Bára Anna Stejskalová

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A candid discussion between a director and a producer on the challenges and triumphs of creating a stop-motion musical. Featuring acclaimed director Bára Anna Stejskalová (Love Is Just a Death Away, 9 Million Colors) and Emmy Award-winning producer Jakub Košťál (Bionaut Animation, CZ), the session will dive into the intricacies of the genre, touching on topics like working with directors of photography, navigating budgets, overcoming production setbacks, and handling very tricky puppets. It’s an honest talk about the highs and lows of stop-motion filmmaking.

• Musical
• Fantasy
• Making of

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

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

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry – the main themes of this film.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi

by Diana Cam Van Nguyen

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters, her dad wrote to her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said, blaming her father for the family´s break-up but also trying to understand him.

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

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

by Diana Cam Van Nguyen

A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be both at home and a stranger at the same time, her family heads toward a fatal decision. Who will leave? Who will stay? Who is at home here?

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry – the main themes of this film.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A candid discussion between a director and a producer on the challenges and triumphs of creating a stop-motion musical. Featuring acclaimed director Bára Anna Stejskalová (Love Is Just a Death Away, 9 Million Colors) and Emmy Award-winning producer Jakub Košťál (Bionaut Animation, CZ), the session will dive into the intricacies of the genre, touching on topics like working with directors of photography, navigating budgets, overcoming production setbacks, and handling very tricky puppets. It’s an honest talk about the highs and lows of stop-motion filmmaking.

• Musical
• Fantasy
• Making of

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

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

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry – the main themes of this film.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi