Jessica Fink

AuTUMNTROSS is an 8-minute long 2D hand-drawn animated film about an activist trying to recover a friendship with her old childhood friend amidst the heat of a police-obstructed protest. It’s a character drama with a historically-based backdrop, harkening back to the civil rights protests of mid-century USA and it's all told with an allegorical, nearly storybook-like flare: featuring a cast of bunnies!

Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to return to the Bavarian hinterlands for better or worse. He reunites with friends from his youth, Kirsten, Rob and Fresi, and the eternal couple of Tom and Mischa. Moreover, Danny's feelings for his first love Susu are rekindled. Everything seems like it used to be. It soon turns out, however, that Danny's friends are all still searching and have not found their places in life yet.