Short 3

Push This Button if You Begin to Panic 13:00

United Kingdom 2020
Directed by: Gabriël Bohmer
Screenplay: Gabriël Bohmer
Animation: Gabriël Bohmer
Technique: cut-out
Music: Gabriël Bohmer
Production/School: Rational Vagabund Films: Samantha Monk
Dialogue language: English



Bartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery, and lonely MRI machines. At least the growing hole in his head was becoming quite beautiful.

Peel / Ecorce 15:07

Switzerland 2020
Directed by: Samuel Patthey & Silvain Monney
Screenplay: Silvain Monney, Samuel Patthey
Animation: Silvain Monney, Samuel Patthey
Technique: drawing on paper
Music: Julien Gobet
Production/School: DOK MOBILE: Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi
Dialogue language: none
Subtitles language: none



In a hidden place, the daily routine of a retirement home unfolds as time seems to stand still. The penciled residents come to life on paper. Some are active, others rest or follow a fixed schedule to be repeated each day: medication, meals, games… Around them, machines are flashing, caregivers are busy and some crucifixes remind them of the death that lies in wait. Time fades away and nearby, stretches a forest.

Peanut Factory 05:05

Korea 2021
Directed by: Seongmin Kim
Screenplay: Seongmin Kim
Animation: Eunyoung Wang, Aram Jo, Sophia Lee, Jonghyun Ha, Eunju Ko, Minseon Kil
Technique: 3D Computer Animation
Music: Kyungchul Shin
Production/School: Seongmin Kim
Dialogue language: Korean
Subtitles language: English



One day, the house cat King runs away from Nara's house. While wandering the outside world, he was captured by someone, and unfortunately sent to a strange operating room full of such captured wild cats!



Dating Internet Strangers / Saindo com Estranhos da Internet 11:29

Brazil 2021
Directed by: Eduardo Wahrhaftig
Dialogue language: Portuguese
Subtitles language: English



Tens of millions of people are using some kind of dating app. This is a compilation of good and bad date stories shared by some of these users, and their impressions about online dating in the smartphone era.

Sticks and Stones 03:55

USA 2021
Directed by: Cynthia N White, Alexander S White
Screenplay: Tara Caimi, William Doan
Production/School: Cynthia N White
Dialogue language: English



A man sorts through the debris of his childhood, seeking help to untangle the differences between his own anxiety and depression, and the impact of toxic masculinity.



Stalker 02:27

United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Ginny Jones
Screenplay: Ginny Jones and Garth Jones
Animation: Ginny Jones, Garth Jones, Felix Massie & Mark Billington
Technique: 2D
Music: James Locke-Hart
Production/School: Sam Bourner
Dialogue language: English



A man follows deer prints through the snowy landscape of the Lake District, but the situation might not be as clear cut as it seems.

Have a Nice Dog! 13:14

Germany 2020
Directed by: Jalal Maghout
Screenplay: Jalal Maghout
Production/School: Karsten Matern
Dialogue language: Arabic



Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog.

Up here, with the white gods / Hier oben, bei den weißen Göttern 11:44

Germany 2020
Directed by: Jalal Maghout
Screenplay: Mike Plitt, Alexander Lahl
Production/School: Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch
Dialogue language: German



The Mozambican contractual worker Luciano is laden with expectations upon his arrival in East Berlin during the 1980s. However, what he experiences over there doesn’t match his hopes: During an attack by neo nazis he remembers the tragic fate of his dear friend. Based on true events.

Stress Dreams 08:00

USA 2022
Directed by: Grant Kolton
Screenplay: Grant Kolton
Animation: Grant Kolton
Technique: 2D-Digital Frame by Frame
Music: Michael Devol, Performed by Greensky Bluegrass
Production/School: Matthew Beck
Dialogue language: English



A hero journeys to a distant mountain to obtain a gem

URSA - The song of the Northern Lights 10:20

Norway 2021
Directed by: Natalia Malykhina
Screenplay: Natalia Malykhina
Production/School: Natalia Malykhina
Dialogue language: No Dialogue



A little polar bear Ursa is alone in the cold dark Arctic and looking for his mum. He walks through a blizzard, through icy cold tundra and sharp ice hummocks, towards the northern lights and the magic song in hope to find his mother. On his way Ursa meets different Arctic animals - friends and enemies, and after many challenges comes to the edge of the earth. In front of him is only the sea and the northern lights. And there in the distance, in the northern lights he sees his mum. Little polar bear is floating to her on an ice floe, and a big blue whale pushes him ahead. The floe becomes smaller and smaller and eventually melts. But Ursa still manages to reach the edge of the northern lights and there he meets his mum.