The Return [O Regresso] (Book)

This is a picturebook with a short film version. A woman returns home from her exciting life in the city to visit her grandmother, but finds that she is a giant compared to her, representing her sense of maturity and new-found independence. However, … [Read more...]

Baboon on the Moon

This classic stop motion film was made in the UK in the early 2000s and used by the British Film Institute as part of their Starting Stories resource. A simple visual narrative is embedded with a complex set of themes: a baboon, stationed on the … [Read more...]

Bon Voyage

The grim irony of this film’s title demonstrates its hard-hitting treatment of the difficult, important subject of forced migration. The film begins as a traditional animation, depicting a group of refugees styled as simple line-drawings as they flee … [Read more...]

Threads [Tråder]

A mother and child are connected by a red thread. As the years go by, the thread stays the same, even as the relationship between the two changes. At the end of the film, the daughter has her own child, and the pattern begins anew. This powerful film … [Read more...]

Tripe and Onions [Szalontüdö]

Live action films appear infrequently in the corpus, as do Hungarian films. This live action short is similar to French Roast in its use of an upside-down protagonist: a scruffy man, perhaps homeless, appears to eat the lunch of a Hungarian … [Read more...]