Three unlikely animals are put together in this funny French cartoon. A hen, an elephant, and a snake provide a means to contemplate different environments, and the different cultural messages that we attach to each place. The green forest of the hen … [Read more...]
Foundations
This short film handles a large set of complex issues in under two minutes. A child on the beach prepares a sandcastle, intricately adorned with shells and plants to look like a well-loved home. As the waves begin to roll in, the child’s mother comes … [Read more...]
Bumerangas [Boomerang]
A man in a supermarket loads his trolley with an excessive amount of food. Back at home, this quickly becomes an excessive amount of waste, flung into a dump truck. The neighbouring houses and restaurants are also chucking an absurd amount of waste … [Read more...]
Chiripajas
This bitesize short film is about a little turtle who gets trapped on the beach in ocean pollution and rubbish. He is only able to escape his imprisonment once a group of humans appear to fix the issue. Hence, this film suggests the power of human … [Read more...]
Abasso i muri [Brick by Brick]
This wordless board book is well-suited to a story time session for children aged 4-7 years old. This gentle, friendly, and warmly illustrated title is a good way to introduce themes such as peaceful conflict resolution and borders to a junior … [Read more...]
Bounce Bounce
This funny story by Irish author Brian Fitzgerald won the Silent Book Contest in 2014, a notable prize coordinated by the publisher Carthusia in Italy. Younger children will develop a great sense of fun and imagination after exploring this curious … [Read more...]
Doğumgünü Hediyesi [Birthday Gift]
This Turkish wordless picturebook begins with an almost cinematic introduction to the island towns that populate the shores of Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus. Readers unfamiliar with this part of the world will be excited by the interesting white-brick … [Read more...]
Big Finds a Trumpet
Another submission from the Royal College of Art in the UK, this student film has a psychedelic aspect to its style of animation. Two characters, one big and one small, interact with a trumpet. Although at first all is well with the bigger character … [Read more...]
Caged
This evocative wordless picturebook is about freedom. It is an allegorical story about two men who build a cage in a forest to trap a flock of dazzlingly bright birds. Unbeknownst to the two men, another bird is watching, who swoops forward to save … [Read more...]
