Masculinities

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.

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.

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.

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.

A beautifully tongue-in-cheek animation about the relevant (and hitherto unanswered) question of how to be least in one’s child’s way.

Driven by the barking of a rented apartment, a ballet dancer trudges through his monotonous daily routine. A surreal stop motion animation about a man who’s gone to the dogs.