Does your wish list for the weekend include seeing a new foreign movie in a real theater? And are you finding your choices limited  that you’re a victim of what A.O. Scott of The New York Times recently called “the peculiar and growing irrelevance of world cinema in American movie culture”?

Your luck will be better if you live in New York, of course. And for the next three weeks, you’ll be especially lucky if you’re a New Yorker between the ages of 6 and 16  or if you’re a parent pressed into chaperone duty.

Over that period the New York International Children’s Film Festival will present 12 feature films, 11 of them foreign, at theaters around Manhattan. That’s a high percentage even by festival standards. (And the word “International” in the title doesn’t mean that American films weren’t welcome; the organizers are happy to have Disney’s “Mars Needs Moms” for their opening gala on Friday night.)