A photo of oneself as a toddler may be the first visual evidence of one’s existence, but the moment of its capture and the events outside the frame stubbornly resist the grasp of memory.

As in “Chthonic City”, the painter Anita Müller gives wings to her filmed material in the catacombs of Odessa: statements re-connote documentary images, additions visualise dreams or thoughts.

The multiple award winning series “Animated Minds”, launched in 2003, visualises the interior worlds of mentally disordered people.

It’s a little-known fact that postnatal depression affects not only women who find no access to their child and new life after birth. The disorder also radically changes their partners’ and families’ lives.

Details emerge from a storm of images, reduced to black and white, silhouettes only: a Ferris wheel turning mechanically, children playing ball, one of whom standing a little way off, a knife suitable for slitting one’s wrist.

Many a GDR childhood was shaped by trips to the Baltic Sea – long drives on bad motorways in an overstuffed car, transit trucks and looking forward to the sea. But this is more than a nostalgic reworking of holiday memories.

What makes a natural leader? Who succeeds in the system? Expert interviews and animated reflections, condensed into an analytical look at a crisis.

What’s left are images, ordered by memory. A home, the cat, friends – Otto Alder’s restless photo animation balances openly and honestly on the border between what was real and what was also meaningful.

A playful biographical film puzzle about a hairy subject. And hairy stuff is everywhere, from sumptuous body ornaments to the hair in the soup. A sensual exploration.

Barred windows, frog’s eye perspectives, wires. The shrill sound of metal on a blackboard. Dada bodies looking like prostheses teach and learn about the past.

Christian regularly records videos he wants to give his little son as memorabilia and in which he talks about the future and a life he is not going to share.

An animadoc fairytale about the singer and storyteller Kaisa of the Skolts tribe and their expulsion from paradise as seen through the eyes of a Swiss writer.

In the summer of 2011, Daniel dived head first into the water. This dive turned his life inside out forever. He has been a paraplegic ever since.

When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police?

The legend says that diamonds are the sacred tears of stars. When people cut diamonds they take their power away.

When Maja was 16 years old, her mother, the filmmaker Anita Killi, was diagnosed with cancer. Nobody knew what the outcome would be. But the whole family felt that a reservoir of good memories could help.