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Short Films for the Holidays (Ages 9-11)

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This playlist for pre-teens includes some of the NFB’s finest animation on offer, from both established and emerging filmmakers. A wonderful opportunity to explore our collection. Pour visionnez cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Hedgehog’s Home The Mountain of SGaana The Cat Came Back Sleeping Betty Hothouse 8 – Meltdown Norma’s Story Shaman The Sweater I Want a Dog Leon in Wintertime

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Short Films for the Holidays (Ages 9-11)

This playlist for pre-teens includes some of the NFB’s finest animation on offer, from both established and emerging filmmakers. A wonderful opportunity to explore our collection.

Pour visionnez cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
Hedgehog’s Home
The Mountain of SGaana
The Cat Came Back
Sleeping Betty
Hothouse 8 – Meltdown
Norma’s Story
Shaman
The Sweater
I Want a Dog
Leon in Wintertime

Playlist

  • Hedgehog's Home
    Hedgehog's Home
    Eva Cvijanovic 2017 10 min

    Exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović and based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić, a writer from the former Yugoslavia, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.

  • The Mountain of SGaana
    The Mountain of SGaana
    Christopher Auchter 2017 10 min

    From this world to the next

  • The Cat Came Back
    The Cat Came Back
    Cordell Barker 1988 7 min

    Some things always come back!

  • Sleeping Betty
    Sleeping Betty
    Claude Cloutier 2007 9 min

    In this animated short, Sleeping Betty is stuck in bed, victim to a strange bout of narcolepsy. The King calls on his subjects to rescue her and they all respond to the call: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an oddly emotional alien, a funky witch and a handsome prince. But will a kiss really be enough to wake the sleeping princess? The film, drawn in ink, is a classic example of the anachronistic and playful world of Claude Cloutier.

  • Meltdown
    Meltdown
    Carrie Mombourquette 2012 1 min

    In this short animation, a polar bear must try his luck finding a job in the big city when the last of his Arctic ice environment disappears. It’s hard fitting into the human world, however, so this bear finds a more creative solution to his predicament.

  • Shaman
    Shaman
    Echo Henoche 2017 5 min

    This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo Henoche's favourite legend, as told to her by her grandfather in her home community of Nain, Nunatsiavut, on Labrador's North Coast. Hand-drawn and painted by Henoche in a style all her own, Shaman is the first collaboration between the Labrador artist and the NFB.

  • The Sweater
    The Sweater
    Sheldon Cohen 1980 10 min

    A beloved Canadian classic

  • I Want a Dog
    I Want a Dog
    Sheldon Cohen 2003 10 min

    In this animated short by Sheldon Cohen, young May wants a dog more than anything else in the world. She thinks about dogs all the time; she talks about them, reads about them and covers the walls of her bedroom with dog pictures. But every time she asks her parents for a puppy, they tell her to wait till she's older. But sticking to her motto of "If at first you don’t succeed, try again," May comes up with an ingenious idea to change her parents' minds. Based on the book by Dayal Kaur Khalsa.

  • Léon in Wintertime
    Léon in Wintertime
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    Pierre-Luc Granjon  &  Pascal Le Nôtre 2007 27 min

    In this short puppet animation we meet Léon, an 8-year-old adopted bear suffering from an identity crisis. The distraught cub runs away from home in wintertime and embarks on many adventures. He stands up to an ogre and saves a princess from ending up in a pea stew. His courage eventually leads him back to his parents, who work as beekeepers. Pure, tender and as sweet as honey, this is a delightful tale.