A young man drifts further into an existential despair. Surrendering to loneliness and overwhelmed by financial hardship, he drifts through life in a daze until he is driven to commit a senseless crime.

Scriptwriter, director, animator: Malte Stein
Additional animation: Anja Kundić, Morana Marija Vulić
Compositing: Malte Stein, Mario Kalogjera
Editing: Malte Stein, Iva Kraljević
Music: Malte Stein, Michał Krajczok
Sound design: Michał Krajczok
Foley: Luis Schöffend 
Producer: Malte Stein
Co-producer: Vanja Andrijević / Bonobostudio

Malte Stein is an independent animation filmmaker from Berlin. In 2013, he graduated with a diploma in Animation from the Konrad Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Before that, he studied screenwriting and has been creating comics since the 1990s. His animated short films Blue Dream (2013), Flood (2018) and Thing (2021) screened at many festivals and won several awards. In 2022, he took part in the TAIS Artist in Residence Program in Toronto, Canada. He has worked as an animator on several short and feature films, as a screenwriter for television series, as a co-curator of DOK Leipzig, and as both a jury member and lecturer at several film festivals.

Filmography
Of Pigeons and Dogs (2026), Thing (2021), Flood (2018), Blue Dream (2013, graduation film)