Children are the most lively, enthusiastic and critical audience one could wish for. In cooperation with the renowned international short film festival »interfilm« Berlin we will present a short film programme that is made especially for children (and also a welcome adult audience) The programme presents a selection of animations of differing styles. Hardly any of these films use language and will certainly be entertaining for both young and old.

Luora
Carlo Piaget 35mm 5:00 min Animation Switzerland 2002
A filament imprisoned in its own streetlamp bulb is at last freed when the cable holding the lamp break during a storm.

Zara
Stefanie Saghri 35mm 3:00 min Animation Germany 2002
Zara doesn’t feel like hanging up the washing with her mother. She longs for the distance and finds out where the sun goes down when it gets dark...

Rendezvous
Peter Lembken 35mm 10:00 min Animation Germany 1999
Day in, day out - the two wooden figures that inhabit a weather forecasting cottage, carry out their functions without being aware of one another. That all changes when a bolt of lightning sends their lives in a fiery new direction.

Trockene Blätter / Les Fulles Seques
Eulàlia Pagès Beta 5:00 min Animation Spain 2000
A father and his daughter walk through the park. It is autumns and the ground is covered with leaves. The girl asks her father where all the leaves go when they fall from the tree...

Idölle
Petra Schröder, Anja Perl 35mm 6:35 min Animation Germany 1998
A cut flower, a budgie and a cat live together in harmony in a kitchen. The idyll doesn’t last long however as the flower starts singing rather loudly

Latte die Kuh
Beatrix Hepting Beta 3:20 min Animation Germany 2001
The cow Latte reaches in a dry plain a lake, almost dying of thirst. Greedily she start to drink. Her udder fills and grow bigger and bigger. But Latte doesn’t stop drinking...

Kami
Lionel Catry 35mm 6:42 min Animation France 2000
The story of a small ugly duck told once again and better in a universe of cut paper.

Iceland
Leif Arne Peterson & Lucas Wendler Beta 4:00 min Computeranimation Germany 2001
Pierre the penguin loves fish. His fat mate Boris the icebear liked loud radio music better. A hard test for their friendship.

Slim Pickings
Anthony Lucas 35mm 4:30 min Animation Australia 1998
The old man is soo hungry and the tomato plant at the kitchen window does not grow. So the man gets a helpful idea.

See the Truth
Jerold Howard Beta 8:35 min USA 2002
A well meaning parent has an epiphany and is forced to re-evaluate everything he learned himself and taught his child.

Schnee
Martina Mayer DV 1:45 min Germany 2002
The wish of a woman for snow becomes reality. But it is not as it seems...

Cog
Irina Goundortseva Beta 7 min Australia 2000
A single soul is confronted with the narrow-mindedness of its mechanical society.

Der Storch
Klaus Morschheuser 35mm 7:40 min Computeranimation Germany 2002
As it isn’t a hard job for the stork, to transport the babies, a bold sparrow lands on his bill and asks him, what he is doing there...

> http://www.interfilmberlin.de



16.08.03 - speicher 9 - 20:00
special screening IV

flash Kino (Berlin)
Flashkino is a project of two media-artists from Berlin (Christian Husemann und mrtz). They are collecting animation movies from the internet. They put together programs with special themes and show them on the big screen. Their own Creation, a flash animated avatar is leading through the program. The animation films are created with the flash program of macromedia exclusively. Flash is a special file format for the internet. With flash you can add interactivity and multimedia contents to the sites. The limits of the internet (small file sizes = quick loading) and the vector-based flash program has created a special look. Simple shapes and minimal backgrounds. The show south park made this look popular even on tv. You don’ need a big equipment to produce and publish a flash movie, a usual PC, internet access and the macromedia software itself will do. That is why there is a big variety of international productions: experimental films of just one person or giant studio productions with a long staff list..
> http://www.flashkino.info/


followed by
award ceremony
Presentation of the winner films, award ceremony of the jury prizes »Goldene, Silberne und Bronzene Flaschenpost« and of the audience prize, rounded up by the big g-niale party.

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