Student films

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

by Cora McKenna

SHERGAR follows Conor, a boy living a fast-paced and free-roaming life with his friends on the streets of Dublin. Though a life without responsibilities is great fun, it can’t keep his head above the chaos of his poverty-stricken home. When he is tied between what he should do and what his hectic life pushes him into, he doesn’t always have a good choice to make.

by Danna Grace Windsor

Trapped in a synthetic meditation space, an empty shell seeks power.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Ali Aschman

An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Michaela Mihályi

An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Drama

by Xu Yuan

The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

• Drama
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Calleen Koh Yee Lin

Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there’s more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers.

by Simon Cartwright

First year workshop film about the external and internal journeys of a commuter who is forced to find a happy place when another man invades his space.

• Comedy
• Experimental

by Rosa Fisher

The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental

by Joke Duwaerts

In a world where water has special powers, a couple picks flowers which they deposit in a precious place.

by Jan Kokolia

Everything started with the Big Bang, that was the seed. Everything was born, developed and died because of a repeating cycle. The matter will forever remain, energy is transmitted and time gives motion to everything.

by Noémi Barkóczi

Who wore these second-hand clothes before we discovered them? The mysterious and adventurous past lives of garments from the thrift store.

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Natalia Brożyńska

Kwadrycy, a mechanical creature, discovers one day strange radio waves from outer space and decides to go on a journey to investigate what is the source of this weird melody. He arrives on underwater planet inhabited by nosy nosy animals. Music: Devo.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi

by Marharita Tsikhanovich

Melancholic and minimalistic narration in the form of animation about the transience of being and the levity of the time, about the illusion of freedom and the loneliness of a little man in the sea of life.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Min-ha Kim

On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Leo Becker

A jazzy music video exploring an abstract microcosmos. Schnurksel is a looped animation made of six poster-sized hand drawings which are printed on a lenticular sheet.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Music Videos

by Natalia Krawczuk

A short story of a man, woman, their dog and sofa. They spend days napping and live in ostensible boredom together. But everything will change when their pet unexpectedly disappears.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Lara Perren, Anna Lena Spring

Ava enters the sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.

by Valérie BOUSQUIE, Joséphine MEIS, Côme ROY & others

In a wild an inhabited desert, a team of rangers is in charge of rescuing people who got lost there. One of them, Jean-Mi, is going to draw apart from the group and meet an unexpected character.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy