Cocoon Child

film type animated film Production Country Germany production year 2009 runtime 5'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital
screening format Beta SP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital

COCOON CHILD is a poetic film about the imaginary world of an autistic girl. It shows a moment when her inner and outer worlds connect.

director Sonja Rohleder Animation Sonja Rohleder Schnitt / Editing Sonja Rohleder, Maryna Shuklina Bildgestaltung / DOP Sonja Rohleder Produktion / Production Sonja Rohleder Drehbuch / Script Sonja Rohleder Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Nils Frahm, Stefan Maria Schneider Tongestaltung / Sound Design Michal Krajczok film school Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Festivals
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany
PROVINZIALE - Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany
Fresh Film Fest Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Cortoons - International Short Animated Film Festival, Rome, Italy
Giffoni Film Festival, Italy
Sancy Film Festival for Young People, Pleine La Bobine, France
Production
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Distribution
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Sales
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
School
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Sonja Rohleder

Started as a freelance illustrator. 2003 to 2009, she took animation studies at the Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam. In 2008, a summer academy at the CUC in China. 2009, co-founder of the Talking Animals animation studio. 2012 to 2017 lecturer at the Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf".

Filmography
2009 Cocoon Child
2012 Kolumbus
2014 Dame mit Hund
2015 Junges Blut
2019 Nest
2023 Somni