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Petros Silvestros // United Kingdom // 2015 // 08:52 min
Live Action // Drama
After many years of intensive research, a young man thinks he has finally found the priest he has wanted to confront since his childhood.
Osman Cerfon // France // 2023 // 04:41 min
Animation // Comedy, satire
Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger… Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a [...]
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 [...]
Zamarin Wahdat // Germany, USA // 2020 // 13:30 min
Live Action // Drama
When 8-year-old Kati hides in her father's delivery van, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country. As their relationship [...]
Vera Trajanova, Milen Vitanov // Germany, Bulgaria // 2016 // 08:30 min
Animation, Children Film // Coming of Age, Fantasy
Ati and Emil share an altogether different kind of New Year’s Eve, taking a journey where they must cross icy waters and cultures to make a fresh start.
Remo Scherrer // Switzerland // 2016 // 11:20 min
Animation, Documentary // Drama, Portrait
Wally?s childhood is increasingly turned upside down by her mother's alcohol addiction. She experiences the excesses and consequences of addiction first hand. Desperately, the eight-year-old [...]
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...
Zane Whittingham // United Kingdom // 2014 // 06:16 min
Animation // Drama
An eight year old boy is expelled from Germany to Poland in the middle of the night in the so-called ?Polkenation?. He escapes to England on the Kindertransport, only to experience the worst [...]
Zane Whittingham // United Kingdom // 2014 // 06:23 min
Animation // Drama
A five year old girl?s escape over the mountains from East Germany into Czechoslovakia, and her mother?s determined efforts to keep the family together. They escape from Prague across Europe, [...]
Jonatan Etzler // Sweden // 2014 // 14:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Elin tries to fit in at her new school where the classmates are preparing for a skiing trip. Soon she realizes that children are divided into richer and poorer, and she doesn?t know where she [...]
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.
Tomasz Glodek, Bogna Sroka-Mucha // Poland // 2014 // 05:00 min
Animation, Children Film // Comedy
The adventures of a little boy and his amazing paper hat. What is concealed inside the hat and what sounds can we hear?
Lilou Fogli // France // 2022 // 02:38 min
Live Action // Grotesqueness, Comedy
A woman desperately tries to escape her fate.
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 [...]
Paul Philipp // Germany // 2017 // 28:55 min
Live Action // Drama
East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry Kiefer, who is missing for weeks now, [...]
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 [...]
Falk Schuster // Germany // 2015 // 29:25 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Roadmovie
Its the summer of 1987 and a young family from the Leipzig district in East Germany are going on holiday, driving with their Trabant and trailer to a small holiday home on the Baltic Sea near [...]
Leon Vidmar // Slovenia // 2016 // 05:51 min
Computer Animation // Coming of Age, Drama
Lovro is remembering the day he caught his first fish with his grandfather. Memory and reality merge into one.
Susanne Quester // Germany // 2002 // 07:05 min
Live Action // Comedy
"Finow" is an independent woodland state whose inhabitants mainly feed on bananas. A two-fisted social reportage about child labour.
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 [...]
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
Markéta Kubátová Smolíková // Czech Republic // 2019 // 08:53 min
Animation, Children Film // Comedy
Alien creatures populate the barren landscape of a seemingly unknown planet and get straight to work digging a pit.
Abdenoure Ziane // France // 2020 // 18:02 min
Children Film, Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
The sun is burning down on Kader and Rudy trying to pass the time in the scorching heat of their suburban neighborhood. The 11 year old Kader tries to keep Ramadan for the first time and takes [...]
Matthew Moore // Australia // 2011 // 13:00 min
Live Action // Comedy
Nine-year-old Julian is an attentive, precise boy who likes to line up his pens neatly on his desk. When a girl complains to him about the other kids? misbehaviour, he informs the teacher [...]
Simon Ostermann // Germany // 2018 // 01:21 min
Live Action // satire, Spot
There is no age limit for self defense. Your love Your kids? Join us. Now!
