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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 humans and animals in all sorts of mad adventures. A tiny dinosaur has ambitions to become a great big scary one, a large fluffy cat is searching for a comfortable spot to relax in, a crocodile can’t stop sneezing and a singing frog will have you singing along with his delightful song.
Adults can only come if they’re bringing a child, and children can only come along if accompanied by an adult.
My Name is Fear – Eliza Płocieniak-Alvarez, Germany
The fear that lives in your head wants to give an interview. Maybe you and Fear can become friends, or maybe there is a reason to be scared of Fear.
2021 5 min
Little Goat Man – Sheldon Lieberman, Australia
His mother was a mum and his father was a goat. Get ready to sing along with these delightful characters.
2021 2 min
Swing – Ignasi Tarruella, Spain
In a world of toys a wooden robot feels lonely. When another robot appears their relationship starts to blossom.
2022 5 min
Bellysaurus – Philip Watts, Australia
A tiny dinosaur dreams that she is a big scary dinosaur. When danger strikes, she learns it’s what’s on the inside that counts—literally.
2021 8 min
Fox for Edgar – Pauline Kortmann, Germany
Edgar is not getting a lot of attention and affection from his parents, as they prefer spending time with their smartphones and laptops than with their son.
2021 8 min
Cat and Moth – India Barnardo, Canada/UK
A fluffy white cat wants nothing more than to find the most comfortable spot in the universe, but little does she know someone else has their eye on it too.
2021 7 min
Meta – Antje Heyn, Germany
Interconnection, form, function, flow: all these big ideas about change and growth sprout in playful ways when creatures shape shift and dance to the rhythm of discovery.
2022 4 min
Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen – Ana Chubinidze, Georgia/France
Lonely alien Chef Franzy discovers that her special pink soup is not just delicious, but also magical, when she shares it with starving creatures living on a strange planet.
2021 8 min
The Adventures of Goar – Sergio Lu, China
An undersea explorer called Goar dives into the bottom of the sea to save her robot friend.
2021 6 min
Sign Up! Philip Watts, Australia
Jumping! Swimming! Singing! Five little monsters have fun following the signs.
2021 2 min
Heartwood – Clara Schildhauer & Reyes Fernández, UK
Midge is hiking in the woods with her boring father. When she decides to leave the monotony of the hiking trail to set off on her own adventure, she makes a magical discovery.
2021 4 min
How Shammies Travelled – Edmunds Jansons, Latvia
Hankie proposes to travel around the house with eyes closed. Space under the table suddenly turns into a dragon’s cave and the stairs into snowy cliffs.
2021 6 min
Lost Brain – Isabelle Favez, Switzerland
Every time Louise the crocodile sneezes, she loses part of her brain, until she cannot perform simple tasks and becomes trapped inside her own apartment.
2022 6 min
The Smortlybacks Come Back! – Ted Sieger, Switzerland
In a barren world TamLin of the Little People travels with his herd of splendid smortlybacks in search of greener pastures.
2022 8 min
Our Funding Partner
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.
