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Wabuu, the small cheeky raccoon, goes on excursions in the forest. His mind is set on nothing but nonsense and practical jokes. Nothing is more fun than to fool the clumsy bear or farmer Alfred’s mean watchdogs. Only once Wabuu goes too far and Wuschel, the small squirrel is missing. Of course Wabuu has not intended that, but this time the other animals are real angry. Wabuu is terribly sorry. He starts looking for his friend Wuschel. But where begin and what to do, if something really mysterious has occurred to Wuschel?

A deaf, a mute, a blind man and a limping woman in a frivolous love dance. Their physical limitations lead to trials and tribulations. In the end, however, pleasure takes advantage of them all. In Lydia Günther's grotesque, comical world, (not exactly beautiful) puppet characters make love with suffering and passion through a lively cocktail of animation techniques.

Devil has a relationship with a married woman. They met at the Sunday church. She likes his backbone, his body hair and the always warm cottage, but gets away from him by letting two frozen fish from the supermarket swim free into the Baltic Sea. Devil does not speak this language and can not understand.

PSA directed by Piotr Karwas.

A German Film Award winning short animation.

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending them into a unique visual narrative.

An anthill is no simple thing. Each ant has their task and it’s hard to imagine what would happen if one wise guy rebelled and decided to do things differently…

A fisherman waits on the quay for prey. But when a fish finally bites, unusual things start to happen...

Svobodan lives his life carrying an old choleric toad on his head. An animated short about a stressed out modern human being.

The shift of technology in all our areas of life opens a range of intim encounters between human and machine and is writing over the natural act of creation. Imagination and fantasy are important factors of our sexual desires, nothing seems more personal than our own thoughts. It’s up to us if we share them or keep them for ourselves.

The odd fisherman Onno lives on a tiny little island in the Wadden Sea and prefers to be all alone - until one day a little otter runs up to him: Ontje. Against all odds, the two become inseparable friends who experience adventures about friendship, jealousy and security together.

A creature in space overexploits its own planet with existential consequences: as it sinks into plastic waste, it realises that the planet's resources are finite.

Lena’s dog finds an egg in his bowl. How will it hatch without its mother?

A man energetically crushes stones into gravel with a hammer, while in another part of the workshop, a woman forms gravel into stone blocks with equal enthusiasm.

A short film about a boy, Cozmo, who feels uncomfortable being in public with his boyfriend. After realizing he is not the only one affected by the situation he decides to overcome his fears

Telefunken commercial by Hans Fischerkoesen.

Humans encounter various monsters, but each encounter has a consequence.

Cigarette advertisement by Hans Fischerkoesen.

Computer animated short film showcasing the work of the German CGI software firm Mental Images GmbH.

When trying to drink away a heartbreak, things happen at night, that one doesn’t remember the next day...

This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests, bridges, words, letters, DNA, benches, shopping streets, worms, symbols, computers, fallen trees and girls on horses.

In this hand-painted and drawn animation, a lonely old man fishes his dreams from the moon's reflection. Looking inside them, he faces surreal and devastating nightmares until a spiritual discovery frees him from all illusions.

One of them quit coke only after he had looked death in the face. The other thinks he can control his consumption and wants to keep taking coke up until his dying day if possible. WORK HARD PLAY HARD tells the story of two coke addicts: A restless yuppie and a jaded clown. A milieu survey that visualizes what coke does to people and boldly blurs the boundaries between documentary and animation film. A provoking film that will become subject of controversial public discussion.

“This film, based on the Grimm fairy tale, is a trifle later than Munchausen and The Flying Coffer but more elementary than Cinderella. It completes the number of silhouette films made by the Institut für Kulturforschung.” - The [London] Film Society, December 1928.

The non-narrative animated film is a poetic debate with the issue of "HOME" and the experience of the outland as a new home. A collage of fragments of Hilde Domin's poems and a concentration and overlay of sketchy drawings and sound elements - always incomplete, always close to disappearance. It describes the search for an inner place of calm - a timeless space of deceleration.

While his wife is undergoing slimming treatment, Andre goes on a discovery tour of this very unusual center.

A modern Aphrodite – how is it possible to be super sexy and successful at the same time? A career woman faces the conflicting demands of her parents, social life, and her husband. Driven by their off-camera voices to become ever more efficient, Lisa becomes a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The short combines live action and animation in a film with a slapstick tenor that is a colourful, but by no means rosy depiction of the future pressures women will face in a digital working environment.

