Playful yet powerful
CHILDREN’S SHOWCASE
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Íñigo Echávarri
Amaya spends a day of play with her friend Telmo, who learns that the mind is like a motor that needs energy to keep moving forward. With tenderness and deep complicity, she shows him that talking, playing, and asking for help are essential keys to taking care of mental health.
Rory Cooke
Obki is an animated TV series. The show was developed to address eco anxiety and educate kids on the things that they can do to help slow down climate change. The main character is an eco alien called Obki who lives in an underwater base with his best friend the Orb. Obki is lovable, fallible and relatable to kids. The Orb is an Alexa style ball shaped time machine who acts as the voice of reason and presents easy to digest facts to help her funny friend Obki make good choices about his actions and lifestyle. In the 46 episodes that have been produced so far we have covered subjects such as saving energy and water at home, understanding micro plastics, fishing nets and the positive changes that have happened in history to give hope to young activists. The stories are filled with slapstick humour, exciting location and a lovable cast of wildlife.
Los Angeles Barea
A group of 10 young environmentalists changing the world for the better. Their powers make the planet greener.
Fabrizio Quagliuso
Emilie, a bright and exceptionally creative ten-year-old, lives in a world where the line between reality and imagination blurs. Faced with her mother’s well-meaning but conformist expectations, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery learning to embrace the unique differences that make her who she is.
Kiran Joshi
Password: Bird(2300)
Clay Bird is a poignant tale of Sichu, a nine-year-old girl and her dotting potter grandfather. The young adolescent Sichu’s relationship with her grandfather is shaken when her more affluent classmates ridicule her potter grandfather. Sichu reacts to being the butt of the joke amongst her peers by lashing out at her grandfather.
Her grandfather passes as Sichu continues to struggle with her young adolescent life. The sudden loss of her grandfather shakes up Sichu once again. To her surprise, she realizes that her grandfather’s creations brought joy to the whole community. This realization helps Sichu find her way out of her sense of loss and emerge stronger and proud of her family and heritage. She celebrates her grandfather’s legacy by reclaiming a clay bird she shattered which had been lovingly put back together by her grandfather.
Alli Sadegiani
A diary of a boy grappling with identity, love and belonging while exploring our fragile journey through a chaotic world.
Amaël Isnard
A brand new 3D CGI series from Beakus and Je Suis Bien Content, distributed by Aardman and voiced by Josh Widdicombe, Mandip Gill, Dan Chambers and Lois Sefton.
After crash-landing on planet Proxima B astronaut Cosima meets her larger-than-life best-friend-forever Big Lizard! Together they have a whole prehistoric world to explore and fun to be had, guided by Cosima’s Dad and on-board supercomputer D.O.R.I.S. (Digital Online Robotic Intelligence System).
Cosima loves nothing more than hanging out with her best buddy, Big Lizard, but life on Proxima isn’t all plain-sailing – this is a wild world, a gigantic one, which would test the character of even the best space explorer.
Based on the real exoplanet, Proxima B, Cosima and Big Lizard adventure around a world full of fascinating pre-dinosaur creatures such as ammonites and trilobites, exploring caves, volcanoes, swamps, deserts, and an underwater environment teeming with life. They meet Ammon, the handy ammonite, Twig the giant millipede, Rex the energetic trilobite, and Dunk the ever-reliable dunkleosteus.
Whilst Dad tends to their broken ship, and glitching computer, Cosima helps Big Lizard solve problems for their friends using the perfect blend of human ingenuity and natural knowhow – always making it back home in time for tea!
Big Lizard blends together adventure and discovery with subtle learning about science – from solar power to friction, the chemistry of baking, pre-historic flora and fauna, magnetite, and a triple solar eclipse! The series also explores social themes of friendship, courage, perseverance, patience, communication and understanding.
Rosie Jones
Mr Awan tells Nikhil and Jay that there’s a monster living in the compost bin that likes to eat weeds! Are they brave enough to feed it?
B Suresh Kumar
A Playful, Cheerful and Positive Attitude of a Village Girl namely BEULA.