Studio Film Bilder

A young couple finds themselves in difficult financial straits. The man is out of work and spends his days walking the streets, without so much as a cent in his pocket to buy food. He’s so weak that he collapses in front of a store window. The store’s owner, an elderly man, comes to the man’s aid and offers him a job. His new job requires him to spend all day sitting and keeping watch on the small room at the end of a corridor.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amelia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.

When night dawns on the farm a little bat wakes up. The little bat wants somebody to keep its company. It doesn't want to be alone. It is looking for a friend.

The crocodile has everything it needs for a comfortable evening in front of the TV: cushions, a stool, pretzel sticks and a TV magazine. But then the pretzel sticks ruins the fun.

One older goat wants to teach a younger one. Soon they are learning from each other.

Three roomates, a rhinoceros, hippo and a wildebeest, must confront their crocodile roomate Gerold about his poor habits.

A shell of what he aims to be, this slug has made his own bed. Now he needs to figure out how to lay in it.

The little anglerfish has to go to bed. But the deep waters are full of threatening creatures.

Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.

Under the hot sun of Anran, a sweating hippo mother walked into the cooling water of the river. Her little hippo kid wanted to do the same, but he found out soon enough that he was too small to walk like his mother. At the bottom of the river he caught the attention of one little fish, and then another fish, and then two fish. Together they thought up a solution...

Fun short movie about wolf, goat and cabbage.

It's so annoying to be sick! Especially if you're an elephant and have to sneeze all the time. But with good friends you will get better soon.

The fire salamander spots a leopard in the distance and thinks they are the same.

We swoop through action-filled rooms. Again and again, we fly past people and events without ever recognizing what is really going on. This film is a three-minute version of an endless-loop video originally designed as a project for exhibitions. It was shown at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Künstlerhaus in Stuttgart and the Goethe Institut in Paris.

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

A timid penguin waiter with a red bow tie goes out of his way to perform his job to perfection. But when a glacé cherry falls from the cake, it sets off a chain reaction of disastrous events. Before long, the frigid social gathering is transformed into a boisterous party.

The ancient struggle between good and evil.

The whale swims proudly through the sea, but all the animals are afraid of his huge size and his broad grin. Will he find new friends to play funny games?

The elephant has the blues, but maybe his trunk can cheer him up.