Feature-length animated films place their own demands on the creative process as well as on funding. The new competition for animated films at DOK Leipzig challenges us to take a fresh look at the longer form. How does the approach differ from making an animated short film? Motivation, development, artistic freedom, terms of production and financing are topics we would like to discuss with animation filmmakers.

Despite years of discussion, there has been little concrete action in terms of diversity in the industry.  We want to discuss how diversity can be part of animated films and their production. Our aim is to go beyond talking and to see diversity implemented in films, in production and beyond.

Expand your network, promote your upcoming projects and films, and get connected for future projects and collaborations.

Let’s connect – friends and colleagues are fun! Join us and accredited guests for a drink at the Get Together hosted by AG Animationsfilm – Animation Association Germany, AG Kurzfilm – German Short Film Association, ASIFA Germany (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation / the International Animated Film Association), DIAF – German Institute for Animated Film.

InBetweens – Meeting and Celebrating Tess Martin

Tess Martin’s poetic stories about belonging, identity and loss ring with echoes of autobiographical experiences. She is present in every single frame of her animated films, leaves fingerprints, edges of shadows, traces of work. The artist invites us to follow those traces with her – in an exclusive commented show of her works.

We are delighted to be introducing our new competition section for animated film. The International Competition Animated Film will feature films of all lengths and is endowed with two Golden Doves – one for short and one for feature-length works. The nominated films will be revealed with our complete film programme on 21 September. Stay tuned!

In the beginning was the line. Anne Isensee and Michelle Brand generate intricate paths from it, philosophise through the medium of drawing. In DOK Leipzig’s dialogue series “Animation Perspectives,” their films meet, their views on the artistic possibilities of animation cross – in direct exchange with each other and the audience.

Every emotion, every formative experience is anchored to a place. That place is usually called “home.” What is it made of, how does it protect or become a danger itself, how can it be the most beautiful place for some and the most terrible place for others? “Beyond Animation” undertakes a site visit – in films that design spaces of possibilities.