Anscht
Matthias Huber
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.
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Film Archive
Matthias Huber
Anscht
Anscht
Matthias Huber
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles:
None
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. The horror on the one-metre board under which a bottomless abyss is yawning. The panic when the door of a public toilet won’t open. Every scene illustrates children’s fears, and we don’t laugh about a little man in distress but about ourselves.
Credits
Director
Matthias Huber
Script
Matthias Huber
Cinematographer
Matthias Huber
Editor
Matthias Huber
Producer
Fred Truniger
Sound
Matthias Huber, Thomas Gassmann, Dieter Hebben
Score
Matthias Huber
Animation
Matthias Huber
World Sales
Chantal Molleur
Nominated for:
mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Days of Fishing
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Somewhere on an ocean the crew of a fish trawler go about their work day and night. The camera moves in the same rolling beat as the ship in the waves.
Days of Fishing
Jours de pêche
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Belgium
2021
16 minutes
French
Subtitles:
English
Somewhere on an ocean the crew of a fish trawler go about their work day and night. Every step must be perfect, every movement automatically leads to the next. Heavy chains have to be secured, nets reeled in, fish swiftly gutted and packed with ice into large boxes. A cigarette is always dangling from the lips and hopefully there’s always something left in the jar of chocolate cream. The camera moves in the same rolling beat as the ship in the waves.
Credits
Director
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Cinematographer
Benjamin Grinand, Lucien Lepoutre
Editor
Joséphine Doublet
Producer
Vincent Canart
Sound
Lucien Lepoutre, Benjamin Grinand
Lada, Ivan’s Sister
Olesya Shchukina
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.
Lada, Ivan’s Sister
Lada, sestra Ivana
Olesya Shchukina
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
France,
Russia
2021
7 minutes
Russian
Subtitles:
English
With childlike ease, entertaining and touching, this colourful animation shows the transition of a woman who was born in the “wrong body”. With her family’s support and understanding, Ivan becomes Lada – a happy, content person. Based on a true individual story, this film is also a parable on the ingenuity of the transgender community who sometimes have to take unusual paths to establish a life worth living in an ignorant environment.
Credits
Director
Olesya Shchukina
Script
Anastasia Patlay
Editor
Olesya Shchukina
Producer
Pavel Loparev, Irina Khodyreva
Sound
Andrey Guryanov
Animation
Iulia Voitova, Arman Avdalyan
Winner of:
Silver Dove (Competition for the Audience Award Short Film)
Moderat – The Last Days
Alexandre Powelz, Elisa Mishto
Just before a five-year creative break as “Moderat”, the members of the band speak freely about interpersonal matters and the dynamics of their electrifying cooperation.
Moderat – The Last Days
Moderat – The Last Days
Alexandre Powelz, Elisa Mishto
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Germany
2022
21 minutes
German
Subtitles:
English
After years of touring together, the Berlin supergroup “Moderat” decided in 2017 to go on a (recently terminated) hiatus. “The Last Days” portrays the three protagonists of “Intelligent Dance Music” at their most human. Black and white images taken around their last concert tour serve as a projection surface for off-screen interviews in which Sascha, Szary and Gernot describe each other, allowing deep insights into their artistic dynamics.
Please note:Stroboscopic effects are used in this film.
Credits
Director
Alexandre Powelz, Elisa Mishto
Cinematographer
Timon Schäppi, Elisa Mishto
Editor
Robert Stuprich
Producer
Helmut Hartl
Co-Producer
Elisa Mishto
Sound
Daniel Nentwig
Animation
Florian Sebald
Nominated for:
Gedanken Aufschluss Prize
Money and Happiness
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
In Hamsterland, everybody is 100 percent happy and stress-resistant. An entertaining polemic on hyper capitalist, neoliberal societies that makes you smile.
Money and Happiness
Money and Happiness
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Serbia,
Slovenia,
Slovakia
2022
10 minutes
English
Subtitles:
English
In Hamsterland, everybody is 100 percent happy. Their religion is statistics and the perfect employee is young, a team player and stress-resistant. Even the most mindless computer jobs and piece work drudgery are fun, without exception. Until one day something goes wrong after all and the mantras “think positive” and “follow your dreams” are temporarily silenced. An entertaining polemic on hyper capitalist, neoliberal societies that makes you smile.
Credits
Director
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
Cinematographer
Nikola Majdak
Editor
Milina Trisic
Producer
Jelena Mitrović
Co-Producer
Tina Smrekar, Peter Badac
Sound
Julij Zornik
Score
Dusan Petrovich
Animation
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak, Leon Vidmar
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Nominated for:
mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
On Taphonomy
Ana María Gómez López
Johannes Weigelt, pioneer of taphonomy, was a palaeontologist, a dilettante photographer and Nazi. This essay makes his biography, fossilised in images, shimmer.
