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The impact of communism was huge. The destiny of orphans was taken from foster care to an institutional care. The animated document with the testimony of the man who grew up in the constitution and the woman who solves the problem from the outside, shows that despite 30 years of freedom from communism, Czech Republic still desperately needs a revolution in this area.
A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave…
A noble man awaiting to meet his beautiful betrothed lady receives quite a shock upon her arrival. Her pompous dress seems to a little bit too big to fit into the room. Despite the obvious problem, she is intent to not lose face.
Two brothers are caught by storm and they are drifted to the greatest whirpool on the world. Due to circumstances they will be forced to fight each other for life and death.
A very short stop-motion film about a menstrual tampon preparing for a date.
Despite its title, this pixilated film portrays unsuccessful dating. The film’s main protagonist with a horse’s head uses an unconventional dating app reminiscent of old 8-bit games to help him find a soul mate. But even the best dating app cannot anticipate the reactions of the unicorns that we sometimes think we are.
The unfortunate woman leaves her alcoholic partner, goes through snowstorm, no longer has the strength and falls under the snow. It will save women who are near sauna. They take her to her, and she loses the lost self-esteem and joy of life.
This movie was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our independence. The number 8 has often played an important role in our lives. This film is about OUR NUMBER EIGHT.
Short animated puppet probe into endless self-love, freely drawing on the ancient myth of Narcissus. Whoever wants to love others needs to (after) love each other
A film about staging a theater performance 70 years after the events of 1948, as well as the real theater production that the whole communist coup was. Puppets seemingly without puppeteers, puppets moving about of their own free will – this is how communist comrades were and this is exactly how they’re presented in this film.
Russian soldier’s memories of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Days Off is a short film, an homage to the puppet and city. By combining puppet animation and live action it builds a certain strange kind of reality, a reality that is based in the real world. It is an audiovisual testimony using the language of surrealism, satire, parody, irony and gallows humor, a dark mirror reflecting today’s world.
World famous fairy tales re-make into minute episodes, where the key approach is black humor, cynicism, and actual modernization. Unpredictable storylines, love, sex, drugs, and lack of happy endings. Fairy tales for the new millennium.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Documentary animation film based on interviews with foreigners who live in Prague for a long time.
A short animated film about three characters presents a fantastic comic situation. What if love could be bought?