A Maze
Synopsis:
Aren't we all a bit like rats in a maze?
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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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A quite unorthodox and black-humored point of view on surviving adolescence.
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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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This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragedy
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World famous fairy tales re-make into minute episodes, where the key approach is black humor, cynicism, and actual modernization. Unpredictable storylines, love, sex, drugs, and lack of happy endings. Fairy tales for the new millennium.
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This movie was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our independence. The number 8 has often played an important role in our lives. This film is about OUR NUMBER EIGHT.
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The unfortunate woman leaves her alcoholic partner, goes through snowstorm, no longer has the strength and falls under the snow. It will save women who are near sauna. They take her to her, and she loses the lost self-esteem and joy of life.
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Grey sky, grey fog, grey city… In the city of suicide. Will the suicide find love?
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Loud music, hectic crowds, baby cries, car horns, rebuilding, sirens… Sometimes we want to run away… But where?
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The city has many faces. Busy streets, shopping passageways, historical centre. The city, however, is also made by its people. Nový Prostor is a street paper sold by people as a part of social rehabilitation in streets of Czech Republic. Zdeněk, one of the people selling this magazine, stands in front of National Theatre every day. In a short animated documentary, he talks about his relationship with the place he was assigned with and people he meets there on a daily basis.
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A short animated film about three characters presents a fantastic comic situation. What if love could be bought?
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A short story about saying goodbye.