Visual concept & illustration & animated spot for the festival “The week of Slovak Films”.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
Films
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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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High above the human world, a web loomed from stories similar to ours holds an alternative world of small creatures with big hearts – The Websters.
- Comedy
- Family
- Adventure
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A parody of Czech fairytale clichés about three princes who have to go for a miraculous elixir to cure their sick father.
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A tiny snobbish tree-frog invites a trio of unusual dinner guests to his splendid treetop mansion: the purple gorillas.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A tragicomic story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old…
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
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A fox hunter and a porcelain shopkeeper lady, the scientist brothers, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms filled with traces of longing, separated by a vast and bleak landscape.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village. He arrives there after a long and difficult journey, only to discover that the village is deserted.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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What would we see if we could peek into the soul of the universe itself? What would its feelings be? Is there anything that would fascinate it and matter to it? Is ephemeral life something unique to an empty eternity, or is it a mere glimpse in the never-ending darkness? An abstract, meditative story about all that ever was and ever will be.
- Sci-Fi
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A dreamy animated film about man, space, the solar system and a flight to Mars.
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On the lookout for polar bears in the Arctic, a wildlife photographer realizes she may have missed more than a shot.
- Drama
- Romance
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One day, a little king was walking in the forest of his little kingdom and spied an extraordinary creature, white as snow and fast as the wind.
- Documentary
- Family
- Making of
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A phantasmagoric story about an undertaker and his wife who live alone because everyone avoids them. The undertaker cannot break human prejudices and superstitions, and in desperation he invites his former customers, the dead, to be his guests and to banish loneliness from him and his wife.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Short drawing about a dog that is ugly and dumb by Mummy Joe.
- Comedy
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What could the illness afflicting Henri Castagnette be? Filled with anxiety, the young man puts his fate in the hands of the off-puttingly exuberant Dr. Von Strudel. In The Turtle Syndrome, Samuel Cantin, author of the popular “motormouth” graphic novels Phobie des moments seuls and Whitehorse, recounts the story of an endearing anti-hero’s frenzied and hilarious medical appointment. Produced by the NFB, The Turtle Syndrome is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.
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Ointments, elixirs and poultices. Enriqueta and Ramoneta will attend to your needs with discretion, reserve and pleasant manners at Sunset Street No. 17A, Barcelona. Not sold in drugstores or chemist’s shops.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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An audiovisual meditation on the theme of the trip.
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There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion’s criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.
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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.