The seventh edition of the Stockholm Film Festival Junior opened on Sunday April 2nd. During eight days, children and young people may take part of an exciting film program with new films from all over the world. Several of this year¹s films have themes referring to cultural identity and culture clashes. Interesting directors, actors, producers and scriptwriters will visit the festival and meet their young audience in Face2Face-interviews.

The Stockholm Film Festival Junior 2006 offers 19 new films and a large selection of short films from different parts of the world. The films are shown at the cinemas Skandia and Zita in Stockholm. The festival opens with Norwegian film Tommys inferno by Ove Raymond Gyldenås. This coming-of-age film features the growing pains of Tommy and his friends. The Dutch Winky¹s horse by Mischa Kamp is about a little girl and her parents, moving from China to the Netherlands to find a new life. Rize is the energetic documentary about clowning and crumping, the new forms of urban hip hop dance moves from Los Angeles, by director and photographer David Lachapelle. The Finnish Valo by Kaija Juurikkala is based on a true story about a group of children who fight for their right to education when the only school in their town is being shut down.

As ususal, the Stockholm Film Festival Junior will be visited by several international directors, scriptwriters, actors and producers as well as a number of Swedish film makers. The guests will present their films and answer the audience¹s questions during Face2Faces (a short interview after each screening), which are moderated by our children¹s reference group ­ the Junior group - who also will cover the festival in the daily newsletter Junior News.