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Achill

Animated Film
Germany
2012
9 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) "Konrad Wolf"
Director
Gudrun Krebitz
Music
Marian Mentrup
Cinematographer
Moana Vonstadl
Editor
Gudrun Krebitz
Animation
Gudrun Krebitz
Script
Gudrun Krebitz
Sound
Marian Mentrup
Real excitement is always kind of out of focus. Unfortunately. All joy lies buried in a blind rush and hasty perceptions. That's why I never got my eyes lasered.

Boles

Animated Film
Germany,
Slovenia
2013
13 minutes
Subtitles: 
English
German

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Producer
Špela Čadež
Director
Špela Čadež
Music
Tomaž Grom
Cinematographer
Michael Jörg
Editor
Thomas Schmidl
Animation
Oliver Throm
Script
Gregor Zorc, Špela Čadež
Sound
Johanna Herr
Filip and Tereza are neighbours. He is a writer with writer’s block, she is an aging prostitute. They don’t have much in common besides the wall between their flats. But one day Tereza asks her neighbour to write a letter to her fiancé. But this is only the beginning.



Golden Dove in the International Competition Animated Film 2013

Dame mit Hund

Animated Film
Germany
2014
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Sonja Rohleder
Director
Sonja Rohleder
Editor
Sonja Rohleder
Animation
Sonja Rohleder, Veronica Solomon
Script
Sonja Rohleder
Sound
Michał Krajczok
A woman is walking her dog. Everything else unfolds in the audiences’ heads.

Darling

Animated Film
Germany,
Poland
2013
6 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Izabela Plucińska
Director
Izabela Plucińska
Music
Detlef Schitto
Cinematographer
Izabela Plucińska
Editor
Daniel Scheimberg
Animation
Izabela Plucińska
Script
Izabela Plucińska
What does it mean to lose one’s memory? In the labyrinth of fear a stranger becomes a confidant and a once familiar home turns into a trap. A woman’s attempt to grope her way back to the normality of her former life along familiar objects and figures. But suppressed memories and an unquiet past get in her way.

Demoni

Animated Film
Bulgaria,
Canada,
Germany
2012
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Theodore Ushev, MTD:films
Director
Theodore Ushev
Music
Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs
Animation
Theodore Ushev
Sound
Nikola Gruev
On the first day after the first Sunday after the first spring rain, a Red Cat is sitting on the roof of an old house... She is waiting, watching the full moon race across the sky... A film painted on 50 vinyl recordings.

Echo

Animated Film
Germany
2014
7 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Vera Schmidt, Cathy de Haan, Juliane Fuchs
Director
Damaris Zielke
Editor
Damaris Zielke
Animation
Damaris Zielke
Script
Peter Thiers
Sound
Christian Helm
A cold day's experience becomes a recurring nightmare, scarring a young person’s life with unforeseeable consequences. A rising echo, resonating through generations.

Echo

Animated Film
Germany
2012
5 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Rotraut Pape
Director
Merlin Flügel
Editor
Merlin Flügel
Animation
Merlin Flügel
Script
Merlin Flügel
Sound
Jonatan Schwenk
The lost home, a visit to a foreign place and the faith in not being alone. The rhythm of one’s origins and the identity of one’s environment. “Echo” portrays the reverberations of a childhood, of complicated relationships and departures to new beaches.

Father

Animadoc
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Germany
2012
16 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Maria Stanisheva, Compote Collective
Director
Ivan Bogdanov, Moritz Mayerhofer, Veljko Popović, Asparuh Petrov, Rositsa Raleva, Dmitry Yagodin
Music
Petar Dundakov
Editor
Ivan Bogdanov
Animation
Vessela Dantcheva, Kristijan Dulic, Moritz Mayerhofer, Asparuh Petrov, Dmitry Yagodin
Script
Ivan Bogdanov, Phil Mulloy
Sound
Emil Iliev
When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt you? In the film, an impossible dialogue is created between the one who left and the ones that were left behind.



Golden Dove in the International Competition Animated Film 2012

Macramé

Animated Film
Germany
2014
7 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Anne-Kathrin Gliese
Director
Maria Steinmetz
Music
Felix Raffel
Editor
Rudi Zieglmeier
Animation
Maria Steinmetz
Script
Maria Steinmetz
Sound
Paul Rischer
The touching story of a woman who becomes a mother after a rape and wants to love and protect the child in spite of her own pain.
International Competition Animated Film 2014
Micki Alexander Lahl, Izabela Plucińska

Everything on this November’s day happened spontaneously. And then this ladder just stood there … The story of Marienetta Jirkowsky, who was shot at the age of 18 in an attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall.

Micki

Animated Film
Germany
2014
6 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Die Kulturingenieure
Director
Alexander Lahl, Izabela Plucińska
Music
Hannes Schulze
Editor
Izabela Plucińska, Johannes Girke
Animation
Izabela Plucińska, Agata Rojek, Kirill Abdrakhmanov
Script
Alexander Lahl
Sound
Hannes Schulze
Everything on this November’s day happened spontaneously. And then this ladder just stood there … The story of Marienetta Jirkowsky, who was shot at the age of 18 in an attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall.

Nuggets

Animated Film
Germany
2014
6 minutes

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Producer
Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Director
Andreas Hykade
Music
Heiko Maille
Animation
Angela Steffen
Script
Andreas Hykade
Sound
Heiko Maille
Addiction is intoxicating – until you sober up. This film is a simple and precise story of dependency.

Patch

Animated Film
Germany,
Switzerland
2014
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Gerd Gockell
Director
Gerd Gockell
Music
Phil McCammon
Cinematographer
Gerd Gockell
Editor
Gerd Gockell
Animation
Gerd Gockell, Ute Heuer
Script
Ute Heuer
Sound
Thomas Gassmann
An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognisability.

Virtuos Virtuell

Animated Film
Germany
2013
8 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Thomas Stellmach
Director
Thomas Stellmach, Maja Oschmann
Music
Louis Spohr, Till Mertens
Editor
Thomas Stellmach
Animation
Maja Oschmann, Thomas Stellmach
Handmade ink drawings inspired by the music are the basis of this film. They develop into different characters whose story is told in the interplay of careful movement and dynamic chase, dancers’ grace and confrontation.



Honorary Mention in the International Competition Animated Film 2013

Wind

Animated Film
Germany
2012
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Robert Löbel
Director
Robert Löbel
Animation
Robert Löbel
Sound
David Kamp
The film shows the daily life of people living in a windy area. The inhabitants have learned to master their daily life in a resourceful way. It almost seems as though everything functions automatically and the wind is even beneficial to their lifestyle. But all of a sudden the air stands still.



Mephisto 97.6 Audience Award 2013