Today’s HIFF highlights

» “Ninja Kids!!!” (10:30 p.m., Japan, Spotlight on Japan): Renegade director Takeshi Miike’s kid-friendly film is about a first-grader who enters ninja school and with the help of his classmates must defend a couple of hairstylists from assassins.

» “Thelma” (2:45 p.m., Philippines, Spotlight on the Philippines): Actor Maja Salvador will attend the screening of this film, in which she plays a mischievous teenage girl who uses her athletic gifts to help her injured sister.

» “Super 8” + A Conversation with Michael Giacchino (3:15 p.m., U.S., Sound x Vision): The noted composer, last in Hawaii for the performance of his “Lost Symphony” at the Waikiki Shell, returns to talk about his score for the J.J. Abrams/Steven Spielberg sci-fi adventure.

» “My Koaloha Story” with “In the Hearts of Africa” (Sunset on the Beach in Waikiki): Free public screening of two documentaries: one about the internationally known family-owned Hawaii ukulele business and the other on Dr. Marguerite De Clerck, a Belgian nun who has worked with thousands of children with diabetes in the Congo.

» “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within” (9 p.m., Brazil, World Cinema): This Brazilian box-office hit is a crime thriller that takes place in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, involving a heroic law officer who finds himself fighting not only gangs but dirty cops and corrupt politicians. Submitted for Academy Award consideration for best foreign language feature.

ALSO NOTABLE

“Cannonball Wedlock” (11:45 a.m., Japan, Spotlight on Japan); “Great Wall My Love” (noon, Taiwan, Asian Showcase); “Kaasan, Mom’s Life” (1:15 p.m., Japan, Spotlight on Japan); “Restoring the Light” and “When the Mountains Were Reborn” (2:30 p.m., China, the former being a Halekulani Golden Orchid Award Documentary Feature nominee); Shorts Program 1 (3 p.m.); “Mai Ka Piko Mai A Ho‘i: Return to Kanaloa” and “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom” (3:30 p.m., U.S. and Japan, Green Screen); “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale” (4 p.m., China/Taiwan, Gala Presentation, presented in two 130-minute parts with a half-hour intermission); “Journals of Musan” (5:30 p.m., Korea, Film for Thought); “Eclair” (5:45 p.m., Japan, Spotlight on Japan); “The Dance of Two Left Feet” (6 p.m., Philippines, Halekulani Golden Orchid Award Narrative Feature nominee); “Delhi Belly” (6:15 p.m., India, Spotlight on India); “The Short List” (8:45 p.m., U.S., Made in Hawaii); “Arirang” (9:15 p.m., Korea, Halekulani Golden Orchid Award Documentary Feature nominee); Shorts Program 2, “The Warped Forest” (9:45 p.m., Japan, Spotlight on Japan).