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Dodo's father is a big blue bird. One day he flies out of the window and doesn't come back. From that day onwards Dodo stops growing up.

Three women contemplate their relationship with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez.

The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life in 14 verses, beginning with her birth and ending with her life as it is today. Simultaneusly - in the background - we see the story as animated drawings, full of irony, humor and wisdom.

Silhouette animated film based on the novella "The Mohock and the Unicorn" by E. W. White. This is the original german version by Lotte Reiniger

Tabaluga falls to planet Earth on a meteorite and - lost among humans and their rules - unleashes a whirlwind of trouble that only a dragon-strong heart can fix.

In a land without light, the sudden appearance of a strange, illuminated object causes a stir among the inhabitants. Egoism and greed infiltrate this dark world. A peculiar parable about the shortcomings of human behaviour.

It's the future, Norman's wife is dying. In these final moments, he calls for guidance—but it's not what what he asked for.

The film makes fun of the superficial changes in power in their birthplaces. Herbst's painting depicts a society of excited string toys who first march to the strains of the Kaiser's anthem, whose black, white and red flag dominates the swastika, before being incorporated into the colors of a conglomerate of right-wing newspapers. Black, white, red. Three times, the Germans march organized in columns and ranks: under the colors of the Kaiser, the Führer and Axel Springer.

In a world out of balance, the fateful symbiosis between a chestnut and a mushroom takes on a journey through the dark and toxic wasteland to find other living beings and a better place to live.

To prevent his apples from rolling down to his neighbor's house, a gardener builds a wall next to his apple tree in this stop-motion animated short.

In Fischinger's study No. 7, the shapes of Study No. 6 move to the 5th Hungarian dance by Johannes Brahms.

A tale of a female goose consumed by adventure and urban glamour in her countryside life, who has to be saved from a cunning fox by her friends and family.

Experimental film about dancing feet and scratches.

“From the Life of a Peddler” is a collection of tales located in the hills of the Lausitz. The movie is made by the last active director of real silouhette animation movies from the DEFA. His new movie stands in the tradition of Lotte Reiniger.

Blargh is a passive little feller. Everything just kind of happens around him, while he’s keeping it all in. So much that he discovers a ball of black goo in his stomach.

Rutti Berg, the farmer's wife, would love to be a queen.

Stevie, a pea pod, has an accident at the gym and goes through an existential crisis since he can no longer be sold in the supermarket.

Three whimsical wizards are on a wacky adventure to gather ingredients to brew a mysterious potion.

Anton and Franz live together since the beginnings of 20th century. They talk about their difficulties of being vampires, since their first bite in 1938. Their inconsistent arguments recall those of normal human beings. And history repeat itself. As if that were not enough, they also doesn`t really like each other much.

Deprived of his individuality, a man becomes part of an alienated collective in the course of his journey.

Roya, an 11-year-old girl with a disability, dreams of fitting in like everyone else. But when her cherished cat, Truffles, goes missing, Roya must face her deepest fears on a daring adventure through a world of dreams and nightmares. Along the way, she encounters Valentino, a black sheep who guides her through this fantastical realm, helping her build courage and unravel the mystery behind Truffles' disappearance.

You are a Terrorist! A Campaign against Terrorists. United for a safer Germany. The Campaign "Du bist Deutschland" (You are Germany) in 2005 was the beginning of a wave of positive spirit in the whole country. This combined energy has turned backwards in 2009, because now you are a potential Terrorist and you have to be watched closely.

Stop-motion version of the Grimm fairy tale from the Nazi era.

Animation with experimental sound painted by Rudolf Pfenninger.

The youngest of the miller's three sons sits sadly in front of his cabin while his brothers inherit their father's mill and donkey, and all he'd gotten was an old tomcat. But what he did not know: it was a quite gifted tomcat. A tomcat that can speak and walk like a human on two legs!

An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

From liveliness to rigidity—war scars the city and distorts the faces of its inhabitants until a sunflower becomes a symbol of hope. A digital, AI-assisted collage of scenes that oscillate between fear and resistance.

Kafka watches a waitress nibbling from a little pot that she has to serve to somebody. Kafka is outraged and complains about it. The girl gets sentenced to stoning and he complains again and regrets what he has done befoe. When he is not able to stop people throwing stones at her, he committs suicide. However, people help the girl to get up and she continues her usual work.

A windows cleaner is struggling to keep the building he is assigned to free from any dirt.

