Lau Rämö‘s Anima (featured image) and Pink Twins‘ Firewalk will be screened at the Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 14th to 18th, 2025 in Weiterstadt, Germany.

The film Anima follows the perspective of a primate researching life through books. The views come closer, and crawl under the skin. This associative animation piece combines personal and archival material, exploring distance, physical presence, and connection. It examines the relationships between living organisms, their environments, memory, and the past, revealing how presence is shaped through connection.

In Firewalk, a pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you through a burning forest to witness a looming destruction. A fire in the forest either marks an impending doom, or serves as a metaphysical gateway between realities. With their new short film Firewalk, chaos animators Pink Twins are on a deconstructive streak: as they guide you through gloomy visions of an all-consuming catastrophy, they also strip down the illusion of moving image itself, break the spell of immersion and reveal the sketchy building blocks of animated storytelling, staying true to their dark intuition.

Filmfest Weiterstadt
Aug 14–18, 2025
Weiterstadt, Germany

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