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Synopsis:
The conversation races through themes of Czechoslovakia’s birth, the relationship between the nations and contemporary social and generational problems, arriving to a reflection on the importance of the year 1918. The visual is framed by an image of characters talking and changes into various absurd or lyrical animated illustrations.
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The Big Sister – a person of colossal size – is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister.
- Drama
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A noble man awaiting to meet his beautiful betrothed lady receives quite a shock upon her arrival. Her pompous dress seems to a little bit too big to fit into the room. Despite the obvious problem, she is intent to not lose face.
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The film, which was made as part of the 70th anniversary of the animation studio at UMPRUM, is loosely inspired by the work of three graduates: Václav Mergl, Jan Souček and Vratislav Hlavatý. Motifs from their films, illustrations and paintings have been placed in new contexts to create a new work of authorship.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Sci-Fi
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Even animals can have a handicap. But then what chance do they have to survive? In Eva Matějovičová’s animated film, an animal rescuer (with many allergies) tries to find the ideal owner for each orphaned animal. After all, each of them deserves a second chance.
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The hero of the short film finds himself at the base of the tower. We follow his uneasy journey upwards. At the top, he sees something that answers many questions, but raises many more. This story does not end.
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The audio-visual poem tells the story of the Scottish mythological figure – the selkie – driven from the depths of the ocean to land, from which she longs to return and merge once again with the sea. The juxtaposition of simple 2D animation, a digitally generated 3D world, an ambient soundtrack, and a mysterious voice-over creates an oppressive experience with a philosophical overlay dealing with the loss of identity and the impossibility of returning to nature.
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A dive into the minds of today’s youngest generation in the form of a short survey. How do these children imagine their future?
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An adolescent ant worker living in the outskirts of a dying human world who wants more from her life than accepting the given fate. However when she is cast out for accidentaly causing fire she is scared of the the outside and longs to be accepted back. She has to grow up to save the world.
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A short animated document which humorously depicts how cuckoos lay eggs into nests of other birds.
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A story of a student who gets lost in a digital world due to procrastination.
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How does it feel not to understand your own body and its needs? To perceive everything but food blurry and meaningless? The animated documentary film INSIDE shows a day in life of a person suffering a mental illness called Anorexia Nervosa. It is an intimate insight into the mind of an anorexic, who just must somehow interact with the raw reality.
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The film explores memory as a container of our identity. It’s based on the personal story of the author and her brother who got a brain tumor diagnosis. The narrative and form of the film follow the idea of perceiving reality with a broken memory. An animated documentary experiments with art and…