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Shemp, the main character of 2021’s wonderful ‘Shots of Light’ returns to the screen as an intergalactic hero, on the search for their soulmate. In ‘Looking for You’, Shemp is tasked with rescuing Cardboardia... and makes the discovery of a lifetime!

Juliane Ebner reflects on her childhood in Stralsund, at a time when the city was still part of the GDR.

Animated film by Anna Samo

A heavily-armed robotic flying machine is dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission at night over the city, but its intended target is not easily killed.

What does it mean to make an animated film accessible to people with impaired vision? Can audio description convey what’s happening on the screen and what is, especially in animated film, often entirely a product of the imagination? Anne Isensee (Golden Dove for “Megatrick” in 2017) tackles these complex questions with a light touch, humour and verbal wit. She pulls off the feat of producing a concentrated cinematic investigation into the multi-layered quality of (all) perception.

Inspired by my job on the assembly line of a factory, Fill3 depicts a production process. The film begins with a stereotypical factory setting that evolves into an an increasingly strange production system.

A stunning circular pictorial history of church domes, mosques and synagogues treated like clockworks.

Stop motion animation of chairs, a table and grass set to classical music.

„Shift Simmers Slips“ is massively inspired by and freely adapted from Luigi Serafini’s „Codex Seraphinianus“, an illustrated encyclopedia created between 1976 and 1978. The film represents a small fragmentary collage of some of his created worlds, lifeforms and activities.

He lives in a white expanse, where a monotonous balance reigns and with cheerful indifference wanders through a uniform whiteness. The exit from the enclosed space is hindered by the lack of contact…

Staging macho "bromances" between men like Vladimir Poutine and Xin Junping, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, using G-udit and $chwanger's superimposed faces as they rap in their melancholy style.

Throughout Bernd Ziegler's professional life he has killed six people because they threw themselves in front of his train. How does a train driver handle this?

Life is so short, and there is so much to do.

What if an old clock could show us our memories? An elderly woman finds it. And soon even the king knows about it...

The film deals with the removal of metal fences in front of houses for metal collection and the associated abolition of front gardens. The promotional film at Epoche-Gasparcolor is based on a script by Hans Thyssen for the German Film Production and Exploitation Company (DFG) of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Berlin.

After a Paper character rearranges his body to become fashionable in a paper world of fast fashion, he gets confronted by the parts he left behind...

Inspired by an event from Hamburg's history, this animated film tells the wondrous adventures of two cabbage roots that are picked up by the mysterious Lohengrin swan and taken to the treasure chambers of the old German emperors.

Short animation film about a boxing match.

Two small dogs steal a sausage from a butcher's shop, find a baby in a cradle, and chase after a cat—with the cradle in tow.

Giggling, Bunny hops over hills of pink cotton and attempts to bewitch us. A cycle of playful tenderness and violent destruction begins.

A three-part-story about a heart in pain, a cat, and a powerful witch.

A young man feels lost in the modern, digital world before finding himself in a piece of clickbait.

Filmmaker Bernhard Drax presents a feature-length love letter to the 20-year-old virtual world of 'Second Life.' Blending machinima, in-world footage, and user interviews, the film explores how creativity, commerce, and identity emerge in user-built spaces. From gardening entrepreneurs to musicians earning tips, avatars build meaningful lives powered by a digital community. Through scenes of skill-sharing, economic exchange, and social connection, the film offers both a celebration and a thoughtful reflection on the culture shaped within this enduring participatory metaverse.

Lily Besilly, wearing a lavender vest, shares a childhood memory from second grade in “Bernadette und Belfighor.” She and her friend, who played the dominant role, would meet at a construction site. Her friend, Princess Bernadette, crowned Lily as Princess Julia. Despite being dressed as a princess, Lily remained in shorts, indistinguishable from a boy. To escape the vampire Belfighor, they cut their palms to mix their blood, saving themselves. As they left hand in hand, Lily felt truly happy, though her hand still hurt. Cartoon characters Bernadette and Lily, holding hands, were depicted with Bernadette in a short green dress and Lily as a tomboy.

Rushing through time from the limited space of the tram, we are presented a metaphor of how we pass through our lives - only limitedly affected by the significant events that affect us.

If you do business with the abyss that opens up in front of you, you do “abyssness”. But how long can this go on and at what price? Like every morning, a farmer enters his farm, but now a black hole opens up in the middle of it. Not only does his pistol shot echo in it, but all his garbage can also be disposed of in this way. He quickly makes money by accepting the garbage from the entire surrounding area.

Death faces a deep crisis and feels unable to fulfill his mortal duties.

Dracula's Diary belongs to the seldom seen genre of horror animations. It is a poetic cry against violence, exploitation and war. Done on a blackboard with chalks.

The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for the vocal group Black Harmony, offering a reinterpretation of the song in their own language - Lugbara. I Wan’na Be Like You deconstructs and reconstructs the novel, film, that song and their legacies.

A visualisation of the urban legend about the "Well to Hell"

Short animation by Astrid Riegerand Zeljko Vidovic

Sit back, relax, grab yourself a cup of Tea, and enjoy the slightly slower but dramatic story that is about to unfold!

An eye has a fatal encounter with a hammer and a block of wood.

Four friends on a surreal night out at a disco follow Elton John and Dua Lipa into a fantastical universe.

An astonishing “half abstract night-walk fantasy” based on drawings by the great Miles Davis backed by his interpretation of the Tina Turner classic.

A film about a lonely circus- magician, who tries to turn his rabbit into a woman and by accident he creates a monster.

The animation is based on Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Don’t Leave the Room” and shows a surrealistic reality in which the main character is faced with the choice of a room. At first glance, the choice of rooms is quite large, but in fact, all the rooms turn out to be pieces of one large cake.

Animation artist Maarten Isaäk de Heer was astonished by the huge number of animal deaths in his direct environment: from masses of fruit flies all dying together, to mice brought in by his own cat. He decided to make a record of all of the dead creatures he encountered over the course of a single spring and summer.

Ginkgo trees are separated by sex; only the female trees bear fruit. Once highly esteemed as natural sources of health, city dwellers today object to their pungent smell and, as gardeners, prefer the less complicated, more fragrant “fruitless” male plants. Tang Han explains with infographics, apt short sound comments and sympathetic objectivity.

All effects are made analogically by in-camera editing, half-process developing and toning.

One evening, a prison director announces to a convict his execution for the next day. As though by a miracle, later at night the cell door opens. Exhausted by endless interrogations the convict drags on through dark prison corridors. On his odyssey to gain freedom he is tossed back and forth through various mental states: his fear of being discovered, his hope for salvation and moments of sheer madness.

In "Fahren 7" the field of vision is constantly blocked through demarcating elements running closely along the route. Speed deforms the passing surfaces into abstract kinetic shapes. Even though fundamentally different processes are in play, the video claims to share the Materialists' devotion to structure, shape, the texture of surfaces and texture through patterns in motion.

When a person disappears, everything remains in its place. The film shows the life of my grandfather, Herbert Hurrle, through the things he accumulated in life. The memories with which these things are filled come to life.

Rosa is sunbathing in her garden while the gardener is working next door. Rosa is watching the gardener, increasingly intoxicated by the tender way he handles the flowers.