Shorts Attack in January 2025

8 films in 90 minutes – with german subtitles

On the seabed, creatures sing about an internet cable, while celestial bodies tease the earth. The internet, in turn, offers dangerous fakes. And it paves the way for worlds of artificial intelligence that are worth optimizing. Meanwhile: Consumerism is on, kids are on vacation, soccer used to exist, and humanity is dancing and rejoicing.

The program:

THE GREAT CONNECTION    
Christen Bach
Denmark/ Germany/ Netherlands 2023
5 min
Animation
Deep sea musical
Under water, there is no consensus among the mythical creatures whether the weird, enormous technological snake on the sea floor is a good omen.

THE PROMPT  
Francesco Frisari
Italy 2024
11:30 min
Animation
No KI-Apokalypse!
Humanity has created novels, films, and stories about Artificial Intelligence destroying humanity. Then we used those very tales to train AIs …

A WORLD IN CHAOS
David Crisp
Hungary 2023
10 min
Animation
Conclave of the stars
A discursive solar system: issues of our age are discussed by crocodiles, planets or elephants. The Sun gives the Earth advice.

A KIND OF TESTAMENT
Stephen Vuillemin
France 2023
16 min
Animation
Internet-Thriller
A website with your name exists, you click on it. There you find animated sequences, created using your profile photos, transformed into new stories.

ROCKET´S STADIUM
Oscarito Castro, Jeanne SIGWALT
France 2024
10:30 min
Live Action
Holiday blues
A group of young people are hanging around a stadium in summer because they can’t go on holiday. Their imaginations are going to help them …

A GUITAR IN THE BUCKET
Boyoung Kim
Denmark/ Korea 2021
15 min
Animation
Consumer persiflage
In a world where you can rent everything you need from huge vending machines, a girl dreams of being a guitarist – alas, fate has other plans for her.

DANCING IN THE CORNER
Jan Bujnowski
Poland 2024
14 min
Live Action
Ein football life
After the fall of communism in 1989, color TVs were no longer a luxury good in Poland. The screens in many Polish homes are beginning to look more like the reality outside.

THE COLD BURNING SHOW
Alessandro Bavari
Italien 2024
6 min
Animation
Tanz die Wüste
People dance through the desert. They make music, are cheerful and become more and more cheerful: clowns between past and future.

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