“Tales of Franz” a film from Germany won CIFEJ Prize in the 9th Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth (SIFFCY). Written by Sarah Wassermair based on the same name book by Christine Nöstlinger and directed by Johannes Schmid, it is a movie about Franz who is the smallest boy in his class, and his two best friends Gabi and Eduard. Franz discovers the influencer Hank Haber and realizes that the seemingly simple path does not lead to the goal when Gabi is suddenly gone. Even his mom and dad are at a loss, and the parents of Gabi anyway. So Franz and Eduard set off on an adventurous search all by themselves. In the end the trio finds again what they thought they had lost: the biggest friendship that can be found in the world.
CIFEJ Jurors who selected this film were: Rowena Martinez (Turkey), Hilde Steenssens (Belgium), Theodora Malliarou (Greece), Vinod Ganatra (India) and Doros Demetriou (Cyprus).