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In their attempt to make a living in the big city, Berry and Susan embark on treasure-hunting adventures in unknown regions of the Lumeon Lands.

Niko the reindeer joins his father in Santa's Flying Forces, but when Santa's sleigh is stolen by an acquaintance, Niko must find it in time for Christmas.

A young adventurous panda travels from China to Africa to rescue his best friend, Jielong the Dragon, who has been kidnapped. On his journey, he discovers a strange amazing new world of mountains, deserts and jungles.

When a homeless little ghost knocks on the door to the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train on the lookout for a place to belong, she accidentally attracts the attention from the 'outsideworld' and must team up with the motley crew of monsters on a crazy quest to save not only the future of the Ghost Train but also her only chance to finally have a family of her own.

On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family, so why is her magical Mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family. It's very freaky, so be freaked freaky ahh deaky peaky neaky seaky peaky poo.

A constantly freezing man in his forties drives to a lonely petrol station every evening and orders a microwaved Toast Hawaii. Detlev indulges in this in a bizarre ritual, because it's the only thing that warms him in his daily life. But when he is observed by a stranger one night, his world begins to crumble into shameful pieces.

Helvi's world is turned upside down when she discovers the existence of a technically advanced Elfkin gang that, in stark contrast to Elfie’s own clan, is second to none when it comes to fun and thrill-seeking. Can Helvi’s friendship with Bo, the youngest gang member, reconcile the two Elfkin clans after more than 250 years?

When she goes on a forest class trip with her classmates, ten-year-old Marlene struggles with her early pubescent and changing body. She feels alone with her embarrassing problem - until she meets an odd tadpole with whom she identifies in a strange way.

In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical land without the bags start to float and a fresh council member sparks an accidental revolution.

The mother of animation director Rebecca Blöcher didn’t want to live an ordinary life. She wanted “something more,” she explains in this stop-motion film. The people around her didn’t understand—in a letter written in 1968, a girlfriend criticizes her for going out on her own and making men jealous, while advising her to dress in a more “feminine” way and to join a cooking course. Blöcher’s mother brushed aside the advice. Years later still, she divorced her husband and stepped into the big wide world.

When a young man sees a stag's antlers in a living room as he passes by, he mistakes himself for the stag and, in search of its origins, is led by the resident, a passionate hunter, into a rocky landscape at the back of her house, which turns out to be a ghost train where they all live.

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.

At an exhibition, graphic designer Stefanie is thrilled by the work of John Heartfield, the inventor of political photomontage 100 years ago. While trying to understand his life on the run, she suddenly finds herself in Heartfield's studio.

Carol bristles at an unexpected proposal from her girlfriend Ray. Matters worsen as disturbing changes take hold of Ray, and Carol must decide how to respond.

10-year-old Danny can’t believe how naive and dumb Little Red Riding Hood from Grimm’s fairy tale is. Determined to save the girl and her grandmother from the evil wolf, he decides to travel through time and change history. But Little Red Riding Hood is not stupid at all. And she certainly doesn’t need to be saved …

As she gets older, Oma’s perception begins to change. While her daughter tries to adapt to her new situation, she seems to sink deeper and deeper into herself.

What is a Lost Place? The idyll of a white mountain landscape whose silence is broken by a wolf chase after its prey? Or is it the man-made world with its search for resources, pleasure and security? Who is intruding on whom? Who is disturbing whom? In Lost Places (Heile Welt), a wolf goes on the prowl.

“Those freaking 33 percent, where were they?” Lovis asks herself as she discovers a clearly right radical slogan on the regional train. She starts counting: “One, two, Nazi. One, two, Nazi.” In anger, she exits the train at the next stop. Stranded on the platform, she is confronted with the question: What now?

Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed to free himself from his complicated emotions. The doctor assures him that, in this day and age, this procedure no longer poses a problem.

Red lives in a small village, caught between the monotony of her daily life and the unstoppable process of growing up.

For little children, the world is full of mystery and unknown. They need the help of a wise companion to navigate the challenges of every-day life. Or maybe it’s their awe and wonder at everything new that fills the everyday life with magic (and nonsense) for the adults around them?

A researcher discovers the key to immortality: beet! Those who surround themselves with its scent will live forever. An impenetrable magenta atmosphere envelops the planet. Immortality spreads like a virus, death is impossible.

Stevie, a pea pod, has an accident at the gym and goes through an existential crisis since he can no longer be sold in the supermarket.

The endless tracking shot through a picturesque US panorama allows the American Dream to slide into ghostly auto-suggestion while Assange and Bezos ponder life.

We celebrate the Sandman’s 65th anniversary! To mark the occasion, a brand-new episode is released in which little Sandman travels the country in his multi-mobile. But there is a mishap when he gets out: The bag of dream sand gets torn and the sand trickles out. The way to the dream sand mill is not easy to find. Quite a number of stages must be negotiated to reach the destination.

Scrubby lives a secure and warm life in his mothers fur, until she loses it.

Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.

Santiago, Chile, 1985. Best friends Camila and Paula, both 7 years old, are neighbours. Living amidst sweetness and bitterness, their lives, along with those of their families and their neighbourhood, are shaped by the horrors of Pinochet's military dictatorship.

The interactive cinema offers five adventures about Petterson and the cat Findus, in which the children can clap and dance along.

In a surreal odyssey, the Self seeks escape.

