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Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

Spain, 1979. Irene is an aspiring writer who is obsessed with the delicate ghost at the library she works at.

Izzy is ready to make a difference in the world as she starts her career in public relations. When Grant Beiste - the big-headed corporate celebrity in town - accidentally hits her father with a car, Izzy is thrown into a public scandal that forces her to work closely with Grant. As she fights to save both her father and Grant's public image, she falls in love and learns not to judge a book by it's cover.

Beauty Bookworm is the story of An, a shy, timid, and nerdy girl who is dubbed the "Sanctuary of Books" who has just transferred to a new school. With his intelligence, An was quickly noticed by the new school's VALUES (a gathering of academically excellent students), determined to entice him to join the association with the aim of making the association stronger, to conquer the knowledge contest in school and country.

Join in the fun with the Brainy Bubbly Bug Buddies and all the crazy critters who live together in the swamp.

Those Brainy Bubbly Bug Buddies set off on new journeys to discover more about themselves and their world, with patience, love, and lots of laughs.

Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.

Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.

Episode #9 in the third series of the Universal Pictures serial "The Collegians".

A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.

At the start of his career Harry Depp appeared often in short comedies, and was employed by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Company in 1916-17. Very little information is available on The Bookworm Turns but, as Depp was particularly well-known for appearing in movies that required him to don female clothing, we might expect to see him in drag at some point in this one.

Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.

Join these brainy bugs as they wriggle and squirm down to the pond to play and learn with all their best insect buddies.

Claymation short film.

"Books have no life; they lack feeling maybe, and perhaps cannot feel pain, as animals and even plants feel pain. But what proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain? Who knows if a book may not yearn for other books, its companions of many years, in some ways strange to us and therefore never yet perceived?" A film inspired by the novel "Auto da Fé" by Elias Canetti. The film was shot in Athens, in the director's house, during the first period of quarantine in April 2020.

A librarian attempts to evict a squatter who is off in another world.

Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm decide to take up egg collecting, setting their eyes upon a big barn owl egg. But the big barn owl isn't so hot on the idea.

Konoha Inoue and Tōko Amano, the Literary Girl, as she calls herself, are the sole members of their high school literature club. Their lives will be altered when Konoha's past, forgotten for a long time, reaches the present, involving them in a whirlwind of feelings where love, jealousy, revenge, remorse and forgiveness struggle to prevail.

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

A student, a goddess and a dog meet under quaint circumstances in a turned world. This miniature can be read as a metaphor about tunnel vision and the muse it takes to wake up!

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

Karin moves from Finland to a small village in Sweden and finds that her love of books is viewed with suspicion.