Dragonkeeper

Dragonkeeper (Guardiana de dragones, 2024) is an animated fantasy film from China and Spain that you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Jian-Ping Li and Salvador Simó, it adapts Carole Wilkinson's novel and sets its story in Han Dynasty China — a time when dragons have been banished from the empire and the few that remain are forgotten relics waiting to disappear.

Ping is an orphaned slave girl who stumbles upon one of the last surviving dragon eggs. When palace guards give chase, she and the ancient dragon Long Danzi flee across a country that ranges from mountain passes to open desert. Everybody just sees a girl. That's the tagline, and the film earns it: Ping's invisibility to those in power is the very thing that lets her do what no one else can.

Running 99 minutes at a pace that doesn't drag, Dragonkeeper works as a genuine quest story — not a lesson dressed up as one. Stream it online on iFILM.