What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen but instead, you're stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many years, they still hear the same questions over and over again: Where are you from? Do you speak Dutch? Do you tan in the sun?
An outcry, a free-roaming paper dog and enduring pain: This experimental stop motion animation takes us into the emotional depths of a personal story of loss.
The experimental stop-motion animation Brother is a celebration of life.
Dedicated to all those who are in danger of being forgotten.
It is also a reminder to live in the moment because you never know what will happen. But of course, it is not easy to let go and remember, because grief knows no day and night and makes no exception, whether you are rich or poor. A universal feeling that affects every person in this world. The animation does not want to explain or provide a plan on how to deal with grief. It is a snapshot, born during the pandemic, when every day felt the same and the shadows of the past had an easy time intervening and dominating the daily routine.
The film was made during the project module Animated Words in the MFA studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar // Media Arts studies.
Mentors: Catalina Giraldo Vélez and Ana Maria Vallejo
Directors Note: The most personal story I have to deal with. A part of me that I was able to wrap up in a film. A need to move on and not let myself be constantly overwhelmed by sadness. I banished my memories into animation and now I watch the film whenever I want to remember...
Deserters is a film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of their maturity and the tough decision to escape from it.
Deserters is a film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of their maturity and the tough decision to escape from it. Their exile stories from the 90s, contained in letters mailed to the director of this film from refugee camps scattered across Europe, are confronted with the present condition of the city they were forced to leave. A film about a missing generation, exile, hard choices, and the answer to the most difficult question of any war: to stay or to run?
A Taiwanese boss and Burmese laborers seek ways of getting rich by shrimp farming. However a life gone on the process. It's all about trust, gender power, and culture conflicts.
With 20 years of experience in shrimp farming in Taiwan, Du came to Myanmar alone. Even though he saw only endless wilderness before him, he believed that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going,” nothing is impossible on this earth. He did not expect that what followed were white powders and guns.
A Burmese-Chinese girl, Sue, who also dreamt of shrimp farming, decided to settle down in the shrimp farm her father had started to develop 20 years ago, after the marriage to her Burmese husband, Jojo. She was determined to carry out the unfulfilled ambition of her father. Struggling to confront the false accusation, Du encountered Sue by chance. Together, they decided to farm and rear shrimps in the wilderness and build their “Diamond Marine World.”
It took five years to shoot and produce this film, recording the turns of humanity and the conflicts falling one after the other like the rain in Myanmar.
After leaving prison, Mariusz and his son attempt to adapt to reality, interweaving the habits of jail with the struggle of everyday life. Contrary to popular opinion, their relationship is filled with reflection and love. The protagonists' sensitivity contrasts with the heartless reality that leaves a scar on former prisoners excluding them from being valuable members of society.
Lamine and his family recently moved to a farm in Senegal. There’s always a lot to do, but the afternoons are too hot. So it’s off to the beach with his new friend.
Lamine is seven years old and has just moved to Senegal with his family. His dad is half-Senegalese but was born and raised in Germany. The family of five has given up everything in Germany and is planning their future in West Africa. With their savings, they have bought a piece of land in the savannah where they want to build their own eco-farm. This has been their dream for years. The project is called “Gorgorlou” and means “life artist” in the local language Wolof. Their goal is to grow fruit and vegetables without soil in a sustainable and climate-friendly way and to keep animals in a species-appropriate way. Everything that forms nutrients is used. But there is still a lot to do before it all goes right: a huge greenhouse, a large chicken garden with space for 2,000 chickens, fish ponds and a small residential house, which they want to move into quickly because the farm has to be guarded day and night and because it is so nice to live in the middle of nature.
Lamine wants to learn everything from the beginning to become a real eco-farmer later on. He thinks it's great that he has so much freedom here. In the evening, he meets his new friend Samba on the beach for a mango picnic and finds out that mangoes are pretty much the best thing in Senegal!
A new Musifants episode! This time, Charlie bakes a birthday cake. No sooner is it on the table, smelling delicious, than someone takes a sneaky bite. Who is the cheeky rascal?
It's the little green cactus' birthday and Charlie bakes him a cake. But fresh out of the oven, someone has already had a bite of the cake. Charlie sets out to find the culprit by comparing the different bite marks of the forest dwellers.
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has traumatised generations. The children of the time lack memories, their parents are struggling to speak about it to this day. In this film they break the silence.
They were children at the time of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda in 1994. They are now in their thirties and struggling with childhood memories of desolation and violence. To carry the weight of the past and think of a future, we must be able to talk freely. Kumva is about the need to build one's own memory in order to give flesh to the dead and to build a bridge between the past and the present.
A touching, warm and painfully accurate portrait of a person with a mental disability. We observe the protagonist during her classes and therapies, we learn about her family situation, and we get to know what she dreams of and what she does in her everyday life. Animation brings Ewa's drawings to life and helps us to see the world through her eyes. We may not be able to fully understand her but thanks to Marcin Lesisz's film, we may at least get closer to her. We may realise what kind of problems she faces and notice the person, not the illness; the person who has the right to be who she wants to be.
A pair of socks lose sight of each other during the spin cycle of the washing machine. Being suddenly alone gives rise to new encounters and puts the socks’ friendship to a tough test.
In the spin cycle of the washing machine, a pair of socks get lost from sight! How terrible, the sock thinks at first until it notices the other garments for the first time. These new acquaintances put the sock friendship to the test. But the sock couple manages to accept that they both have their own interests.
It's a film about old friendships that are changing and new ones that are just forming.
The idyllic Swiss family estate, Sonnenhof, no longer feels like home to Dijana, now that her daughter has moved away. She slowly begins to look beyond its borders and seeks comfort in the fragments of the previous life she left behind in former Yugoslavia.
DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.