Regina Welker // Germany // 2012 // 09:05 min
Animation, Children Film // Comedy, Tragedy
Diagnosis: Krake! But the little girl doesn't realize how serious a Krake is - until her vicious friend starts to get out of hand.
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 [...]
Linda Luitz, Wunna Winter // Germany // 2014 // 04:40 min
Animation // Comedy, Whodunit
A casual encounter of a small fat boy and an wheelchair-bound old woman, both isolated in their own way. Finally a small dog brings the two of them together. The beginning of a wonderful [...]
Lasse Holdhus // Germany // 2018 // 05:18 min
Live Action // Drama
Major Luna jumps towards the moon. In a swimming pool she acts out her dreams to float weightlessly in space.
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.
Äggie Pak-Yee Lee // Estonia // 2017 // 04:10 min
Animation // Comedy
Visiting a museum with your class— how boring! You always have to be quiet and you’re never allowed to have any fun. A perfect moment to let your imagination run wild.
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.
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 [...]
Shadab Shayegan // Germany // 2024 // 07:00 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Comedy
Six years old Lily visits her grandmother after grandma had a mastectomy and doesn’t have breasts anymore. At night, Lily finds out that the shadow of grandma has the breasts, Lily follows her [...]
Balder Westein // Netherlands // 2013 // 02:09 min
Real-Animation // Comedy
It is Halloween and three kids go out for 'tricks or treats'. It is a windy night and the only welcoming friendly person in the small town is unfortunately treated to a rather frightening and [...]
Annika Birgel // Germany // 2024 // 15:20 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
On a remote German island, the inhabitants of a village come together to celebrate a traditional eve-of-wedding party. As the shards of the crockery smashed by the guests pile up, ten-year-old [...]
Jan Mettler, Jan-Eric Mack // Switzerland // 2010 // 05:53 min
Live Action // Performance
A boy dreams of being a great soccer star. One morning he leaves the anonymity of his grey subarbs to enter the glaring light of the stadium. There he meets an unexpected opponent who puts him [...]
Natalia Chernysheva // Russian Federation // 2012 // 06:00 min
Animation, Children Film // Art Film
When a little African boy receives a paper snowflake in a letter from a distant penpal, he longs to see what real snow would be like.
Xavier Douin // France // 2011 // 09:40 min
Live Action // Comedy
In order to get the bike of his dreams Antonio is even prepared to hold the Virgin Mary ransom...
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.
Sonja Rohleder // Germany // 2023 // 03:00 min
Animation, Children Film // Coming of Age, Drama
A day draws to a close. A little monkey falls asleep. As his mind wanders off, the forest starts to change. What happens to us and our mind when we fall asleep? Somni combines a visual lullaby [...]
Matthew Moore // Australia // 2013 // 22:25 min
Live Action // Drama
Liam is 10 and knows everything about the positive energy of gemstones and minerals. At night, dressed as a masked avenger, he wanders the streets seeking to do good deeds in secret. He makes [...]
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.
Jacob Frey // Germany // 2014 // 04:40 min
Computer Animation // Coming of Age
Jake spends most of his time playing videogames indoors until his mum decides to give him a present.
Jamille van Wijngaarden // Netherlands // 2018 // 11:00 min
Live Action // Comedy
When mother Marit wants to discuss the behavior of her son during a parent-teacher conference, teacher Yvonne can’t repress her pent-up feelings anymore. A murderous comedy with finger paint. [...]
Veronica Solomon // Germany // 2024 // 04:32 min
Animation, Children Film // Comedy, Poetry
For little children the world is full of mystery and unknown and they need the help of a wise companion to navigate the challenges of every-day life. Or maybe it’s their awe and wonder at [...]
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 [...]
Jakob Werner // Germany // 2021 // 04:39 min
Animation // Political Film, Portrait
When Otto Dov Kulka was 11 years old and had to start the death march from Auschwitz to Groß-Rosen, he sees a prisoner lying with a broken leg on the orders of the defendant Baretzki who then [...]
