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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.
Maria has been left by her fiancé, she finds comfort in the meal. Her pets join her, and she keeps feeding them. Soon, all her clothes will be tight.
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…
I have to do something with all of this. I’ve got a guitar, an awesome gold suit and a cool song. I have to, I have to get out of this village. They all lied to me. Don’t grow up, it’s a trap.
It’s a normal day in a communal apartment. Someone is reading, someone else is ironing. A child runs down the corridor. Then suddenly the room quakes; everything changes and life is turned upside down.
On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts; is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…
Three garbage bags ran away with the city dump.
Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and gate between reality and dream is closing.
A meditation on how the world is an infinite number of realities, differing in the ratio of wonder and banality with which they are created. The author Lukáš Glaser tried to project his own consciousness into the images of the film as authentically as possible.
Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long working trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
Roommates is the chronicle of four city dwellers pushed to the breaking point. On a day hot enough to liquidise an orange twinsicle, the inhabitants of apartment 6B bash their heads on the kitchen table and tie their necks in knots, driven psychotic by the heat.
During the morning roll call at school, Wataya gets more and more nervous as her turn approaches. The tension causes her to lose the ability to control her own body.
The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they’re only mildly amazed by the ongoings in the valley below, they’ve got their own little problems to deal with. But all of a sudden, Mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behaviour starts to threaten Hew’s and Kew’s stoic peacefulness…
This anidoc depicts the story and feelings of a woman who became a victim of rape and attempted murder. Her severe trauma is symbolised by a broken mirror and her futile effort to put the pieces back together. A deep probe into her mind maps the way to come to terms with this experience – at least partially.
An experimental road movie that takes you through the land of analogue film.
The Starboard City RIOT5 roller derby team face off against their heated rivals in a decisive match, but something goes terribly wrong…
Boy starts to draw and falls into the paper himself. There is a monster and boy starts to fight with pencil as weapon.
Richie, a joyful drinker, talks about the 2014 new year’s eve he spent at the hospital. Between piping malfunctions and other scatophilic problems, he evokes his love for his daughter, his relationship to death and his desire for descent.
The experimental animated film Resting fog depicts the process of reliving a memory – and the disintegration that follows – through a series of associative images. The film takes place in a fictional, dreamlike sanatorium surrounded by the sea and the setting sun. Faceless shadows wander between the walls of a secluded, forgotten place, waiting to dissolve into their surroundings as darkness sets in, thus becoming permanently lost in a haze of oblivion.
The village party has begun and Róza hasn’t been invited to dance. Suddenly, an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes. Róza starts to dance with great passion, quickly becoming the centre of attention. Soon after, she realizes she can’t control the shoes, as the shoes are controlling her…