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Escape attempt - An error of nature.

What is I.S.? And how are they financed? Published US Pentagon secret documents show that the US accepted the rise of the IS to weaken the regime in Syria. Similar to "Al-Qaeda" is a terrorist organization.

Animated short about a horny little man.

After the Industrial Revolution, the division of labour became clearer. Many people have to work in one position for a long time. Unfortunately, not everyone is satisfied with their work. Did primitive people have similar problems as workers in modern society? We interviewed five of them, let’s see what they said.

A family of mini-bears find a mercury bird and start to use it to collect food for them, mercilessly.

A cosmic journey unfolds as Nommo, alien amphibian beings, arrive on Earth through Mali's Dogon people. This unique African story blends animation, music, and verse to explore queer themes and otherworldly encounters.

A being made of sand wakes up in the desert. It finds a bottle near him, but it's empty. The noise of dropping water can be heard not far away.

An animated music video parody of the beloved song “Good Morning Baltimore” from the musical “Hairspray.” The video stars the fabulous Drag Queen and sensation, Sherry Vine. In this hilarious and vibrant music video, Sherry Vine takes center stage to celebrate sex positivity and empowerment with a humorous twist, while meeting up with other glamorous Drag Queens, including some familiar faces from the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise.

Maya never feels alien in her family, yet questions about her 'white, German parents' and her complexion are getting under her skin. To process the pain, she writes a song for everyone to hear.

Zoo animals embark on a journey by train

Heta and her seal live in a very special house with strange rooms and endless hallways. Heta’s whole life consists of carefully planned and executed routines. When these are suddenly turned upside down, her world starts to crumble, until she is forced to make an irrevocable decision.

Almost every 5th child in Germany is at risk of poverty. This film tells the story of three children, of different origins, family and living conditions, and their everyday struggles. To cope with reality, they make up the wildest stories: They are superheroes and have various superpowers no one can see.

Rainer Kohlberger is prepared to go far when it comes to the physical experiences he evokes with his work. Answering the Sun demands the utmost from its audience. The invitation is to squint our eyes and allow the most amazing trips to unfold – just like when we were children letting the sun come in. However, the work is simultaneously a 60-minute bombardment of coloured fields and a wall of sound, followed by a hallucinatory, silent inky-black sequence.

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

In one week increments, Yves Paradis worked on an unscripted, improvised animation, starting only with the concept of a character pushing a big cube in the desert. The result is an unexpected science fiction adventure into a distant future of mankind.

The Filmmakers’ Olympics are drenched in sweat and blood. The toppest of top athletes meld their bodies with their gear, always prepared to push themselves to the utmost physical and mental limits. Their mantra: Anything for the team – anything for the spectators – anything for the record. United, they clench their butts and do their very best to capture the movie, before the film can capture them.

The film is about a woman chasing ideal beauty and deals with advertising manipulation, specifically dieting commercials. Striving to meet the ideal of ‘beauty’, she is lured by the appealing promises of advertising. While she tries one curious diet after the other, the viewer becomes aware of the unpleasant difference between illusion and reality.

Hearts, painted on 35mm film.

Animated short film

Is he the dream prince? As each frog climbs out of the fountain, the princess hopes it will be the one, the love of her life. But no sooner has one been flung against the wall than it turns out to be pretty much a washout. Will the frogman be able to live up to the empty promise of the frogs? … The Truth About the Frog Prince was produced by the DEFA Studio for Animation Films in Dresden, where director Sieglinde Hamacher worked for 35 years, joining soon after its founding in 1955.

A Berlinale award nominated short animation.

War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost impossible to comprehend. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.

Short animated film by Bruno Sukrow.

Inspired by the song The Boat Goes to the Bottom by Zap Mam, this film depicts variations on that sinking feeling. The film is made by drawing and painting on cells and paper, cut outs, photos, photocopy and optical printing.

The elephant has the blues, but maybe his trunk can cheer him up.

A girl travels through natural landscape, followed by a robotic voice.

