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Angesichts der Realität der Gegenwart beabsichtigt dieses Programm, unsere Resilienz mit etwas Humor zu stärken. Das Programm bietet eine bunte Mischung von mit eher einfachen Mitteln, aber dafür umso mehr Originalität produzierten Filmen und aufwändigeren Produktionen mit komplexen Stories, die vom schrillen Cartoon über eine Art Zombie-Horrorfilm bis zur Hollywood-Klischee-Parodie alle möglichen Genres abdecken. Der letzte Film im Programm ist mit KI-Unterstützung entstanden und könnte als übertrieben scherzhaft bezeichnet werden, bemerkenswerterweise ist der Autor Komponist und Professor für Musik. (tr)

Given the realities of the present, this program aims to strengthen our resilience with a touch of humor. It offers a diverse mix of films, ranging from those produced with relatively simple means but all the more originality to more elaborate productions with complex stories, covering all possible genres from quirky cartoon and zombie horror film to a parody of Hollywood clichés. The final film in the program was created with AI assistance and could be described as overly humorous; remarkably, its creator is a composer and professor of music.

A bird mother, lost in daydreams and oblivious to the cuckoo egg in her nest, lovingly breeds her own catastrophe. In handmade cut-out animation, Bird Life gently unfolds the dark underside of a German children’s song, following this distracted caretaker as an innocent lull of routine turns into quiet doom.

Trying to understand what a body without a horse is by testing what it can do, the film presents a very present absence. With minimalist, handcrafted visuals, we follow this body as it moves through gaps and voids, performing a series of actions while remaining horseless. Playing with choreographic gestures, language and its metaphors, A Body Without a Horse explores how absence shapes the way we move, desire, forget and remember.

In a dystopian, black-and-white city where humans literally consume cartoons, a hunting dog reconnects with its old friends and together they attempt to escape. The Synthetic Age follows this fragile alliance of animated outcasts as they navigate a world that treats their bodies as food, turning a chase story into a dark allegory of exploitation and survival.

In King Kong vs. Pinocchio, diplomacy fails and tensions mount when two cultural icons go to war for no reason at all. In this fast-paced animated action adventure, the giant ape and the wooden boy clash on twin islands—one volcanic, the other municipal—as oversized egos erupt into gleefully pointless spectacle.

On a planet gripped by hunger, a corporation called The Mill promises salvation with its miracle bread—until those who eat it turn into fresh loaves of walking bread. A devoted sister flees with her transformed little bread-brother through twisted streets, as a ravenous mob gives chase and hunger reigns, reason crumbles and the city warps into a fever-dream maze. In this darkly funny, hand-drawn onslaught of morphing lines and paranoid chaos, corporate propaganda and mass appetite collide in a world that wants to eat you alive. In a place where everything is devoured—bodies, minds and truth itself—can love defy appetite?

An AI-generated mockumentary about The Hum, an unreal ambient/noise festival on a remote Scottish island, accidentally founded by a mad priest and haunted by a dark secret. On the battered isle of Ardbruichmore, the world’s most perilous electronic music pilgrimage unfolds around the colossal “Crag-Modular” synth, kept alive by a few aging locals. As prosecutors, tragic legends and hungry would‑be organizers close in, this deadpan film satirizes musical purity, hipster invasion and the absurd lengths people go to for the perfect sound.