August 1, 2023 and January 31, 2024, both in person and virtually. A hybrid festival will be presented in Santa Fe, NM November 17 through 19.
The KIDS FIRST! Film Festival showcases films, television shows, and digital media that are entertaining, educational and inspiring. This year’s festival will feature a wide variety of films, including animated films, live-action films, documentaries, and short films. The films will be screened for children ages 2 through 18, plus youthful adults. We are pleased to offer 162 films from 35 countries, including the USA, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom. A complete list of all accepted films can be seen below.
A Beautiful Dream |
A Boy's Dream |
A Liberian Wedding |
A New Believer/ Refound Faith |
A Poor Blue-Footed Booby Goes To Tokyo |
Aikane |
Alice In Cyberland |
Aliquam 3 - New Zealand |
Alpha Generation |
An Inclusion Lens |
Anyone Can Say I, But Who Says We? |
Artist, Formerly Known As Varona: Ginji Series, Episode 4 |
As Simple As This |
Ascent |
Ascent |
Attack Of Squirrelzilla |
Attraction |
Babies And The Bear - Summer |
Babookums: Seven Fantastic Stories |
Battle Plan |
Be A Green Hero |
Bedwars: Cheat Code |
Berny 2 |
Betterave & The Dragon |
Between The Lines |
Beyond The After |
Beyro |
Blood Sisters |
Bottled |
BrownWhite |
Buckets City |
Can We Practice Commercial Hydroponics On Earth And On Mars? |
Carlsbad |
Cinda Real |
Come One Come All - A Circus With A Purpose |
Common Thread |
Common Thread |
Connecticut's Connection To The Sea - The CT River & Atlantic Salmon |
CrabDance |
Cyber Cadets |
D.A.D. |
Death In Normandy |
Desmond Doss - World War Ii Hero |
Dexter And The Dinosaurs |
Dig Deeper |
Disconnected |
Dog House |
Don’t Hang Up! |
Elephant In The Room |
Evil Lies Adults Tell Children – Series; Epi 1 & 2 |
Fever |
Finding A Home |
Fitting In |
Five Little Ducks |
Fox Child |
From Venus |
Generational Trauma |
Giulia E Il Capoposto |
Global Climate |
Go Crazy |
Grammy Green Thumbs |
Groovy Rudy Meets Her Match |
Handwritten |
Her |
Heroes |
How Are You, R'ra |
How Can We Find Out What Plants Need To Survive? With Chris! |
How To Know If Something Is Alive? |
I Am Kanaka |
I Don't Want To Go To Mrs. Hum |
I Wanna Be An Eagle |
I Won't Stand For It |
Intergalactic Camp |
Jilly Goats Gruff |
Jose Comelon's Bedtime Stories |
Kind Of Fishy |
Kris The Cat |
Le Ballon Bleu (The Blue Balloon) |
Little Girl, Big Imagination: At The Beach |
Little Image-Bearers | Jesus: The Savior |
Llamas At The Laundromat |
Loose Change: A Memoir Of Childhood |
Lost Letters And Where Do They Go |
Loupetoo |
Love Letters For New Bedford |
MeiHouWang |
Melody |
Melon Head |
Mera Daddu |
Mr. Purr's Magical Suitcase |
Mulberryhood |
My Basketball Journey - Year 1 (Motivational Youth Documentary) |
My Big Big Friend- The Movie |
My Dinner With An Android |
My Superpower |
Mysterious Places |
NanaRocks |
Nazli |
Newbie |
No New Friends |
No Place Is Home |
Nudes |
Oren's Way |
Ovaryacting |
Party Of The Year |
Persephone |
Please In Spanish |
Power Forward |
Queen Bea |
Radioactive Babies |
Rainbowflower: My School Of The Future |
Revolutionaries |
Rise, Fall, Hope |
Robots Don't Tell Jokes |
Rocking In The Wind |
Saving Mango - A Cat's Story |
Selfies |
Shot Boot Three |
Shyraq |
Silkworm |
So Much To Live For Today |
Solitude And Spirits |
Something Terrible Happened To Joey |
Stage Presents |
Stories Of The North |
Superheroes |
Suzie Hicks The Climate Chick |
The 2:20 Line |
The Commander And The Silly Woman |
The Essence Of The Ridges |
The Field Trip |
The Great Lesson From Nonna! |
The Great Pyramid Of Giza |
The Island Of Ilus |
The Leading Star |
The Legend Of Qualicum Bay |
The Little Cloud |
The Lobster |
The Magic Book Story |
The Magical Mystery Kid |
The Misadventures Of Bear |
The Mortality Tale |
The Oubliette |
The Power Of Your Words |
The Prairie Dog That Met The President |
The Quilt: A Living History Of African American Music |
The Right Move |
The Story Of The Opera |
The Tea Party |
Time |
To Bee Or Not To Bee |
Training Pedro |
TVC-15: The Return Of Major Tom |
Two Ways |
Water, Star Medicine |
Waterfall |
Welcome To Terra Blue |
What Is Wrong With Us? |
When Spring Comes - The Story Of Yugo, A Little Bear |
Why? |
Willow's Tale |
You Are Enough |
The KIDS FIRST! Film Festival is a project of the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media (CQCM), a national, nonprofit organization that promotes quality children’s media. The CQCM was founded in 1991 by a group of parents, educators, and filmmakers who were concerned about the lack of quality children’s media available. The CQCM’s mission is to teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children’s media. The CQCM accomplishes this mission through a variety of programs, including:
- KIDS FIRST! Film Festival
- KIDS FIRST! Film Critics
- KIDS FIRST! Coming Attractions podcast
- KIDS FIRST! website
