2018

by Davor Medurečan, Davor Međurečan

The story of a man who is wishing for a feeling of freedom. A man is in a dungeon and as the only way out into freedom he sees artistic expression, dancing, acting and painting, but when he stops, the artist finds himself in the dungeon again, til one day a girl knocks on his door. We realise it is his daughter who wants to walk with him, and that the man is not in a real dungeon, but an ordinary room. He takes the daughter’s hand and they step out into the sunny nature, free and happy. His daughter saved him from his personal dungeon.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Chen Xi, An Xu, Xu An & others

In a restaurant in China, waiters try to swat flies while a number of diners eat their food.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Victor Orozco Ramirez

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. An essay short film about my very own Internet, a parallel world where memory loss, errors, surveillance and addiction smear everything and everyone.

by Sergei Ryabov

An inseparable girl and cat are on a long journey, playing checkers. The girl keeps winning, until the cat gets a lucky break.

• Comedy
• Family

by Andrea Szelesová

The conversation races through themes of Czechoslovakia’s birth, the relationship between the nations and contemporary social and generational problems, arriving to a reflection on the importance of the year 1918. The visual is framed by an image of characters talking and changes into various absurd or lyrical animated illustrations.

by Jitka Skálová, David Daenemark

The animated documentary by Jitka Skálová and David Daenemark focuses not only on the Munich Agreement, but also on the wider context. Thanks to the commentary of historian Eduard Stehlik, it provides an insider’s view of the Europe that awaited the most tragic years of the last century.

by Kamila Kučíková

It’s a monodrama of a white-white paper.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract