Animation 5

ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE

(Hannes Rall)  1.30Min 2016

An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem “All The World's A Stage”narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West (Royal Shakespeare Company).

COMPARTMENTS

(Daniella Koffler & Uli Seis) 15.00Min  2017

Netta, a young Israeli woman wishes to immigrate to Berlin. Her father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision to live in the land that killed her ancestors. He refuses to speak to her again if she leaves. Based on Daniella Koffler’s personal story, “Compartments” is the first German-Israeli animation co-production that wishes to explore collective memories of the Holocaust in the third generation, and how they shape both sides in ways we cannot predict.

EDGE OF ALCHEMY

(Stacey Steers)  17.15Min  2017

In Edge of Alchemy the silent-era actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their early films of the 1920's and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse. Comprised of over 6000 handmade collages, Edge of Alchemy is the third in a trilogy looking at the psychological terrain of women’s inner worlds.

SOG

(Jonatan Schwenk)  10.14Min  2017

The dystopic drama “Sog” is about the cruel efforts of a people of humanlike creatures to lash out viciously against a shoal of fish that had unintentionally entered their desolated land.

UGLY

(Nikita Diakur)  11.54Min  2017

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.