Like many 13-year-olds, Emi is a little embarrassed by his mildly quirky parents and grandfather – sometimes he wishes they were bankers like ordinary people instead of magicians preparing to launch Croma Kid, their own TV show. Having grown up with a TV studio in the basement, Emi is a total tech-head and very well-versed in all the hottest audio-visual technology that 1993 has to offer. One day, while he’s messing around with the chroma key machine that creates the effects of the magic show, it breaks. In his attempt to replace it, Emi comes across a device that just happens to open portals to other dimensions – and winds up transporting Mum and Dad somewhere else in the multiverse. Now, Emi has to put all his gearhead skills to use and do some manipulation of the past to bring them home.
Harking back to tropes from beloved family adventure films of the late analogue age such as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Tron (1982) – Croma Kid is a charming and whimsical celebration of family, Rubik’s Cubes, cassette tapes, Betacam and all the crazy bright colours that painted the end of the last millennium.
– Nicholas Davies
Trailer
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Film details
- Country of production
- Dominican Republic
- Year
- 2023
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 92"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
