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Mother owl doesn't know whether she's coming or going when her three mischievous babies try to leave the nest.

A prince is turned into a frog. Can he be redeemed?

The chalk chases the shadow. Once it is captured, only traces of the game remain. Drawing, erasing, drawing again on a porous surface. Like on a sloppily wiped blackboard, shades of images that have long ceased to exist shine through. Špela Čadež stages a race between fleeting and manifest forms that – at least in terms of film theory – knows no winner.

Animated short film from 1951 directed by Hans Fischerkoesen , made for the advertising of a Trumpf Schokolade product.

Lou suffers from social anxiety and longs for acceptance and belonging. As he tries to fight his insecurities and integrate, his body becomes a manifesto of his inner conflicts.

The panda wants to be able to dance as well as the two rabbits.

What actually happens after ovulation? Seriously! This short film takes you on a fantastical journey through the life of an egg cell.

The experimental animated film, El Canto de las Moscas, translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian artists.

As a boy with an exceptionally long nose accidentally falls into a cake, his life changes in unforseen ways. Equipped with a Super-Nose he begins to reexplore life. But everything comes at a price.

The little green figure runs up the mountain to the other figures made of beads and small building blocks. All move to the same rhythm, right, left, up, down. One day the little green figure, too, is supposed to decorate itself with beads. But this throws everything out of sync. The gears come to a standstill.

An advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre, wherein our protagonists suffer no ill effects whatsoever from consuming alcohol.

A short animation movie directed by Jochen Bomm, Andrea Hiller, Philipp Orgassa and Sebastian Witt.

A surreal political saga unfolds within the walls of Germany's most iconic police station. Reimagined in an alternative universe. A crew of journalists uncovers the station's peculiar secret: the so-called "butterfly trick" - the only means of escape.

Who really benefits from technological progress? In Silent Engine, Korean interdisciplinary artist Kahee Jeong uses image and sound to examine the growing digital divide and the exclusivity of our technological future, revealing its impact on society.

Experimental film by Herbert Seggelke.

A father who has to find his own way through grief. After the death of his child, the different grief strategies of him and his wife are revealed. The story bring the diversity of grieving processes and addresses communication problems.

In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish must act as tough as possible, but looks can be deceiving.

Going to the cinema is always a matter of joy, that unless... this is an episode in the story of a "unique" character who loves cinema because of some peculiar reasons.

A film about the ancient Greco-Roman influences on early Christianity. An animated meditation on iconography and on the history of religion, art and architecture, accompanied by the sacred music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The yellow banana beckons from the fruit basket; it’s peeled in no time and about to disappear in the mouth. But stop! Before you can at last take the first bite, you have to share. The banana becomes smaller and smaller. The elephant, too, wants a piece of the sweet fruit. A piece for you, a piece for me … A little film about the joys of sharing.

Once upon a long, long, not all that long time ago, in a small German village near Ulm, lived big Heinrich. A gloomy fellow, everyone was afraid of him. Everyone, that is, except little Heinke. But is that really such a good thing?

Karl goes from room to room and tries to fit in. First he visits the business people, then the sports people and after them the party people. Will he find the place where he belongs?

Paint and texture and scrawled line drawings, the frames fading into each other. Zooms into the heads of museum busts to retrieve dream-history images from within.

This analogue short film explores the thoughts and feelings the protagonist experiences while looking at the squares painted onto a wall outside her therapist‘s window.

With the help of a magical flute, the old forest creature keeps a dark cloud cover at bay, which blocks out the sunlight and causes the plants to wither. But one day, the flute itself begins to wither because it is a fragile “flower flute”. Desperate, the forest creature sets off in search of a new flower, while the surrounding nature becomes increasingly lifeless...

Enfants du miel is a surreal story about a meadow with bees flying around, the queen bee eating her meal and a sweet-toothed hare who is looking for honey. Enfants du miel is a puppet animation film which was made as a stage projection for the German musician and actress Meret Becker.

At a busy train station, a person stumbles upon an old newspaper that opens a portal to a world of different stories, all happening during the war in Ukraine. Crafted from newspaper clippings, the film explores the resilience and everyday lives of people striving to find meaning in times of war.

A playful, experimental musical short painted directly on black film.

At the end of the horizon a singing cicada is born. Its flying is short, yet its chanting is eternal.

An animated riff on Melies wherein an animated face keeps transforming into different homages.

