Shorts Attack in Juli 2025

8 films in 85 minutes – with German subtitles

Adventure and action: A fly flies a plane, some are drawn to Malle, others to the Baltic Sea, the children go to Africa and the dog to the sea. Senior citizens stir up a small town, a summer camp becomes a challenge and paddling becomes turbulent.

The film program:

KAYAK
Solène Bosseboeuf
France 2021
6 min
Animation
Paddeldesaster
On a peaceful summer day, a dad takes his baby son on a kayak day trip. There are challenges of a first river outing.

PEACELAND
Ekin Kee Charles
Malaysia 2024
11:30 min
Live Action
Senior citizens in action
Three fashion-conscious, social-media-loving seniors set out on a daring trip: atop an pick-up, they travel to the city.

THE CAR THAT CAME BACK FROM THE SEA
Jadwiga Kowalska
Switzerland 2023
11 min
Animation
Baltic sea excursion
Exuberant and reckless, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic Sea in a tiny, beat-up car. On the way, their ride falls apart, and their country does too.

KINGS
Olivier Côté
Canada 2023
11 min
Spielfilm
Summercamp
Elias and Laurent are the new guys at summer camp. When an initiation ceremony goes badly for one of them, the other is forced to make a choice.

HIMMEL WIE SEIDE. VOLLER ORANGEN
Betina Kuntzsch
Germany 2024
10 min
Animation
Off to Malle
In spring 1990 – between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification – the first former GDR citizens fly to Mallorca.

MAYBE ELEPHANTS
Torill Kove
Norway / Canada 2024
17 min
Animation
Afrika seeking
Restless and exhausted by life in Norway, Kove’s mother dares to take a radical step: she decamps to Kenya with her husband and three daughters.

A PROMISE TO THE SEA
Hend Sohail
Sweden / Egypt 2023
Spielfilm
14:30 min
Mother wants to go to the sea
Zain, a young Egyptian man, steals the hearse carrying his mother’s corpse, intending to drive her to the sea. He makes friendship with a stray dog.

LONG DISTANCE
Michael Frei
Germany 2024
2 min
Animation
Fly flies plane
A fly takes a flight to meet a close friend who is not close. So the fly takes a flight, a special flight to reach out.

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