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UMPRUM – Academy of Arts

  • Luba: V kapkách medu

    2025 All audiences 2 min

    by Alice Bisová, Amálie Němečková, Ismini Vafiadu

    The short film, with its vibrant artistic style, tells the story of a girl who tries to win back her lost love through singing.

    • Romance
  • Ministry of Good News

    2025 Adults 1 min

    by Jonáš Urbánek

    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
  • Johuš Matuš: Pařezy

    2025 Adults 3 min

    by Julie Černá, Lene Lekše

    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
  • Meluzína: Hlasy Meluzín

    2025 Adults 5 min

    by Viktor Klemša

    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
  • Devadasi

    2025 Adults 2 min

    by Zuzana Hodulová

    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
  • Pařezy

    2025 16+ 3 min

    by Julie Černá, Lene Lekše

    During a nighttime walk, two lovers stumbled upon a frog who clearly wasn’t looking for company. Lost in the wild beats of Johuš Matuš, the frog, its baby, and the rest of the forest party just hoped the uninvited guest would move along soon.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
  • Parmelia

    2024 Adults 2 min

    by Tereza Burianová

    Were we equals, or were some of us just using others? This non-narrative film explores the possibilities of textile materials and techniques in conjunction with the moving image. A musical composition by the artistic duo Nadváha is stitched by the repetitive sound of a sewing machine.

    • Non-narrative
  • Pohodička

    2024 16+ 1 min

    by Jan Diviš

    The student festival jingles for Anifilm 2024.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Headspace

    2023 13+ 4 min

    by Eliška Bozemanová, Mariia Klimt, Esther Man & others

    The site-specific experimental music video explores liminal spaces that arise within abandoned gaming servers. Semester assignment where students of the animation studio at UMPRUM had to form teams, start a music band, release a single and make a video for it, along with creating a visual identity for the band.

    • Music Videos
  • The House of Hermit

    2023 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 2 min

    by Darek Šušor, Irina Babanina, Jakub Rozehnal & others

    Outside, a storm rages. In a room filled with objects, a girl. Everything begins to crumble into dust, the girl loses control, and everything falls into oblivion.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Three Kings: Flower Planet

    2023 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 2 min

    by Tuan Trieu, Jonáš Urbánek, Jakub Hronský

    Scientists have discovered a planet that contains interesting type of flora that must be brought back home for further examination. They will find out that the planet is already occupied by someone else.

    • Sci-Fi
  • The Fifth Floor

    2023 All audiences 4 min

    by Tereza Burianová

    Through a repetitive nightmare, memories and old family videos, the space of the apartment and housing estate where the author spent her childhood is rebuilt right before the viewer's eyes.

    • Documentary
    • Family
  • Kvítek: Ten sen

    2023 16+ 3 min

    by Anastázie Rainischová, Julie Černá, Ondřej Salava & others

    The animated video clip was created as a closing ceremony at UMPRUM in Prague. Four second-year students were challenged to combine their different approaches to visuals and animation itself. The central motifs of the film are the range of cartoon animation and the building of friendship, metaphorically represented in the theme of this work.

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • From the Past

    2023 16+ 1 min

    by Hanna Palamarchuk

    At one moment you smell something familiar and realize that this is the smell of childhood. Memories surfaced through the smell of borscht, which once on a sunny day my grandmother cooked. They are never accurate, they are fast as lightning, but they carry in themselves a light nostalgia and calm. Moments that you want to remember forever: a mother’s song, the clear sky above, and the certainty of tomorrow, knowing that a whole summer of fun is still ahead.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wunderbaum – The Gem

    2022 Adults 5 min

    by Matej Mihályi, Thanh Mai Tranová

    Kafe, cíga, nasedat a šlápnout na plyn. Taxikář Ruslan se tentokrát připlete do pořádné bondovské honičky.

  • Free Hands

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Thanh Mai Tranová

    Three authors, three different generations, three different perspectives on their own work. All three worked in the audiovisual industry, advertising and other commercial spheres. Through animated interviews, the film approaches their experiences and asks whether there is also a place for author’s work in their lives.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • CRASH! BANG! BOOM!

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Iris Hobson-Mazur

    Music video

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
    • Music Videos
    • Making of
  • Čtverec

    2020 All audiences 2 min

    by Emma Bielokostolská, Laura Hédervári, Kateřina Kozáková & others

    The short animated film by a collective of authors from the Animation and Film Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Outer Space Diplomacy

    2020 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 2 min

    by Vojta Kočí

    This very short animated sketch presents the viewer—within the span of about ninety seconds—with the dead end of interplanetary diplomacy. The human race discovers a planet suitable for life, only to be promptly informed that they are not, and never will be, welcome there.

    • Action
  • Si ako slniečko?

    2020 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 4 min

    by Jáchym Štulíř, Jakub Rozehnal

    An adrenaline-fueled story about friends reuniting in a world where things just happen. It all culminates in a shocking twist and a satisfying ending.

    • Sci-Fi
    • Comedy
    • Experimental