Genre

Documentary

1–20 of 138 films

  • Archeo 29

    2010 Adults 9 min

    by Vladislav Knežević

    Vladislav Knežević takes archive photos from an illustrated entertainment magazine of 1929 as the basis for his experimental-animated film, thus creating an associative, yet disturbing “film journal”.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Innerviews

    2015 Adults 5 min

    by Chen Winner

    Innerviews is a very captivating film illustrating edited fragments of interviews with celebrities such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen and David Lynch. The author uses a technique inspired by screen printing to reflect the omnipresent tensions between the visible layers of the image and invisible layers of human perception.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Hypnagogia

    2017 Adults 5 min

    by Magdaléna Kvasničková

    An animated depiction of the half-waking state before we fall asleep. Various people describe how they see the state between waking and sleeping, while the visual show hypnagogic hallucinations – i.e., the vision that accompany the process of falling asleep.

    • Documentary
  • Chase

    2017 Adults 12 min

    by Michaela Režová

    Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture taking place in the background.

    • Documentary
  • Otto Wichterle

    2011 Adults 6 min

    by Zuzana Bahulová

    This animation has been produces in memory of one the most famous Czech scientists, Prof. Ing. RTDr. Otto Wichterle, DrSc. In this story you can see in the funny way how he developed one of his patents, the contact lenses.

    • Documentary
  • Producer, percussionist, and composer Samuli Kosminen shows us some of the rather unusual instruments used on the Moominvalley score – featuring dried chilies, design chairs, and jawbones of sheep, among other things.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • by The School of Life, Jenny Jokela

    Our age has a high esteem for parties. Yet some of us have a particular fear of them – which we’re made to feel very bad about, as if this was a sure sign of being an anti-social and unfriendly person. Far from it. As this film argues, truly sociable people tend to hate parties a lot.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • by Chloé Mazlo

    A jelewer tells his children the diamond’s history. Next to the story of the diamond size évolution, that moves towards the uniformization by rejecting all impure rock, we see his children grow up and the father’s fear of their own uniformization.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Family
  • by Pavel Koutský

    A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Pavel Koutský

    A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

    • Documentary
    • Comedy
  • Where My Home Is? – Presidents

    2021 All audiences 1 min

    by Pavel Koutský

    A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
    • Non-narrative
  • Where My Home Is? – 13x

    2021 16+ 6 min

    by Pavel Koutský

    A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Trine Vallevik Håbjørg

    Five Ivorian children had to flee when war broke out in the Ivory Coast after the presidential election in 2010. The children talk about hopes and dreams for the future.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Walt Disney has always been mesmerizing us since childhood with unforgettable characters and movies. Animation is a tough job. This video shows how that was done, how 3D effect was created.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • Vibration

    2019 Adults 2 min

    by Sofiya Ilieva

    Nothing is constant but change. All existence is a perpetual flux of being and becoming (Ernst Haeckel).

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Very Close

    2017 Adults 6 min

    by Lee Oz, Eliška Habartová

    After two years in a long-distance relationship, Elishka moves to Israel to be with Lee to support him while his father is dying. At the airport, she is banned from entering the country and deported. The story unfolds through the couple’s online chats and through family conversations, using objects that were witnesses to the story. A bittersweet docu-animation.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Utopia Now

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Samuel Bunn, Remo Rauscher

    A dialogue between two utopian thinkers sharing visions and recipes for a “better” tomorrow and contemplating the complexity of our universe.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Unsettled

    2018 16+ 7 min

    by Tara Knight

    Conflicting layers of animation reveal glimpses into the ecological and economic histories of an American landscape.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • TUSSILAGO

    2010 16+ 14 min

    by Jonas Odell

    West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested on March 31, 1977. He was leading a group planning to kidnap politician Anna-Greta Leijon. A number of suspects were arrested in the days following. One of them was Kröcher’s ex-girlfriend, “A”. This is her story.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Bio-pic
    • Crimi
  • Travelogue Tel Aviv

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Samuel Patthey

    A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing, he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself from this contradicting environment.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative