Martin Wallner, Stefan Leuchtenberg // Germany // 2010 // 14:14 min
Animation // Drama
After the unexpected death of his father, a young man hopes to learn how to cope with his loss by venturing out on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
Laura Lehmus // Germany // 2014 // 06:13 min
Animation, Documentary // Coming of Age, Drama
An animation-short about puberty, based on real life interviews with teenagers.
Cengiz Akayguen // Germany // 2021 // 12:53 min
Live Action // Drama
10-year-old Aysha a rebellious girl wearing a full-body veil and her sister are put to a religious test by their mother in a backyard in Afrin, Syria. However, the strongheaded Aysha is [...]
Ismet Ergün // Germany, Turkey // 2007 // 10:05 min
Children Film, Live Action
A group of boys have invented a game. After reciting a rhyme, it is decided who gets to go to the cinema today, because the collected money isn't enough for everyone...
Kevin Meul // Belgium // 2013 // 13:58 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama, Tragedy
If it were easy, everyone would do it - is the mantra Steve's father uses to maximise his performance on the running track. But his extreme motivation attempts go way too far...
Daniel Sterlin-Altman // Germany // 2024 // 13:07 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy
In the suburbs somewhere in Canada, 16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica in private. His mother, Dr. Shari Tremor, is a fertility botanist studying the mating patterns of [...]
Jorge Yúdice // Spain // 2018 // 04:48 min
Live Action // Drama
After her husband leaves, Alicia settles into watch a live stream on her favourite youtube channel: VictorGaming. A role-playing video games channel. Victor, is answering questions from his [...]
Uli Seis, Daniella Koffler // Germany, Israel // 2017 // 15:00 min
Animation // Drama
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.
Henriette Rietz // Germany // 2023 // 04:39 min
Documentary, Experimental Film, Live Action // satire
Loving, happy, easygoing. Care work, mental load, exhaustion. How are mothers portrayed in the media? Everyday scenes from clichéd media representations are juxtaposed with serious personal [...]
Jörgen Scholtens // Netherlands // 2019 // 07:23 min
Live Action // Comedy
Inside a cuckoo clock lives a lonely man. Every hour he is catapulted out of his tiny house to yell ‘Cuckoo!’
Manuel Kinzer, Jorge A. Trujillo Gil // Germany, Colombia // 2018 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Darío, a 17-year-old boy from Barranquilla, Colombia has a passion for dance. He loves his Carnival has to keep it a secret from his mother, who is afraid that he won´t grow up to be a „real [...]
Ottó Bánovits // Sweden, Hungary // 2017 // 05:40 min
Experimental Film, Live Action // Installation, Political Film, Tragedy
The Camera Obscura (latin for Dark Chamber) is an optical device that led to the photographic camera. It consists of a box or a room with a hole on one side. This film is a reconstruction of [...]
Damaris Zielke // Germany // 2022 // 07:00 min
Animation, Children Film // Coming of Age, Comedy
Its so boring at Grandmas house. But when grandma falls asleep on the sofa Greta gets the idea to play play funeral with her grandma. This confronts the two of them with some questions that [...]
Alvaro Schoeck, Charlotte Waltert // Switzerland // 2023 // 11:52 min
Animation // Drama
An autumn day and the first winter night in the high mountains: it is hunting season.The paths of animals and humans cross and fade away. Swathes of mist blur the boundaries between dream, [...]
Nazgol Emami // Germany // 2017 // 10:33 min
Children Film, Live Action // Comedy
With a whole heap of imagination and a magnifying glass, Ava manages to transform her new home into a magical world. If only there wasn’t that annoying ringing of the doorbell! Who could it [...]
Alice Seabright // United Kingdom // 2019 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Comedy
Jaq is angry. But she also wants to have sex. This should be relatively straightforward - angry sex is one of the pre-approved genres for copulation. But her body is out to sabotage her. Jaq [...]
