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Pat a Mat ve filmu

Pat a Mat ve filmu

Marek Beneš | Czech Republic | 2016 | 80 min

Famous and popular handymen Pat and Mat, who have secured a place in the hearts of several generations, celebrate their 40th birthday this year. And Pat and Mat: The Film is their gift.
The pilot episode of a series called Tinkers” was made in 1976. It was directed by the talented director Lubomir Beneš who collaborated with Vladimir Jiranek, a graphic artist with a unique style. Clumsy handymen who, much to their satisfaction, always come up with an impossible solution to a problem, were later named Pat and Mat and the series was named “…and that’s it!” Its short slapstick-like episodes are characteristic with their original humour, exaggeration and irony, so Pat and Mat became instant favourites of children and parents alike. Furthermore, this series is an example of excellent and precise puppet animation. In the course of time, many filmmakers collaborated on this series, for example Vlasta Pospišilova, the first lady of Czech animation.
This time, Pat and Mat take on a vicious cactus, a dried up tree and decide to “upgrade” their home with original improvements. And since we are in the 21st century and everyone promotes a healthy lifestyle, our handymen will try to get in shape on a stationary bicycle.

Tu 03/05/2016
10.30-11.50

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
21.00-22.20

Masaryk Square

Little from the Fish Shop

Little from the Fish Shop

Jan Balej | Czech Republic | 2015 | 71 min

Deep under the sea, accompanied by a fish orchestra, a voice tells the story of the King of the Sea and his daughter, the Little. Just like many others, the king, his old mother and his three daughters have left the plundered coastal waters and gone live among humans. They lead a monotonous life full of work, loneliness and memories of old times in a dark fish shop in the middle of a port street. One day, a self-confident, handsome but a bit rude young man - a baron - enters their shop. The Little is immediately spellbound by his ostentatious behaviour, thunderous music and the glitz that surrounds him. The life of the Little and her family suddenly changes. This modern adaptation of The Little Mermaid by H.Ch. Andersen is a strong and terrifyingly realistic story about unfulfilled love and the values of contemporary society. The elements of today’s world that come together with a unique visual characteristic for the director and graphic artist Jan Balej shift the story towards a more mature audience.

Tu 03/05/2016
14.00-15.11

Roháč - ČT Hall

Fr 06/05/2016
16.00-17.11

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Home

Home

Tim Johnson | United States | 2014 | 92 min

This humorous comedy begins when the Boov, aliens with tentacles instead of legs, arrive on planet Earth. They have travelled through the galaxy in search of a new home, as their original home planet was destroyed by their enemy, the Gorg, who keep chasing them through space.
The Boov’s alien invasion of Earth is quite peaceful and friendly. They simply relocate all humans to Australia where they secure a very comfortable life for them with their advanced Boov technology. But a girl called Tip hides from the Boov and starts looking for her mother. Tip has a very adventurous nature and a cat called Pig.  She runs into a slightly purple and very friendly Boov called Oh who is in serious trouble. He was throwing a party and accidentally sent the invite to the hostile Gorg so he needs to go into hiding for a while. Eventually, Tip and Oh form an intergalactic friendship. With his endearing efforts to fix everything the Boov have caused, Oh only causes more confusion.
It is a film about friendship but also about a clash of cultures which eventually leads to incredible understating, trust, fun and a beautiful friendship between Oh and Tip,” saysTim Johnson, who has also directed the successful films How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods.

We 04/05/2016
15.00-16.32

Roháč - ČT Hall

Hotel Transylvania 2

Hotel Transylvania 2

Genndy Tartakovsky | United States | 2015 | 90 min

The second instalment of the Hotel Transylvania has the enterprising Dracula family go through another set of adventures. Dracula finally gives up his strict rule of accommodating only monsters in his hotel and opens it to human guests. But behind the closed door of his crypt, Dracula is consumed by doubts as to whether his half-human half-vampire grandson Dennis will ever become a vampire. So when Mavis and Johnny go to visit the human half of the family tree – which is also full of surprises – grandpa “Drac” asks his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin for help and together they prepare to train Dennis to become a monster. But they have no idea that Drac’s grumpy and very, very, very old-fashioned father Vlad wants to pay his family a visit. So when Vlad finds out that his great-grandson is not a pure-blooded vampire and, on top of all things, humans are allowed to the hotel, all hell breaks loose.
Director Genndy Tartakovsky once again used computer animation to the fullest and animated even the tiniest details, which means we can see the full scale of the characters’ movements and scary, funny, sad and all other sorts of facial expressions. The film’s approachable stylization of the slightly macabre world of “nice” vampires will be appreciated especially by children.

We 04/05/2016
21.00-22.30

Masaryk Square

Minions

Minions

Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin | United States | 2015 | 91 min

Have you ever wondered why the little, yellow, cute and cuddly Minions willingly serve Gru, a villain with a capital V? You will find the answer to this question right at the beginning of this film, which maps the evolution of the Minions. Just imagine that from time immemorial these do-gooders by nature have seen the sense of their existence in serving the biggest villain in the world. And every time they lost their master through a series of unfortunate events often triggered by the Minions themselves, they immediately started looking for a new one. And this went on for centuries.

Luckily, three heroes emerged among the Minions – proud Kevin, hungry Stuart and the slightly jittery Bob. They set out into the world to find a new sense of life for all their Minion friends. Fortune has taken them all the way to America to a convention for villains and supervillains of all kinds in Orlando, Florida, which is to host the supreme queen of world crime, Scarlett Overkill. “We want her!” said Kevin, Stuart and Bob, immediately falling head over heels for Scarlett, who was to become their new master. Even though the sympathies were definitely not mutual, the first female supervillain decided to put their abilities to test.

Th 05/05/2016
21.00-22.31

Masaryk Square

Inside Out

Inside Out

Ronnie Del Carmen, Pete Docter | United States | 2015 | 102 min

Puberty can be very complicated. And for eleven-year-old Riley, who has to move from the American mid-west to San Francisco where her father got a job, even more so. Just like all of us, Riley is influenced by her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in the Headquarters, a command centre inside Riley’s mind, from where they help her to deal with everyday problems. As they are trying to cope with the new beginning in San Francisco, panic breaks out at Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to see things from the bright side, the emotions start to disagree on how to best handle a new city, home and school.
Whether it is an adventurous balloon flight high in the sky or a city full of monsters, Academy award-winning director Peter Docter (Up, Monsters, Inc.) always takes viewers to unique and imaginative places. In the Pixar original motion picture Inside Out, he will take us to the most remarkable place of all – the human mind.
Inside Out will be screened alongside supporting film Lava, Pixar’s musical love story directed by James Ford Murphy and produced by Andrea Warren, which was inspired by tropical islands and the explosive magic of oceanic volcanos.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.42

Masaryk Square

The Little Prince

The Little Prince

Mark Osborne | France | 2015 | 108 min

From Mark Johnson, the director of Kung-Fu Panda, comes the first feature adaptation of this famous book about friendship, love and true happiness. The main heroine is a little girl whose mommy is trying to prepare her for the real world of adults. But her plan is upset when their neighbour, an eccentric but kind-hearted aviator shows her the extraordinary world he was introduced to long ago by the Little Prince. In this world, where everything is possible, the girl embarks on a magical journey through her own imagination, rediscovers her childhood and finds out, that “it is really only with the heart that one can see rightly.”

Sa 07/05/2016
13.30-15.18

Schwarzenberg Hall