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Hyphae is an animated short following three tiny mushrooms as a wildfire sweeps through their forest clearing. Told without words, it explores fragility, loss, and the quiet resilience of life.

On the storm-lashed rocky coast of Moogeland, farmer Harry lives in deep harmony with nature. His peaceful existence comes to an abrupt end when Harry witnesses a poisoning incident that the military is trying to cover up at all costs. The farmer sees red...

Literary, epic, and dramatic content emerges from kaleidoscopic visual impressions and formal interplay, i.e., through references between images. Even the characters remain in the background and do not play a "leading role." The film's underlying theme: serene landscapes, a shadow passing through the image, fear and paralysis.

Twins share perfect togetherness in the womb, but who leaves first? The real world crashes in - social pressure, time, and individuality pulling them apart. Can they balance closeness and sisterhood without losing themselves?

A new lollipop on the market is causing unrest.

A mountain climber falls into the abyss. And into himself. Fragments of a life.

Oh dear, the crocodile swallowed Mila's dog Charly. Now the crocodile feels sick. And Mila wants Charly back.

Manu and her grandfather are passionate soccer fans. When the TV breaks down shortly before the final, she hatches a plan. An exciting chase begins. Will she be back in time for her grandfather to witness the big event?

Seven-year-old Emily lives with her alcoholic father. She wears the fragile shell of an adult version of herself to care of her irresponsible father. As she cooks, cleans, and carries the heavy responsibilities her father won’t face, the cracks in her shell begin to show as pressure grows - until the shell shatters, revealing the overwhelmed child beneath.

The film follows Dima’s internal struggle as he grapples with deadly sins, symbolized by animals from Dante’s Divine Comedy. His relationship with Katya and encounters with the Panther, She-wolf, and Lion reveal his inner demons and moral dilemmas.

A commercial promoting products from the Schicht company - the soap with the deer and the soaking detergent The Housewife's Praise [Chvála hospodyňky]. Hannibal the monkey rides through a virgin forest in his car. He stops at a clearing where he gives the forest inhabitants a lecture about the advantages of the Schicht products, accompanied by filmed illustrations how to wash laundry properly. The commercial for the Czechoslovak-based Schicht company (Jiří Schicht a. s.) was filmed abroad.

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.

The artist's avatar is seen passively idling around the virtual map of Los Santos and thus subjects himself to the agency of other players. The game world follows its own rules of contact and conduct, which players can choose to either respect or transgress. Yet, for the duration of this performance, the avatar's passivity overwhelmingly renders him a target for unprovoked and uninhibited violence.

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.

The film is a parable about tolerance and against homophobia.

Something's happening in the deep sea, baby!

Chimeric protagonists performing useless, pointless, inscrutable sisyphean tasks.

Two singers want to enlighten a king’s cold heart... but end up in a curse.

Six-year-old Lily visits her grandmother, who has had a mastectomy and now misses her breasts. When Lily finds out that her grandmother’s shadow still has both breasts, she is prepared to do anything to get them back.

A confused, two-dimensional misfit, unloved in their 2D home, ventures into the 3D world. Desperate to feel loved and find a safe space, they start losing touch with reality.

A mother bear and her two cubs escape one threat, only to be thrown into another. This retelling of an Odawa legend shows the love a mother has for her babies, at any cost.

Funny story of jelly pimples on the skin of a young girl.

A split-screen animated film that explores the complex nature of memory in contemporary post-communist Romania. Using a collection of everyday, household objects as windows into the past, it features 16mm stop-motion animations of these artifacts, projected alongside selections of interviews from the ethnographic research with the objects’ owners.

Isolation leads to strange mental states. It's a journey through the circling thoughts of the lonely protagonist, which eventually merge with reality.

Five friends growing up in Berlin Spandau experience surrealism of adolescence with all its magic, emotion and adventure.

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A white ball is trapped in an icy and dark place, surrounded by a handful of competitors. Standing out is everything in this world, self-promotion and vanity are the means of choice.

Even heroes are sometimes hungry. But what can you do. The moon is full tonight and there is somebody, who really needs your help!

13 years after his civil service in a hospital in Thiès, Senegal, Paul challenges his memories and traumas. With old video footage, interviews and animations he questions his role as a volunteer within the German system of development aid.

Cool Cat invites you to enjoy a show of lust and laziness. The claws are sharp, the soda is sparkling, and the fur is getting wet.

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.

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 women. In 24 places that are visited during the course of a day, a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analog materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

Ayala Shoshana Guy tries to grasp the ephemeral: She interweaves her grandfather Jancsi’s story, remembered only in fragments, who left Vienna with his brother Bandi to escape the Nazi regime, with her own inner images, thus questioning them in a way. A ship to Palestine turns into an all-inclusive cruise liner, the vague becomes concrete only to fade away again. Cautious and bold in equal measure, the granddaughter enters shadowy terrain.

This excerpt from a poem by Russian-American Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky is a description of the Soviet Empire of the 1980s, a metaphorical reckoning with a technocratic regime, and a nightmarish illustration of war.

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.

For most Raindrops, there’s no greater purpose than jumping from clouds.

An experimental short animated film originated from a game mod in which the artist manipulated disoriented, half-naked avatars that wander around darkened cityscapes in bathing suits, fur coats, or with slices of cucumber over their eyes. They function as shell-like proxies for players, appearing at once strangely massive and empty within the sometimes crude aesthetic of the computer game.

A white bird living in a black world encounters a black cat living in a white world. The moment they meet, their backgrounds literally collide.

Based on the musical piece "Reise" with narration. A couple have an argument and a reconciliation, through ballet. The visual style imitates an impressionist painting.

A tomcat is looking for his lost friend. He thinks he can see him in the clouds and starts a cloud collection. He collects until he notices that he has been keeping the memory of his friend in his heart all along.

Sunday, Fulesee. Two people go diving in a lake. They understand each other wordlessly, everything seems okay. But the dive leads them not only to fish and into darkness, it also reaches into the depths of their souls. At a depth of thirty metres, fears and stories for which they cannot find any signs in diving language suddenly rise up.

A sleeping puppet dreams of freeing itself from its strings and cross of wood. But freedom requires courage and willpower.

Sometimes, the own body is like an alien. It bubbles and pumps and growls and works, and you can not control or even cromprehend all of it. Alone with yourself the own organs become weird.

Automatic Fitness is a laberyntic poetry on the human automatism. A reflection about our daily relationship with money and time. It's an animated tragicomedy which plays with the concept of an all permeating acceleration. It is about the stranglehold of everyday madness and the automatisms, in which we are forced to live, work, breathe, think and: exist.

A spaceman looses his identity when an inexplicable space machine produces countless copies of him and his spaceship. In his fight to eradicate these counterfeits, his own authenticity comes into question.

Manfred had a habit of putting various objects into his nose. After his bride disappeared up his nose at their wedding, he had to change something. Every course of action against his nose proved unsuccessful. But then he strikes up the acquaintance with an animal, and Manfred learns to accept himself just as he is.