Once again, your best bets this weekend, cinema-wise, are to be found at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival [1], and the Childish Film Festival [2] within it in particular.

This weekend sees a pair of international features for kids and some awesome animated shorts. On Saturday, take the young ones to Flights of Fancy [3], wonderful shorts from around the world (11 am at the Oak Street Cinema). Later, older kids (pre-teens, still), will get a kick from the delightful Lepel (Spoon) [4]. Lepel is yet another manic Danish film, this time about a kid whose lost his parents when their hot air balloon spirits them away. And once again, like in Bonkers a week earlier, Lepel doesn't shy away from some tetchy adult issues, like falling in love. You and your kid will have a blast! (Saturday at 2:30 at the Oak).

I didn't get a chance to screen the South African film A Boy Called Twist [5], but I'm thrilled at the thought of catching it on Sunday. Again, this is ostensibly a kids' flick. But Twist is billed as a "contemporary telling of Dickens' Oliver Twist", which, I have to say, is an awesome idea (and reflects Roman Polanski's lack of imagination that he didn't do it himself with his recent, dull-as-dirt adaptation). Set on the streets of Cape Town, with a young boy joining Fagin's den of thieves and miscreants, Twist promises to be a wonder. Showing Sunday at 11am at the Oak Street Cinema.