Additional session for Dome Show and Stargazing Night of International Children's and Youth Film Carnival 2023
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Co-organised by the Film Programmes Office (FPO) and the Hong Kong Space Museum of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), the special programme of the International Children's and Youth Film Carnival (ICYFC) 2023, Dome Show and Stargazing Night, will have an additional session at 7pm on August 22 (Tuesday) at the Space Theatre of the museum in view of the overwhelming response. Tickets of the additional session will be available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk) from tomorrow (June 16) onwards.
The programme includes the screening of "Hazelnuts - In Search of the Perfect Planet" (2022), which won the Best Children's Film at the Dome Under Festival 2023 in Australia. Audiences can embark on a journey through the universe with little squirrels Nino and Lilli. After the screening, audiences can stargaze at the rooftop and make star maps under the guidance of assistant curators of the museum to learn about constellations and the planets in the Solar System.
"Hazelnuts - In Search of the Perfect Planet" with no subtitles is in Cantonese, while English and French are available for selection in the headphone system. The stargazing and star map-making activities will be conducted in Cantonese.
Organised by the FPO of the LCSD, the ICFYC 2023 will present feature films, animations and short films from around the world to young audiences and their families in July and August. These films will be screened at the Hong Kong Film Archive, Hong Kong City Hall, the Hong Kong Science Museum, the Hong Kong Space Museum, the North District Town Hall and Emperor Cinemas at The LOHAS in Tseung Kwan O respectively.
Tickets for screenings at LCSD venues priced at $70 are available at URBTIX. For telephone bookings, please call 3166 1288. For screenings at Emperor Cinemas at The LOHAS in Tseung Kwan O, tickets priced at $90 are available at Emperor Cinemas at The LOHAS in Tseung Kwan O and the Emperor Cinemas website (www.emperorcinemas.com). For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2734 2900 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/fp/en/listing.html?id=50.
The ICYFC 2023 is one of the highlights of the International Arts Carnival (IAC). For details of other programmes of the IAC, please visit www.hkiac.gov.hk.
Ends/Thursday, June 15, 2023
Issued at HKT 16:00
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