Kyoko Miyake // Germany // 2011 // 10:50 min
Documentary
Every night under Hackney skies, mothers from faraway lands create a familiar space for their children by singing them lullabies, the same ones they heard as children. The film enters the [...]
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2018 // 14:33 min
Animation, Documentary // Portrait
“My mother was always a great Halma player.” It’s a 20th century biography: growing up in the Nazi era, teenage years in post-war Germany, the the building of the Wall, and life in the GDR as [...]
Noa Berman-Herzberg, Osi Wald // Israel // 2021 // 17:40 min
Animation, Documentary // Drama
A dark family secret from the past is revealed unexpectedly and opens an abyss between two close friends: Jennifer, a German, discovers that she is the black granddaughter of a Notorious Nazi [...]
Nicolas Fattouh // Libanon, Qatar, Germany // 2020 // 09:55 min
Animation // Drama, Tragedy
Grandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her housekeeper is not the wild animal she [...]
Alexander Gratzer // Austria, Hungary // 2022 // 08:09 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy
A little mole regularly visits his blind grandpa. The seasons change, both grow older and important questions arise
Benjamin Pfohl // Germany // 2019 // 13:58 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Science Fiction, Thriller
Travelling to a remote cabin in the alps, a shy teenage girl has to decide if to pursue her own path on earth or to follow her parents - members of a cosmic cult - through a fatal procedure [...]
Solène Bosseboeuf, Flore Dechorgnat, Tiphaine Klein, Auguste Lefort, Antoine Rossi // France // 2021 // 06:11 min
Animation // Comedy
On a peaceful summer day, a dad takes his baby son on a kayak day trip. Between the challenges of a first river outing and the baby’s whims the father will not have a relaxing day, especially [...]
Louis Delva // France // 2019 // 10:08 min
Live Action // Comedy
Tina and Fred, a middle-aged couple seem desperate in their search for a boy's name. For who? Why? A humorous and thoughtful look on a social issue.
Joost Lieuwma // Netherlands // 2013 // 06:38 min
Animation // Comedy
When father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems [...]
Kelsi Phung, Fabian Corre // France // 2018 // 04:51 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama
In a kitchen, a mother and a child struggle to establish dialogue. As adolescene approaches, questions about one’s gender identity collide with the indifference that prevails within the [...]
Malin Ingrid Johansson // Sweden // 2023 // 12:50 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Yearning for a teenage life away from the farm, the cows, broken fences and babysitting her little sister, Madden makes her way to the next town in a bright Swedish summer night.
Hugo Caby, Zoé Devise, Aubin Kubiak, Antoine Dupriez, Lucas Lermytte // France // 2020 // 08:17 min
Animation // Drama
Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.
Dina Velikovskaya // Russian Federation // 2011 // 08:40 min
Animation // Drama
An old man who collects rubbish and builds things may seem very strange; but he might also invent the most wonderful creations.
Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata // France // 2017 // 04:30 min
This animated short tells the story of a very special father-son relationship where love and family tradition are expressed in a perfectly packed suitcase.
Otalia Caussé, Geoffroy Collin, Louise Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle, Fabien Meyran // France // 2019 // 05:29 min
Animation // Comedy, Slapstick
In Lisbon, a german married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway, but how should you react when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race... with a baby on [...]
Gleb Osatinski // Lithuania, Ukraine, USA // 2024 // 30:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Ukraine, the Soviet Union, 1990. Like many teenagers, 17-year-old Yasha is rebelling against authority. But in his homeland, some opposing forces are more dangerous than others. Yasha gets [...]
Simone Giampaolo // Switzerland // 2020 // 06:47 min
Animation, Documentary // Poetry, Political Film
Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn [...]
Sophie Linnenbaum // Germany // 2017 // 08:24 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Baby pictures, Christmas snapshots, holiday pictures, wedding photographs - our life is an endless sequence of photogenic memories.
