Producer

Gerd Gockell

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  • Memories of Monsoon

    2023 All audiences 4 min

    by Dolker Angotsang, Man Fei Li, Pimonwan Poli

    A young woman picks up a dead dragonfly and looks into its eyes. For a short instance she’s transported back to her memory of her childhood and her grandmother.

  • Pipes

    2022 Adults 4 min

    by Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran

    Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club.

  • Travelogue Tel Aviv

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Samuel Patthey

    A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing, he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself from this contradicting environment.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Black and White

    2020 7+ 5 min

    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 Lena von Döhren

    It’s summer. High above in a tree, the little Bird cherishes and nurtures the green leaves of his home. Suddenly a hungry caterpillar sets out to eat the appetizing leaves. The little Bird manages to lure away the glutton and an adventurous journey begins.

    • Fantasy
    • Family
  • Perfect Town

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Anaïs Voirol

    In search of perfection a city obeys blindly to selection.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Ooze

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Kilian Vilim, Vilim Kilian

    In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness and the “up and down” of his service. When he tries to attract the attention of his guests, he makes a very different, gloomy encounter with himself.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Living Like Heta

    2017 16+ 6 min

    by Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp

    Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines. When the latter get thrown into disarray, Heta‘s world begins to crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Ivan’s Need

    2015 Adults 6 min

    by Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter

    Ivan is obsessed with the incredible softness of the dough. When kneading, he gets lost in intensive daydreams, not accepting that sooner or later the master baker will turn every wonderfully elastic dough into horribly crispy bread. Until he sees Alva’s looooong breasts.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • CATS & DOGS

    2015 4+ 6 min

    by Jesús Pérez and Gerd Gockell

    An animated short film for children about friendship. One can’t force a friendship, but an emergency can build a friendship.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Non-narrative
  • by Lena von Döhren

    It is Autumn; at the end of a branch hangs a red leaf. A little black bird comes along to water it when suddenly, a squirrel nicks the bird’s bright green watering can. The bird follows the cheeky thief and so begins an exciting chase through the forest.

    • Family
    • Fantasy
  • 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
  • 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