Shorts Attack in September 2026

9 films in 85 minutes – with german subtitles

The Program:

MONTAGSMÄNNER: DIE RECHNUNG BITTE
Fridtjof Stensæth Josefsen, Morten Borgestad
Norway 2023
3 min
Live Action
Grotesque Display of Ignorance
A man tries to get a waiter’s attention so he can pay the bill. But the waiter simply doesn’t respond. It’s awful.

HUMAN FARM
Gentoku Yamada
Japan 2024
8 min
Live Action
Firing Comedy
A human farm is suddenly shut down. The caretaker is tasked with closing down the plant and dismissing the remaining workers.

BUTTERFLY (Leptir)
Suncana Brkulj
Denmark / Kroatia 2024
8 min
Animation
Hidden Object Game
A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. Then a butterfly appears.

YOU ARE THE CANVAS
Jean-Paul Frenay
Belgium 2015
8:30 min
Experimental
Society vision
Contemporary culture in a series of still lifes: intersections of society, technology and human experience.

OBERVOGELGESANG
Elias Weinberger, Ferdinand Ehrhardt
Germany 2020
6:30 min
Animation
Stop Fascism
A teenager is confronted with a fresh right-wing extremist graffiti in the S-Bahn and a grimace of her homeland.

FAMILY SUNDAY
Gerardo Del Razo
Mexico 2024
16 min
Live Action
One Shot Mafia
In the peripheral zones of Mexico City, the collection of protection money is an everyday occurrence. Then: a merchant doesn’t pay.

PLOO
Jon Frickey
Germany 2025
15 min
Animation
Grafic ecstasy
As sine waves cycle endlessly, an aging vector tech store owner confronts mortality with help from a moth. It starts again, so it must be forever.

EROGENESIS
Xandra Popescu
Germany 2025
15 min
Live Action
Attempt to Survive
Following a mysterious disaster, the few humans left find themselves unable to reproduce. All hope lies in the hands of five female researchers.

POONG
Laurent  Rohrbasser, Robin Szymczak, Vinh Nguyen
Switzerland 2024
2 min
Animation
Ping Pong global
A botched trick shot sets a ping-pong ball on an adventure, raising the question of whether there will be a happy ending.

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 285 of Shorts Attack!