Small dog Poldek lives with a poor old lady in a small one-room apartment. The tenement block is part of a tumbledown grey town out in the nowhere, forgotten by prosperity. The dog is hungry, howles and eats flies that are magically attracted by the old woman. She leaves home every day to seek some eatable stuff. An unsavoury little horrorstory with a lot of action.

Papa Paul gambled away 30,000 marks at the pig race. Too bad - because it wasn't even his money, but that of his boss. Now he'll use any means to get his hands on the dough again: The fairground or the Reeperbahn, the final match between St. Pauli and FC Bayern Munich and the filming of the new Bond - there is no place in Hamburg that is safe from Paul, and even the most popular North German island of Sylt has to take the fall in the end when it's time to go commando Störtebeker - the treasure and its consequences.

The interactive cinema offers five adventures about Petterson and the cat Findus, in which the children can clap and dance along.

In a palace where humans serve giants, the servants wear blue ribbons as a sign of oppression. A day later, the ribbon is around a new neck. They fear what will happen when it is taken off.

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

The Big Bang has nothing on this.

A stray cat (Scotty) has to travel with a pet cat (Katie) despite his desire to return to his territory, but when he gets home, he realizes that living with those he loves is better than living alone.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

A small man sits on a station bench. A chunky, initially polite guy joins him, uses his newspaper, eats his travel provisions on the train, follows him and harasses him on the bus, in the cab, in his house, makes himself at home. When the harassed man calls the police, the patrol arrests him and the ruffian triumphs. The little boy is released. Now he is helplessly at the mercy of the intruder's harassment and is thrown out the door by him.

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.

Lilith's biggest sexual fantasy is to turn into a monster and devour her sex partner. Her one night stand Leopold is not very sympathetic towards this idea, so she needs to take the matters into her own hands to fulfill her fantasies. So she decides to buy a hundredweight of minced meat and build herself a mince prince. But how to bring him to life?

Inspector Stephan Derrick has made it: the crime rate in Munich has fallen to the 0% mark. His prestige is high, and he even has his own elevator with a body-friendly entrance. However, the elimination competitions for the "European Song Contest" force an abortion of his trip to Lapland due to fatalities. The hit king Arno Hello, apparently a parody of Dieter Bohlen and Jürgen Drews, is determined to win the contest...

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between protectionism and free trade. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German soldiers suddenly became vicious killers, terrorizing the local population? Did everyone turn into something worse than wild animals? The true story of the first World War II offensive that marks in the history of infamy the beginning of a carnage and a historical tragedy.

Prof. Adam Rosenberg is a renowned plant researcher. When his favorite flower begins to wither one day, Adam tries everything he can to prevent it. But like all living things, plants cannot live forever. The secret behind the purple flower leads Adam to make a decision that will change his life.

In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it’s time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty pots and pans.

A journey through the history of German animated film from 1920 to 1960, spanning the avant-garde beginnings, the emigrants, the time in the Third Reich and cinema in both German states after 1945.

Side-walk musician tries to learn the guitar but keeps hitting a false note at the end. This, however, becomes his trademark as he is launched into the role of rock superstar, only to return to his former friend who manages to teach him to play correctly.

A child is lured out of his home, kidnapped and held captive in the small cell in the basement of a church-bunker by three pedophile priests. One night a mysterious visitor opens the cell door and leaves him a sack full of Christmas presents.... The Film was published as a segment of "Deathcember" but was banned from the VOD Releases by the US Publisher in UK and the USA.

An interactive, sci-fi experience, which immerses you into the mysterious beauty of deep sea life on a dive that takes a shocking turn for the worse.

A new film about Molly Monster and her best friend Edison. Christmas is approaching, and all the monsters in monster land are getting ready for the big day. One night, Molly and Edison find out about the mysterious Christmas monster. They set off on a journey to find him. Will they succeed? And will they make it back home in time for the celebrations?

A man tells a strange tale about a hotel he once visited.

After the grey city rain has turned to snow, we find ourselves together with a silhouette figure in the snow-covered mountains. Under the motto "Get on your skis", a winter sports experience for young and old begins - from ski jumping, figure skating and bobsleighing to mountain tours on skis. Animation techniques and documentary real film footage, in which the winter sports enthusiasts themselves often look like silhouetted figures against a white snow background, intertwine, overlap and merge into a cinematic winter snow experience.

Good Night, Everybuds! is a healthy hippie porn. This joyful, dreamy choreography meanders around sensual love, cozy sexuality, and cuddling in the shape of an animated short film by director Benedikt Hummel.

Just as the hedgehog is about to begin hibernating, he notices that one of his quills is missing! And worse still, it's stuck in Lena's dog's bottom. Getting it back is anything but easy.