Germany

by Marcus Grysczok

Cane and Able a stop motion music video. Cane´s adventure starts with getting the power of the eye of the clocktower. The old town-cryer gives him the the last advises for his new job. Able, the brother of Cane is in love with Doris, the florist, but she only wants Cane. Able is still in chaos with his emotions and follows Doris with a strange and dark intention. The showdown is on the old clocktower. Able hits Cane with his shuffle and he falls into the light. The End!

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Benedikt Toniolo

Set in the golden 1920s. At the spirited, magical café performer Lewis meets Coco who is still looking for Mr. Right despite few disappointments. The café spares no efforts in bringing the two together.

by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl

Based on interviews of former inmates, this is a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. An account of political imprisonment, forced labour and enormous profits.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragedy

by Tim Romanowsky

A House, a box and a weird world… A black hairy creature finds a strange box somewhere in its boring place. It starts a game and suddenly everything changed… a new world full of absurd scenes and creatures arise.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Špela Čadež, Spela Cadez

Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer’s glory and luxurious lifestyle in a more prosperous part of town. One day Filip gets a knock on the door. His neighbour Tereza, an older prostitute that Filip tries to avoid by all means, asks him to write a letter for her fiancé. Filip agrees. And it would all end up fine if a week later Tereza would not show up at his doorstep again, asking him to write an answer to the previous letter. Based on the short story “Her Lover” by Maksim Gorky.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy

by Malte Stein

A little man, with a mark of defeat, experiences an unreal dream of love. But he is misjudged as a toy and soon the dream bursts in disruptive jealousy and unsettled self-awareness. But the dream continues in a world where love means torture and to neglect life a virtue.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Irina Rubina, IRINA RUBINA

a little something for worried souls

• Abstract
• Experimental

by Jesús Pérez, Gerd Gockell

An animated children’s film about tolerance towards strangers. The proverbial “black sheep” is mobbed out of the herd, but only the courageous outsider can save the herd from great disaster.

• Comedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Dirk Verschure

A mysterious disease sweeps through the bird population and practically everything goes to hell. Planes crash, cities burn and the TV stops broadcasting. Hundreds of characters succumb to the “bird plague”, faster for everyone to really react. A lot of different situations happen one after another going quicker and quicker. We pass a dentist, a children’s birthday party, a football match. Everybody seems to be oblivious to what’s happening until it actually happens to themselves.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Horror

by Derek Roczen

A woman and a bear live peacefully in the woods. But a cub will grow and what was nice and cuddly today might become a menace tomorrow as sure as seasons will change. A film about disproportionate love.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Experimental

by Andreas Dahn, Franco Dupuy

Acid Town is an advertisement for TALCID, a stomach medication from Bayer that is used for relieving acidity and heartburn.

• Comedy
• Music Videos
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Baoying Bilgeri

The young girls Lili and Bao live at Bamboo Temple Street. After a brutal incident at school, Bao starts finding the wild and strong Lili interesting. Even though her parents dislike her interest, she decides to show Lili her friendship and affection. She crosses Bamboo Temple Street to find her.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragedy

by Matisse Gonzalez

A child and his father are selling balloons in the streets. The business is going well, until the boy gets distracted by lovely trumpet sounds from across the street.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Nikita Diakur

Attempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

• Experimental
• Making of

by Alejandra Tomei, Alberto Couceiro

A labyrinthine 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.

• Comedy
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Kinga Rofall, Kiana Naghshineh

Three perceptions of one truth – hers, his and ours.

• Drama
• Experimental

by René Lange

Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board. Down came the hammer and struck the spider’s chord.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Felix Gönnert

A tiny rocket makes an impact on a big wish. Seen from a distance, the earth is the most beautiful place in space.

• Comedy
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental

by Julia Ocker

The ants are working together perfectly. But there is one ant who is doing everything differently.

• Comedy
• Family
• Adventure

by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

An official Cannes selection and winner of festival prizes and awards worldwide, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE is a daringly ambitious dive into the chaos of war, based on the book by the journalist Ryszard “Ricardo” Kapuściński, one of the world’s most compelling chroniclers of conflict. Intercutting a graphically bold animation style with interviews and archival footage, the visually striking film conveys a rare immediacy as it tells of the outbreak of civil war following Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975. Against all advice, Kapuściński is intent on driving south into the heart of the bloody conflict to find the isolated rebel leader Farrusco. His animated trip through corpse-strewn roads conveys an undeniable urgency, while the documentary testimony reminds us that we are watching actual history.