Moving Parks Program



Frühlingsgefühle

Spatzen/Sparrows

SpatzenGermany | 2009 | 12'
Fiction
Director: Jan Speckenbach

A man meets a woman in a bar. For no apparent reason, they walk through the night. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Signs

SignsAustralia | 2008 | 12'
Fiction
Director: Patrick Hughes

Where do you find love? You almost lost all hope. Sometimes all you need is a sign.

Di Me Que Yo

SignsSpain | 2009 | 15'
Fiction
Director: Mateo Gil

HE and SHE meet exactly at the same time they break up with their own couples... Is it possible for two strangers to begin a conversation full of recriminations, arguing until they get hoarse, and passionately reconcile as if they were a couple in the end?

Our Wonderful Nature

SignsGermany | 2008 | 5'
Animation
Director: Tomer Eshed

This fake documentary animation shows the mating habits of the water shrew like never seen before...

Cara o Cruz

SignsSpain | 2009 | 11'
Fiction
Director: Jacobo Echeverría

When you are a teenager and got to many dreams and desires but no real opportunities just a simple game of "heads or tails" can make your life less boring. But sometimes the questions you want to deal with may be to complicated to rely just on the fortune.

Un Juego Absurdo - An Absurd Game

SignsArgentina | 2009 | 13'
Fiction
Director: Gastón Rotschild

What this title brings on your mind? Of course you are right! Love is a real real game of absurd, especially when you are shy and your shirt is too small and makes you sweat...

Tu(A)Mor

SignsSpain | 2009 | 13'
Fiction
Director: Fernando Franco

The sentimental relationship between Andres and Sara is a living organism.

Urban Nature

The Song Of Red Forest

SignsJapan | 2008 | 6'
Animation
Director: Akihito Izuhara

Deep in the forest of Ponia, Nini and Nana, two fortune tellers, sing a traditional song that has been passed down through the ages. The lyrics are unique and distinctive, and unlike any other known languages. Their mystical tune breathes new life into the forest, stimulating rejuvenation.

Morana

SignsCroatia | 2008 | 13'
Animation
Director: Simon Bogojević Narath

In folklore, Morana is the ancient Slavic godess of evil, death, darkness, underworld, personification of winter. Etimology of the word MORA denotes a nightmarish dream, misery, extermination.
After running through a misty, desolate landscape, a solitary hunter spends a rainy night in a shelter on top of a steep cliff. He dreams...

Jur

SignsSweden | 2007 | 14'
Fiction
Director: Tobias Sparrman & Alexander Felsing

The bottom idea for this film was to create a nature film about a man who lives in the forest. Early in the process we decided to let feeling, atmosphere and surrealism play a significant part, without loosing foothold.
The film is a celebration of the nature as it is: mystic and obvious. A nature wich we are a part of.

Hexameron

SignsPoland | 2010 | 2'30"
3D Animation
Director: Marcin Dąbrowski

"Hexameron" is a short animation film that was created by four students, who were joined by common passion. Using innovative 3D technology and custom tools "Hexaemeron” was brought to life. This film was realized through synthesis of points in three dimensional space creating a new visual style. Inspiration came from the first pages of the bible which describe the creation of the world in six days. The film was animated to music by the band Mindthings performing the instrumental melody "Rebirth" from the album "Life’s Path”.

Ecosistema

SignsSpain | 2003 | 9'
Fiction
Director: Tinieblas Gonzales

Even in the biggest city there are some creatures that used to live in the ancient forests. Sometimes even if you are in the big city, it could be like in ancient forest. See what lurks under your carpet or behind your wardrobe...

Cable

SignsBelgium | 2009 | 10'
Fiction
Director: Wesley Jacobs

What can happen, when you just chill in the garden and don't expect that something extraordinary happen to you...

Suba

SignsGreat Britan, Serbia, Croatia | 2009 | 5'
Animation
Director: Alistair Graham

This tale is inspired by the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. It features the music of Mitar Subotic (Suba), an underground legend in the former Yugoslavia who emigrated to Sao Paulo in 1989 and created a fusion between his techno textures and Brazilian rhythmic patterns.
Inspired by Manga animation, Alastair Graham created the looks with designers Zoran Janjetov, of Serbia, and Goran Sudzuka, from Croatia, on opposing sides during the Yugoslavian conflict. Their designs were then translated into 3D using XSI.

