Stop in the motion

Life can get extremely rushed. Stop by with this collection! Stop-motion animation is arguably one of the most time-consuming animation techniques. But the result is worth it. A single second of film can demand dozens of individual photographs. A puppet breathes only because someone moved it, just barely, and then moved it again. One can…

Titles in collection

  • The Kite

    2019 13+ 13 min

    by Martin Smatana

    Summer is coming to the end, the fruit is growing ripe on the trees. Grandpa gives his grandson a kite. As the boy is tossed around in the air, Grandpa catches him. Then the leaves fall and Grandpa has grown weak. A strong autumn wind carries him off into the cloudy sky. Winter comes, then springtime. A warm breeze brings them together again. Told with enchanting, richly-textured images, this tale is about remembering those who are no longer with us.

  • The Smaller Room

    2009 Adults 2 min

    by Cristobal Leon, Nina Wehrle

    In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

    • Horror
  • Empty Space

    2016 16+ 10 min

    by Ülo Pikkov

    A 10-year-old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her disappointment was very big when instead of a puppy she got a father she had no idea was still alive. This documentary-based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Heat Wave

    2019 13+ 7 min

    by Fokion Xenos

    In the midst of a heatwave of insanity, two children find a way to cool everyone down!I A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid techique between cut out, claynimation and thousands of replacements pieces.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Skinned

    2022 Adults 14 min

    by Joachim Hérissé

    In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister’s flesh covering her own body.

    • Drama
    • Horror
  • “Hi, It’s Your Mother”

    2016 Adults 4 min

    by Daniel Sterlin-Altman

    Mum’s calling, and Lisa isn’t pleased. “Hi, It’s Your Mother” is a shocking tragi-comedic stop motion short about family and blood(y) ties.

    • Drama
  • Good Intentions

    2018 Adults 8 min

    by Anna Mantzaris

    In this small thriller about decision making and guilt, a young woman responsible for a car accident. She escapes the scene but can’t stop thinking, or imagining, what happened to the other driver. And soon strange things starts to happen…

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental