KARACHI: The 6th season of the Karachi International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF) 2016 is currently underway and will continue until Saturday. The festival is being organised by the Little Art and Teachers’ Resource Centre and is supported by the Royal Danish Embassy and will be showcased at the Cinepax Cinemas. The programme will be showcasing selected 45 films for KICFF from 20 countries, including several films by young Pakistani filmmakers. These films have been selected from a total of 1,080 film entries from 67 countries. The organisers said that they received a heart-warming response from filmmakers from all over the world eager to share international films for Pakistani children. The film programming has been carefully curated keeping in mind the young audience largely comprised of school children from different backgrounds. KICFF will have shows in the morning and evening slots that ran from Monday until Saturday at the Clifton and FB Area venues of Cinepax Cinemas in Karachi. The festival jury this year who selected the top international entries for this year’s festival consisted of known playwright and critic Asghar Nadeem Syed, director and screenwriter, Sarmad Khoosat, TV actor, comedian and producer Adeel Hashmi, director and Kino Films Owner Tazeen Bari, and independent researcher at Film Museum Society Wajiha Raza Rizvi. The first day of KICFF kicked off with around 800 children attending the film festival. The best films by the audience response were ‘Stick Man’ and ‘A Tree in the Sea’. “The films broaden the thinking skills of children and teachers both. The messages conveyed are really worthy,” a school teacher Geeta Kumari said. The children who watched the films also appreciated the content and enjoyed the films on big screen. A student from a private school said, “It was very interesting, we learned a lot from it, it was different experience to watch a film on a big screen as compared to the TV at home.”