Boy in the Woods

Year listed: 2024

Published at the original source: 2024-07-16. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

12 min · No dialogue · Animation

A father carves toys for his young son, but the boy, who is autistic, prefers to play alone with the same set of blocks. When the father goes to chop wood, the noise overwhelms the boy and he runs off into the woods, a strange fairy-tale place of blue butterflies, menacing trees and aggressive deer. To bring him home, the father must learn to step into his son's world and understand its language, with help from a mysterious stag. Told without dialogue.

Why we picked it

A wordless animated short about a father trying to reach his autistic son, who runs into a strange forest of blue butterflies and menacing trees. Eleven tender minutes.

Sensory distress, frightening forest imagery and fantasy peril. Source-based review; not independently rated for children.

Source: Omeleto Animation

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