This CGI short film, produced by Gottfried Mentor at Film Bilder in Germany, is about celebrating difference and overcoming difficulties through teamwork and solidarity. Two goats, one adult and one small, are trotting along a mountain top. The baby … [Read more...]
Orizzonti [Horizons]
This powerful wordless picturebook is another example of a text dealing directly with the theme of the migrant crisis. Although this picturebook is ultimately tragic, the tragedy is handled indirectly through the use of a powerful metaphor. This … [Read more...]
En el Silencio del Bosque [In the Silence of the Forest]
Expectations are challenged in this postmodern picturebook. A little girl, dressed in red, is lost in a forest, and comes across a bear. However, the bear is not a threat and becomes her friend. The girl and the bear have a lovely time together: … [Read more...]
Jubilé [Jubilee]
This buoyant short film is made in France but represents British culture. What begins with the Queen’s hat getting blown into the wind turns into a mad dash around London for one of her dutiful guards, accompanied by her devoted corgi. Although the … [Read more...]
Laymun
Catherine Prowse and Hannah Quinn’s powerful film is about a woman who finds solace during a war by growing lemons in her garden. A set crafted out of paper depicts a war-torn, wounded cityscape. From the ruins walks the main character, turning to … [Read more...]
Maa Baa
This short animation by German-Palestinian director Ahmad Saleh is a fantastic way to deal with the challenging social issues of alterity and division. In what begins as a simple tale of two rival factions of sheep, one which “maas” and one which … [Read more...]
Bokstavsbarn [Falling Letters]
This tender film comes from Sweden and Denmark. It is one of the only Cultural Texts in the corpus to address disability (the other is In A Bubble [Dans sa bulle]). The film spotlights learning difficulties in the classroom in this beautiful and … [Read more...]
Free the Lines
The striking two-tone graphics of this picturebook provide an innovative and uncomplicated depiction of an important part of contemporary life: sustainable development, including over-fishing, pollution, and industrialisation. A little boat voyages … [Read more...]
Όνειρο για ζωή [Dream of Living]
Homelessness is an important issue all across the world. This issue can be connected thematically to many other examples in the corpus, in particular those addressing the migrant crisis. This sombre stop-motion Greek short film details the pain of an … [Read more...]
