This is where the cinema turns into a rollercoaster! Magical short films to discover, laugh and marvel at for all animation fans from daycare centres and primary schools to teenagers. Foreign-language films have German live voice-over.
Captivating stories with seriousness or dancing pigs with lots of humour and slapstick – there’s plenty of variety in this programme! The multi-layered world of animation for our film pros aged 8 and over.
A young boy called Sonny works in an underground coal mine surrounded by adults. His job is to take care of the canary that detects deadly methane gas. But he’d rather he and his feathered friend were safely back overground and in the sunshine.
My name is Hédi, I’ll tell you about my childhood. About how I was a happy child in a happy city in Germany. What happened next is hard to tell and hard to listen to. I still want to tell you and I want you to listen. For we humans can do so much evil but also very good. We all have a choice; we can choose the good. An animated short for younger children about the Holocaust.
10-year-old Olivia sits hooked on her phone in the back of the car as her family goes on vacation. Her parents are so annoyed by her addiction to beauty social media that they leave her in a highway service area. After the first shock, she is already back on the phone. Her plush bunny tries to get her to play with them instead but then things take an unexpected turn.
One page, and another. One foot before the other. I am here, I’m not there. I’ll reach the light, stair by stair.
A grandmother is unable to cry over the death of her husband. She shares her struggle with her family members and receives the strangest advice from them.
Deutschlandpremiere
MC mastermind Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop are the new kids in town – and they’re ready to make their reputation known. Straight A’s and bubble baths are their way of life. But when confronted by an older crew en-route to her first day at school, Poppy quickly changes her tune.
Photosensitivity Warning
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Swineherd” as you have never seen it before! In this entirely goofy and funny version of the famous fairy tale, we meet the young swineherd who sits and looks after the king’s pigs. On Christmas Eve, the boy and the pigs are bored in the pigsty. Suddenly the boy remembers his magic pot that will always be start of some antics.