New kids' film festival to screen oldest surviving animation online

Nenagh Arts Centre in Tipperary is taking the inaugural edition of its planned Childrens' Film Festival online, and showing the work of animation pioneer Lotte Reininger.

A still image from 1926's ‘The Adventures of Prince Achmed’, directed by animation pioneer Lotte Reininger.

Undaunted by the impact of Covid-19 on festival programming around the country, Nenagh Arts Centre in Tipperary is taking the inaugural edition of its planned Childrens' Film Festival online, making new work from all over the world accessible to families and genre enthusiasts alike.

Starting as they mean to go on, festival programmers are opening their proceedings with a slice of cinematic history, with an online screening of the oldest surviving animated film, alongside a documentary on its creator, German artist Lotte Reininger.