Synopsis:
The Big Sister – a person of colossal size – is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister.
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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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A small bark beetle girl lives peacefully in a forest in a tree. However, a fire, caused by irresponsible humans, burns the forest down to ashes. Her hand gets burned to charcoal and she gets separated from her family. Lost in a human town, she has to face the dangerous world of giants on her own.
- Drama
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Don’t you hate it when your figure drawing model keeps shuffling?
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Drama
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A weary old man is getting ready to die. He has nothing more to fear and decides to share the secret of his life with us. While his relatives wait outside the door, eager to get a share of what was once his, he takes us on a journey through his memories. What will be the ultimate truth he chooses to pass on?
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Film about sparkledogs, werewolverines and other things that are JUST drawings. The texting parts are based on real conversations I’ve had age 12-16 with a deviantart “friend”.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A tragicomic story of Vera, who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. She is bullied daily by her own brain, which still reminds her of potential catastrophic scenarios that could happen. However, one particularly hectic morning, something unexpected happens – an unknown criminal appears in the housing estate. Vera has to face bizarre circumstances and not lose her job. Will she succeed? Graduation film.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A poetic video clip from the workshop of the Máj author pair introduces us to an imaginary landscape in which, with the help of simple symbolism, we follow the problematic relationship between a man and a woman. The graphic aesthetic is dominated by the motif of the hands that the heroes manipulate against the background of the themed horizon.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The film, which was made as part of the 70th anniversary of the animation studio at UMPRUM, is loosely inspired by the work of three graduates: Václav Mergl, Jan Souček and Vratislav Hlavatý. Motifs from their films, illustrations and paintings have been placed in new contexts to create a new work of authorship.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Sci-Fi
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music video
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Something we keep avoiding in life might be waiting for us on the other side.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative