Streamschool (2011)

A Hungarian poem by Zsolt Miklya becomes a stop-motion journey: a little girl follows a brook all the way to the sea, and growing up happens along the way. Péter Vácz made it as his graduation film at MOME in Budapest, using textured cut-outs, cloth and plastic that you almost want to touch. It is the gentlest film on the list and the one to share with children as well as adults. Vácz has posted it on his own Vimeo page, and a French-language version exists too, which shows how well the images carry the poem across languages.