Room on the Broom

Room on the Broom (2012) is a British family animation you can watch online on iFILM. It brings to life the picture book by Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, made by Magic Light Pictures, the team behind The Gruffalo.

A cheerful red-haired witch keeps losing things in the wind — her bow, her hat, her wand — and each one is fetched by a different animal she happily invites aboard her broom. Space runs short, her cat grows jealous, and the overloaded broom snaps in two right above a hungry dragon's lair. Gillian Anderson narrates, with Simon Pegg, Sally Hawkins and Timothy Spall among the voices. A warm half-hour about friendship and making room for one more, it picked up an Academy Award nomination for best animated short. Stream Room on the Broom (2012) online on iFILM.