An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the “Rim of Heaven” - the mythological safe haven for all dragons.

What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? Take a deep breath and dive into a world, where feelings of guilt dissolve amongst the mysterious depths of the ocean. A world where we encounter bizarre creatures and discover eerily beautiful landscapes. Unfortunately, our air doesn’t last forever and we have to realize that nature alone can't solve this issue.

This is a film about stuttering. Dedicated only to some of you. Oh, and it's also about pigeons, cat callers, apple trees, Goethe's Faust, forests, bridges, words, letters, DNA, benches, shopping streets, worms, symbols, computers, fallen trees and girls on horses.

The Needle tells the story of a mother, who is in search for her missing son in Turkey. The film is based on true incidents, on the theme “The Saturday Mothers”. The main protagonist is a “Saturday Mother”.

In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his territory and was executed in response to his resistance in 1900. This animated film, based on archival sources and oral accounts provided by Chief Meli's grandson, sheds light on the racist roots of physical anthropology and ethnological museums.

Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog.

Conni's adorable but mischievous cat Mau follows her on her kindergarten trip, causing mayhem, confusion and laughs. The children are kept busy hiding Mau from the teachers, tracking down a thief and saving a raccoon in an ancient castle.

Lilith's biggest sexual fantasy is to turn into a monster and devour her sex partner. Her one night stand Leopold is not very sympathetic towards this idea, so she needs to take the matters into her own hands to fulfill her fantasies. So she decides to buy a hundredweight of minced meat and build herself a mince prince. But how to bring him to life?

Mr. Bulge did not water the orchid from Mr. Belly. In order to escape responsibility, he spins a confusing web of lies and conspiracy theories, in which he eventually gets caught.

At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened in. Animated memories from times gone by.

Snow, film dust, and particles. The worn and torn broken film from an old lanterna magica projector. Retrieved animated footage from around the 1900s is combined with computer animation.

In a makeshift boat, a GDR refugee escapes to West Germany. His newfound freedom is disorienting, and it is only later, with a growing nationalist movement, that he begins to feel at home.

A performative poetry film about pecunia, passports, and privilege. Money origami stop motion animation, money being burnt and laundered, money in a museum. Psychedelic plant ornaments, juxtaposed with tanks and the devouring of currency from privileged and not-so-privileged countries in front of a national landmark and passport kissing.

The film describes the chaotic phase in life of a new mother. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense time has burned deep into the protagonist's heart.

Some days she imagines that by her sheer will she can make body parts fall off of people who seem vicious to her. And some other days everyone around her looks beautiful. And when she was little, she wished that flowers would grow out of her footprints.

Hacking a claw machine inside C4D.

Bibi receives an invitation to the traditional witch Halloween of the old witches Mania, Walpurgia and Runzia. It's a huge honor - up until now, young witches have never been invited! But Bibi can only be half happy, because on the same evening she has planned a big appearance with Florian and Marita at the Halloween party in the town hall.

A continuous 360 degree pan around a European town square reveals a time loop with small but important changes in each iteration.

After the little bird has fluttered across the Generation canvas in fall and winter episodes, a new adventure follows. It is springtime, and the little bird makes the acquaintance of the bees, but the voracious fox is already in pursuit.

In early 2020, the lockdown has brought the world to a halt. Homes become space stations, hermetically sealed off from the outside world. Nobody goes out, only the thoughts go wandering. Students of seven international universities exchange personal impressions of and reflections on this forced isolation online and get to know each other through this joint project.

Three women contemplate their relationship with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez.

Who is the clever mind behind “AIVA”, the absolutely incredible AI novelty that everyone talks about and wants to have? An avatar with a female voice, unfolding in two dimensions like a pattern, praises their successful multi-million-pound project. Answers are not provided, just another ghastly feedback loop of artificiality.

Three children and their families have fled from crisis areas and found a new home in Germany. What are their wishes for the future, their dreams? The conversations with the three were turned into animated children’s drawings. We see a schoolkid’s life from their perspective.

A nurse, a Nazi and a fish: this is the incredible tale of a young Czech woman who, in the face of Nazi occupation, trumps the invaders with her unique form of resistance.

Two anonymous people, Bubble and Star, get to know each other in a chat room. Although they don't know each other's true identity, a close relationship develops between them. A movie about the search for friendship and closeness in a virtual world.

After an exhausting rainy day, a young woman is struggling with her growingly overwhelming feelings. Initially, she has difficulties allowing her tears and fights actively against them. She desperately tries to keep out the rain, which more and more vehemently makes its way into her apartment. Yet as soon as she learns to accept and appreciate the rain, she also makes peace with crying.

