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The film is set in a dystopian, bleak world of rusty metal and tells the story of a lonely old robot heading toward an unknown destination. Pursued by an all-consuming red fog, he climbs a huge mountain to protect his precious cargo. Faced with an insurmountable obstacle and the danger rapidly closing in on him, he must make a decision to ensure his survival.
A cool boy, stray cats, lots of carrots, and a crazy surprise!
The film puts the viewer in a state of mind that reflects what it might be like to receive a terrible diagnosis. Who am I if an important part of me can no longer be lived?
An artist on the phone with a supposed Microsoft employee. She begins to talk - about heartbreak, emptiness, procrastination - and unwittingly becomes a scam-baiter.
You enter a calm yet unfamiliar world, lying dormant when you arrive. As you explore its surroundings, the world gradually opens up, revealing its light. The more you engage with it, the more you become enveloped in a soothing yet lively awakening, full of surprises.
A UFO flies through a German village and an old lady reacts.
Short animated film
According to the dictionary, the index finger is the most frequently used finger. It bears its name because it is preferably used to point to an object or a direction. However, it can also be used to admonish, threaten, accuse or flip others the bird. Some people turn this hobby into a profession and become professional pointing fingers. But there are also other possibilities...
The people, among them an astonishing number of workers, react with visible anger to the sudden lack of matches – and threaten to go to the barricades. The problem is solved, of course. But does it mean the population’s anger is placated? Puppet animation director Johannes Hempel created this satire based on a draft by Wolfgang Kohlhaase – at the same time as the uprising of 17 June 1953.
Kicked out on his 21st birthday and troubled by his inner demons, Melvin thinks of ending things. But right on the edge of a cliff he finds ‘The Last Bar’, a quirky place of misfits that came for all the same reasons. Sparked by talks and confrontation, his inner journey continues and he has to stand up for himself. At break of dawn, his thoughts of ending his life vanished and he decides to stay a little longer.
A detached human hand found after a bomb attack takes us into the abyss of the German intelligence apparatus.
A mythic story of gods and romance, set in the ancient past on a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
An old riddle to which many people cannot guess the answer. Let's see what Gil has to say.
Hong Kong, 2019. Long and Sophie, a retired couple, are amateur singers. Despite the social unrest, their singing performance goes ahead as usual. While Sophie arrives at the venue early to prepare, Long is delayed on the subway by unexpected circumstances.
My fish has three corners, three corners has my fish, and had he not three corners, he would not be my fish!
Elio, a little boy, is trapped in a crowded train. Seeking comfort, he retreats into his imagination and pretends he is an astronaut. But the chaos of war pulls him back to reality.
The story of the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of mount Damavand in Iran and Hofit, an air force plane from Israel. Their unexpected encounter dares them to reimagine a friendship against all odds.
The big ones eat the little ones, that's how life works!
'Otto', made of red clay, can freely transform into whatever shape it wants, and responds to and gets inspiration from every sound it hears through its ears. The sea he lives in is made of staff notes. Whenever meeting the best musicians who made a mark in classical music, 'Otto' introduces the musician and his musical characteristics to the audience. Let's go on a fun trip to meet classical genius musicians with 'Otto', which boasts a unique musical sensibility and soul!
The ocean. The vastness of the sea. A whale cow and her calf. In Blau the life and mythology of these giant marine mammals are woven into one fantastical story.
The crocodile has everything it needs for a comfortable evening in front of the TV: cushions, a stool, pretzel sticks and a TV magazine. But then the pretzel sticks ruins the fun.
R.I.P. - a lovely splatter movie in 2D. Death is not in best shape. After all, he is a few billion years old. His best days are over. And he is very forgetful. One night he even loses his most important tool: His scythe! The ultimate instrument of evil falls into the hands of Lulu, a nice young girl with some problems. Soon she realizes the power that was given to her. It's payback time. The gangs, the bullies, the Taxmen - everyone gets what they deserve. Or don't they? Anyway, chaos breaks out on earth and in heaven. St. Peter is not amused. Will Death ever see his scythe again? Will Lulu come to her senses? See for yourself in R.I.P. - Rest in Pieces.
In October 1813, the largest battle to date took place near Leipzig: the decisive battle of the Wars of Liberation against Napoleonic foreign rule—the Battle of the Nations. Of the approximately 600,000 soldiers from over a dozen peoples and nations who fought in the battle, around 92,000 were killed or wounded. Many more victims among the civilian population of Leipzig were claimed by a typhus epidemic following the battle. The fully animated film by Leipzig-born animator Schwarwel is about these victims, about war, about its destruction and suffering, and we follow the paths of Napoleon, his adversaries, officers and soldiers, a market vendor, a surgeon, a pastor, a cemetery doctor, and a war widow through the turmoil of October 18, 1813, the day that finally decided the battle.
An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.
A bird saves a little tree from withering.
Frank has to join the army as a reservist in the GDR. Every day he writes home to his wife in the Erzgebirge. The young couple, who already have a daughter, look for ways to deal with the separation. But their time in the barracks remains lost time, and the description of the weather becomes a cipher for their mental state. Decades later, grandson Elia finds the letters and old photos of his grandparents and turns them into a film.
You need momentum to escape it all. Vonfelt packs the necessary energy into unstoppable pop beats and verbal images. On a backdrop of fleeting nocturnal city lights, Michelle Brand creates a refreshingly dynamic slipstream of fading forms and intense colours. You let yourself fall gently and with a smile into the rush of acceleration.
