Hübner/Wallenfels

When a crown rolled in front of his hooves, Louis, a sheep among other sheep, grabs it, puts it on and becomes king. From then on, he plays through everything that kings do to banish boredom and to demonstrate power. With a lot of humour, historical borrowings and a profound sense, the detailed stop-motion animation drives abuse of power to extremes in order to expose it.

A poetic time travel fantasy through the imagined history of the United States as a modern fairyland, along the traces of our desire for illusion and escapism – fatally bound between fact and fiction, anticipating the current reality shifts in the US.

Bosteri is a village in the Kyrgyz steppe. Here on the banks of one of the world's largest mountain lakes stands a big wheel that only turns for two months of every year. Under its shadow live the people that summer has left behind.