In this picturebook, 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, as she reconnects with her … [Lue lisää...]
Ant
This film is by Film Bilder, the studio who made Head Up. This film, part of the Animanimals series by Julie Ocker, depicts the systematic and collective life of an ant colony. The military precision of the ants is an apt catalyst to discuss the … [Lue lisää...]
Alike
This father and son tale is about the apathy and low mood caused by overwork and isolation. A father is miserable at work while his son, still young, is optimistic about going to school. The son’s cheerful moods get more and more repressed as his … [Lue lisää...]
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 … [Lue lisää...]
Tierenduin [Whose Zoo]
This look-and-search book challenges the reader to see things differently. The mouth of a tiger hides the face of a sloth; the teeth of a snake become the icebergs upon which a polar bear roams. The book asks us to reconsider what we expect to see … [Lue lisää...]
Deux Amis [Two Friends]
The animation in this French film is comparable to that of Novembre [November]. An unlikely friendship between a tadpole and caterpillar progresses as each grows up into two very different beings: a frog and a butterfly. The film centres the classic … [Lue lisää...]
Meidän piti lähteä [We had to Leave]
This is another example of a wordless picturebook that deals with the topic of the migrant crisis. We Had to Leave is gentler and happier than the other examples in the corpus: Migrando [Migrating], Orizzonti [Horizons], and Mediterraneo [The … [Lue lisää...]
Unplugged
This short and simple film is about renewable energy. It is the only work in the Library to directly and explicitly address this important concept for the future of Europe. At only 90 seconds long, the film is a perfectly bite-size film for students … [Lue lisää...]
Il Libro Bianco [The White Book]
A sense of agency is key to this conceptual work, in which the role of children in creating their own lives is represented through the depiction of a small boy who paints and repaints the page. Similar to the classic worded picturebook, Harold and … [Lue lisää...]
