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The curtain is up, the stage is clear, the microphone on: Let the show begin. The little singer steps forward and everyone is waiting with bated breath what singing talents are about to be heard. She clears her throat one more time and then it starts. But what is this? She’s not really going to lick the microphone like a popsicle, is she? Surely an idea we’ve all had at one time or another!
Former fighters of the Colombian FARC guerilla report in letters on their most formative experiences from their time in the armed underground. University students from three continents adapt these personal memories in a parallel collective process to develop a touching film whose visual joy of experimentation is impressive.
Georgswerder is a small "underdeveloped" district in Hamburg, Germany. This film follows four residents to explore the problems and potentials of the neighborhood - and uses hybrid animation to make their visions come to life. This is a commissioned work by Studio Ranokel for "Q8". Q8 does social work in the context of neighborhood development. The film portrays Georgswerder and its challenges in order to make it more visible in general AND specifically for Q8 to have something to show to potential partners that might not be very familiar with Georgswerder.
This is a story about a little girl who lives in a red world who accidentally discovers other colors and looks for them.
Katharina’s father used to work for the GDR secret service. In the mid-1990s he was arrested for a murder ordered in connection with his former job … and released. Ever since then, Katharina has feared that the doubts about her father’s innocence might throw a shadow on her life, too. A film about family secrets and the question whether some things hadn’t better remain hidden.
Stop motion animated short based on Greek mythology.
Animated short by Mariola Brillowska.
A short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name.
A German animated film about dinosaurs that was repackaged in the United States during the Scopes Monkey Trial. The opening scenes depicting the formation of the earth, and early marine life, employ such simple means of simulating movement as a moving camera and sliding cels and overlays. One primal, insect-like creature is pictured by means of an elaborate jointed cutout, its legs and antennae manipulated frame by frame—a technique favored by some early animators. Most of the creatures in this film pose sedately before painted backdrops or simple settings; the effect is that of museum dioramas come to life.
A collection of german sayings presented in alphabetical order.
I am the hero, I’ll remain, See only me, push you away, Embrace destruction, face the pain, Transforming swiftly in my own domain! Blind to my path, antisocial in my reign.
A story about two people, one little animal and a flock of birds in a world of contrasts.
The idyllic kitchen scene is suddenly shattered when the cut flower steals the show. In the spotlight of the midday sun, it performs its terrifying melodies—a hellish awakening for the mini cat.
A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic chaos. With far-reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal...
A group of tired playground visitors meet at night for a last contest
As the vampire Ray Von Rabenstein looks out from his balcony at the luminescent moon. He reminisces about the incident that turned him to what he is. And after, with determination, accepts his role as the moon prince.
Director Gernot Wieland worked for twelve years with an animal trainer who taught birds to fly in circles or squares. The film examines how aesthetic norms influence Western views of the world and why these norms end in failure.
Felix Leffrank deals with the ups and downs of an artist’s life in colourful, computer-animated images. During his ordeal between depression, writer’s block, anger and urban loneliness, a story-teller is accompanied by three weird birds who sometimes appear as annoying neighbours, sometimes as inner demons. Jung, Freud and the psychologist Dr. Breuer in the shape of a grey cat promote self-reflection, but the most helpful thing is probably a beer with friends.
This film describes a feeling of longing, longing for sun, longing for salt, and longing for the sea.
In graffiti style and with rap rhythms, characters from marginalized groups in our neighborhood are introduced: alcoholics act macho in front of their families, young people who have run away from home take their first steps on their own, children are afraid of aggressive family atmospheres.
There's been a robbery at the cheese store and mouse police agent Chester is on the case. With Friends Max and Sophie at his side the clues begin to mount and everything points to the Rocky Roquefort gang!
An animated documentary that fuses stories of a house, a garden and a stream, and also beehives and huts in the forest.
A short, funny, and intimate animated film about Amir’s life-journey as a bisexual cis man. The film portrays Amir’s story from early childhood until today, his struggle to fit in a binary culture, and why he feels invisible in the LGBTQ+ community.
The main attraction in Ahrensburg Castle is the smart, popcorn-loving ghost Schubiduu..uh. One day, Schubiduu..uh moves out because the castle administration has issued a popcorn ban. Since then, Schubiduh has been living in the attic of the Krüger family, because the siblings Jenny and Simon are his best friends. But soon the clever ghost is homesick for his old castle. Luckily for Schubiduu..uh, the ban on popcorn in the castle has just been lifted and so the ghost moves back into his old abode. Jenny and Simon visit their friend Schubiduu..uh as often as they can and experience many wonderful adventures...
