A Short Way From Home

Recommended for ages 4+. The comforts of home are weighed against the youthful eagerness to venture out on one's own in three short films from around the globe. When a young boy feels he's been falsely accused of wrongdoing in Astrid Lindgren's Pelle Leaves Home, he decides it's time to move out-all the way to the outhouse. (Sweden, 26 mins, In Swedish with English subtitles, read aloud.) On her first day at school, a young mouse is surprised to find that her once perfect name is no longer so perfect in Chrysanthemum (U.S., 14 mins). In First Snow of Winter (U.K., 29 mins) a small duck must find a way to survive the winter after being accidentally left behind when his family flies south.

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