A yellow fish with yellow stiped green fins glides through bright blue water.

The fish continuously says, BLOOP, BLOOP, BLOOP,
BLOOP, BLOOP.

A brown monkey continuously says, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH.

A galloping zebra sings, ANIMANIMALS.

A yellow snake with pink dots has its tail tied in a knot.

The snake sings, ANIMANIMALS.

An elephant sings, ANIMANIMALS.

A peacock sings, ANIMANIMALS.

A pig sings, ANIMANIMALS.

It rides on the elephant with an umbrella. The animals walk in a line.

Together they sing, ANIMANIMALS.

A cloud appears to sing, ANIMANIMALS.

The singing animals stop and say, HUH?

The cloud is revealed to be a sheep.

The sheep sings, ANIMANIMALS.

All the animals sing, ANIMANIMALS.

[Elephant trumpeting]

The pig flies off the elephant’s trunk.

The animals sing, ANIMANIMALS.

The pig lands on the title, Animanimals. By Julia Ocker.

[Pig meowing]

[Soft music plays]

A title reads, Woodpecker.

[Humming]

A woodpecker in a forest flies to a birch tree.

[Muffled indiscernible singing]

The woodpecker says, HUH?

[Muffled singing continues]

The woodpecker presses their ear against the tree. Inside the tree, a red bug dances.

[Bug singing gibberish]

Outside the tree, the woodpecker licks their lips.

The woodpecker says, MMM!

[Woodpecker chuckling]

[Red bug’s muffled singing continues]

The woodpecker pecks the tree. Their beak breaks through the tree. The bug narrowly dodges the beak.

[Bug gasping]

The bug says, OH?

The woodpecker struggles to pull their beak out of the tree.

[Woodpecker grunting]

The bug says, OH.

The bug bounces on the woodpecker’s beak as if it were a trampoline.

[Bug laughing]

The woodpecker pushes against the tree as they try and free their beak.

[Woodpecker grunting]

The bug says, OH!

They look worried. The bug smiles and knocks the woodpecker’s beak out of the tree.

The bug says, WHOO!

[Woodpecker gasping]

The woodpecker slips off the tree. They land back on the tree with a look of surprised.

The woodpecker says, HMM?

[Bug’s muffled singing]

The woodpecker says, WAH?

[Singing continues]

The woodpecker presses their ear against the tree. Inside, the bug dances up the tree. The woodpecker slides their ear up the tree alongside the bug. The woodpecker licks their lips.

[Singing continues]

The bug pauses inside the tree, and dances on the spot. The woodpecker’s ear lines up beside the bug.

The woodpecker says, HMM?

The woodpecker pulls back from the tree and smiles.

The woodpecker says, AH HA!

The woodpecker says, HMM!

The woodpecker licks their lips and starts pecking the tree with their beak. The woodpecker’s beak breaks through the tree, and almost hits the bug.

The bug says, WOAH!

The bug jumps away from the woodpecker’s beak.

[Bug laughing]

The bug continues dancing up the tree.

[Bug’s singing continues]

The woodpecker pulls their beak out of the tree. They look angry.

[Woodpecker groaning]

[Muffled singing]

The woodpecker takes a step up the tree and starts pecking. Their beak breaks through the tree above the bug.

The bug says, OH!

[Bug giggling]

[Bug singing]

The bug continues up the tree as the woodpecker pulls their beak out. The woodpecker looks annoyed.

[Woodpecker groaning]

The woodpecker pecks trough the tree again. Their beak goes between the bug’s legs.

The bug says, WOO!

[Bug giggling]

[Woodpecker groaning angrily]

The woodpecker angrily pecks the tree.

The bug says, ERR…

The woodpecker pecks through the space above the bug.

The bug says, UH…

The bug looks at the woodpecker’s beak.

The bug says, AW.

[Woodpecker grunting]

The woodpecker yanks their beak out of the tree.

[Woodpecker groaning]

The woodpecker looks frustrated. Below, the bug pops out of one of the holes in the tree, made by the woodpecker.

[Bug singing loudly]

The woodpecker says, HMM?

The bug ducks back into the tree. The woodpecker quickly sticks their beak into the hole.

The woodpecker says, HUH?

The bug pops out of a hole above the woodpecker.

[Bug singing]

The bug ducks back into the hole as the woodpecker turns and sticks their beak in it.

[Woodpecker groaning]

The bug pops out of a third hole, below the woodpecker. The bug ducks back in as the woodpecker jumps down and sticks their beak in. The bug pops back out of the top hole.

[Bug singing]

The bug dodges the woodpecker as the woodpecker slams their beak into their top hole.

[Woodpecker grunting]

The woodpecker pulls their beak out of the hole.

[Woodpecker groaning]

The bug pops out of the bottom hole.

[Bug singing]

The bug ducks back inside the tree. The woodpecker turns and sticks their beak in the hole.

[Magical music plays]

Two red bugs are shown inside the tree. One in the space above the woodpecker while another repeatedly dives in and out of the four holes in the tree. The woodpecker angrily pecks their beak through the holes after the singing bug.

[Bug singing]

[Woodpecker groaning]

Both red bugs stay inside the tree as the woodpecker continues to stick their beak through the holes. The woodpecker pauses. They look tired.

[Woodpecker groaning]

Three red bugs pop up from three of the four holes in the tree.

[All bugs singing]

The bugs pop in and out of the holes. The woodpecker sticks their beak in the holes after them like a game of whack-a-mole. The woodpecker looks dizzy as their pupils rapidly grow big and small. They tumble to the ground.

[Woodpecker groaning]

[Red bugs giggling]

The woodpecker jumps to their feet.

[Woodpecker grunting confidently]

The woodpecker flies up alongside the tree.

The bugs say, HUH?

The woodpecker stands on a branch at the top of the tree.

[Woodpecker chuckling]

The woodpecker sticks their beak into the top of the tree and inhales deeply. In the tree, the bugs look worried.

They say, OH…

The woodpecker takes a deep breath and inhales. The bugs start to get sucked up the tree.

[Bugs worried yelling]

The bugs hold onto each other. The woodpecker inhales through the tree. They suddenly look worried.

[Woodpecker grunting]

The woodpecker’s breath is released through the tree.

[Foghorn]

The bugs fly out of the holes in the side of the tree.

They say, TA DA!

The bugs fall back into the holes. The woodpecker takes their beak out of the tree.

They say, UH.
HUH?

The woodpecker takes a deep breath and blows into the tree.

[Foghorn]

The bugs fly out of the tree.

They say, TA DA!

They drop back into the tree.

The woodpecker says, HA.

The bugs pop out of the holes.

[Bugs talking gibberish]

The woodpecker smiles.

They say, HA.

The bugs pop back into the tree. The woodpecker blows into the tree. Together, the woodpecker and bugs play the tree like an instrument. The woodpecker blows into the tree, and the bugs fly in and out of the holes on the side.

[Bugs singing]

The woodpecker pulls their beak out of the tree and the bugs pop out of the holes.

The woodpecker says, BAH!

[Bugs talking gibberish]

[All giggling]

End credits.

Producer, Thomas Meyer-Herman.

Design, Julia Ocker, Kiana Naghshineh.

Direction, Julia Ocker.

Animatic, Nora Maria Back.

Script, An Vrombaut.

[Animals singing]

Copyright, Studio Film Bilder - KiKA/ARD & SWR 2022.