Competition for the Audience Award 2: Animated Films

In Hamsterland, everybody is 100 percent happy and stress-resistant. An entertaining polemic on hyper capitalist, neoliberal societies that makes you smile.

A lovingly designed mini-drama about a droll puppet with a button nose and jug ears in scary situations we all remember from our childhood.

Born blind, the tragic hero of this film sees his surroundings with a delay of seven years. The images from the past become a curse that’s irreconcilable with his present life.

Entertaining and with childlike ease, this animated documentary shows how easy life can be when you have accepted yourself – and are accepted as a matter of course.

Paul Klee salutes the Shadoks in this imaginative animation that breathes life into geometrical forms and tells a touching love story in deep space.

A successful young animation filmmaker works on her graduation film – and has second thoughts. An affectionate film-in-film puppet animation with a surprising end.