October 18 10:00 | Theatersaal Puschkinhaus
international competition Films for children aged 9 and over
Online availability 15 - 30 October
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the puffer fish tries to appear as big and strong as possible.
Twelve-year-old Nico is ashamed and tries to stop his father from dropping him off at his classmate Luisa’s birthday party. His hesitation puts him in a tricky situation.
What to do when cities become so densely populated that the only market response is larger buildings with smaller flats (so-called nano flats). How can cohabitation be organised without hindering personal freedoms?
Scrubby wants to live in his mum’s thick fur forever, but she starts to lose hair. When he brings back a strand of hair that has flown away, all he finds is a pile of hair and a trail in the snow. While searching for his mum, Scrubby comes across a naked, freezing creature. Will his fur be enough to keep them both warm?
Light bulbs organise a party for growing flames to welcome them into the system that makes them glow and protects them. But a flame likes to play with fire and rebels against the system.
A little girl is left home alone and her fears of the dark and of being alone begin to overwhelm her. In her vivid imagination, these fears take the form of a terrifying shadow monster that haunts her wherever she goes. Her unique imagination gives her the courage to finally face the monster and overcome her fear in a playful way.
A little duck, fed up with the hardships of everyday life, finds a utopia – and that’s where her trouble begins.
Benji, the Beaver Scout, is at Camp Cedar for the Wilderness Scout Badge-a-Thon. He competes against Ralph the Raccoon, and whoever gets three badges first wins. The scouts find out that the theme of the Badge-a-Thon is wood, and so all the badges revolve around wood-related activities. Benji must find a way to win the Badge-a-Thon while battling his natural beaver instinct, the urge to eat wood!
A box is a box is a box. But sometimes it’s just a question of perspective to discover something completely different behind it.
On the way to a family holiday, Olivia, a 10-year-old girl addicted to her mobile phone and social media, is abandoned by her parents at a motorway service station. Alone with her soft toy, the latter tries to get her away from her mobile phone to play, but things take an unexpected turn!