PreFest: Junior Film Festival
All-ages | Kids | Tweens | Teens
Please Note: This is an archived page for an event held in 2021

Join us at the Dunedin Public Library in the lead up to the festival for a mini film festival for kids and teens!


Saturday 12 June

Dino Dana Film Trailer

Dino Dana - 11am / 80min / 5+

10-year-old Dana, a wannabe-paleontologist who sees dinosaurs in the real world, completes an experiment that asks where all the kid dinosaurs are.

To find the answer, Dana, her older sister Sara, and their new neighbors Mateo and Jadiel go on a dinosaur journey bigger than anything Dana has ever faced before.

Techno Fossil Trailer

Techno Fossil - 2pm / 50min / 16+

The spread of ubiquitous ‘techno materials’ such as aluminum, concrete and plastic, underpin a new kind of stratigraphy.

Plastics in rock layers across the globe is a distinctive geological signature for human activity. This documentary covers the current reality of geology in the macroscopic viewpoint of Anthropocene, a new geological era.

Sunday 13 June

Me and My Robot Trailer

Me and My Robot - 11am / 40min / 12+

Me & My Robot follows 18 teams from 10 different countries as they head to Thailand for the 2018 World Robot Olympiad, where they must first navigate surprise rules, faulty code, and fierce competition.

These robots traverse obstacle courses, offer solutions to food scarcity and even play football.

Indian Space Dreams trailer

Indian Space Dreams - 2pm / 80min / 16+

A story of passion and endeavour against the odds when space scientists in Mumbai, facing immense challenges, try to launch India’s first astronomical satellite.

As countdown to launch approaches and the ‘moment of truth’ arrives, we discover if their 15 years of hard work pays off.