A half hour film from Icelandic-based production company CAOZ, The Lost Little Caterpillar tells the story of the adventure of a spellbound princess and her struggle to understand the complexities of life.
When Katie opens her eyes for the first time, she thinks that everything around her is beautiful. She is probably the smallest creature in the garden, and is very happy on her little leaf, eating and watching everything that goes on.
Until one day she meets a hostile ladybird, who tells her how ugly and fat she is. When Katie accidentally falls off her leaf, her adventure through the garden begins. She encounters many other creatures both friend and foe, including a friendly worm, a buzzing bee, a friendly old spider and a sparrow who tries to feed her to her chicks!
Katies journey teaches her a lot about life and her journey is complete when she finally turns into a beautiful caterpillar.
Written by Fridrik Erlingsson, author of Benjamin Dove, an award-winning children's novel, which was later made into a full feature, and directed, illustrated and animated by Gunnar Karlsson, a well known icelandic animator, the film premiered in Reykjevik at the end of August 2002, and set a local box-office hit for a short film.
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