Quest (1996 film)

Quest is a 1996 German animated short film directed by Tyron Montgomery, written story and produced by Thomas Stellmach at the University of Kassel Art College. After four years of production it won several awards including the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short Film.

In quest of water a sand puppet leaves the sand world in which it lives. It wanderes through other worlds made of paper, stone and iron, following the sound of dripping water. In the end the sand puppet manages to reach the water ... in a very tragic way.

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