Animated crime movie directed by Bruno Sukrow.

The theme of "David and Goliath" is varied through colors, structures and shades in a kind of workshop film. Collage-like graphic elements, materials and different fabrics are used to allow form, color and structure to be experienced in their correspondence to each other and to movement and music.

Deep in the night when everyone is fast asleep, funny shapes and jolly beasts rumble though the bedroom. There is so much to discover! Only the break of dawn will put an end to their nightly adventures. But dusk is only a stone’s throw away.

Gottlieb Schneider is preparing for his cat theater performance for the talent show. But the other children are not making it easy for him: he is being bullied and beaten up. His only friend and helper seems to be his cat Minzi...

A world without light, a world dominated by darkness and threatening silence. The deep sea. Driven by their instincts, we pursue two contradictory characters and witness a struggle for life and death. We become victims of the illusion of light.

Doña Marta, an elderly farmer, is mourning her daughter. One day, she finds a magic creature on the potato field. "Epifania” brings back happiness to her life. Joyfully she raises the dragon-like creature. But when it discovers that it can fly, Doña Marta must accept that true love means letting go.

The "liquefaction of the liquid" is taken to such extremes that as soon as the guttural singing of Mopcut begins, the image space is overcome with spectral flutters and untenable fluctuations.

Demi-Demons is an essay film about the contradictions of contemporary existence, which separate us from our natural instincts, opening abysses within us. The glorification of the hermaphrodite, the hedonism of virtual realities, the search for new levels of physical attraction and forms of higher consciousness, ambivalence towards sexual reproduction, these abysses embody the existential struggles inherent in navigating the terrain between instinct and enlightenment in a rapidly evolving world.

To a rhythmic drumbeat and in vibrant strokes of colour, a lovesick bird-of-paradise prances through the black of the night, flaunting his majestic plumage in an attempt to impress the females.

Three different levels of skin working with film / film working with skin: - fingerprints on clear leader - carefully arranged successive skin prints - snapshots of light-painted skin becoming leather The images are accompanied by soundscapes using aural skin scans performed by the cartridge of a record player.

A rabbit hunt as an explosive image-sound collage.

An immersive virtual reality film that brings to life the inspiring journey of Charlotte Möhring and Melli Beese, Germany's pioneering female aviators. Experience their groundbreaking quest to conquer the skies and break through the barriers of a male-dominated aviation world at the beginning of the 20th century.

The earthworm has two heads that are arguing all the time.

In the middle of the countryside, young rider Anna has been desperately trying to educate her horse for the upcoming riding tournament. But Jumper, the untamed horse, just throws everyone off. When Anna's father plans to sell Jumper, Anna decides to run away with him, and so begins an exciting story of friendship with lots of surprises and adventure...

People explore a mysterious island.

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the flesh and then pressing the film leader onto the wound. Additionally he had blood taken with a syringe and afterwards dripped it on the film leader. fresh and clotted blood was used.

A couple of women meet at a café, where one talks incessantly about the men in her life in a heavy Bavarian dialect, while her so-called best friend sits silently, surrounded by smoke. The conversation is superficial and stilted, highlighted by the exaggerated and caricatured animation style. Only when the talkative woman leaves to meet her new boyfriend does the silent one speak, ordering a beer. The scene critiques the societal expectation that women should focus their conversations solely on men, often ignoring the discomfort of others.

Based on a true incident involving a fatal riot at a Brussels football stadium, Spectators explores the behavior of crowds and the manipulation of the masses. At once ambiguous and deeply revealing, the film captures the emotional state of an audience gradually losing control.

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.

When you look at a screen for a long time, the screen looks into you, too. It's late. You've been juggling numbers all day. The screen seems to vibrate before your eyes. You close your eyes. The afterimage on your retina continues pulsating in over-saturated colours.

What if you want to be a rock star - but you stink? Skunk girl Billie loves playing the drums, but to get into a cool girl band, she prefers to dress up as a squirrel. Of course, this gets her into a lot of trouble and eventually Billie has to learn that her dream of having her own band can only come true if she stands up for herself and her community.

Animator Thomas Stellmach's first cartoon, produced at the Academy of Art in Kassel.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

Overwhelmed by his father’s death, a young man struggles to show his emotions. In search of a way out, he discovers through a failed football team an unusual way to allow himself to grieve.

_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds.

Animated short directed by Eku Wand

The tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For 'energie!' an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.