The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are cursed and all turned into Monsters.
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The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are cursed and all turned into Monsters.
The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
Orphaned at birth and raised by storks, teenage sparrow Richard believes he is one of them. But when time comes to migrate to Africa, his stork family is forced to reveal his true identity and leave him behind in the forest, since he is not a migratory bird and would not survive the journey. Determined to prove he is a stork after all, Richard ventures south on his own. But only with the help of Olga, an eccentric owl with an imaginary friend and Kiki, a narcissistic, disco-singing parakeet, does he stand a chance to reach his goal and learn to accept who he really is.
Rabbit Max, a juvenile shoplifter, gets trapped in an old-fashioned school. With rabbit girl Emmy, he acquires Easter Rabbits' secret skills, battles a sneaky fox family and learns about friendship.
Too bad: Knight Rusty's big show fight in honor of the Knights of Scrapland completely backfires and plunges the kingdom into total chaos. The king rages and sends the knights all to the devil. While Miss Bö goes to work and the dragon Koks takes care of the household, Knight Rusty sits alone in the cellar and mopes. Until there he meets Gespenst, his father's former assistant, one of the greatest inventors of Schrottland. And Knight Rusty decides to complete his father's work. Will our tin hero manage to restore the honor of his friends with the help of his inventions?
After a flood, some fish got stuck in 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 gathering.
A deaf, a mute, a blind man and a limping woman in a frivolous love dance. Their physical limitations lead to trials and tribulations. In the end, however, pleasure takes advantage of them all. In Lydia Günther's grotesque, comical world, (not exactly beautiful) puppet characters make love with suffering and passion through a lively cocktail of animation techniques.
St. Petersburg 1917. The frontline of the global war is coming closer everyday; people are hungry, wor-ried, angry. In February the tsar is overthrown. Many artists are euphoric: Revolution! Freedom, finally? No. Starting in October, the Bolsheviks rule by themselves. What were poets, thinkers, and avant-gardists like Maxim Gorky and Kazimir Malevich doing during this drastic change of power? In the film, five of them alight from the director’s piles of books as animated cut-out figures. With their own recorded words in their mouths, they participate in salons, committees, and street riots.
Documentary about human hair, including its political significance.
The Big Bang has nothing on this.
At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost valuables at stake.
In the middle of the countryside, young rider Anna has been desperately trying to educate her horse for the upcoming riding tournament. But Jumper, the untamed horse, just throws everyone off. When Anna's father plans to sell Jumper, Anna decides to run away with him, and so begins an exciting story of friendship with lots of surprises and adventure...
The earthworm has two heads that are arguing all the time.
Good Night, Everybuds! is a healthy hippie porn. This joyful, dreamy choreography meanders around sensual love, cozy sexuality, and cuddling in the shape of an animated short film by director Benedikt Hummel.
To protect his books, Albert, the young librarian, must put his prejudice aside and make friends with a bat.
The dolphin has a lot of fun with a colorful bubble until a careless swordfish pricks it.
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
Heta and her seal live in a very special house with strange rooms and endless hallways. Heta’s whole life consists of carefully planned and executed routines. When these are suddenly turned upside down, her world starts to crumble, until she is forced to make an irrevocable decision.
Homewreckers' Music Video of "Confusion" directed by Harun Farocki. Image were recycled and edited from Farocki's previous work "Parallel".
A dance film about overcoming inner obstacles. Through your own actions, negative experiences can be transformed into positive ones. These moments of happiness make every effort worthwhile.
Do we really want that our Computers, toasters, fridges and routers go to war? Should intelligence agencies be allowed to turn our infrastructure into dangerous weapons?
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. They are on fire - until one gets burned.
A grieving mother orders a robotic replica of her deceased son, who soon realizes the limits of his existence.
An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand.
Three-legged dog sketch Rouff is sad and lonely. To escape his loneliness, he folds a new friend, Pete, from the paper he is drawn on. Rouff and Pete's quest for the fourth leg is an adventurous story, not only for children.
A train ride and a stroll through the forest reveal strange incidents. The journey carries us through fields, along power lines and running people. Line structures on the margin of chaos signal impending disaster.
A skinny, young girl spends her time alone feeding pigeons in the park. But even they fly away from her. Suddenly, she gets company. But the beanpole feels uneasy about the new companionship, so she sets about going to a specialist for parasites.
Pictures and social media messages are interwoven together with animated segments to highlight Abu Haidar family’s state of being stuck, halfway.
Netta is a young Israeli woman who wishes to move to Berlin, out of all places. Netta's father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision.
Gay giraffes, promiscuous chimpanzees, and lesbian albatrosses. Rapper Sookee shows that being queer is anything but abnormal.
While playing Cops and Robbers with his friends, Daniel begins to realize that between catching and being caught there is something more going on.
Giving new meaning to the term “rhythms of nature,” a host of fanciful flora, fauna and geological formations go about their daily lives in this engaging and highly imaginative foray into the wilds of a strange and colorful world. Accompanied by hissing, wheezing, whistling and tweeting, the action takes on increasing urgency, ending in a surprising climax that’s as natural as it is unexpected.
The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.
Gottlieb Schneider is preparing for his cat theater performance for the talent show. But the other children are not making it easy for him: he is being bullied and beaten up. His only friend and helper seems to be his cat Minzi...
An abstract short.
Both abject through its texture and relatable in its fragility, WETWARE offers hyperreality without the common symptoms of alienation. A seemingly self-sustaining ‘organism’ is generated completely in digital through synthesis without reliance on ’real’ imagery. The resulting image is limitless, perpetually spilling outside itself. Suggesting a feed pulsating beyond a bodily surface or even any bodily context, the work examines digital intimacies while also referencing worship music in its relaxing albeit disorienting sonic composition.
In a cold and icy world a young tough huntress procures food for her little village when suddenly an orange burning sphere appears in the blue sky.
A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!
We see the machinery of image projection fail all the time. What happens when art steps in and takes over the process?