Rocks

SignsGermany | 2001 | 9'
Animation
Director: Chris Stenner, Heidi Witlinger, Arvid Uibel

The stone-people Hew an Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountian,. Therefore tey're only midly amazed by the ongoings in the valey below, they'rve got their own little problems to deal with – but all of sudden, mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behaviour starts to threaten Hew's and Kew's stoic peacefullness...

Wasserwelten

Ester

SignsSweden | 2005 | 3'
Fiction
Director: Katrina Larke-Skedung

Ester is at the swim hall. She´s standing tall by the pool, lifts her arms and dives in, but just as She breaks the surface, the underwater world transforms to a weightless paradise, where Ester dives, swirls and makes the most beautiful movements since Ester Williams.

Seemannsgarn

SignsGermany | 2005 | 6'
Fiction
Director: Yves Budin

You know, what can happen, when you light the cigarette from the candle...?

Red Spot

SignsLatvia | 2008 | 7'
Fiction
Director: Uga Oltes

A harmless swimming lesson turns into torturing experience for a little boy.

The wings and Oars

SignsLatvia | 2008 | 5'
Animation
Director: Vladimir Leščiov

A former pilot looks back over his life -The Earth, the Sky, the Woman- everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.

The end

SignsSpain | 2009 | 28'
Fiction
Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson

A middle class american family must fight for survival in a nation being torn apart by the lack of water.

The Gift

SignsUnited Kingdom | 2005 | 9'
Animation
Director: Jessica Langford

A young girl rescues a seal and is given a beautiful mysterious shell that contains the gift of time…animated in sand. Composer Sally Beamish.
The Gift was premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005 and selected for Leipzig, Hida (Japan) winner of the semi grand prix, Berlin 2006, Anifest (Czech), Brussels, Seattle, Zagreb, Hiroshima ‘Best of World Animation’, Animamundi Brazil and Palm Springs. Shown on Channel 4 Christmas 2005.

Tintenfische: Wunder der Tiefsee

SignsGermany | 2003 | 28'
Animation
Director: Frauke Striegnitz

Calamary in pairing season: in this film you can see, the documentary of the extraordinary phenomenon of the breeding of these underwater creatures. The male tentacle compate to poses the female bueaty. The rivals develop the advanced strategies to win the game for their life. You atre just about to see this underwater spectacle...

Baltos Demes Melyname

SignsLithuania | 2007 | 18'
Fiction
Director: Ramunas Greicius

In the canteen of a little seaside resort town, holidaymakers witness the heated and bitter argument of a separated family. Their daughter, a sensitive teenage girl, observes her mother's emotions and accidentally enters a strange world of incomprehensible happiness on an island where the town ornithologist traps birds as well as “other species”...

Dopamine

SignsAustralia | 2007 | 18'
Experimental documentary
Director: Steve Gorrow

Biochemistry: a compound which exists in the body as a euphoric neorotransmiter, it is naturally produced by the brain to create happiness, heightened energy, pleasure and pain

Origin: from dop(a) + amine (a related substance)

release: When you are attracted to someone your brain releases the drug dopamine giving the same reaction that one gets from thrill seeking, sex, music, humanitarianism, surfing, and skating to name a few. Behind all these lurks a brain chemical called dopamine.

Caracas

SignsPoland | 2003 | 9'
Animation
Director: Anna Błaszczyk

Animation inspired by the story of Joseph Conrad. It tells the story of a stubborn seaman traveling to Bangkok. The film is "floating" between the oneiric, impressive illustration of the sea voyage, and the history of tireless dreamer.

Sirens call

SignsGermany | 2008 | 10'
Silent Movie
Moving Baltic Sea Production

Nobody has ever thought, that so bizarre things can happen on the waters of Baltic Sea. The ship of Capitan Pierre cross on his way mysterious beauty floating in the water. Taking the young woman on the board starts the series of dangerous adventures. Soon woman intrigue leads to rebellion, but it's just the beginning of the problems of the Captain Pierre and his crew...

Migration

Gaining Ground

SignsGermany | 2006 | 20'
Fiction
Director: Marc Brummund

A young illegal immigrant couple spends their time furtively avoiding the German authorities, until the wellbeing of their young son dictates that they resolve their untenable situation.

Einspruch III

SignsSwitzerland | 2002 | 9'
Fiction
Director:Rolando Colla

An Algerian man with an artificial leg is caught by border guards trying to enter Switzerland with a group of refugees. Subsequently, he is informally sent back to Germany. When he is deported in the early hours of the morning, his artificial leg is left behind. On finding the prosthesis, the Swiss immigration officials respond rather nervously as no one wants to be responsible for it.

