When Peter sets out on a magical journey to rescue his little sister Anne, he needs to travel to mysterious territory: the Moon! Anne was kidnapped by the evil Moon Man when she tried to help the beetle Mr. Zoomzeman in search for his wife. On his fantastic adventure, Peter lands on the Star Meadow where he meets the sleepy Mr. Sandman. He knows, only at the Night Fairy’s dinner in the castle in the clouds, they can find out where Anne is – but there aren’t enough seats for everyone. So they join the wild race along the Milky Way against the five Spirits of Nature: Storm Giant, Lightning Witch, Henry Hail, Rainy Robin and Mother Frost…

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark on a heroic journey that will take them from childhood to adolescence, in search of refuge, peace and the hope of finding their family.

The Oggly family arrive at the municipal rubbish dump of Smelliville and must look for a new home, but they never feel really welcome anywhere. They stink and are for most humans just a tad too oggly. When Firebottom, the family dragon, crash-lands on the run-down rubbish tip of the small town of Smelliville, the Ogglies at once feel at home. And it's here they want to stay.

The portrayal of the over masculine Minotaur and his transformation. A reimagination of Picasso’s 1937 print series, the Vollard Suite.

A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic chaos. With far-reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal...

Encircling its central square, a new town emerges in all its diversity. A crossroad of stories, edifications, hopes, and conflicts altogether. Social ties and cultures take root. People nurture sympathy and care for their equals, but also animosity towards those who are different. It does not take long for an ‘us versus them’ atmosphere to take over. From the Main Square is an interactive VR experience that invites the viewer to witness the rise and fall of a divided society. A civilization blossoms, with all its contradictions, only to become a danger to itself.

A cuckoo falls in love with a beautiful robin. The only thing that’s holding him back is... his cuckoo clock.

An autobiographical film about my childhood in Syria, the war and my escape from it. My childhood was happy but unusual: my mother raised me as a girl. When I became a teenager I was buoyed up by the energy of youth and a desire to change the world. Then the war broke out and I had to leave everything behind.

To the beat of dripping chemo, an infusion stand fights for the life of a cancer patient. But he is resisting tenaciously. If only death was not constantly making a courtesy call on him. The stand determinedly continues its mission that only finishes with the last drop.

An animated adaptation of the famous play by William Shakespeare. It transposes the setting to a Southeast-Asian environment. Created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and its director Prof. Michael Dobson.

Inside the halls of a dystopian textile factory two young workers shortly escape their harsh reality into the fantasies of a fairytale.

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

While in rehab, a young man recounts his descent into gambling addiction. The animated documentary “King” offers an intimate insight into a psychological illness that is often overlooked.

A child is lured out of his home, kidnapped and held captive in the small cell in the basement of a church-bunker by three pedophile priests. One night a mysterious visitor opens the cell door and leaves him a sack full of Christmas presents.... The Film was published as a segment of "Deathcember" but was banned from the VOD Releases by the US Publisher in UK and the USA.

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of light is almost felt as we are sucked into the image to become its ghostly accomplice. As we leave the theatre, the optical vibrations continue to haunt us.

A diver swims through a deep cave. He encounters a group of swimmers, among whom he finds his reflection. After penetrating it, he is able to emerge from the depths.

An elite squad of highly trained soldiers has the task of reaching the center of a mysterious zone. Inside they are confronted with a frightening enemy immune to their massive muscles and guns.

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?

“Jeijay” begins where most romantic movies end. The film is about two people who try to repress the slow but inevitable decay of their relationship. Feeling isolated in their own little home, more and more of the happy facade of their love life comes crumbling down. The profound melancholia of the subject is captured in little everyday moments that are intertwined with dreamlike sequences.

Devil has a relationship with a married woman. They met at the Sunday church. She likes his backbone, his body hair and the always warm cottage, but gets away from him by letting two frozen fish from the supermarket swim free into the Baltic Sea. Devil does not speak this language and can not understand.

In the city of “Evia” several residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it, feeds it and houses it, to the disapproval of the other residents. They want to drive the host away. A persecution begins…

The experimental animated film, El Canto de las Moscas, translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places that are visited during the course of a day, a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analog materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

Inspired by my job on the assembly line of a factory, Fill3 depicts a production process. The film begins with a stereotypical factory setting that evolves into an an increasingly strange production system.

Passengers on a cruise ship are forced to come to terms with their inevitable doom. The female captain looks for the right words, and a group of children wants to do something nice for an animal that has died.

Elsa Brès' "Notes for les Sanglières" imagines an alliance between wild boars and people grounded on concepts of boarcentrism, ecofeminism and forms of communal living. Shot in the area of the Cévennes, in the South of France, the video brings together ideas, experiments, field recordings and fiction tracks that sketch the common struggle of human and animal rights.

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

A grey evening in Düsseldorf. Birds pass over the noisy city. A young man seeks refuge in the “Fortuna news stand” and drinks coffee to keep his exhaustion at bay, but nods off regardless. Flocks of birds follow him into his daydream, in which he tries to escape his isolation and sense of being trapped.

The term hysteresis soberly describes a processual behaviour where the previous history affects the result as much as new changes. Robert Seidel enters analogue drawings, performance footage of the queer dancer Tsuki and pluck sounds and drones by Oval into a feedback system that reorganises time and movement in a multicoloured and sensual organic tableau.

