Germany

by Florence Miailhe

An animated feature film following the dramatic journey of two siblings, Kyona and her brother Adriel, who are running away, because they are being pursued by an unspecified Eastern European country. A story about the neverending effort to find a new home, where we can find a better life. An effort for which we are willing to risk our lives. On this journey of hope people overcome various perils and experience the most terrible of situations. They are fueled by the awareness of who they really are, what they are running from and what they are hopeful of. In the end an experience like that becomes a story worth telling again and again.

by Frédéric Schuld

A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past. Being locked in a vicious circle, there seems to be no exit.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Making of

by Iring Freytag, Viktor Stickel, Linus Stetter

A child has to leave its cozy hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. Growing into a teenager, he encounters a singular tree that he wants to turn into fire wood.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Kyra Buschor

Three academic frogs have a discussion about a mysterious box. They can’t agree on opening it, because they don’t know what awaits them.

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Pascal Schelbli

What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Matthias Daenschel

The bull is wild. The man wants to subdue him. Tame him. Eat him. And this since the dawn of time. TAURO – a short film about the second-oldest relationship in human history.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

by Martin Rahmlow

Amorphous creatures drift through space to the beat of the music. The boundaries between organic and artificial entities begin to blur.

• Sci-Fi
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Alexander Isert

Actually, the dog just wants to play patience. But then peace in the subway station ends.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Špela Čadež

The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc’s stomach is rumbling. But Liza’s co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Raman Djafari

A music video.

by Hoji Tsuchiya

An old man says goodbye to this world on a sunny day in the springtime.

by Wojtek Wawszczyk

“Splinter” tells the bitter sweet love story between a wooden bench and a girl.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Sophia Schönborn

If you were a dog in outer space- what would you do? The story unfolds in the depths of space: On a weird planet the dogs live as they please, but are confronted with their willful surroundings.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Experimental
• Adventure
• Sci-Fi

by Kariem Saleh

Song of a Toad is the story about a stressed out human being who is carrying his unloved childhood right on his head – an old choleric toad. As a prisoner of his own grown-up situation, he tries to ignore this grumpy childhood talking from above, but one day he is confronted with something he almost forgot.

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Anke Feuchtenberger

The harewoman howls at the moon. Is she awake or is she asleep? Ascent and crash, attraction and repulsion. The planets rumble, the bean grows to the sky, the mother smiles sweetly or turns away. With the masks of care and carelessness the harewoman goes through the female tides.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Jonatan Schwenk

After a flood, fish got stuck on some old trees. In danger of drying out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don’t feel happy about the unintended gatherings.

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

by Philipp Artus

A snail invents the wheel and goes through a cultural evolution to finally get back to its origin.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Lars Nagler

„Shift Simmers Slips“ is massively inspired by and freely adapted from Luigi Serafini’s „Codex Seraphinianus“, an illustrated encyclopedia created between 1976 and 1978.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Alexander Dietrich, Johannes Flick

Two male, glowing creatures start a fight over trying to impress a female. Each one of them wants to win her over by giving a better light show than his competitor. “Shine”‘ is a visual love story showing the importance of healthy competition. The film shows that it is not always the strongest, fastest or most attractive that wins as sometimes it is the inner light that shines the brightest. The film brings a fresh perspective to the age-old story of men vying for the love of a beautiful woman, however in this instance, the men are two furry creatures who battle with the power of self-illumination. The battle to glow brightest is intense and the combat fierce. They are on fire… until one gets burned!

• Fantasy
• Romance

by Eli Zwimpfer, Elisabeth Zwimpfer

Malaika lives in Europe, Pombalo in Africa. She collects stranded goods, he is a fisherman. As the nets remain empty, he sets off to Europe. At the shore, they face each other as the ships passing in the night.

• Drama
• Experimental