On Taphonomy
On Taphonomy
Ana María Gómez López
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Netherlands
2021
9 minutes
English
Subtitles:
English
A life dedicated to decay. Johannes Weigelt (1890–1948) was a palaeontologist, a dilettante photographer, a Nazi, all of it fervent. This essay is dedicated to the pioneer of taphonomy – sober and at the same time exciting in form. Three image fields are filled with changing content: black and white documents of fields of animal carcasses, a snapshot with Göring, text panels, artful photomontages. They all charge one another, containing a vibrantly shimmering biography fossilised in images.
Credits
Director
Ana María Gómez López
Cinematographer
Ana María Gómez López
Editor
Sasha Donkan
Producer
Ana María Gómez López
Sound
Mayvand Kasem Dad
Salute to the Sun
Darko Masnec
Paul Klee salutes the Shadoks in this imaginative animation that breathes life into geometrical forms and tells a touching love story in deep space.
Salute to the Sun
Pozdrav suncu
Darko Masnec
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Croatia
2022
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles:
None
It’s lonely out in space and only the sun can warm you. In his imaginative 2D animation, Darko Masnec makes lines come alive and breathes life into abstract geometrical figures, as if Paul Klee and the Shadoks were celebrating a colourful banquet of metamorphoses. Stylised forms sprout luminescent organic compounds that tell a touching love story in outer space.
Credits
Director
Darko Masnec
Script
Darko Masnec, Lana Cirkveni
Cinematographer
Darko Masnec
Editor
Darko Masnec
Producer
Stjepan Milas
Sound
Luka Smetiško
Sound Design
Luka Smetiško
Score
Luka Smetiško
Animation
Darko Masnec, Anita Kos, Stjepan Milas
World Sales
Vanja Andrijević
Nominated for:
mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Slow Light
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
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.
Slow Light
Slow Light
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Poland,
Portugal
2022
11 minutes
English
Subtitles:
None
Born blind, the hero of this film turns seven before he begins to see images from the past that soon follow him like a curse. Like the stars in the night sky, what he sees has often long since passed away and gone out. In this tragic masterpiece by the directing duo Kijek/Adamski, the almost tangible pastel-coloured cut-out technique of the present-day narrative contrasts with delicate black and white 2D animations that represent the shadows of what is lost.
Credits
Director
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Script
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Cinematographer
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Editor
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Producer
Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek
Co-Producer
Przemysław Adamski, Katarzyna Kijek, Bruno Caetano
Sound
Philip Lenkowsky, Carlos Abreu, Miguel Gonçlaves
Score
Piotr Kaliński
Animation
Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski, Ala Nunu, João Gonzalez, Jakub Kaczmarek, Bartosz Stępnik, Hugo Sequeria
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Nominated for:
mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
This Will Not Be a Festival Film
Julia Orlik
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.
This Will Not Be a Festival Film
To nie będzie film festiwalowy
Julia Orlik
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Poland
2022
8 minutes
Polish
Subtitles:
English
Our heroine’s previous film was invited to multiple festivals and awarded a number of prizes. Maybe the success went to her head a little. She was so busy working that she spent four years without a single day off. Now she sits in her parents’ garage and works on her graduation film. Its heroine is the animation film student Julita who is working on her graduation film. An affectionate film-in-film puppet animation with a surprising end.
Credits
Director
Julia Orlik
Script
Julia Orlik
Editor
Aleksandra Rosset
Producer
Agata Golańska
Sound
Bogdan Klat
Score
Bartlomiej Orlik
Animation
Julia Orlik
World Sales
Marta Świętek
Nominated for:
mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Yonii
Julius Gintaras Blum
Yasin El Harrouk is Yonii is actor, musician, Swabian, Moroccan. This portrait presents him as the proud owner of several cultures – by which he is constantly challenged, too.
Yonii
Yonii
Julius Gintaras Blum
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Germany
2022
23 minutes
German
Subtitles:
English
Yasin El Harrouk is Yonii is actor, rapper, singer, Swabian, Moroccan. This portrait presents him as a lively shifter between life and creative cultures, between the roles he plays in the studio and in front of the camera, and the expectations that family and community have of him. Yonii has two languages and even more worlds – and enjoys this wealth. But on the sofa in his mother’s Stuttgart living room, it becomes clear that this range of different worlds also means a constant balancing act.
Credits
Director
Julius Gintaras Blum
Cinematographer
Vincent Eckert
Editor
Tim Kraushaar
Producer
Janick Gootz
Sound
Bjarne Taurnier
Score
Julius Gintaras Blum, Bjarne Taurnier
Winner of:
Gedanken Aufschluss Prize
