Shorts Attack in December 2025
8 films in 85 minutes – with German subtitles
Kissing requires skill, eating an oyster excites the imagination, intergenerational closeness inspires, and life passes by “like in a movie.” The program of eight short films also features psychological traps, coma experiences, dizzying memory turbulence, and a full-blown tantrum.
The program:
DAS WILD-TEMPERIERTE KLAVIER
Anna Samo
Germany 2024
7:30 min
Animation
Thriller on toilet paper
Inspired by Bach, a dialogue unfolds between classical music and fragile images painted on toilet paper.
OYSTER SHELL
Hajime Tsuda
Japan 2023
14:30 min
Spielfilm
Bar encounter
Quite by accident, Nasa discovers a bar that bears the same name as her late mother. She orders her favourite dish: fried oysters.
MY TEENAGE BLACKOUT
Basile Khatir
France 2024
10 min
Animation
Coma experience
Tristan lies in a coma. His thoughts revolve around the girl from the party, the smoking nurse, his overprotective mother …
ECHTER MANN
Vinsley
Germany 2023
8:30 min
Spielfilm
Depression
Young Afro-German Samuel struggles with depression and represses his own vulnerability, until a friend suggests that he try therapy.
THE FUTURE CAN BE YOURS
Simon Ball
England 2024
8:30 min
Experimental, Spielfilm
Psycho trip
What’s that under the carpet? A couple discovers a trapdoor into the past and the psyche. Can they leave the trip!?
IGITT!
Loïc Espuche
France 2024
13 min
Animation
Kiss grotesque
Yuck! Couples who kiss on the mouth are disgusting. And the worst thing is that you can’t ignore them: when people want to kiss, their lips turn pink.
MENSCH
Luca Lellouche
France 2024
17 min
Spielfilm
Midwife with mother
After finishing her night shift, young midwife Esther spends each day with her grandmother Laya to talk about work and more.
NO ROOM
Jelena Oroz
Croatia 2024
6:30 min
Animation
Tantrum
Automobiles are everywhere. Brutal, aggressive, loud. But now they’ve grown legs and conquered the sidewalks too.
Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 276 of Shorts Attack!