A cheeky muddy piglet is disturbing the flamingo's elegant hen party.
“Mathuật” is a combination of the artist’s name, Maithu, and the Vietnamese word for magic, ma thuật, while MMRBX is an acronym for the working term memory box. The work metaphorically associates the Vietnamese ritual of caring for the dead with an allegorical and virtual memory box that stores mnemonic moving images. Heavily contextualized within Southeast and East Asian mythology, where communication with the dead is an integral part of everyday life, Mathuật – MMRBX aims to excavate the wounded past of survivor diasporas (Việt Kiều) that remains invisible to most communities. The artist believes that in a world suffering from postcolonial amnesia, we resist by remembering, as it is impossible for the ghosts and spirits of historical traumas to rest in peace. Bùi aims to establish an archive of personal memories and transgenerational traumas that allows the Vietnamese diaspora to formalize a story of their own.
Myself tries to quit smoking.
Short animated film based on a fairy tale.
The fire spirit uses the rainman's sleep to steal his magic rod and his magic water. He dries up all the water and causes great hardship for people and animals. When the fire spirit tampers with the count's well, he is overpowered and imprisoned. For his release, he promises the Count the bottle of magic water. Two children who are looking for water overhear the conversation. They learn that the rainman can only be awakened with the magic rod and the magic water. Andreas uses a trick to get hold of the water. Lies receives the rod in exchange from the vain wife of the fire spirit. The children search for the rainman. The fire spirit puts them in danger several times and tries to stop them from getting any further. Nevertheless, they find the rainman's cave and awaken him. Now the trouble is over, the fire spirit is defeated. It rains again.
A touching story about human loneliness and a fight with self-esteem that leads to isolation.
How do you face the unknown? 8-year-old deaf Ron fears his first camping trip. His mother comforts him with a story about 'Eddie the Camper,' a friendly forest monster. Despite her efforts, Ron’s fear lingers. After falling asleep, he awakens in a surreal forest and meets you, as Eddie. Together, you embark on an adventure, but there’s a barrier: Ron can’t hear, and you don’t know sign language. In this 25-minute VR journey, you’ll join Ron, learn to communicate, and navigate the forest together.
All moms (and dads) know how difficult it can be to have small children. They cry a lot, they are moody, and they don't always know what they want. A short story about a mother trying to enjoy a quiet cup of coffee in the morning while her son sleeps. But this is not meant to be, because small children are unpredictable. After a start to the day like this, anyone would feel out of sorts.
To match the ideal of beauty, the human back has to be straight and exhibit strength. It’s the largest part of the body and makes us stand erect. “Shapes” pays homage to different kinds of backs: those marked by scars, curvatures, deformations, deviant from our norm.
Dead Chickens create kinetic monster sculptures where machines “awaken” and organic forms “freeze” into automatons. Their grotesque chimerae—mechanical beings with oversized eyes—blur beauty and ugliness, provoking curiosity, fear, and empathy. Merging artists’ inner visions with cutting-edge tech, they craft surreal artworks that invite reflection and liberating laughter.
Columbus wakes up surrounded by rising waters and decides that instead of viewing this shock as a catastrophe he’ll take it as an opportunity to set a course for his dreams. Faced with numerous hurdles and challenges en route to his goals, Columbus discovers that learning to appreciate the beauty in the journey and the unexpected is just as important as reaching your destination.
Early short about a duel with air pumps.
The film interprets the corresponding myth as a process of consciousness and tells the story of a manipulated character that frees herself from her predestination.
An independent experimental short from the GDR.
The woodpecker pecks a lot of holes trying to catch the cheeky red beetle.
The piglet wants to clean its home, but everything seems to be going wrong.
Floating in nothingness without direction or purpose. Existence at bay either in a physical space or a mental prison. Like a fish out of water or whale in a tank. What it means to fear support, accepting it with the risk of vulnerability and the ability to be empathic towards others even if they lack the tools to help escape out of your own prison. „Adrift“ distills those feelings while simultaneously dealing with the immensely frustrating reality of large sentient animals held in captivity for our own amusement. Dive in but don’t forget to come back up to inhale the air.
A striptease in which the spectators remove their clothing to show their true faces.
In 1950 in Paris, two shop mannequins in a newly reopened fashion boutique come magically to life. Due to their limited range of movement there is always a distance between them. Nevertheless their affection for each other blossoms into love.
A man finds his wife dead with an anonymous note after coming home.
A man feels insecure because the outside world is breaking into his inner world. He wants to cover the room to protect himself from the outside world because it is too restless outside. He refuses to behave like the others, but it doesn't seem to work.
The narrator in the moving image work "GALAXY" is technology itself. "GALAXY" tells the story of the brief encounter of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of an encounter of love and disappointment. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise-en-scéne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.
How much do I love myself? What am I proud of? How do I present myself? How far can I go?
Sailboats and trees after the rising sea level flooded the continents.
Snow, film dust, and particles. The worn and torn broken film from an old lanterna magica projector. Retrieved animated footage from around the 1900s is combined with computer animation.
Five dirtmonsters work as cleaning technicians, but the company plans to invest in new equipment.
This experimental animated film provides instructions for dealing with different realities. Staged in the form of William Burrough's cut-up technique, the plot unfolds on different, parallel levels of perception. In a headquarters, an artificial data hero is created and transported to random locations around the world. The template: a gunman from a newspaper report. The result: 23 dead, a hostage-taking, Super 8 sex, war... Conclusion: "Teach you software well!"
