Room on the Broom (2012)

Directed by

Jan Lachauer, Max Lang

Genre

comedy film, fantasy

Country

Germany, United Kingdom

Runtime

25 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 117 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A kind witch invites various animals to ride on her broom during a journey. When the broom breaks, they help her fight off a hungry dragon.

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What happens

Room on the Broom is a 2012 short stop motion computer animated television film based on the picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The film was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film at the 2014 Academy Awards. It also won the British Academy Children's Award for Animation in 2013. Directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, the film was produced by Martin Pope and Michael Rose of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with Orange Eyes Limited. It was first broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday 25 December 2012 before being released on DVD in March 2013 by Magic Light Pictures. It then aired in the United States on PBS Kids Sprout as a Halloween special, on 30 October 2013, and then aired in the United States on PBS Kids as a Christmas special, on 1 December 2017 – 9 December 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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