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The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now, he wants to try again one more time and wants to get married after all. But first of all, the right woman for this has to be found, and thus Knopp embarks on a journey to look for a wife all through the German lands. During that, he visits his friends who are already married for a long time and gets all kinds of advice from them on how to get to know a woman and to conquer her heart. On his journey, Knopp then learns much about the different facets of married life. After countless adventures, he, however, doesn’t find an adequate partner and returns home frustrated. But perhaps, his housekeeper might be able to help out?

Pumuckl meets the blue Klabauter to learn magic. But he has bad intentions for the little goblin. Nevertheless, Pumuckl still finds enough time for his funny pranks. Will he survive his new adventures?

Master Eder's cousin Ferdinand turns up one day after his death to collect his inheritance. What he doesn't realize is that Pumuckl is also part of his legacy. The goblin soon gets stuck on the glue pot and becomes visible to Ferdinand. He has nothing better to do than tell his nice neighbor about the goblin. This sets off a series of turbulent events that end with the magician couple Magiaro trying to do business with the wondrous little fellow at the circus.

Zeichenfilm - Balzac oder das Auge Gottes is a play on the idea of trick film. And trick film it is. The 30-second work is shown twice in case the viewer missed something the first time: in crude hand-drawn animation Zeichenfilm ... evokes the scatological sado-masochistic actions and performances of Otto Muehl and Günter Brus which Kren filmed during his second period. In Zeichenfilm Balzac a male figure hangs himself, achieves a monstrous erection and ejaculates into a woman's mouth. She in turn hangs herself; he enters her vaginally then anally. Finally, she defecates on the left side of the frame wherein appears an eye of God while on the right in a cartoon box the words "Aber Otto" ("But Otto") materialize, a comic reference to Otto Muehl.

There is jealousy brewing in the toy chest. A new toy has taken all of the little boy's attention. When Pino the Toy decides to run away the others become worried he might never return. Will the other toys be able to find their friend and save the day?

It is an charming story about the little fan who is on a quest. But where it is most beautiful, unexpected things happen.

Like every Monday, the little bear goes fishing, but this time he fishes an old musical instrument out of the pond. What could it be? He asks his music teacher...

Cheekily inverted gender roles, history revisited, empowerment. The weapons here: long fingernails and AI counterimages that serve to expand the visual canon of imagined collectives. Things never archived become visible and culturally imaginable.

A man tries to keep pace in front of the hand of a clock, turning ever faster, until he's overtaken by time itself. PACE is an animated short film exploring our modern relationship with time and today's constant feeling of not having enough of it.

A lazy potter is annoyed by the presence of the hard-working washerman. He makes sure that the king orders the washerman to wash a gray elephant white. The washerman sees through the bad intention and demands a pot in which he can wash the elephant. The lazy potter fails in this task and his attempt on the washerman's life is his own undoing.

A man on a bridge, separated from the love of his life. Wanting to be with her one last time, he decides to go and seek her in the hereafter.

"Burnt" is a reinterpretation of a Japanese legend about the personification of death, the so called Shinigami. It's about a farmer whose daughter died recently. He wants to commit suicide to rejoin her in death. He is visited by a shinigami and as the story progresses, he learns that the lifespan of a person shall not be changed. This lesson is taught in a visually intriguing and metaphorical way.

Amany Al-Ali stands out as one of Syria's few female cartoonists, residing in her father's home in Idlib, the last city unconquered by Assad's forces. Like her remaining neighbours she's submitted to relentless Russian airstrikes and caught between advancing troops and extremist groups. Despite acclaim for her art, she faces threats, condemnation, and degradation, causing her to contemplate leaving. Ironically, her artwork has graced galleries in France and Italy but never received exposure within Syria's borders. The film captures her endeavor to organize her inaugural exhibition in Idlib. This experience compels her to confront the harsh realities of a city defined by bombings and male interference. While organizing drawing lessons for women and girls, comforting her young niece, and sharing her story with the documentary crew, Amany's outlook on the future gradually erodes.

After a long day in the pasture, Mother Donkey tells her little son the Christmas story before bedtime. In his dream, the little donkey sets off on an adventurous journey to find the Christ Child...

Little Katrinchen the hen is looking for a nesting place. She escapes an encounter with a fox unscathed by convincing him she's still too thin. A little dog helps her find a safe hiding place. Once the chicks have hatched, the fox reappears. This time, the little hens, with long red rushes in their beaks, chase him away, pretending to be fox-eaters. The chicken thief is finally driven off by the little dog, who proudly displays the fox's tail as a trophy of victory.

COCKROACHES!!! Nasty dirty bugs that live in the shadows and run from the light. That’s what everybody thinks of cockroaches. Scav-engers. Scroungers. Spongers. Crunch frogs. Cat bait. Ugg-bugs. The insects you love to hate. So with all that good feeling in the world, the only thing cock-roaches have got going for them is…each other. But have you ever seen a cockroach singing and dancing? It’s time you did!

When the diligent cockroaches build a rocket to fly to the moon, they accidentally wake up one of the last humans from his virtual dreams.

A tragicomic story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old...

