Noctuelle
Synopsis:
The main character, Noctuelle, is the creator of the butterflies that bring dreams to people. There is also another character, the bat, who is the exact opposite of Noctuelle.
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Magdaleda leaves her home town, friends and a dog. On her journey, she is surprised by a strange with the Bear, with whom she has more in common than she knows. They reunite at a bonfire, where Magdalena spends time with children as their kindergarten teacher.
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A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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This short but impressive experimental animation was made by students of the Studio of Animation at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia during a traditional school plein-air. It was inspired by the endlessly elaborate structures of the bark on trees near the Wallenstein Loggia. The students fittingly used the technique of non-phased animation – animation of real photographs.
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I forgot where you are, under Havel’s painting
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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This short puppet etude tells the story of an unusual way to get home after a night at the pub.
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A short film about a parasite, living in a dog’s corpse. In ugly world of landfill, he searches for a soulmate, but nobody can see through its shell. The desire for friendship brings him to the edge of death. Only love can give him wings.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
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When Doctor Stein’s best friend dies during his last experiment, the grieving scientist is ready to do everything it takes to get his dog back. Building a dead-reviving machine is not a rocket science for him but this time the experiment goes monstrously wrong. A short stop-motion film about a creator and its monster he despises.
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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This metaphoric story made using various natural materials is set at the seaside. Its director was inspired by the words of a friend dying of cancer: ‘Our life is like a wave of the sea hitting the shore and we are the drops thrown by the waves on the ground.’ The film was his graduate project at the Graphic College Jihlava.
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A very short stop-motion film about a menstrual tampon preparing for a date.
- Comedy
- Romance
- Experimental
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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 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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A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave…