In the organizer's words:

• 49 min
• FSK: from 0 years

Short film day all about the shortest day of the year

The DEFA Film Distribution presents lots of mouse adventures in its program for Short Film Day 2025. Under the title "Of Blue and Cunning Mice"

The tiny little mouse
Günter Rätz | GDR 1985 | 10'00
Animated film | Language: German
Day breaks and the little mouse comes out of hiding. She goes on a discovery tour around her home. There is a lot to see and a few tests of courage to pass. Only in the evening does she return happy and exhausted from her "trip around the world".

There are no blue mice
Klaus Georgi | GDR 1959 | 11'00
Animated film | Language: German
On an excursion, a family of mice encounters a little blue mouse. While the two mouse children want to play with it, the parents forbid it, because real mice are only gray, but never blue. But the mouse children don't care and carry on playing. Eventually, the parents also realize that blue mice can actually exist.

Chicken Gock and the clever mice
Monika Anderson | GDR 1965 | 10'00
Animated film | Language: German
The rooster Schreihals works diligently, while the two mice Singeschön and Springeschön prefer to play and dance all day. When the rooster finds an ear of wheat, it is the clever mice who ask him to turn it into grain, grind it and bake a cake with the flour. Will they get a piece of the cake with their clever advice?

Tillebille
Heinz Steinbach | GDR 1987 | 18'00
Animated film | Language: German
Tillebille is a very special and above all not a gray mouse. In search of new friends, she finds a new home under a colorful summer hat and successfully outwits the dangerous fox.