School Kino Shorts: Animated Favourites for the Little Ones

This selection of favourite European animated films presents a charming collection of stories for our youngest film enthusiasts. The programme features a colourful group of friends going on adventures in a variety of settings and finding the best ways to resolve tricky situations. The films do not have dialogue. They take viewers on a journey into the life of a kitten, for example, and right into the heart of an alien’s cooking adventures!

In Hush Hush Little Bear, while the bear parents are away looking for berries and honey, the baby bears stay at home with the sheep. The bear cubs have a good time playing merrily with a ball of yarn, but soon enough the cubs find themselves all tangled up and everything is turned upside down! Luckily the sheep help them put everything in order again. The film is based on a traditional Latvian lullaby.

In Kittie Kittie, which combines live-action and animation, a tiny caterpillar plays with a ball of wool and some kittens, and eventually undergoes a transformation.

As an essential divine water spring has dried up, a child accompanied by an otter-like creature sets out to find a cure for the life-threatening water shortage in the film Mû.

The screening concludes with Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen, in which lonely alien chef Franzy discovers that her special pink soup is not just delicious, but also magical, when she shares it with starving creatures living on a strange planet.

The learning materials produced by Koulukino (School Cinema Association) can be found here (only in Finnish).