How one setting’s children turned their own stories into animated films. By Annette Rawstrone

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Once upon a time there was a butterfly,’ narrates Mia as a hand-drawn butterfly flies over a backdrop of sticks and twigs. ‘The butterfly landed on the rainbow. The butterfly landed on the aeroplane.’

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Zakariya, who has included a photo of himself in the film ‘Monster Land’, uses his fire breath to breathe on the approaching monsters and leave them dead on the floor. And under Mika’s directorship, dramatic music accompanies a large, red hand as it takes a potato, spins round and eats it.

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