Mafia Drama

Most accidents happen at home. Thus the appeal to one’s personal political responsibility comes as a surprise. Randomly reading a Brecht text inspires to take action.

Skating is cool. Super 8 films too. Fuck-shit! That was dope! // "Super (8) Skate" is a Stop-Motion short, shot on Super 8 film to express the love of skating and filmmaking.

Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbors cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbours, the cat and the nucleus.

Figures that inhabit a world of escalators pursue their desire to consume at a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room where it joins a playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a dog crazy about chips. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.

The salmon want to reproduce. While the salmon men swim upstream in a testosterone-driven race, the women indulge in a fertility dance at the source of the river. But the roles aren't as clearly defined as the men expect.

The animated documentary deals with a new intensity of longing during the first lockdown in Germany.

Katharina’s father used to work for the GDR secret service. In the mid-1990s he was arrested for a murder ordered in connection with his former job … and released. Ever since then, Katharina has feared that the doubts about her father’s innocence might throw a shadow on her life, too. A film about family secrets and the question whether some things hadn’t better remain hidden.

Who’s hiding behind the windows of the neighbouring flat? Who hasn’t closed their curtains? And who’s lurking at the school gates in the next village? Let’s skedaddle, so that we don’t meet them! An animated poem about how mistrust of others is drilled into us from childhood.

19th century somewhere in Europe. A child has to climb up a chimney, a bird sails down into it and builds a nest, there is no going back for both.

The "liquefaction of the liquid" is taken to such extremes that as soon as the guttural singing of Mopcut begins, the image space is overcome with spectral flutters and untenable fluctuations.

The Zillas, a huge family of lizards, emerge from the sea and notice that their traditional picnic area is inhabited by humans and other monsters.

An eye has a fatal encounter with a hammer and a block of wood.

Short animated film by Bruno Sukrow.

Staging macho "bromances" between men like Vladimir Poutine and Xin Junping, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, using G-udit and $chwanger's superimposed faces as they rap in their melancholy style.

The big ones eat the little ones, that's how life works!

In his constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.

Normally, you would drink a bottle of wine with your friends or family. Assuming you drink at all. But during the Corona confinement, nothing is normal. So a young animator drinks the bottle alone by herself and animates a movie.

Felix is looking for a friend and discovers the 'Fulgidusen', the little lights of the forest. But the village of the Fulgiduses and thus also the secret of the forest are in great danger ...

"Burnt" is a reinterpretation of a Japanese legend about the personification of death, the so called Shinigami. It's about a farmer whose daughter died recently. He wants to commit suicide to rejoin her in death. He is visited by a shinigami and as the story progresses, he learns that the lifespan of a person shall not be changed. This lesson is taught in a visually intriguing and metaphorical way.

The catastrophe is tirelessly repeated in Hollywood cinema. The genre of the disaster movie hints at the collective psyche of the respective historical epochs. The perspective of a postmodern longing for moments of spectacular destruction, which briefly interrupts the dull monotony in late capitalist consumerism, shows how contradictory postmodern pop culture is. The disaster movie is symptomatic for the longing to overturn the status quo as well as the opposite desire to find it instantly restored.

A woman who came to Tehran for a nose operation loses her wedding ring. While her husband is pursuing his hobbies and the employees search the hotel for the lost item, she finds the peace she was looking for.

The Mozambican contractual worker Luciano is laden with expectations upon his arrival in East Berlin during the 1980s. However, what he experiences doesn't match his hopes. Based on true events.

In a war zone, four-year-old FARAH and her brother RAMZY become friends with an enemy counterpart, SAMIR, turning the barren battlefield into a fantastical playground. Can the kids and the magic survive?

This project approaches fado music with updated visions of gender expression and representation in the LGBTI community. Lila Tiago and João Caçador talk about growing up queer, Portugal, gender and queer awareness.

Karl goes from room to room and tries to fit in. First he visits the business people, then the sports people and after them the party people. Will he find the place where he belongs?

When a person disappears, everything remains in its place. The film shows the life of my grandfather, Herbert Hurrle, through the things he accumulated in life. The memories with which these things are filled come to life.

The protagonist is leaving on a journey to the places, that remind her of the past. The woman looks back on her memories of the unhappy love and tries to leave these behind.

Ernst is a figure on a postcard, which is in a card stand with many other motives. While the other cards are eagerly bought, no one is interested in his card and Ernst becomes increasingly discontented. Finally, he almost gets bought – but then he is put back crooked again. This brings his world into imbalance and he falls out. For him a colorful journey full of different styles of representation begins – whether 2D, 3D, live action and stop-motion.