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Und dänn …

And then...

Raphael Stalder / Leo Graf / Tanja Nuijten // Switzerland // 2022 // 02:42 min

Animation

A blue whale gone astray: first it leaps from a mountain lake, then it flies away with a hot-air balloon. And then?

Let’s Be Friends

Rodger Werkhoven / Arno Coenen // Netherlands // 2023 // 05:26 min

Animation, Experimental

Creepy clown-like AI figures address the viewer directly – painting a grim portrait of the future. Could actors soon be replaced by artificial intelligence?

Sweet Dreams

sara priorelli / Maria Zilli // Italy // 2022 // 04:52 min

Animation

Revenge in the "Sweet Dreams" motel: things get bloody in the pool when a hotel employee is no longer able to bear the constant humiliation. [CW: murder, blood, sexual violence]

Plopp

Carolin Glomp // Germany // 2022 // 05:00 min

Live Action

Nature calls the shy intern and the determined CEO. Simultaneously. "Big business", if you know what we mean. Who will dare to go first?

The Posthuman Hospital

Junha Kim // South Korea, United States // 2023 // 06:54 min

Animation, Experimental

In this experiment, inspired by Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto", the boundary between human bodies and technical devices is fluid.

La mujer como imagen, el hombre como portador de la mirada

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look

Carlos Velandia // Colombia // 2022 // 07:20 min

Animation, Experimental

Women in cinema history: in bed, in the shower or at the vanity, staged and montaged by male directors. A collage of the male gaze. [CW: for epilepsy]

À quoi tu rêves Léon?

Dream on Léon

Roger Gariépy // Quebec // 2022 // 07:32 min

Live Action

Léon, an old dog, has hardly any energy left. Alas, he can still dream: of cyclists he once chased, of great liberation perched on the passenger seat, of sausages and of love.

Die Versuchung der Kokosuhr

The Temptation of the Coconut Clock

Oliver Schmid // Germany // 2022 // 06:27 min

Animation

Megalomania in the jungle. Two monkeys want more. Lust for the largest coconut drives them higher and higher up into the tree.

Two Gracious Uncles Smooched to the Beat

Jon Dunleavy // England // 2023 // 03:00 min

Animation

Artist vs. artificial intelligence – who will win and who will lose? An abstract battle.

Oorworm

Earworm

Pauline Picard // France // 2023 // 05:32 min

Live Action

A creepy earworm is haunting Edith, in the form of a rabbit-eared man wearing a pink shirt. Whether she's in the shower or at her desk, at the bus stop, in the cinema or in bed with a lover – he just won't leave her alone. [CW: Suicide]

Astrogolem

Thorsten Fleisch // Germany // 2023 // 06:23 min

Animation, Experimental

Inventors Nikola Tesla and Alan Turing accidentally send demons into our dimension. Oops! What to do? Bring along flowers for a certain renowned female scientist. Her name: Robo-Marie Curie.

ATM: You Have Thirty Seconds to Withdraw

Neil Young // Austria, Poland // 2023 // 00:58 min

Experimental

Horror at the ATM. A nightmare in a few dozen seconds that pays tribute to Robert Bresson's "L'argent".

A szív kertje

The Garden of Heart

Olivér Hegyi // Hungary, Slovakia // 2022 // 10:32 min

Animation

Shortly before his entrance exam at the art academy, the insecure young painter Dániel Juhász tries to calm down by meditating: "My heart is a huuuge flower garden..."

Eat Your Carrots

Laura Stewart // Canada // 2022 // 03:11 min

Animation

Is eating carrots really that good for your vision? When a girl eats the orange veggies, an eye grows from her arm, bursting with energy. And it has even more in store for her…

Transcending Harry

Bruno Conti Wuilloud // Switzerland // 2023 // 06:00 min

Live Action

Adman Harry wants to lose weight – so he takes up yoga. Alas, he grossly underestimated the effects his new hobby would have: sadly, his newly gained universal human consciousness has downsides as well.

Act One

TV Store / Daniel Brandt // France, Germany, England // 2023 // 04:02 min

Experimental

Climate protests, patriarchy, sex – everything comes together in an associative whole on this psychedelic trip.

Fur

Zhen Li // United States // 2022 // 06:36 min

Animation, Experimental

A girl in a classroom. Thoughts wander. Bodies fly through the air. Crazy.

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Federico Turani // Poland, Saudi Arabia // 2023 // 05:58 min

Animation

Frank Dommy is a superman. Smart, rich, spoiled by success. Yep, Frank leads the perfect life. Or not, after all? The answer awaits in Bubble Tea Land.

Let’s Sow Cabbage Seeds

ATSUHIKO KOMEDA // Japan // 2022 // 06:16 min

Animation

Maki, Yari and El don't just plant cabbage on their farm. They sing about it too – in the local heavy-metal band. Here, one profession inspires the other.

Oschtsee

Baltic Shea

Klaus Hoefs // Germany // 2023 // 04:56 min

Animation

No tootling with the poodle. No waggling with the wiener dog. Enough! It's off to the Baltic Sea – sorry: Baltic Shea.

The Great Connection

Christen Bach // Denmark, Germany, Netherlands // 2023 // 04:55 min

Animation

Under water, there is no consensus among the mythical creatures whether the weird, enormous technological snake on the sea floor is a good omen or not. They debate the matter in song.