An official spot for the 18th International Animation Festival 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒄̌𝒂, which took place from 26th to 29th June 2025 in Žilina, Slovakia.
- Non-narrative
- Experimental
Year
2025
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To learn how to process bad news and face adversity in life, you undoubtedly need some skills. In this short humorous film, probably loosely inspired by Inside Out and Inside Out 2, we get to see the mental processes of an unfortunate person and hopefully get some tips on what to do.
- Comedy
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Filmmaker and pedagogue Martin Kukal occasionally makes music videos. One of his latest creations is the music video for a song by Sváťa and Martina from the town of Slaný, set near the Red Pond and starring various good-natured ghosts and fairy-tale beings.
- Music video
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A charming touch of craftsmanship, carefully chosen colour palette and the quiver of cutout animation particularly evident in animated flames make this music video a suggestive spectacle. By repeating distinctive motifs to the hypnotic tones of the song, it acts as an audiovisual spell.
- Music video
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On a night walk, a couple in love come across a frog who’s definitely not interested in their attention. The frog, her child and other creatures of the forest rather allow themselves to be carried away by the wild rhythm of the electronic music by Czech performer Johuš Matuš, secretly hoping that the uninvited guests will leave soon. The music video’s co-director Julie Černá worked with Johuš Matuš on her acclaimed film The Stone of Destiny.
- Music video
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Individual schizophrenically narrated episodes take us through the instrumentalisation of life by creating pulp (mirroring the film itself) and personifying a machine. The film is rooted in the director’s infinite hatred of computers and, in a deeper sense, explores the boundaries of resistance in the digital age.
- Experimental
- Abstract
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In India, cultural practice requires young girls to be dedicated to a Hindu temple, becoming temple dancers, serving its deity and priests for life. At the dedication ceremony they receive Muttu – a red and white necklace symbolizing their status. In a few short minutes, the director succeeds in building an oppressive atmosphere by using, among other things, traditional Indian music.
- Drama
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A conversation with the viewer about the mutual influence between news and people: how news affects people, how people shape events and how events in turn become news. The story unfolds across two worlds: semi-realistic and abstract/metaphorical. These worlds complement each other, occasionally interact and often flow seamlessly into one another.
- Music video
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A look into the making of animation for my recent short film "Translation Office"
- Film about animation
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Mia has spent her whole life free-diving, fishing and swimming through the seaweed and rocks. Over time, her body and the landscapes around her have both changed. Tonight, Mia reminisces.
- Drama
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Official music video for TOMORA's "RING THE ALARM".
- Music video
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What's the future? A row of spectators is seeking answers while the world is in flames. WTF?!
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Feeling overwhelmed by life’s small failures? This film explores how the quiet indifference of nature and the mundane world can offer a powerful antidote to personal despair. Discover the profound, humbling lesson of a simple walk in the park: that by diminishing the ego, we can find peace, perspective, and a quiet sense of belonging in the vastness of the world.
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Amidst fields of Arabica beans, Hurle, a young woman, dreams of a future beyond the coffee shop where she works to support her mother. Her life is disrupted when she goes in pursuit of an eccentric petty thief who will turn her daily life upside down.
- Experimental
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It’s my message of love to Gaza and the Palestinian people, in particular to animator Haneen Koraz, Shorouq Darwish and Nour abdel Jawad and their team of women animation artists who devote themselves tirelessly to bringing hope to the children of Gaza. My little film was inspired by the poem Hamza by the great Palestinian poet FADWA TUQAN. I chose the part of her poem that compares and connects the mystery of the fertility of the Palestinian land to the mysterious power of it’s women.
- Drama
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A shortcut on Thelma & Louise by Chloe Farr.
- Drama
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Official video for “Red Rain” by The White Stripes. Watch the official video for “Red Rain” by The White Stripes from the band’s fifth studio album, ‘Get Behind Me Satan, ’ directed by Conor Callahan. In honor of the 20th Anniversary of ‘Get Behind Me Satan, ’ The White Stripes are celebrating with a special, limited edition 2xLP featuring one red and one clear disc, both with black wisps.
- Music video
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Short drawing about a dog that is ugly and dumb by Mummy Joe.
- Comedy
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Why do we mock superstition? This film challenges the perceived superiority of rationality, arguing that our skepticism often stems not from intellect, but from luck and privilege.
- Documentary
- Tragicomedy
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A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
- Drama
- Fantasy
