Talking Animals

08/02/2023

Our new film SOMNI will be out soon 👀 Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival Generation with music by Jens Heuler

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - Offizielle Website

16/12/2022

MISHOU by Milen Vitanov will be on the telly! If you missed the short at festivals, now is your chance to catch it on: Dec 18th, Sunday, 10:40 CET, on KiKa (in the show Rudis Rabenteuer).
We are happy the dog & rabbits will have their small screen premiere on KIKA and we hope that you will watch along with us.

17/10/2022

BEING THAT BOY AGAIN by Jan Koester will premiere at DOK Leipzig. We are super excited!

The director’s mother starts drinking when he is eight years old. Coming to terms with trauma through dancing pixels and bodies that question gender norms.

12/09/2022

Ist der Kurzfilm eine eigene Kunstform? Oder nur eine Visitenkarte für den Nachwuchs?
Wir freuen uns auf ein anregendes Gespräch mit Euch am -
14. Sep. 2022, BABYLON, SAAL 3, 20 UHR!
Anmeldungen: BVR - Bundesverband Regie e.V. - [email protected],

02/09/2021

Hello! Have you seen the trailer of our new animated short FOX FOR EDGAR by Pauline Kortmann?

After the world premiere in june at wonderful Goldener Spatz festival (and the award for best short film ✨) we're excited that FOX FOR EDGAR will celebrate its North America premiere at Chicago International Children's Film Festival in november! 🥂

2D computer drawn animation short film, 7:43 min Edgar is not getting a lot of attention and affection from his parents, as they prefer spending time with their…

18/02/2020

Meet RISING HOPE, the once fastest horse in the world!
He had quite a race all over the festival world, now he rallies to finish online. And - he is one of our talking animals, directed and produced by Milen Vitanov

Click, watch, enjoy!

A short animation by Milen Vitanov

23/01/2020

2020 is starting kinda nice. 1 year ago NEST premiered at Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival Generation and now the new film of Milen Vitanov called Mishou will premiere at Berlinale too. We are sooo happy!

13/01/2020

Bango Vassil is finally online!

Take a look in the animation short by Milen Vitanov and Vera Trajanova. It tells the story about one different kind of New Year's Eve, taking you on journey where you will cross icy waters and meet a mythical Romany shepherd.

https://vimeo.com/384512283

Short film by Milen Vitanov and Vera Trajanova find more about here: talking-animals.com/bango-vassil/

09/12/2019

Even the The New York Times loves TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier! The film now can be watched in their Op-Docs section (under the title "Losing my son to Syria"): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/opinion/syria-isis.html

Also it's been chosen Short of the Week and just has launched on Vimeo:
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2019/12/07/tracing-addai/

We're excited and proud that this film we contributed the animation to is getting so much praise and attention!

He was 21 years old. And then he left to join the insurgency.

21/09/2019

The amazing 3. Festival of Animation Berlin is happening right now! We are happy to present NEST 🐦 by Sonja Rohleder there tonight at 10pm.

02/09/2019

"Abschied von Addai (Tracing Addai)" ist online! Die preisgekrönte Animations-Doku von Esther Niemeier, zu der wir die Animation beigesteuert haben, kann seit heute in der RBB Mediathek angeschaut werden.

ENG: Tracing Addai is online! - But sorry, only in German.

In Deutschland werden Kämpfer für den "Heiligen Krieg" rekrutiert. Einer von ihnen ist Addai. Mit Anfang 20 lässt er alles hinter sich und zieht nach Syrien in den Bürgerkrieg. Drei Monate später ist Addai tot.

11/06/2019

Hey animation lovers at Annecy festival, listen to Variety and make sure to watch Sonjas film NEST! 🤩

It's screened at the Short Film Young Audience Competition programme. Dates: https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:rdv-200001502011

ANNECY — Again, we’re not saying these are the best shorts at Annecy this year. That will be left to the festival’s juries to decide. They most certainly, however, underscore the current cr…

19/05/2019

Talking Animals goes Cannes! 🤩
Sonjas Film NEST will be shown today at the Next Generation Short Tiger Screening at 8:30 pm at Olympia 2.
Meet Sonja there and say hello!

German Films and the German Federal Film Board (FFA) are happy to present together a new edition of the short film program NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2019.

15/04/2019

NEST just won a Short Tiger! We are more than happy!

04/04/2019

Today is the premiere of the theater play "The Broken Circle" at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe with animation directed by our very own Gregor Dashuber.

15/03/2019

NEST was selected to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 in the selection Short Films Young Audience. Nous sommes très heureux!

17/02/2019

A new music video for Keimzeit is done. Check it out! 🔥

Musik: Keimzeit Komposition + Text: Norbert Leisegang Bild: Sonja Rohleder Schloss Zeichnung: Francisca Drechsler (c) 2019 Sonja Rohleder/Norbert Leisegang