'The Magic Roundabout' lies in ruins; the evil ice sorcerer Zeebadee is on the loose and the fate of the enchanted land hangs in the balance. As a frosty mist sweeps the earth, four unlikely heroes Brian, Ermintrude, Dylan and Dougal step forward to challenge the chill. They must recover three magical diamonds to reverse the onset of winter and return Zeebadee to his prison beneath the ground. Easy, you may say - If you're not a snail, a cow, a rabbit or a dog.
Across the furnaces of a fiery volcano, through the hidden dangers of a jungle temple, over the snow-capped mountains of the icy wilderness, our sub-zero heroes must voyage and survive. The destiny of the world rests on their shoulders. Only through teamwork, friendship and exceptional bravery will they deliver the enchanted land from a frozen fate.
1870s. South Africa. Life goes on as normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje. Fat Tant Sannie (Karin Van der Laag) looks after her charges, the sweet Em (Anneke Weidemann) and the independent Lyndall (Kasha Kropinski), with a strict Biblical hand. It was Em’s late father’s dying wish. Gentle Otto (Armin Mueller-Stal), the farm manager, runs the farm and cares for Waldo, his son. Waldo (Luke Gallant) is bright and is busy designing a model of a sheep-shearing machine that he hopes will make them all rich.
Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins (Richard E Grant) with his bulbous nose and chimneypot hat arrives. This stranger believes that Tant Sannie is wealthy - after all she owns a farm - and it’s not long before he’s thrown the narrow-minded but simple woman into an amorous whirl. But his motives are all too obvious to the children and he makes enemies of them. And, worst of all, he connives to get Otto fired by lying to Tant Sannie. Defeated, Otto returns to his room where he dies of a broken heart.
While Tant Sannie’s heart’s awhirl, he’s cruel to the children. He ransacks Otto’s room looking for the pile of money he thinks he has stashed away. He creates a reason to give Waldo a thrashing to within an inch of his life. He destroys the model of the sheep-shearing machine.
However, Lyndall prepares for battle. She suggsts that their cousin, Trana (Elriza Swanepoel), comes to visit. She sets a trap for Bonaparte.
Bonaparte is under the impression that Trana is even wealthier than Tant Sannie. He plans her seduction in the front room, without knowing that Tant Sannie is within earshot, He’s exposed as a fraud and has to make an undignified exit from the farm, chased by Tant Sannie, a delighted maid, Waldo’s dog and Oswald the ostrich who knew all the time that Bonaparte was a thoroughly bad egg!
Commissioned as part of the 2003 S4C Short Shorts strand, Griffilms' short, A Frog's Life, takes a humourous look at the life of a frog from birth to adulthood.
Using a mixture of animation and live action Canning Town Fox tells the true story of a hapless shoe salesman named Barney Banard who borrowed £30,000 from a one-legged loan shark named Beryl in order to buy up the world supply of Speed Brogues, (a new type of motorised shoe).
Unfortunately, it transpired that the company manufacturing the Speed Brogues were also illegally importing Nigerian Fighting Kittens, (hidden in crates of shoe leather) into this country. When the news broke Barney found himself unable to sell his Speed Brogues and as such had to find another way to repay the money that he had borrowed fom Beryl. After sometime he encountered an African national named Godfrey Breslaw who offered to share a fortune in gold doubloons with him, (which unbeknownst to Barney had been stolen from his girlfriend Athena's father several years earlier) if he helped to reclaim them. Unfortunately, when Barney went to pay off his debts Beryl smelt a rat and decided to tie Athena to a train track until Barney told her how he got the money and if there was anymore where it came from - And then things really started to get complicated.
Little people watch an elderly man over three days from under the carpet, as he struggles with loneliness and a worsening illness. Quietly and unseen by him they attempt to bring some order and respect to his lonely life.
An enterprising father decides to pay a bear to cut his young boys hair, however, things take a sinister turn when it becomes clear the bear may in fact be nothing more than a large dog with a pair of scissors!
What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true - at a price.
Peter is fourteen. Mary is fourteen. Bob behaves like he is fourteen. Bob lives in Crawley. Peter doesn't. Mary wishes she didn't. Together they would find out very little.
Charming black comedy about a shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. By using his fertile imagination and passion for electronics, the boy temporarily resurrects his friend. However, things start to change when the dead friend takes on a life of his own.
The film follows the story of a young boy named Will who is so traumatised by his mother's death that he retreats into silence. One day he meets Randall, a friendly but flatulent talking goose, who helps him regain his voice. However he soon discovers that the school principal, Congreve Maddox, is fattening up the goose in preparation for the Gourmand Gastronomique, a Christmas cooking competition. Will and his friends hatch a plan to kidnap Congreve's mother for ransom and the caper begins.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione return as teenagers to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.
