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  • Marcel, King of Tervuren

    2013 16+ 6 min

    by Tom Schroeder

    Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Lost Senses

    2013 16+ 6 min

    by Marcin Wasilewski

    A short story about an encounter in an abstract world, stylized as the paintings of Giorgio De Chrico. A Man is going to meet A Woman in abstract flying city. Will the lovers meet each other? A Man is trying very hard, like a parkour practitioner, climbing up on the buildings. One unguarded moment is enough to make him lose his senses. And his chance.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Harald

    2013 All audiences 7 min

    by Moritz Schneider

    Harald is a wrestler and the whole pride of his ambitious mother. But his true love is flowers. His mother fears her son could become a pantywaist and collects all of his flowers. Standing next to the rig during the fights, she threats Harald with lacerating the flower. One night Harald makes a plan: a plant stronger than his mother must be raised. Even if he loves her, he has to get rid of his mother, making his own decisions for the first time in his life.

  • Cat in the Bag

    2013 4+ 7 min

    by Nils Skapāns

    It is nice and fun to have a cat or some other pet at home to play with. The trusting cat also thought to himself: it’s so great to have a home… Until the moment it found itself trapped in a bag, somewhere out on the street, all alone, left to it’s faith. Nevertheless – all is well that ends well!

    • Family
    • Fantasy
  • A Hedgehog’s Visit

    2013 16+ 6 min

    by Kariem Saleh

    A grumpy Hedgehog is trying to confess his love. Will he be able to overcome his insecurities? A struggle with the fear as a short film.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Zing

    2012 16+ 8 min

    by o5uKdPtY8TU

    Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people’s lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the doorbell. It’s a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she’s the next life on Mr Grimm’s list.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • by Sascha Geddert

    In the vastness of space, there’s a small speck of rock inhabited by the most peculiar lifeforms: Dark little dots that start to replicate fast and begin to show signs of intelligence.

    • Sci-Fi
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Lena von Döhren

    A single yellow leaf hangs on the bare branch. A gust of wind blows and it begins to float through the white winter forest. In joyful pursuit, a little bird takes off into a breathtaking flight. In the meantime, a fiery red fox licks its lips in anticipation.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • Pet Bird

    2012 16+ 13 min

    by Ricardo de Podestá

    A parrot is seduced by the beautiful images of a lightbox and disrupts the morbid living room routine.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Krake

    2012 10+ 9 min

    by Regina Welker

    Diagnosis: Kraken. But the little girl doesn’t understand how serious her situation is. She sees her Kraken as a friend and forgets the disease – until it gets out of control.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • In the heart of winter

    2012 4+ 8 min

    by Isabelle Favez

    A winter fable for children and adults alike. The film accompanies five forest inhabitants as they forage for their winter food.

    • Comedy
    • Family
  • Bon Voyage

    2012 16+ 6 min

    by Fabio Friedli

    Dozens of people climb an old truck for the wild journey through the desert and the ocean. Not everybody achieves Europe, where an ambiguous end is waiting.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Aeolian

    2012 7+ 7 min

    by Cameron Lowe, Tom Shrapnel

    Aeolian shows the life cycle of a mysterious creature as it explores the natural world around it. As it grows bigger, so too does its understanding of life and its inevitable conclusion.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wallflower Tango

    2011 13+ 7 min

    by Wolfram Kampffmeyer

    Charlotte, a lonely woman, finds in her flat the burglar Kalle who is about to still her valuable diamond. They start to fight about the gem but soon the aggressive fight becomes a passionate tango dance and opponents become lovers. Till the police interrupts this affair…

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Dance
  • The Mighty Hunter

    2011 Adults 7 min

    by Michael Ekblad

    In his flat, the retired “Mighty Hunter” gets ready for a good nights rest. The walls of his little bedroom are filled with stuffed “Animal Head’s” that reminding him of his mighty past. Unknowing to him is that the “Animal Head’s” come to life, and have chosen this night to make a complex attempt on his life. Its payback time!

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
  • The House

    2011 16+ 7 min

    by David Buob

    The dream of the little girl is to care for her grandmother, but aunt and mother do not let her do so. There is only one way out.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The big brother

    2011 7+ 6 min

    by Jesús Pérez & Elisabeth Hüttermann

    A children‘s film about the fun and cruelty among children. Two cartoon characters develop a life of their own, in the combination of pixilation and classic animation. They humiliate and mock the third unfinished figure; but their temporary superiority shifts, as he turns out to be their big brother.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Non-narrative
  • Prince Rat

    2011 7+ 14 min

    by Albert Radl

    “Prince Rat” is a fairy tale with all the ingredients needed: A castle, a princess, a prince, a dragon, a secret admirer and deep emotions, but also with an unexpected ending and an uncommon truth about little heroes and big desire …

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Tragicomedy
  • Out on a Limb

    2011 7+ 5 min

    by Falk Schuster

    Leaves are falling all around, colder winds are arriving and birds are gathering together in preparation for the journey south. Though autumn is at an end and winter is imminent one bird refuses to accept that this change is happening. Most of all he is upset that his favourite perch is shedding its leaves, for him the weather is not to blame and he trys to work out who the true culprit really is. This is the reason that he protects his perch from anything that threatens the status quo, but try as he might he is unable to avert this inevitable march of time.

    • Drama
    • Non-narrative
  • Heldenkanzler

    2011 Adults 13 min

    by Benjamin Swiczinsky

    Heldenkanzler is based on a true story. Vienna 1993 – Parliament: Many delegates are talking. A tiny man lifts himself up on the speaker’s desk. It is Engelbert Dollfuss. The other parliamentarians make fun of him loudly. A fight breaks out in the parliament. The tiny man escapes from the troubled parliament and flees into the next cinema. As he recognizes that even a small Austrian man rides highly successful on the wave of victory in Germany, he also decides to take power.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Bio-pic
    • Experimental