A conversation between King Pyrrhus and Cineas about their increasingly awful campaign for conquest is illustrated in the form of a collage animation film. When world domination has been won, the world will be a desert empty of humans - only Pyrrhus and Cineas remain. They ask themselves what they will do then.

Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate. So he has to find a new property! Heinrich looks into the Kingdom of Poland, known for a beautiful princess and a huge wine cellar, and he decides to become the king of Poland. But his adventurous mission ends up on a dunghill instead of the throne.

A man has a hankering for a breakfast egg. Because the hen cannot deliver one on demand, he invents a machine to create an egg independent of the animal. But the finished product is dismal. In the meantime, the hen has been able to lay the desired egg.

The rhythm of rock music makes a cube move. The cube suddenly develops an astonishing life of its own. Emotions are reflected in its dance in this puppet animation.

A group of people with ever-increasing greed and increasing opportunities for power to match. They devour and destroy everything, but the Earth eventually cannot withstand any more and they sink into the rubble.

The tall, arrogant Filopat and the short, clever Patafil want to race each other all the way to a tree on the horizon. While Patafil prepares for the race, Filopat measures the course and covertly builds a ditch crossing the track to shake off Patafil. But clever Patafil challenges his unfair opponent for a second race and beats him at his own game. Patafil makes the ditch even wider. While non-swimmer Filopat has difficulties getting ashore, Patafil jumps in, swims across, and is triumphant.

Preparations for the launch of the first manned American flight to the moon are in full swing. A journalist is breathlessly reporting on the exciting preparations for the sensational event and the newspapers are filled with promising headlines. Suddenly, shortly before the launch, there is an embarrassing accident: the generals from the Air Force and the Navy cannot agree on who should carry out the launch. Finally, the rocket takes off, but only the upper part flies away. But the journalist continues to report promisingly about the launch and how the moon will soon be in American hands.

Two little mice are forbidden by their parents from playing with the differently looking blue mouse: All respectable mice are gray! We don't want anything to do with you! But the little mice ignore their parents' demands and play all together in a painter’s studio, jumping into pots of paint in different colors! The horrified parents are suddenly presented with three colorful mice, and they no longer know which ones are their own children. A story about accepting differences and how prejudices may be built on false assumptions.

Friday evening: A busy week is over for a dentist in her mid-30s. Feeling an intense desire to break the cycle of her monotonous everyday life, she takes detours to experience an evening in the streets of East Berlin. She is affected by what she discovers in other people’s lives so far removed from her own. Finally, she goes home and enjoys the happiness of being expected by her husband and son. The next morning, she savors a lazy Saturday with her husband. Based on two short stories by award-winning author Helga Schubert.

In summer 1964, the East German government approved the concept to build a new city, Halle-Neustadt (aka Chemical Workers’ City) in the center of East Germany’s chemical industry in an effort to improve the workers’ living conditions. The goal for the first phase of the project was to build apartments for 70,000 citizens in the next ten years and then increase the number by 30,000 in the second phase.

11-year-old Jella moves with her parents from an idyllic village to a new development in the city, where her father works. Her friend Freitag gives her a pair of pigeons as a farewell present. However, the new life is disappointing for Jella. Her father has little time for her, the other children tease her about the pigeons and a neighbor even lets them fly. Jella decides to go back to the village, but a lot has changed there in the meantime, and she feels like a stranger. She leaves the pigeons with Freitag, who has already found other friends.

An ecological catastrophe in the Ore Mountains: Foresters and residents desperately try to save this landscape from forest dieback, forbidden language in East Germany, where a doctrinaire state power turns a blind eye and denies the facts.