Since the beginning of cinema, child in relation to cinema has been a concern of OCIC / SIGNIS and was even one of main reasons why OCIC was founded in 1928. This experience has been recognized by the League of Nations. After the war, the festivals of Cannes and Venice had taken several initiatives on cinema for children.
Since the 1990s, members of OCIC / SIGNIS in Latin America were involved in UNICEF’s Plan DENI (Plan de niños) as the film festival Divercine in Montevideo and linked cinema with media education such as Cine Mundo Chico in Argentina. It also organized with its film critics, juries in international festivals specializing in children’s films such as Zlin, Schlingel-Chemnitz and also Divercine. Since more than seventy years, jurys with OCIC / SIGNIS members have always given great attention to films evoking the human condition of childhood in general film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Venice...