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A film about the melancholy, the end and the beginning. A hypnotic voyage without any wind.

The ladybird has a ladybird neighbour who has a bit too much in common with him.

The endless tracking shot through a picturesque US panorama allows the American Dream to slide into ghostly auto-suggestion while Assange and Bezos ponder life.

Two creatures meet on a tree. Their encounter goes deep down to the roots and beyond.

Mafia Drama

After the little bird has fluttered across the Generation canvas in fall and winter episodes, a new adventure follows. It is springtime, and the little bird makes the acquaintance of the bees, but the voracious fox is already in pursuit.

A budgie finds itself in a luxurious wellness hotel that promises stressed birds peace and relaxation. But between the lulling sound of the fountains and soothing massages, it longs only to return to the safety of its cage.

A rapid animation that sums up a range of complex sexualities and desire with humour. Blink and you will miss it!

A dinosaur egg turns up in Schmuddelfing and an incredibly cute baby dinosaur hatches out. The Olchis and their friends now see it as their responsibility to protect the baby from curious explorers and treasure hunters. With the help of a mysterious time machine, they embark on an action-packed adventure to bring the baby dinosaur safely back to its own time and find its parents.

When the moon starts to shine, creatures wander through the night and begin to dance to the melody of the forest.

Butty is the clumsy household robot of a family and tries to do his best every day. When he blows up the oven and destroys the lasagne, he ruins daughter Ally's long-awaited birthday party. Her mother is furious and tells him to fix it, but he only makes things worse. The mother tells him to go away. Butty is so ashamed that he leaves his family.

A nurse, a Nazi and a fish: this is the incredible tale of a young Czech woman who, in the face of Nazi occupation, trumps the invaders with her unique form of resistance.

The residents in heaven are worried because Santa does not know what to do. All of the children would like a sputnik that beeps for Christmas. Nobody in Santa's crew knows what a sputnik is. So he has to go to earth and find out about it.

Captain Blaubär’s archenemy Prof. Dr. Feinfinger, kidnapped the grandson of Blaubär, three little bears, from his custody to avenge himself at Blaubär, who had destroyed the years before Feinfinger’s plans to conquer the world. Together with his friend Hein Blöd, Blaubär sets out to free them.

An old oak tree retells its life story: 2000 years of cultural history condensed into just over 10 minutes...

Silouhette animation movie of the tale of "Krabat" placed in the german Lausitz.

Just when Laura and her family were preparing to spend the Christmas holidays at Aunt Martha, the car breaks down and must spend Christmas at home, and without a tree. A fun adventure for the whole family.

Edgar is not getting a lot of attention and affection from his parents, as they prefer spending time with their smartphones and laptops than with their son. In the forest, a fox helps lonely Edgar until his parents suddenly get a wake-up call.

When Frankie, a mangy talking street cat, stops the depressed Gold from committing suicide, a unique friendship begins in which both cling to each other and find their way back to life.

A heartwarming animation about the bond between a cat called Fred and a goose named Anabel. After a wonderful summer, a change of the seasons throws the relationship of these farmyard buddies into a spin. Anabel starts to freeze and must move south. But even a long winter can’t extinguish true friendship.

The impossible happens in completely random scenarios.

Animated short.

Several cases of labour exploitation concerning migrant workers from Eastern European countries have become publicly known. The film portrays the life of three migrant workers: a construction worker from Bulgaria who lives on the streets of Frankfurt collecting bottles for a living; a woman from Romania who shares a hotel room with her daughters, everyday she goes out to find work; and a retiree from Bulgaria who drives a truck and has been on the road for four months to support his family back home. Their daily lives are determined by bleak monotony and social isolation, and yet they have not abandoned their hope for a better life.

The film was made in response to the assassination attempt on the Pope in Rome. The Vicar of Christ is kidnapped by his former lover and, because he gives the only answer to the crucial question, but the wrong one, she shoots him with a paintbrush.

A man, mourning about the loss of his lover Leonore, faces a strange visitor in the middle of the night. "Ouoth the raven: NEVERMORE"

A researcher discovers the key to immortality: beet! Those who surround themselves with its scent will live forever. An impenetrable magenta atmosphere envelops the planet. Immortality spreads like a virus, death is impossible.

Many hundreds of years ago, Siegfried snatched his invisibility cloak from the dwarf Alberich. Understandable that this is not good to speak Siegfried. But he always likes to tell how it happened. And also of all the other dangerous adventures of Siegfried. How he defeated the dragon and became almost invulnerable, there would not have been a small linden leaf. The kidnapping of Brunhild from Iceland and why Hagen von Tronje became Siegfried's mortal enemy. And of course Gunther's betrayal of Siegfried. And one question Alberich still has to this day: what really happened to the treasure of the Nibelung? Is he still lying on the bottom of the Rhine?

Dr. Dolittle has arrived in the land of monkeys, where gorillas, orangutans, baboons and spiders await medical attention. But how can one do it alone? Luckily, the animals of the desert want to help.

When the castle ghost Hui Buh, of all people, is chosen to free the heart of a cursed princess from 1001 Nights together with the clumsy Genie Amira, he and his friends embark on the greatest adventure of his life.