Fifteen animated scenes tell the story of a miraculous encounter between a human and a bird. What happens when cyclist Fred finds a young, exhausted bird of prey and lets it spend the winter in his city apartment? By combining woodcut techniques with the medium of film for the first time, Artur Dieckhoff achieves what Dürer had dreamed of: making his figures dance.
A hot-dog stand worker falls in love with a vegan protester.
The river, an autonomous, natural creature, a living world composed of billions of micro and macro- organisms who are sensitive and yet exposed with no protection against the human economy.
War is a terrible crime, that cannot bring anything good. In a quiet way reality is told.
A claymation short. Mo makes an "anti-worrying" home video for her mum, to stop her from making mollycoddling phonecalls.
Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger" (the Olympic motto), this experimental animation explores the interplay of abstract shapes and motions. How can the substance of motion be visualized? What degree of abstraction allows a communication with the viewer? Therefore movements of famous Olympians were digitalized into 3D through motion tracking and rotoscoping of original footage of Olympic competitions. Camera motions and playback speed of the footage were borrowed and the movements of the athletes were recreated frame by frame. The specific character of each sport is reflected in the visual language and the illustration of its motions.
Take a ride through the streets of Paris with the most famous painting in the world.
The daily routine in the tailor shop is so turbulent that it is sometimes necessary to improvise, but fantasy and spontaneity are not always enough. When the tailor is alone, he lets his thoughts do the work. But what happens when love comes into play, and his thoughts can no longer be controlled?
Once upon a time there was a goat mother who imprinted her seven little goats on her mind not to open the door for anyone until she was there. But as soon as she had left the house, the evil wolf came and tried to move the seven with cunning and treachery to open the door.
the centipede was in the race with the ladybug and the earthworm.
The Soul Hunter is a short animated film created from over 1,000 of Christine Rebet's drawings on watercolour paper and filmed in 35mm frame by frame. In her first work of film, the young French artist depicts a disturbing soul hunter battling against a kamikaze 'waterworks' boy.
Three times before my conception, I should have been allowed to take a look at the world. Twice I was allowed to refuse to be born and wait for another time. The third time, I had to let myself be carried out. I can remember fragments of the trial trip that resulted in my birth. I wanted to travel to Germany on a steamboat. Using authentic visual material—mainly photos—the film describes this trip to Germany in 1938.
Fluorescent critters groove through a coastal world, led by a superior choir. Their carefree crawl, however, is increasingly disturbed by the rising seas.
Sparrows, robins and great tits have a relatively limited range, but it is not inconceivable that they will soon have to start migrating over long distances. Climate change is transforming the landscapes where they usually settle into uninhabitable, barren plains.
DJ Hell mixes the fifth installment of the X-Mix series.
A sailor falls in love with a mermaid.
This Japanese urban legend is quite different from typical German fairy-tales. In addition to classic themes like betrayal and revenge, the legend of the “slit-mouthed woman” also includes supernatural elements.
A Berlinale award nominated short feature.
Sometimes there's more than one bandit, and little fellows can be pretty mean!
The memory of Dresden, the city which was one of the most painted and destroyed in the past centurys. A romantic-expressive trip into the past, sort of fictive documentary in animation. All material used in film are the artworks from the artists who use to work in this city. From Caspar David Friedrich to WOLS.
The second of a 7 part short anthology. This short movie handles the topic of everyday thoughts.
His mother starts drinking when he is eight years old. Jan Koester projects photos from his childhood on his own body that tell of loneliness and helplessness in toxic relationships. These Rorschach-like superimposed images put physical abstractions in relation to their violent and alienated surroundings. Shifting between fluid and halting movements, telescoped pixels tugging at each other deconstruct predominant gender norms.
The film is a D.i.Y. semi-autobiographical, short stop motion animation video, using plasticine characters to portray one day in the life of a gender-queer person.
A camera roams incessantly through an apartment and a life without any particular hallmarks. Sound and animated interventions portray family bliss and unhappiness, quarrels and separation, age and death. Radio news open the window a little to what is going on in the world outside. The constantly changing interiors tell of people who were at home here without ever showing them.
Sex and dating explained through emojis. With the combination of different emojis, this animation developed various possible conditions of sex, including: Sex in car, Homosex, BDSM... to spread Durex's fresh Brand culture for all sexual orientation and support for safety in this way.
In the film “The Da Vinci Time Code” one picture is taken apart in order to create an animated film from its fragments. Different parts of this one picture, based on similar forms, allow us to discover secret movements.The people in the picture eat, dance, discuss and argue, until finally all are silenced. Musik and sound design: Alexander Zlamal