Urs, short and simply gorgeous animation from Germany

Chunky slabs of brute beauty in a heroic style and earthy palette that must surely have been influenced by the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton.

Many years Urs looked after his aging mother. But now he sets out for a dangerous journey: He carries her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them. But his mother doesnt want to leave her home…

“Urs” is a 10-minute animated short-film with which Moritz Mayerhofer graduated at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. He worked three years to create a deep atmospheric film where he would find the fragile relationship of a man to his mother in the middle of a gigantic mountain range.

Find out more at the official site.