The Waiting

film type animated film, documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2023 runtime 15'35 colour , animation technique 2D computer animation, mixed media
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround languages Englisch Subtitles Deutsch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch Subtitles Deutsch

Karen Lips is a researcher and has lived for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica observing frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth. Mysterious deaths are occuring all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?

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Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/drushbapankow/thewaitingtrailer

director Volker Schlecht Produktion / Production Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch Drehbuch / Script Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Hannes Schulze Tongestaltung / Sound Design Hannes Schulze, Michal Krajczok Schnitt / Editing Volker Schlecht Bildgestaltung / DOP Volker Schlecht Szenenbild / Production Design Volker Schlecht Animation Volker Schlecht Besetzung / Cast Karen Lips
Festivals
2023 Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
2023 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2023 Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
2023 Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Films, Croatia
2023 Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Films, Liberec, Czech Republic
2023 Vilnius International Film Festival KINOPAVASARIS, Lithuania
Awards
2023 Nominierung Kategorie Animationsfilm bis 30 Minuten Laufzeit Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2023
Production
  • mobyDOK Medienproduktion
  • Alexander Lahl
  • Wolfshagener Str. 79
  • 13187 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • http://mobydok.de
Distribution
  • mobyDOK Medienproduktion
  • Alexander Lahl
  • Wolfshagener Str. 79
  • 13187 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • http://mobydok.de
Sales
  • mobyDOK Medienproduktion
  • Alexander Lahl
  • Wolfshagener Str. 79
  • 13187 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • http://mobydok.de

Volker Schlecht

Born 1968 in Radeberg, an illustrator and filmmaker in Berlin. He studied communication design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and animation at the Film and Television University "Konrad Wolf". Professor of Sequential Illustration at the BTK University of Art and Design.

Filmography
1997 Rue Rosé
2000 Sonst nichts
2008 Germania Wurst
2012 Nobody’s Fool / Over You
2014 Kyrie eleison
2023 The Waiting