Where can you find birthday boy, a tour-guiding goat, bread that worries, and staying afloat? All this and more in our curated selection of animated and live action international shorts for older viewers.

IFI Age Recommendation: 8+

Scrumpy

Director, Dan Holmwood, will introduce his short film about Scrumpy, a lad who hates birthdays, and recalls chaotic birthdays past.

Circle

Exquisite film from Korea, in which a girl draws a circle on the ground, drawing in people
from all walks of life, making room for each other until it is full.

Les temps des orages

Gabrielle spends every summer at the lake with her
family. While her brother and sisters are enjoying the
last days of summer, the youngest hides away inside,
How will she find the courage to face her fear of the rain?

Writing Home 

From Czech Rep, this gorgeous animation about a young beetle who must enter the big world, after her
home is lost in a fire, and tries to find her way back to her family and friends.

Gaps

A young girl from a close-knit family finds herself at a
crossroads between keeping her gapped front teeth or
risking it all for the seemingly “perfect” smile.

#DouDouChallenge

Olivia’s social media obsession leaves her abandoned
at a service station, where the attempts to get off her
phone take an unexpected turn.

Worry Bread

Beautiful animation from Korea, in which
a kind woman loves to bake bread and claims that you
can help your worries by writing them on her bread
before eating.

See more details on our Short Tales 2 programme here.

Please note: subtitled films will be read aloud.

Screening as part of IFI Family Festival 2024.