German Competition 2: Animated Films

Can an animation be translated into words without curtailing the complexity of the visuals? A funny and poignant investigation into the subject of audio description.

A quite creative reflection of uncreative phases: A story-teller struggles with depression and writer’s block, under the watchful eyes of inner and outer demons.

The director’s mother starts drinking when he is eight years old. Coming to terms with trauma through dancing pixels and bodies that question gender norms.

Her grandfather and grand-uncle escaped from the Nazis. Ayala Shoshana Guy faces this story of flight in dreamlike simultaneity: shadows continue to have an effect on the present.

This animated documentary with reduced imagery portrays the protagonist’s traumatic experiences in the GDR’s residential care system and the Torgau Closed Juvenile Detention Centre.