Whales are the largest mammals in the oceans. Giants like Moby Dick inhabit the world’s oceans. But Flipper, the dolphin, also belongs to their species. Hampie, the little humpback whale, will not become as huge as Moby Dick. But at his birth he is already much larger than Flipper. When he has grown up, he has no natural enemies in the ocean. But growing up is quite stressful, Hampie can tell you about it. And no enemies? – That would be nice. But see for yourself how he lives. Get to know his family and listen to the tales from the past. Discover his living space, which is beautiful, but also full of dangers. And accompany him on his long, adventurous journey from the Pacific to the Arctic.

Despite her advanced age, an elderly woman overcomes her fear of the water to learn how to swim.

Beautiful, ragged animation, all flowing lines morphing one thing into another. Land becomes bull becomes man becomes cat, set to propulsive music by Goran Mikulec.

The government collects illegal aliens from their homes and stuffs them into detention camps.

A new Musifants episode! Grandpa Günter – a retired circus elephant – and grandson Charlie take another musical excursion into the songbook of the 1920s and 1930s. This time, it’s the little green cactus’s birthday and Charlie bakes a cake. No sooner is it on the table, smelling delicious, than a bit is missing. Charlie wants to know who has been sneaking a bite …

The morning begins with a scream - the day ahead promises a barrage of chores, and the pressure to make money leaves no room for relaxation.

The unicorn magically makes all animals colorful - and happy!

The snakes got tangled up and knotted together while meditating. Can the ape master help them?

“I know you” is easier said than “I know myself.” Here, someone probes their own fear in a childlike voice and sketchy images. There are certain pieces of evidence, like the shovel used by a young woman to dig a deep hole. And there is that black thing that grabs her soul like a spider. A cautious and curious mutual approach in sometimes concrete, sometimes abstract ink drawings.

"Frozen Jumper" begins in hit-and-run style with a pulsating textural noise. Flickering, nearly rectangular patterns join on the image plane, at first in black-and-white, bringing to mind the sprocket holes in celluloid film and, not least due to the lack of geometric precision, giving the impression of a pre-digital origin. As the soundtrack rattles on in a minimalistic way, the pattern’s twitchy dance is submerged in various warm hues such as yellow, pink, light green and light blue, which in a different rhythm and to a more agreeable music could be perceived as the signature of slightly retro psychedelia.

The Needle tells the story of a mother, who is in search for her missing son in Turkey. The film is based on true incidents, on the theme “The Saturday Mothers”. The main protagonist is a “Saturday Mother”.

Promotional film for "AEG".

A short silent animated cartoon from 1910 about a clown and his dog. The dog jumps trough a hoop which the clown holds.

"Astrogolem" is a film about a love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows the brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension. Desperate to find a solution, he turns to the renowned scientist, Robo-Marie Curie, for help. On his way he completely forgets about his mission as he has a huge crush on her and wants to seize the moment to confess his love. However he is shocked to learn that Robo-Marie Curie is in a relationship with the Astrogolem. The film tells a story of love, sacrifice, and the consequences of playing with powers beyond human understanding. It is a thrilling journey into a world where science and the supernatural coexist, and the choices we make have the power to shape our destiny.

When artist Anna Fries was pregnant, they didn’t feel at all like the stereotypical image of the expectant parent—a woman with hands clasped over her belly, her face glowing, gazing blissfully into the distance. It’s an image that leaves little room for those who are pregnant but do not identify as female, or for the reality that being pregnant can be physically tough and extremely disorienting. High time, then, to de-romanticize and de-feminize pregnancy.

Emilie Elina Machálková rediscovers her voice, decades after the murder of her family in the Holocaust. A moving story about memory, loss and the healing power of music.

Yin and Yang are more than opposites; they are related forces and principles. Yang is white, hard, hot, masculine, and active, and Yin is black, dark, soft, cold, feminine, and passive. In Greek mythology, the male symbol is a bull, and the female in German legends, a snail. A predominant male transforms a man into a beast, a raging bull. A predominant female transforms into a cowardly snail. Only the balance of Yin and Yang leads to a harmonious personality.

In five different countries will find five different types instead of coitus. It's like an international karaoke interpretation of the same "Grand Prix D'Amour" love song.

Animated short film

War, what is it good for?

A litte horror story inspired by real events from a certain shared flat I used to live in

A journey through time, through the magical worlds of the paintings, engravings and frescoes of the painter Francisco de Goya. Variations on sketches and paintings that, animated, narrate passages of the painter's life and work.

Animated short about a woman selling her breast milk.

Brakes squeal loudly, the carriage jolts. A young man is startled. A slimy octopus lolls at his feet, rapidly growing into a monstrous monster and confronting Hugo with his earliest past.