The short films:

Winter

  • Year: 2019
  • Country: Germany
  • Director: Gurli Bachmann
  • Duration: 6min

A tomcat is looking for his lost friend. He thinks he can see him in the clouds and starts a cloud collection. Until he notices that he has been keeping him in his heart all along.

Duerrenwaid 8

  • Year: 2018
  • Country: Germany
  • Director: Kirsten Carina Geisser, Ines Christine Geisser
  • Duration: 7min

A house, a garden, a stream. The beehive on the hillside, the shack, the wooden hut and the shed. In between we find memories, stories and observations. The past, the present and the future.

Lola, the living potato

  • Year: 2018
  • Country: France, Russia
  • Director: Leonid Shmelkov
  • Duration: 17min

Lola’s family is forced to leave their old house for good. The time has come to let go and learn you cannot keep what you love. Lola will get stronger as she gets older.

Five

  • Year: 2019
  • Country: Germany
  • Director: Peter Kaboth
  • Duration: 7min

The starting point is a nursery rhyme about a carefree community in which everything runs according to fixed rules. But this community gets out of hand as two dare to break out of the structures.

Home Sweet Home

  • Year: 2018
  • Country: France
  • Director: Chaïtane Conversat
  • Duration: 13min

An old lady accumulates boxes filled with memories in her home. Every Wednesday, with her friends the cockroaches, she invents wonderful stories for her granddaughter.

Listen

  • Year: 2017
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Director: Astrid Bussink
  • Duration: 15min

In the Netherlands, there is a special ‘Children’s phone’. A number kids can dial to talk about their problems… This documentary by Astrid Bussink gives us a look at the most surprising calls… sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking. This docu won the ‘Special Jury Award for Children’s Documentary’ in 2018 at IDFA.

Il s’est passé quelque chose

  • Year: 2018
  • Country: France
  • Director: Anne Larricq
  • Duration: 8min

Today is the last day of the holidays. Everybody is looking at one another for the last time, and finds them all of a sudden more appealing. Everyone is gone… almost…

Extra info

​A selection of animation films in​ ​a variety of styles and using different techniques: from stop-motion to paper cutouts, filmed on 35mm print and digital 3D animations. Followed by a workshop where you make your own animated film without the use of a camera or computer.