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'Lucky' is looking for happiness. This animated short is questioning our search as well as its aim: What does luck mean for the individual? Is failure the only possibility?

I asked my friend Lea once why she always carried a salt bag with her, and created a short stop motion film made of salt based on her response.

a short animation film about the stupidity of war. A battle between two horse-mounted armies, facing problems of territory and overweight.

Life in nature, a short animation film by Gil Alkabetz, about people and their environment

A shy and lonely creature is too scared to leave the old circus cage it once was trapped in until it finds a little seedling to care for.

Lovely princess Isabella loses her golden ball down a well and plitsch platsch, the frog comes to her rescue — but with a price! Will the great king allow his daughter to marry a funny little frog?

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

While her grandmother Elsa climbs down into a mysterious hole every day, her granddaughter Maditha can only walk over it. As the hole gets bigger and bigger, she has to find out what is down there.

It’s the dormouse’s birthday party, and its friend the bear wants to bake a cake. But they are both unexpectedly overcome by the need to hibernate.

Official festival animation and key visuals for the 30th edition of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)

A resident is challenged by demons from another realm in his closet.

The Zillas, a huge family of lizards, emerge from the sea and notice that their traditional picnic area is inhabited by humans and other monsters.

Eryk led an empty life until he met LOLA. There was something perfect about her. Her eyes were music, her heart the most precious part of her body.

Locked up and isolated, a prisoner starts to merge his imagination with the real world and tries to escape the prison with his newly found powers.

Queen Bum is a bedtime story invented on the spot by a father and daughter. Teeter-Totter-Town is a Queendom right up in the sky. The subjects Triangle and Fourangle are suffering from up and downs and would like to get rid of their Queen. The child tries to keep the story going, the father would like to end it. Finally the child manages to fall asleep.

The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.

Maya is a young woman who moves to a new city, leaving her home and childhood behind. At the train station, shortly before her departure, she looks back and remembers all the beautiful and difficult moments of her childhood.

As a girl grows up, her world starts to become more complicated. She notices lines appearing on people's faces that she hadn't noticed before. While trying to see the hidden lives in between her neighbors' facial features, her own face struggles to ignore an unwanted line from her childhood.

A humanlike figure without a face constantly changes masks in search of its identity. It is not happy with any of them.

If Robert Langer had actually lived, he would have become an actor, but ultimately would not have gotten any work. He would have been involved in the much-publicized "Heino Blesser scandal" at the time, and his career would have been over. That would have been the end of it. If he had lived, people today would refer to him as a failure.

The squirrel’s nest is well-padded for the cold winter with all kinds of stolen goods. But a sudden flood forces all the forest animals to flee to Lena's farm. The squirrel would like to help them… There’s space for everyone in a full heart!

An unfortunate chain of events motivates a couple in love to try and defy the obstacles between them. Can they be overcome? Or might digging underneath be a better solution? And just when you think it’s getting easier, bureaucracy and the past get in the way!

A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), living in the East German countryside. Who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.

An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand.

Summary The little Raven wants to have a real name. The whole night he thinks about it and even gets sick of it. So sick that he feels very miserable. But then his friends help him to find a suitable name ... The popular stories of the Little Raven Sock are about dealing with personal weaknesses and strengths and, above all, about friendship.

A virtual tour of a computer-generated desert landscape and a story of failure: In 1998, the “Oasis”, Palestine’s first casino, opened. The peace-making idea associated with this development project lost out against political reality. Game over – the oasis becomes a multifaceted fata morgana of interviews with employees, operators and guests.

Two uniformed guards keep watch over a cave as animals carry on philosophical dialogues about important existential issues. Is it time to passionately devote yourself to reality? What about the perpetual reoccurrence of sameness? Meanwhile, the solution to one of the most essential problems is apparent: you just have to wash, peel, cut, and mash it. The apple. The serious practices of reality are calling.

Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"

An animated drawing about the generational time in my family

Cinema means lights out, silence and sitting still? Not at the DISNEY CHANNEL PARTICIPATION CINEMA! Here children can sing along loudly for an hour, dance, clap and do puzzles - anything but be quiet! On the big screen, Mickey Mouse, as an animated host, guides cinema-goers through the colorful program, which is aimed at the youngest preschool-age viewers and offers around 60 minutes of child-friendly participatory cinema.

An early German animated short, produced in the late Weimar/early Nazi transition period. The main character - bald-headed Wupp, whom the Nazis classified as "alien to the people".

At an international animation festival, interesting encounters and conversations arise at different levels of society. A wide variety of films, ideas and nationalities convey the typical festival atmosphere with thunderous applause between celebrations, speeches and words of thanks.

Lilli + Camille is about the loss of a loved one and the healing effect of the world of plants - a space in which memory and vitality exist at the same time.

After a hard day at work, all Arnold wants is to sink into the comfy couch and get lost in a good book. His peaceful evening suddenly spirals out of control as his craving for peace is drowned by his guilty conscience and a whole lot of meowing. So… who’s going to save Arnold’s evening? And more importantly - who’s going to save this annoying cat?

This is a non profit short film for more tolerance for gay people, especially gay boys who have to face a lot of hate in their lifes. But it’s okay to be gay, and it’s okay to be nude or kissing your friend and the people you love.

A shell of what he aims to be, this slug has made his own bed. Now he needs to figure out how to lay in it.

Midyan decides to run away from his war-torn home. He packs his bag with objects that remind him of his loved ones and embarks on a journey into the unknown. Soon he is starving and resorts to eating the objects he has packed. The effects are monstrous yet they give him the strength to carry on through the scorching desert. Eventually, he arrives half-dead on the other shore of the sea and eats the most precious of his objects: a family portrait. This gives him the strength to finish his journey.

Between minesweeper and family photos, the filmmaker faces the grief over the grandfather with radical honesty. A rough yet deeply tender work of remembrance.

With her loyal otter friend by her side, a brave child embarks on a mission to save her hometown from a water crisis. This calm and inspiring story is stylishly illustrated with beautiful 2-D animation.

Three friends make plans to win 50€ in a talentshow.

"The Risk not Taken" is a story about making the right decisions. Can one calculate the inherent risks of imminent decisions and take full responsibility for their outcome? Should one be allowed to make decisions of this magnitude for others? With the symbolic omnipotent sphere, the main character holds the world's fate in his hands. The decision is his whether to use this power to improve life for many, yet at the same time might risk a catastrophe, or to separate himself from this power, and take the safer, more long lasting path. As he ponders and envisions the possible risks involved if he were to use the power, as well as what he would lose if he made the wrong decision, symbolized by the woman and child, he decides against this burden of power and lets go of the power and lets the sphere fall so as not to be tempted to change his mind.

A film made entirely with foil paper, exploring its possibilities in the realm of the audiovisual. For each frame a new foil paper landscape was created changing the parameters of light and perspective. In order to match the rapid flow of images several foil paper sounds have been restructured and edited.

This year, the annual bike race will pass the highrise where little Max and Tüte live. It is a very hot day and the two boys try to come up with an idea to refresh the bikers. They finagle a huge water sprayer and all their neighbors get involved. But right at the crucial moment, a cat causes a huge accident and the would-be winner in the yellow jersey gets the worst of it.

Waltraud was the name of an angel who had fallen from the sky. Her wings were too small and she just couldn't see how this had happened.

An aggressive battle between red and dark blue unfolds. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.

The dolphin has a lot of fun with a colorful bubble until a careless swordfish pricks it.

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Normally, you would drink a bottle of wine with your friends or family. Assuming you drink at all. But during the Corona confinement, nothing is normal. So a young animator drinks the bottle alone by herself and animates a movie.

We see the machinery of image projection fail all the time. What happens when art steps in and takes over the process?