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Perfect Town

Anaïs Voirol | Switzerland | 2017 | 5 min

This symbolic film by a young Swiss director portrays (and criticises) an ancient but still relevant issue – the quest for perfection. The film is set in a town that tries to make its stressed-out inhabitants perfect. The results are continuously checked and anyone who is not perfect, has to leave.

Perfect Town

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Locus

Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi | Poland | 2016 | 11 min

This dreamy and slightly terrifying film exploring multiple timelines stars atypically transparent puppets. On an empty train in the middle of the night, a woman returns to her husband and son. The train suddenly hits the breaks. What the woman sees when she looks out of the window, changes her life… unless it had already changed before the train pulled out and this is all just a dream.

Locus

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

The Shrapnel

Dmitry Ivanov | Russia | 2016 | 5 min

A wounded soldier returns home to his mother. But his desire for battle still controls him. The mother wants her child to stay so she has to find a way to change his military mind. This unusually stylized film with unforced gags focuses on the serious subject of intergenerational clashes and the relationship between a parent and her child.

The Shrapnel

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Five Easy Steps How to Find a Soulmate

Hana Stehlíková | Czech Republic | 2016 | 5 min

In her graduate film, the author offers to guide us through the labyrinth of human society and illustrates five ways to get friends. But, as it turns out, it is not so “easy.” Each tip has its own downside. The film also depicts the complicated position of a creative individual in a unified society.

Five Easy Steps How to Find a Soulmate

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Cream

Lena Ólafsdóttir | Denmark | 2016 | 5 min

This absurd puppet film is set in a doctor’s waiting room where various not very nice sides of human personalities come to light. Already when the first patient comes, it is clear that something’s not right. What is initially a static situation unexpectedly unfolds by means of ice-cream which the waiting patients can get from a machine.

Cream

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

The Grind

Aymeric Hays Narbonne | France | 2016 | 4 min

With a pragmatic documentary approach, The Grind depicts the annual Faroese whaling tradition in which whales near the island’s shores are slaughtered. The author wants to draw attention to the fact that this ancient tradition originated in a time when the people needed to be fed, but since then it has turned into senseless genocide.

The Grind

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Tough

Jennifer Zheng | United Kingdom | 2016 | 5 min

Yet another film mixing Asian and European influences was made by a Chinese director in England. Her film depicts cultural and intergenerational misunderstandings which make the communication between a Chinese mother and her daughter, who was born in Europe, almost impossible. But when the two women finally talk as adults, a new light is shed on their communication problems.

Tough

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Poilus

Guillaume Auberval, Léa Dozoul, Simon Gomez, Timothé Hek, Hugo Lagrange, Antoine Laroye, David Lashcari | France | 2016 | 5 min

Soldiers – depicted here as hares – are in the trenches awaiting an order to attack. One of them is playing a harmonica. When the signal to attack comes, everyone has to charge. The film depicts the senselessness of a war in which no one knows who is the real “enemy.” It may very well be a poetic soul such as the soldier with the harmonica…

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Starved

Jinsil Woo | South Korea | 2016 | 3 min

The main character of Jinsil Woo’s film is a very unusually stylized man. While he’s worn-out and laying on a bed, his thoughts wander in every direction. But the main motif is a woman. During his spiritual journey, he sorrowfully remembers his breakups and his feelings visualise themselves by metamorphoses of his face.

Starved

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

What Is Your Brown Number?

Vinnie Ann Bose | India | 2016 | 5 min

Another film whose author managed to portray a serious topic with humour without ignoring its urgency. The assignment was to create a film with a social topic. Vinnie Ann Bose chose a typical issue from India – discrimination of people with very dark skin. This important topic is presented in comical situations.

What Is Your Brown Number?

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Without Tears

Amy Wang | Taiwan | 2016 | 6 min

Without Tears tells the story of a man who has decided to end his life because of unfulfilled love. But, tragicomically, he doesn’t succeed and his repeated attempts to take his own life keep on failing. The author’s artistic style sticks to an authentic pencil drawing, but she also used computer animation.

Without Tears

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Kastaars

Jasmine Elsen | Belgium | 2016 | 6 min

Kastaars is an absurd slapstick comedy set in a multi-storey building. Its inhabitants are hidden in their flats and their only connection to the outside world are windows. But the film portrays not only what’s it like to watch, but also what it is like to be watched. The author’s graduate film is peppered with well-timed revelations of connections.

Kastaars

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Phone

Harriet Holman-Penney | United Kingdom | 2016 | 4 min

The suspenseful concentrated story of Phone is set in a phone booth used by a man to call the police. The subject of his phone call is a bomb threat. The author, inspired, among others, by Andrei Tarkovsky, uses shadows, fog and dark colours to build an intense atmosphere of film noir in the 3 minutes of the film’s running time.

Phone

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Corner

Lucija Mrzljak | Estonia | 2016 | 3 min

This visually minimalistic short film in the best tradition of Estonian humour deals with the hardships of life in a corner where two angles meet. Existence seems very hard here – laws of perspective and gravity play strange games so the whole image becomes geometrically relative and the characters lose their ground.

Corner

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

We Are the Immigrants

Catalina Matamoros | Colombia, United States | 2016 | 6 min

This poetic but at times cruel film centres on the hardships of a group of immigrants who decided to illegally cross the border. The film itself is a curious paradox – it mixes a serious topic, documentary approach and slightly infantile stylized drawing. The Columbian author studied animation in the US.

We Are the Immigrants

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema

Pussy

Renata Gasiorowska | Poland | 2016 | 9 min

A girl is home alone and plans to make her evening a pleasant one. But things do not go according to plan. The situation literally gets out of her hands, but it has got its upside. A daring and playful humorous film which connects an erotic theme with a simple childlike drawing.

Pussy

We 03/05/2017
10.30-11.50
free seats: 246
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 04/05/2017
13.30-14.50
free seats: 24
Puppet Theatre

Sa 06/05/2017
20.00-21.20
free seats: 0
Světozor Cinema