29.9.1938
Synopsis:
The animated documentary by Jitka Skálová and David Daenemark focuses not only on the Munich Agreement, but also on the wider context. Thanks to the commentary of historian Eduard Stehlik, it provides an insider’s view of the Europe that awaited the most tragic years of the last century.
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Aren't we all a bit like rats in a maze?
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Two brothers are caught by storm and they are drifted to the greatest whirpool on the world. Due to circumstances they will be forced to fight each other for life and death.
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A film about staging a theater performance 70 years after the events of 1948, as well as the real theater production that the whole communist coup was. Puppets seemingly without puppeteers, puppets moving about of their own free will – this is how communist comrades were and this is exactly how they’re presented in this film.
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A quite unorthodox and black-humored point of view on surviving adolescence.
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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 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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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.