Edgar is not getting a lot of attention and affection from his parents, as they prefer spending time with their smartphones and laptops than with their son. In the forest, a fox helps lonely Edgar until his parents suddenly get a wake-up call.

Sibirian tiger Pascha and panther lucky want to perform at a circus festival with their trainer. After the final rehearsal fails, the trainer starts crying. Because stereotypes are so prevalent, this leads to suspicions that he might be gay.

An unfortunate chain of events motivates a couple in love to try and defy the obstacles between them. Can they be overcome? Or might digging underneath be a better solution? And just when you think it’s getting easier, bureaucracy and the past get in the way!

Hong Kong, 2019. Long and Sophie, a retired couple, are amateur singers. Despite the social unrest, their singing performance goes ahead as usual. While Sophie arrives at the venue early to prepare, Long is delayed on the subway by unexpected circumstances.

Cherry Bone is a documentary animation and tells the story of a Russian-jewish family that immigrates to Germany in the mid-90s. The director of the film starts a conversation with her parents who made the move in their forties and recalls her own version of the past events.

This is an animated short about my best friend and me and how we effed up our lives for quite a bit. It's a story about friendship, sex and mental health. In it's core it's a lesson learnt that one cannot change who they are deep inside - no matter if gay or straight.

An animated poem represents life in a form of zebra, that is full of rules, changes and contrasts. Girl which is tired of permanent changes and instability trying to catch zebra in order to stop the volatility of our being.

This is a story about a little girl who lives in a red world who accidentally discovers other colors and looks for them.

It's the future, Norman's wife is dying. In these final moments, he calls for guidance—but it's not what what he asked for.

After their home reef is destroyed by a fish trawler, Jake and Shorty, two young fish friends, along with Indigo, Shorty’s sister, go on a quest to find a legendary coral reef, one that has never been found by humans. The trio sets out on an adventurous journey, where they will learn about courage, friendship and the ocean’s last underwater haven.

Kevin Hines hears voices due to auditory hallucinations that one day order him to end his life. A hand-drawn documentary about one of the few people to survive a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge.

"Frozen Jumper" begins in hit-and-run style with a pulsating textural noise. Flickering, nearly rectangular patterns join on the image plane, at first in black-and-white, bringing to mind the sprocket holes in celluloid film and, not least due to the lack of geometric precision, giving the impression of a pre-digital origin. As the soundtrack rattles on in a minimalistic way, the pattern’s twitchy dance is submerged in various warm hues such as yellow, pink, light green and light blue, which in a different rhythm and to a more agreeable music could be perceived as the signature of slightly retro psychedelia.

The experimental animated film, El Canto de las Moscas, translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian artists.

A day at the zoo, the orangutan sits in his cage and dreams of his life in the jungle when a girl comes by and brightens his dull afternoon. Her father doesn’t notice anything because he is on his mobile and laptop all the time to do important business. So important that the orangutan has to intervene, and a chain of event changes everything.

How many questions and decisions do we humans leave unanswered in the hope that they will disappear on their own? Quite a lot! The universe also has to contend with this problem and everyone's expectations.

A secluded beach location, the perfect partner, the most exclusive hotel: it's your dreamlife. Join an eerie trip to a luxurious place of unfulfilled desire, nostalgia, and endless longing.

An interactive, sci-fi experience, which immerses you into the mysterious beauty of deep sea life on a dive that takes a shocking turn for the worse.

In a land without light, the sudden appearance of a strange, illuminated object causes a stir among the inhabitants. Egoism and greed infiltrate this dark world. A peculiar parable about the shortcomings of human behaviour.

Four friends on a surreal night out at a disco follow Elton John and Dua Lipa into a fantastical universe.

Ginkgo trees are separated by sex; only the female trees bear fruit. Once highly esteemed as natural sources of health, city dwellers today object to their pungent smell and, as gardeners, prefer the less complicated, more fragrant “fruitless” male plants. Tang Han explains with infographics, apt short sound comments and sympathetic objectivity.

What actually happens after ovulation? Seriously! This short film takes you on a fantastical journey through the life of an egg cell.

Carried by a pleasantly laid-back jazzy score, these seven minutes of animation offer a joyful journey through an elegantly black-and-white world of forms oscillating between figuration and abstraction. We meet strange frogs, caterpillars, and other critters moving in such perfect synchrony with the music that they could never seem real to us, as they take the shape of ornamental structures. And coming back again and again is the moon, with clouds gliding by. (tr)

The pandemic in a nutshell.

The charming emotion “Fear” that lives in your head wants to give an interview. Maybe you can become friends! Or is there a reason to be afraid of being afraid?

The curtain is up, the stage is clear, the microphone on: Let the show begin. The little singer steps forward and everyone is waiting with bated breath what singing talents are about to be heard. She clears her throat one more time and then it starts. But what is this? She’s not really going to lick the microphone like a popsicle, is she? Surely an idea we’ve all had at one time or another!

An ode to time decay and the power of fire. A study on disappearance and disintegration.

A white bird living in a black world encounters a black cat living in a white world. The moment they meet, their backgrounds literally collide.