Children will soon get the chance to experience different and exciting cultures through film on a monthly basis. The Sprockets film festival for children is introducing Sprockets Globetrotter, a new year-round subscription series, starting in January.

The series, for children ages eight and up, will show the best contemporary and classic children’s films from around the world. ‘We wanted to supply the same high-quality films that we were able to provide during the festival,’ says Jane Schoettle, director of the Sprockets festival.

‘It was the audience’s idea,’ says Schoettle. ‘People were telling us that they wanted to stay engaged with this kind of film throughout the year… We helped create this appetite for these fine international films, so we feel some responsibility to feed that appetite.’

Schoettle says the aim of the series is to entertain and broaden children’s understanding of different cultures.

Goran Carmback’s Kalle Blomkvist: The Master Detective Lives Dangerously, a film about Sweden’s most popular fictional junior detective, launches the series on Jan. 10. Other titles include the Nigerian film Imuhar: A Legend, the British film An Angel for May, the Dutch film Piet Je Bell (Peter Bell) and the Danish film Zafir.

Screenings will be held at Toronto’s Canada Square. Subscriptions for films screening from January through June are on sale until Dec. 19.

-www.bell.ca/sprockets