
This International Showcase features shortfilms created BY children under 13 during workshops held at collaborating institutions, and by various individuals. We received 80 films from 12 countries in our 2019 Call for Entries. 74 films were chosen for this showcase, produced in 24 cities from 4 continents. The films were structured into four screening reels.




We kicked off the festival with the short films created by children during the Kropka i Kreska: Lower Silesia in Abstract Film educational programme. We hosted retrospectives by Halo Echo International Festival and Galeria Entropia, with films created BY children in their workshops. Introduced by curators Aniela Lubieniecka and Alicja Jodko, respectively. And the Kinowa room featured dozens of abstract shorts made by children and professionals for family audiences.






LIVE audiovisual performances BY children under the guidance of first rate professionals. Local artists DAKA (PL) premiered their visual music trilogy Musical Miniatures; the Usaginingen duo (JP) explored the poetic battle between day & night with creative gadgets and their prototype instruments; and AHomeInProgressFilm (ES) cast dreams frame by frame, turning reality into a fascinating oneiric world.





Workshops zur Gestaltung von abstrakter Kunst für Kinder jeden Alters, die an unserem Veranstaltungsort CeTA und nebenan, im Four Dome Pavilion (im Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst), sowie dem Breslauer Zoo, stattfinden. Die Disziplinen waren Animation, Bildende Kunst, Fotografie, Tanz, Musikkomposition und erweitertes Kino.
















Im großen Has Studio und in der Haupthalle von CeTA werden Installationen gezeigt, die von Kindern und auch Profis erstellt wurden, um uns bei der Entwicklung unserer Abstraktionsfähigkeit zu helfen. Das reicht von Variationen von Videospielen wie Pong! und Tetris bis zu abstrahierten Tierkissen, von immersiven Screenings zu Mega-Strukturen aus Bausteinen: Über 1.000 Besucher haben es gewagt, in ganz kleinen, wie auch ganz großem Maßstab zu spielen, zu teilen und zu verändern.





An diesen Stationen in der Haupthalle konnten die Besucher wunderschöne Muster, Motive, Formen und Farben auf Papier, Leinwand, im dreidimensionalem Raum oder sogar auf ihrer eigenen Haut erstellen. Sie haben auch kollektive Animationen gestaltet und zusammen mit anderen Festivalbesuchern gearbeitet.




Led by our wonderful MC Anna Skubik, we welcomed the audience introducing the participating artists, followed by the screening of the "Making of PyR Junior 2019", with excerpts from the activities carried out throughout the year to produce the festival contents. For the closing event on Sunday evening, after handing out the Audience Awards and numerous gifts, we celebrated with an odyssey through homemade holograms, guided by AHomeInProgressFilm (ES) and other professionals participating in the event.



Hosted by museums, art centres, foundations, elementary and animation schools, summer camps, galleries, and other institutions working with children, this series of workshops and educational activities took place during the first semester of 2019 in near 20 cities. The young participants explored many techniques, themes and approaches to the creation of abstract art through photography, fine art, music, videogames, animation and video mapping. The resulting works take part in the Official Showcase or the installations at Has Studio.




















