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...]
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...]
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...]
Capital
The symbol of the piggy bank is used throughout this highly stylised, conceptual wordless picturebook to explore themes of capitalism. This work is a good example of an ideologically loaded picturebook — whether you agree or disagree with the … [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...]
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...]