Metropolis Ferry

SignsSpain | 2009 | 17'
Fiction
Director: Juan Gautier

David returns from a trip to Morocco with his brothers. In the frontier with Spain an incident occurs and he decides to take part.

Berlin

SpatzenPoland | 2007 | 10'
Fiction
Director: Mathias Mezler

Chance for a job? Chance for a new life? Maybe... we could go to Berlin! Maybe it's going to be nice. But when you are alrady there, everything seems to be different. Boring kitchen porter job, lack of understanding and total alienation.

Kaukasische Rochade

SignsGermany| 2006 | 16'
Documentary
Director: Ulrich Aschenbrenner

Two village communities in the Caucasus swap their villages.

Between Walls

SignsGermany| 2006 | 15'
Fiction
Director: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu

Because Moldavian immigrant Igor badly needs money, he gets himself into a dangerous game.

Von Seifenblasen und Luftschlössern

Fallen

SignsGermany | 2007 | 4'
Animation
Director: Sascha Geddert

The emotional ups and downs a meteor might go through as it descends onto earth.

Chaja & Mimi

SignsGermany | 2002 | 3'
Documentary
Director: Eric Esser

Chaya Florentin and Mimi Frons, grown up in Berlin, had to flee to Palestine in 1934. In a cafe in Tel Aviv they reflect about their relationship to Berlin.

Bolek Bolek

SignsGermany | 2002 | 5'
Silent Movie
Director: Oliver Kussinger & Lauri Trillitzsch

Young Hero Abu is searching for his beloved Seetha. After endless days of errantry in the desert he finaly finds her in the tent of the evil caliph…

She who measures

SignsCroatia| 2008 | 7'
Animation
Director: Veljiko Popvic

Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?

Mirror

SignsGermany| 2010 | 4'
Experimental
Director: Olja Koslova

Little Ben

SignsGermany| 2006 | 15'
Fiction
Director: Piotr Reimer

Little Ben is the story of a boy on the way to his father. Before he gets there, he loses his helping wheels, meets a big fish and learns finally how to cycle.

In Tirana

SignsGermany| 2008 | 6'
Fiction
Director: Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Olga is a russian girl working as a prostitute in Germany, but one day –she hopes - she’ll head towards Tirana for a better life...

Thought Bubble

SignsCanada| 2010 | 3'
Animation
Director: Kartik Dengle

An artist's thought "bubble" transforms into his thought itself and interacts with him.

Lebensader

SignsGermany| 2009 | 3'
Animation
Director: Angela Steffen

A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf.

The Open Doors

SignsUnited Kingdom | 2009 | 3'
Fiction
Director: James Rogan

Framton Nuttel, a nervous young gentleman from London, goes to the countryside for a rest cure, only to find he has strayed into a family tragedy with ghostly overtones.

Käfigseele

SignsGermany | 2009 | 2'
Experimental
Director: Désirée Wickler

A shabby room. A woman who creates her own prison and frees herself out of it.

Volkspalast / Der Berg

SignsGermany | 2005 | 4'
Experimental
Director: Dagmar Dudinsky, Pier Schneider

The Palast of the Republik, gigantic monument left from the communist era, was to be replaced by the reconstruction of its predecessor, a XIXth century style palace.

Conquistadores

SignsSpain | 2004 | 9'
Experimental
Director: Marti Roca, Eloi Tomàs

In a galaxy not far away, an empire try to stick their flag.

Life is a bubble

SignsUnited Kingdom | 2010 | 3'
Animation
Director: Luca Panzini

Life is fast is the message of the animation, live to the full because you will never know when your bubble (life) is going to burst and there are no second chances.
How the old man is looking back to his life he is not sad to move on to what is after because he knows he has lived.

Rocketeers

SignsUSA | 1932 | 7'
Animation
Director: John Foster, George Rufle

An episode of the classic cartoon series Tom & Jerry.

Der Wachmann und das kleine Mädchen

SignsGermany | 2007 | 10'
Fiction
Director: Christoph Englert

A Watchman goes about his daily duty in a Gallery of Art. The paintings around him don't attract his attention any more, but a red balloon and with it, a little girl does. And so she takes him for a trip through the World of Paintings, seen with the eyes of a child.

Bubbles

SignsSwitzerland | 2008 | 1'
Animation
Director: Michelle Ettlin

A very short and tragic movie about dreams.