The family film Patatje Oorlog won the 'Best Children's Feature Film Award' last weekend at the International Children's Film Festival in Lucknow, India. The International Children's Film Festival was founded in 2009 and aims to make a socially responsible contribution to the community by encouraging schools to come and watch selected films.

Patatje Oorlog had its international premiere in February at the Berlinale and recently won the ECFA Award for 'Best European Film' at the BUFF Film Festival in Malmö. At the end of this month, the film will be screened in the main competition of the Kristiansand International Children's Festival in Norway, and this weekend Patatje Oorlog is having its Chinese premiere at the Beijing International Film Festival.

Patatje Oorlog is about nine-year-old Kiek, who worries when her father leaves for a war zone as a doctor. He could catch a disease, or have an accident, and there are even stray bullets! To reduce the chance of something happening to him, she goes to the strangest lengths.

Patatje Oorlog was produced by Lemming Film in co-production with the NCRV and the Belgian production company A Private View. The film was made with support from the Netherlands Film Fund, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, and the CoBO Fund. The film is based on the award-winning book Een Kleine Kans by Marjolijn Hof (publisher Querido). The film was released in the Netherlands by A-film.

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