Handbrushes, collected from the rubble in the ruins of a former ship's propeller factory, have grown beaks. In a conference they connect the built-in obsolescence and the belief in economic progress with the moon.

A watch with history helps Theo write his own story.

Emerging excitement, a dancing body, and the sensual awakening of sexuality turn this experimental animation film by Florian Maubach into the nucleus of a transformation process. A stimulating short film that pushes boundaries but doesn’t solely focus on the pleasure event. It’s a metaphorically charged short film that allows an important look behind the curtain of male sexuality and relationships.

An animated experimental film showing coloured circles moving to classical music, which only got past the 1934 censors billed as a commercial.

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

A man is bombarding his environment by throwing everything he owns out of his balcony. The peace is lasting only for a short time, until a fly starts to trouble him again.

A short film about the gray day-to-day life.

Three rats live on the tracks of a subway station. They are doing splendidly - they live fat and full from the falling trash of the pedestrians. But the rats are seized by wanderlust and they want to sign on in a sailor's pub. Well, the journey to the wide world becomes a flop - no place for rats! Remorsefully they return to "their" subway...

Noe, a fungal spore, embarks on a magical journey of self-discovery, guided by mushrooms that serve as helpers. As Noe overcomes their self-doubt, they not only unveil newfound confidence and strength within the mycelium's realm but also experience the transformative influence of a supportive network.

The sultan falls in love with a woman named Selima, who, unfortunately for him, falls in love with Ali, a poor farmer. The enraged sultan wants to violently separate the lovers, but they fight back with an animal's help.

An animated documentary about the relevance of Shakespeare's classical works for digital natives in Singapore: Live action and animation combined. The film was created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A young man who is proud of his upbringing on a traditional farm, is in love with his best friend. But she wants to marry somebody else and move to Berlin. Everybody is waiting for the new wedding shoes to arrive. A few days later, she is gone and he is waiting for a bus that will take him away too. But the bus doesn’t stop and he keeps waiting.

A lonely moon inhabitant longs for a visit. When the first lunar mission comes in 1969, he thinks that his dream has come true.

The mother suffers from an illness that threatens to drown her memories and emotions. She pleads with her daughter for help. Using her umbilical cord, she fashions a giant straw, with which the daughter attempts to suck excess water from her mother's head through her eye, hoping to save her. In the process, the daughter herself risks drowning.

While in rehab, a young man recounts his descent into gambling addiction. The animated documentary “King” offers an intimate insight into a psychological illness that is often overlooked.

An entirely red claymation short about the passage of time.

The Devil moves into his Viagra years, hoping to find the girl to complete his life, in this atmospheric short. He discovers that blind dates, personal ads and video dating are simply pitfalls along a road of good intentions.

The arrival of a new toy on Christmas Eve causes trouble and chaos in the children's room.

Anick, introverted and bullied, becomes an unlikely hero when an AI in shape of a fierce Medieval girl reaches out through time, seeking help to defeat the Rat King, a creature who wants to build a shadow realm of hate and lies. Rat King is a 3D animated adventurous feature film, for a target audience 10 years old up to all ages. While it tells the exciting and funny present-day story of Anick, a 13-year-old girl, it refers to German fairy tales as well as to Japanese anime and pop culture combined with queries about how social media and AI changes the way we define ourselves.

Excelsior ad by Pinschewer.

A boy is setting the table. He places a plate with a picture of a tiger on the table. The tiger comes alive and jumps off the plate and starts to eat the boy's food and drink his juice.

Soup Frog is the soliloquy of a saucy post-human tart. Inspired by ecofeminist conceptions of symbiosis (Haraway, Butler), and particularly by the theories of evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Written, performed, and captioned in Damiá - a novel, fully-functioning language with an extensive grammar and a vocabulary of around 10,000 words, created over the course of several decades, which seeks to "explore a queer language and its performative potential."

Pickels accidentally empties the little pond in which his friends intend to swim the next day.

While at sea, a hobgoblin plays pranks on Priembacke.

The story of a fortune cookie who has to break himself into pieces on his pursuit of happiness.

The three little Dalmatians lived with an old lady just outside of town. One day they overheard the neighbor talking about a market selling gingerbread, cotton candy and many other goodies. "Gingerbread," beamed Krümel. "Our old lady loves to eat gingerbread!" "Me too," said the icing on the cake. "We'll go to the market and get a gingerbread heart," suggested Krümel. “And then we'll give it to our old lady for her birthday.” But the trader in the market had no sympathy for three little Dalmatians who just wanted to put their gingerbread hearts in their pockets. He called the police and had the dogs taken to an animal shelter. Only the icing on the cake could escape and she decided to free her friends.

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.

Philosophical reflection on spiritual values, self-sacrifice and woman. The film represents a philosophical parable of Greek mythology and Christianity.

A lion is forced to skip its meal.

An ode to time decay and the power of fire. A study on disappearance and disintegration.

Two lesbian hit women are hired to bump each other off in Heidi Kull's darkyl romantic animated film noir.

How can you give the target age group, “smartphone” an overview of the work of a unique literary genius without getting bogged down in long-winded lectures on verse and drama theory?