Max Zähle // Germany // 2010 // 23:41 min
Live Action // Drama
A German couple adopts an Indian orphan in Kolkata. When the child suddenly disappears they realize that they are part of the problem.
Daphne Lucker // Netherlands // 2018 // 15:08 min
Coming of Age, Drama, Dance Film
SISTERS tells the tale of three sisters growing up in a dysfunctional family. A family without a mother. Sarah, Vera and Julia are at each others mercy and survive as long as they are [...]
Florent Hill // France // 2018 // 04:14 min
Children Film, Live Action // Comedy
The whole family is annoyed by Grandma's soup-slurping. Fortunately her grandson is hugely inventive.
Leon Schwitter // Switzerland // 2021 // 13:29 min
Live Action // satire
The air-conditioning breaks down in the carriage, Bluetooth speakers compete by the river and a demonstration in the city centre paralyses the trams. As the ice melts and tempers flare, no one [...]
Victor Velasco // USA // 2020 // 04:34 min
Live Action // Drama
A grumpy businessman walks to work on a Monday morning when he's stopped by a junkie-like kid who asks him: "Do you want some soup?".
Can Merdan Dogan // Germany, Turkey // 2021 // 17:49 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Hasan is a taxi driver working the night shift. On the early-morning drive home, he sees a woman passing in high heels. Fascinated by her appearance, he does something that leads to disaster [...]
Kirsikka Saari // Finland // 2018 // 14:40 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Taina is overjoyed preparing the weekend visit of her son Eetu and his girlfriend. But the more Taina tries to entertain everyone, the less comfortable they feel. A tragicomic take on how [...]
Anthony Sneed // USA // 2020 // 05:00 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Comedy
A delinquent teenage boy learns a valuable lesson about growing up.
Renaldho Pelle // England // 2020 // 07:43 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama
Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in. [...]
Ole Micha // Germany // 2022 // 03:51 min
Live Action // Comedy, Western
It is peaceful and quiet on the lonely playground where Steffen, a young and environmentally woke father takes his baby daughter for a stroll. Unfortunately, the elitist Sebastian, with his [...]
Martin Smatana // Czech Republic, Slovakia // 2019 // 13:10 min
Animation, Children Film // Drama
A little boy likes to visit his grandpa and go kite-flying with him. But as the seasons change, grandpa seems to change too.
André Øvredal // Norway // 2016 // 14:22 min
Live Action // Drama, Science Fiction
?The Tunnel? is a science-fiction film taking place in an overpopulated future where we follow a small family in heavy traffic on their way back home from the beach. Between them and their [...]
Dina Velikovskaya // Germany, Russian Federation // 2019 // 07:36 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama
There is a strong connection between parents and their child. A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly connected with her that by [...]
Can Tanyol // Germany // 2023 // 18:35 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kenan's big day has arrived. The nine-year-old half-orphan is to be circumcised, following the millennia-old Muslim tradition. But before that, there is a party! During the [...]
Kerli Kirch Schneider // Estonia // 2019 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Comedy, Tragedy
A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. Wherever you look, men are dropping like flies. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. [...]
Chiara Fleischhacker // Germany, France // 2018 // 08:25 min
Live Action
At the end of her wedding day, the bride Elaha has locked herself in the bathroom. The last guests are waiting impatiently outside the door, but only her two closest friends are allowed to [...]
Benjamin Hujawa // Germany // 2019 // 02:58 min
Drama, Comedy
A family discussion on Christmas can only be brought to an end by extreme measures.
Henriette Rietz // Germany // 2020 // 04:36 min
Animation // Comedy
»POSTPARTUM« is about 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. This film is an [...]
Adrian Silisteanu // Romania // 2016 // 19:36 min
Live Action // Drama
Outside a maternity ward, a Roma family is announced their underage daughter has just had a baby girl. Her father Pardica doesn?t seem to celebrate the moment; he is very displeased with this [...]