Bibi receives an invitation to the traditional witch Halloween of the old witches Mania, Walpurgia and Runzia. It's a huge honor - up until now, young witches have never been invited! But Bibi can only be half happy, because on the same evening she has planned a big appearance with Florian and Marita at the Halloween party in the town hall.

Animated short directed by Michael Schaack

In his constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.

Santiago, Chile, 1985. Best friends Camila and Paula, both 7 years old, are neighbours. Living amidst sweetness and bitterness, their lives, along with those of their families and their neighbourhood, are shaped by the horrors of Pinochet's military dictatorship.

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

Little Max and his friend Tüte want to make the pharmacist into an April fool by asking him for a bottle of mosquito fat. But the pharmacist is clever and sees through the boys’ plan. He labels a bottle “Muscle Power for Cosmonauts, three tablespoons per hour.” Tüte wakes up little Max during the night because he is so excited to share his discovery: One sip from the bottle will turn anybody into a cosmonaut. Little Max drinks some of the tonic and immediately finds himself in full cosmonaut gear. Suddenly, both boys are in outer space, but the tonic has worn off and they are in their pyjamas. They urgently need another sip from the bottle. Or maybe it was all only a dream?

"We Lived in Grass" (1995) is a student film and Hykade's first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two streets away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy. "All women is whore and all men is soldier," the father of the boy says. "So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find." As the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price.

A train ride and a stroll through the forest reveal strange incidents. The journey carries us through fields, along power lines and running people. Line structures on the margin of chaos signal impending disaster.

There once was a poor miller who had no children but only three apprentices to work for him. The two older boys were lazy, mean and stupid, but youngest was hard-working, friendly, and cheerful. When the miller grows too old to work, he send the boys out into the world. Whoever brings back the most beautiful horse will inherit the mill.

A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger brother of experimental film pioneer Oskar Fischinger.

In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a mans sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey.

When Japan opened its borders in 1854 after a period of extreme closure, it was revealed that there were thousands of Japanese Christians hidden around the area of Nagasaki; they had survived during 240 years secretly practicing their religion in their homes. Western nations received the news with joy, but the laws prohibiting Christianity in Japan were still in force, which caused a last wave of religious persecution, the most savage of all. This true story tells the personal experience of one of the survivors, Jinsaburo Moriyama, who was jailed in the prison camp of Tsuwano from 1867 to 1873, when the persecution stopped due to the international pressures.

Animated short film

An "extra" shown in two parts at the movie theater, before and after a feature: part one gives the clues to six words in a crossword puzzle, part two gives the answers. In addition to the visual clues, which are clips of a party, an Asian country, a European city, table games, winter, and bullfighting, there are montages of street scenes and spinning objects. A simple cartoon character, Mr. Rebus, walks the audience through the clues, and title cards encourage the participation of the theatergoers.

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

When Reynard the fox creeps silently from his den to the farm searching for food, it is the troll Tomten who keeps the farm animals safe and even manages to find something to feed a hungry fox.

Second of four "musical arabesks".

Darkness haunts the young girl, Raja. Overwhelmed by the weight of her shadows, she collapses. A light appears and her journey begins. In search for the end, Raja stumbles through a wondrous in-between world. There, she finds something she thought she had lost forever.

A Ghostborg is sent through a portal to sabotage the secret operation "Trash" and kill agents Parker and O'Brien. Can the two fend off the attack and protect their mission?

A robot designed for flawless precision follows a life of strict routine and mathematical order. One day, a small disruption breaks his rhythm, sparking curiosity about imperfection. As he ventures off his programmed path, he begins to fall in love with errors for their unpredictability, each mistake drawing him deeper into a journey of self-discovery and revealing the beauty of flaws, and the raw essence of human nature.

The story takes place on a beautiful resort beach, where people are enjoying their free time. Not far from the crowd, a small sea turtle has just hatched from its egg, ready to make its way to the ocean. But the path to the water is full of obstacles. Unaware of the danger, the baby turtle is being watched by three hungry seagulls, waiting for the right moment to strike. Will it survive the journey and reach the ocean?

A king and queen have everything they could possibly want — love, castles, horses, gardens, pets ... but something is missing.