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Like childhood, animation is full of wonder and simple pleasures. This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience contains 14 of the best, most recent wonderful short animated films, full of joy, from all around the world. There’ll be talking animals, seriously fun adventures and wondrous tales to spark those little imaginations.
This programme contains several cheeky, loveable animals in all sorts of mad adventures. A manic octopus can’t stop cleaning up, a tiger is looking for someone to play with and a hard-working hedgehog goes on a magical quest with his friends the old monkey, the orphan squirrel, a stray bird and a beaver.
These films are suitable for all age-groups but especially 0-7 year-olds.
Adults can only come if they’re bringing a child, and children can only come along if accompanied by an adult.
Ink – Erik Verkerk & Joost van den Bosch, Netherlands
An octopus can’t stop cleaning up. But sometimes, even though you have so many arms, you still cannot reach what you are aiming for.
2020 2 min
Patouille and the Parachute Seeds – Ines Bernard-Espina, Melody Boulissiere & Clemetine Campos, France
Patouille and his friend Momo discover the amazing features of plants.
2021 6 min
Patchwork Butterfly – Angela Steffen, Germany
Butterfly has a small nose and doesn’t know what to do with it. Luckily her friends Elephant and Fox are there to help.
2020 4 min
Snipp, Snapp, Snut And The Colours – Cecilia Actis & Mia Hulterstam, Sweden
3 friends, Snipp, Snapp and Snut, live in a colourful clay world with the Squares who want to ban everything that’s fun.
2020 5 min
Rawr – Sorcha McGlinchey, Ireland
Damn It! – Elena Walf, Germany
The ancient struggle between good and evil.
2021 1 min
Twoot Newt – Jackie Snyder, USA
Hedgehog Spikiney – Tihoni Brčić, Croatia
A hardworking hedgehog runs a soup kitchen for the needy community but one night the food disappears.
2020 7 min
Embers the Dragon – Hurry Up Embers! – Alex Walker, UK
It’s a beautiful day on Keiki Island. Embers the Dragon wakes in his cave but things immediately start to go wrong.
2020 7 min
Blinded by Love – Yige Yang, UK
A man feels responsible for a vulnerable seedling and is willing to go to great lengths to protect it from all the dangers in the world.
2021 3 min
Astralium – Lucie Andouche, France
On a beach at twilight’s dawn, a little girl meticulously builds up an ecosystem. She intends to make her little world perfect. But soon, the tide is coming in.
2020 5 min
Patchwork Tiger – Angela Steffen, Germany
Patchwork Tiger has a problem: he wants to play “Boo”, but the Patchwork Pals don’t want to. Will the Tiger find someone to play with?
2020 4 min
Twin Trees – Emmanuel Ollivier, France
A brother and sister carry a tree in a small pot but when they meet a parrot and a fallen statue, they each have to choose their own journey.
2020 4 min
Shift – Cam Swartz, USA
When a simple boulder’s peaceful existence is disturbed by the presence of a big rowdy bird, he finds himself forced to make a choice between his own stability and the lives of others.
2021 7 min
Our Funding Partners
With Special Thanks to the Arts Council England
Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.
