International Competition Animated Film 2

A Polish fishing village in deceptive winter silence … This expressively designed everyday mosaic of a village community talks of Anka, Jesus, warmth of heart and coldness of feeling.

A look back at a GDR childhood by the sea, where boundaries and freedoms were always close to each other: a poetic autobiography, condensed in hundreds of watercolours.

A religious statue comes alive and unites with a boneless girl. They leave the village together with many other figures that have stepped down from the altars.

A sudden visit on a Sunday afternoon, just before the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, leads to family chaos. Order is not so easily restored.

Having a crush – what a beautiful but equally fleeting, sobering moment. The senses go on their first physical explorations, breathtaking, deviant or repulsive.

An unpleasant examination by a meticulous doctor leads to a supposedly inevitable medical intervention that leaves the young patient scarred in body and soul.