Joko is a young man who works on the cistern, he is the only breadwinner in a family. On his second anniversary of employment, Joko and his colleagues meet with foreign delegates who force boy and the rest to… carry on their back. At first, Joko is against and rebels against this humiliating activity. However, under the pressure and desire to earn good money, he subsides.

The Animanimals want to do a big musical performance but somebody got the wrong notes.

A watch with history helps Theo write his own story.

Darkness haunts the young girl, Raja. Overwhelmed by the weight of her shadows, she collapses. A light appears and her journey begins. In search for the end, Raja stumbles through a wondrous in-between world. There, she finds something she thought she had lost forever.

Emerging excitement, a dancing body, and the sensual awakening of sexuality turn this experimental animation film by Florian Maubach into the nucleus of a transformation process. A stimulating short film that pushes boundaries but doesn’t solely focus on the pleasure event. It’s a metaphorically charged short film that allows an important look behind the curtain of male sexuality and relationships.

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.

It’s the dormouse’s birthday party, and its friend the bear wants to bake a cake. But they are both unexpectedly overcome by the need to hibernate.

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending them into a unique visual narrative.

Four people decide to flee to Europe, each on their own. As they face various challenges, their experiences merge into a common story without getting lost in the mass of reporting.

After a global catastrophe, a volcanologist and a crow live in a deserted ice desert. Driven by deep longing, he fights for survival and builds a mysterious construct.

Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Interflug plane carrying GDR citizens touched down on Majorca. About the mediterranean colours of the island, the first-person narrator remarks in the voiceover: “We knew them from the postcards sent by our West German relatives. This was the West, this was West-West.” Ostensibly naïve, her recollections nonetheless develop an ironic undertone. However blue the sea shines in the photos, however loud the castanets play, the travel group with their East German money are never more than onlookers in this half-board paradise. Everything seems like an empty promise: the bursting oranges on the trees, the sumptuous breakfast buffet and the giant hotel pools.

I asked my friend Lea once why she always carried a salt bag with her, and created a short stop motion film made of salt based on her response.

A man enters a corner store trying to obtain ingredients for his dinner. On his way home, creatures follow him - even invading his food. They then invite him on a journey that takes him apart and reassembles him completely.

In Kohlberger’s second film that could be considered narrative driven, the artist fashions a dystopian fiction from the remnants of cinema’s past. Drawing on excerpts from obscure sci-fi films, The Electric Kiss imagines a world not unlike our own, in which people plug their brains into a kind of neuro-network that connects the whole of human consciousness. As cyberpunk imagery draped in VHS textures alternates with passages of prismatic visual noise (achieved, in trademark style, by feeding footage through self trained machine learning algorithms), a quasi-plot emerges: a man in a VR headset, literally and figuratively lost in space, subjects himself to a mysterious procedure to alleviate the ill effects of this new technology on the mind.

An aggressive battle between red and dark blue unfolds. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.

"inter-rooted" is an exploration of familiar intimacy and familial complexity within Russian-German narratives. The trilogy was created from interviews about the migration and expulsion of Germans from the Soviet Union that Michelle Hanselowski recorded with her grandparents. The films relate to her grandparents' childhood, in which they built a deeper relationship with their mothers through agricultural work and experienced beautiful moments in a rooted reality.

A conversation with camerawoman and Studio Tatyana co-founder Tatyana Loginova from September 2024 in preparation for a Forum & Friends event, adapted for film by Christiane Büchner. For technical reasons, the organisers were only able to capture an audio recording of the conversation – this recording has been supplemented by animated sequences from Christiane Büchner as well as video footage, photographs and documents from the following sources: the Hildegard Westbeld Collection in the archive of Kinothek Asta Nielsen and the private archives of Alla Tkatchenko and Tatyana Loginova.

At a fancy flower spa, Sam prepares for their blooming and bodily transformation. Their mother, however, isn’t quite ready to let go. On their final day together, between petal pampering, quiet conversations, and echoes of childhood, tension and fear rise, but something tender begins to take root.

I saw one the other day that looked like you. I quickly realized it couldn't be you - but he moved like you. Ran his fingers through his hair like you. And carried the same rucksack in the same poor condition. So I decided to follow your not-you around a bit.

The characters of this animation are little creatures looking like people without faces, clothes or emotions. They swim between strange islands and discover new lands lighting their way with drifting eyeballs.

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.

16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica and his mother Shari, a Fertility Botanist, is busy working and falling in love with a sexy carrot.

Every day the shoes from the shoe rack have new adventures. Today, the rubber boots Buddel and Torf tell the other shoes about their experience on a rainy day with a huge dark puddle in the playground, and what trick the unicorn rubber boots Chunk and Tuva used to take away their fear of getting thoroughly dirty … Episode three of the popular KiKA series.

The beer duck and memories of a youth in Kaltenmoor.

Cinema means lights out, silence and sitting still? Not at the DISNEY CHANNEL PARTICIPATION CINEMA! Here children can sing along loudly for an hour, dance, clap and do puzzles - anything but be quiet! On the big screen, Mickey Mouse, as an animated host, guides cinema-goers through the colorful program, which is aimed at the youngest preschool-age viewers and offers around 60 minutes of child-friendly participatory cinema.

Despite the world's disasters, an artist insists on playing. A story inspired by Bach's immortal music and painted onto toilet paper rolls as a tribute to the tradition of painting directly on 35mm film.