For little children, the world is full of mystery and unknown. They need the help of a wise companion to navigate the challenges of every-day life. Or maybe it’s their awe and wonder at everything new that fills the everyday life with magic (and nonsense) for the adults around them?

The story (or: the non-story) is focusing on small, unconscious gestures during a moment of non-communication on a train.

A lady bug and a glow worm use visuals and comedy to teach their class about the amazing things trees do. On the way they must fight an evil spider, befriend a talking tree and find the true meaning of friendship.

A pair of twin artists stumble upon a tiny doll’s dress, which they want to showcase on a grand scale. After all, this little dress bears a direct resemblance to the fairy tale »The Emperor’s New Clothes«, in which the emperor was actually wearing clothes after all! Unfortunately, the story is repeatedly misrepresented because ordinary people, like peasants and such, are simply too stupid to recognise transparent clothing. Of course.

On his way inland, Dr. Dolittle and his animals encounter a nasty surprise. Natives capture them and hold them under lock and key.

The film “Outside” tells the story of domestic violence happening every day behind closed doors. Our heroine deals with violence in her own way. The film was inspired by an article about this in a German newspaper, titled "The Numbers Are Scary".

A film about striving for belonging against all odds.

A mad doctor in his laboratory, the object of his desire: storms and thunderstorms, and yet another attempt to create life! But nature cannot be manipulated so easily. It brings creative chance into play.

Produced as a promotional film for Beiersdorf.

Kevin Hines hears voices due to auditory hallucinations that one day order him to end his life. A hand-drawn documentary about one of the few people to survive a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge.

On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of the sea god Poseidon, whose son he overpowered; the wrestling with Circe, the Lotophagi, the Sirens with their enticing death song and the battle with the bloodthirsty Scylla. Penelope, his wife, meanwhile fights against intrusive suitors who want to kill Odysseus. Athena sends him his son as a savior, who defeats Proteus, Poseidon's vassal. Odysseus is able to free himself from Calypso. Disguised as a beggar, he returns home, punishes the suitors who are after his money and is reunited with Penelope.

Egon arrives. Rather, Egon arrives late. If he had arrived on time, the situation which had made his arrival unwelcome, would not have occured. He would have been welcomed and this farce would not have been able to take place...

Film collage on the theme of painters and models.

The catastrophe is tirelessly repeated in Hollywood cinema. The genre of the disaster movie hints at the collective psyche of the respective historical epochs. The perspective of a postmodern longing for moments of spectacular destruction, which briefly interrupts the dull monotony in late capitalist consumerism, shows how contradictory postmodern pop culture is. The disaster movie is symptomatic for the longing to overturn the status quo as well as the opposite desire to find it instantly restored.

A wolf-human figure awakens in a world threatened by fire and decay. She senses that everything around her is disappearing, without understanding why—almost blind and unable to see the obvious.
But then she realizes the truth: huge, destructive feet are trampling through the world, setting everything on fire, plunging both the past and the future into darkness. In the end, she has only one option left: to save herself.

In his first cinematic work, the painter Franz Schömbs intersperses the ever-recurring process from the nightbreak to the dawn. A short film by Franz Schömbs.

Gaïa is a planet conceived as a body with a growing population. As resources become scarce, the inhabitants attempt to fertilise its egg cell – in search of new life.

Myself tries to remember the secret of the universe.

This animated short shows the development of boys up to and during puberty. It depicts the typical external changes that occur with the onset of sexual maturity, the structure and function of the sexual organs, sperm formation and pollination.

A short animated film about pathbreaking thoughts to a 15-year-old self.

A voice-over tells a dream about returning to her decrepit house that is about to be demolished.

Puppets play the story based on the famous children's song.

The film is a testament to puppet animation during the Nazi era. The story centers on Hohnsteiner Kasper, who no longer relies on a frying pan or a beating to solve his problems and difficulties, but instead uses humor and ingenuity. The Hohnstein Kasper, however, is no paragon of virtue who bores children with moral lectures. "He acts in an exemplary moral manner, but he does not preach."

How many questions and decisions do we humans leave unanswered in the hope that they will disappear on their own? Quite a lot! The universe also has to contend with this problem and everyone's expectations.

A short animation film on Martin Luther and the origins of the Reformation, one told with wry humor and paper cut-outs.

The Rubbings of Trajectories is an intimate documentation about space and memory. Drawing inspiration from travelling around the globe, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person’s consciousness and experience the relationship between one’s inner and outer worlds.

Short animated film by Bruno Sukrow.

At a fancy flower spa, Sam prepares for their blooming and bodily transformation. Their mother, however, isn’t quite ready to let go. On their final day together, between petal pampering, quiet conversations, and echoes of childhood, tension and fear rise, but something tender begins to take root.

Since many years the jungle-animals have been living together peacefully. Of course there had been fights, but the strong and intelligent Lion King always managed to settle them. The Panther however had been envious on the power of the king for a long time. When the lioness got a baby and the lion did not worry so much about the animals, the Panther instigated the animals against their king. The Lion and his family were brought out of the jungle and the Panther ruled like a tyrant. The lion baby grew up far away from his homeland. One day he heard from the birds, how much the animals in the jungle had suffered from the Panther’s cruelty. He started thinking, how to help the animals.