A weekly screening of four award winning children’s films organized in collaboration with Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Delhi to celebrate National Children’s Day. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in November 2021. Each film will be accessible for a period of 36 hours from Saturday 9 am to Sunday 11.55 pm. The registration link for accessing the weekly screenings is given below.

Romy’s Salon (The Netherlands) | (90 min; 2019; Dutch with English Subtitles)

Director: Mischa Kamp

Multiple award winner including ECFA Award & Golden Poznan Goat for Best Feature Film for Children, Ale Kino! – International Young Audience Film Festival 2019; Cinekid Film Award for Best Dutch Family Film, Cinekid 2019; Children’s Jury Prize for Best Film & Professional Jury Prize for Best Film, Tel Aviv International Children’s Film Festival 2019; among others

Inspired by the novel of the same name from Dutch writer Tamara Bos, Romy’s Salon plunges us into the daily life of Stine and Romy, between the hair salon and the grandmother’s apartment upstairs, where the granddaughter stays after school as her parents, currently in the process of getting divorced, cannot look after her. In Romy’s Salon, we observe the world from a child’s height, and quickly come to understand that grandmother and granddaughter in fact do not know each other well and that neither of them is happy about this cohabitation. But when Stine starts to make mistakes when giving clients their change, putting plates away in the toaster and sleep in her nightgown in the middle of the afternoon —Romy realises that she is going to have to take care of Stine, and not the other way around. Slowly a bond begins to develop between the grandmother and the granddaughter… 

Screening schedule and online registration to access the films:  https://player.eyefilm.nl/en/familyfilm