A warm, family-friendly shorts programme from South East Filmmakers that brings together playful animation and gentle sci-fi with stories of kindness, imagination, and care for our world – perfect for audiences of all ages!
The package has been curated by our experienced film programmers, is free to book, and includes BBFC age certification and a bespoke marketing pack with stills, a trailer, and filmmaker bios.
Made available in partnership with BFI NETWORK, Film Hub South East and Young Film Network South East.
Target audiences: Young audiences/children (5 and up); fans of animation and puppetry; young filmmakers; fans of British cinema.
The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry
Writer/Director: Cat Johnston & Joseph Wallace | Producer: Ruyi Meer | 2025 | 6 min
In a woodland glade, an exhausted mythical creature is suffering from insomnia. When a small, verbose forest sprite appears and offers a sedative, it sounds like a perfect solution, but the fatigued Wickywock is too impatient to heed the Sprite’s terms.
The Man Who Was Given The Biggest Home
Writer/Director/Producer: Fiona Poda | 2026 | 6 min
A young boy brings a chessboard to a local park and ends up playing with someone whose sadness he begins to notice over time.
Traces
Writer/Director: Matilda Wallace | Producer: Markus Øvre | 2026 | 6 min
There is a photograph of a child left on the moon, a golf ball, flags, a lost glove. When the glamour of space exploration fades, what remains?
Red Rover
Writer/Director: Astrid Goldsmith | Producer: Hank Starrs | 2020 | 14 min
When a robotic rover starts drilling for signs of life on Mars, the race is on for one tiny rock-beast to save her native community from the invader from Earth.
Marketing
A marketing pack is available for the package with pre-made assets, film stills, copy for social media, newsletters, and webpages, as well as filmmaker bios, headshots and contact details to plan any speaker Q&As.