The short films:

The Legend of the Hummingbird

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: France
  • Director: Morgan Devos
  • Duration: 9min

A fire breaks out in the Amazon rainforest, and frightened animals leave their habitat to take refuge on the other bank. Only a little hummingbird persists in fighting the fire when he spots a sloth and its young trapped in the flames.

The Last Garden

  • Year: 2024
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Eloise Jenninger
  • Duration: 7min

For Henry, the community garden is his escape from the daily toil in the city. However, the day has come for it to be demolished. Local residents cannot agree on how to save the place.

On the 8th day

  • Year: 2023
  • Country: France
  • Director: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois
  • Duration: 8min

It took seven days to create the world, but it only takes one day to turn it completely upside down.

Planet Z

  • Year: 2011
  • Country: France
  • Director: Momoko Seto
  • Duration: 9min

Plants reign supreme on this planet, and everything appears harmonious. But slimy, moving mushrooms begin appearing on the leaves and destroy the idyllic life. Can the life of a species continue if it has nothing to parasite on? And what if some vegetable species disappear completely?  

The Refusers

  • Year: 2024
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Director: Wiep TEEUWISSE
  • Duration: 2min

On a street corner, rubbish piles up, saddened because they were discarded and thrown away. Until an old newspaper is carried away by the wind and seems to dance under the light of a street lantern. Can garbage dance too? After all, they aren't only old and worn out?

Extra info

The climate story is complex, but you can tell it to children in a simple and original way. For example, by making beautiful animated films about it. Each film highlights a different facet, from the vulnerability and resilience of nature to the role that humans can play.