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Bloeistraat 11

Nienke Deutz | Belgium, Netherlands | 2018 | 10 min

This thematically intense and artistically unusual film depicts the at first strong, but later very fragile friendship between two adolescent girls. A seemingly serene day during which the girls experiment with their bodies and emotions is disrupted by the presence of the brother of one of the girls. This film with an excellently animated atmosphere and a brilliant technical execution of the combination of 2D and 3D animation won the Audience Award at the Annecy Festival.

Bloeistraat 11

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

Bavure

Donato Sansone | France | 2018 | 4 min

This original film by the master of contemporary Italian experimental animation uses brush strokes to reveal the inside of the painted character it transforms and deforms it. Using this unusual technique, Donato Sansone, present as the painter holding the brush, demonstrates a rapid evolution creating a triumphant being.

Bavure

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

III

Marta Pajek | Poland | 2018 | 12 min

III is a vivid and technically precise film by a Polish author who studied in the studio of Jerzy Kucia and whose style was also influenced by a study stay with Priit Pärn. This film, which is the third part of her triptych, depicts a man and a woman meeting in a waiting room. The characters play a weird and increasingly wild game in which their faces turn into masks and shapes lose their integrity.

III

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

Sister

Siqi Song | China, United States | 2018 | 9 min | ZH

This puppet film is set in China in the 1990s. Its main protagonist remembers his childhood that was considerably complicated by his “annoying” younger sister. Or was it not like that? This socially critical film with a pointed plot is a sad reflection of the Chinese policy that tries to limit the reproduction of the Chinese people in a very unfortunate manner.

Sister

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

Per tutta la vita

Roberto Catani | Italy, France | 2018 | 6 min

A captivating film by one of the most important authors of contemporary Italian animated film. This precisely drawn film with pastel style portrays a trip down memory lane for a man and his wife who retrace the most significant moments of their relationship. The film’s style resonates with the poetic atmosphere of this extraordinary journey to the origins of their memories.

Per tutta la vita

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

Electrician's Day

Vladimir Leschiov | Latvia | 2018 | 9 min

Electrician’s Day is yet another absurd film made by Latvian filmmaker Vladimir Leschiov. As a result of an accident that happens while making a repair next to a psychiatric hospital, the electrician loses consciousness and finds himself behind the walls of the hospital where he not only witnesses, but even takes part in very strange spectacles portrayed in Leschiov’s distinctive style.

Electrician's Day

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

Fest

Nikita Diakur | Germany | 2018 | 3 min | A suburbian blockparty. Rave, drone, bbq and icecr

In Fest, Nikita Diakur, the 'inventor' of a brand new real-time animation technique and the author of the revolutionary film Ugly, tests his unique method. This time, the result is a short film, an adrenalin game taking place during a street festival. Aesthetically, Diakur follows up on his previous film, but technically, he searches for new possibilities of his method.

Fest

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

Egg

Martina Scarpelli | France, Denmark | 2018 | 13 min | EN

This film is a black and white, slightly provocative and partially abstractly illustrated confession of a young anorectic girl. Its author convincingly explores the mind of her heroine confined in a small space. For the main protagonist, food is a choice, not a necessity. Home is a safe place for her illness and the experience of eating a boiled egg is comparable to sexual pleasure.

Egg

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

I’m Going out for Cigarettes

Osman Cerfon | France | 2018 | 14 min | FR

A twelve-year-old boy named Jonathan lives with his mother, who is always busy, his adolescent sister and a number of virtual men. They appear in drawers, closets and in the cupboard. They all share the same face and engage in a friendly dialogue with the boy. This sensitive but also ironically lightly made film boasting plenty of visual ideas depicts the emotions of a boy growing up in an incomplete family.

I’m Going out for Cigarettes

Tu 7/5/2019
17.00-18.17
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.47
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
10.00-11.17
Puppet Theatre

The Fall

Boris Labbé | France | 2018 | 15 min

This year, the young but already world-renowned experimenter competes in our short film category. His latest film The Fall cannot deny his passion for non-narrative expression, but the viewers soon notice Labbé weaving the threads of an inconspicuous story wrapped in a captivating visual tragedy. In it, you will see what happens when heavenly beings visit earthly ones.

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Five Minutes to Sea

Natalia Mirzoyan | Russia | 2018 | 8 min | RU

A scene from the seaside in summer. A mother tells her daughter to wait five minutes before going into the water. But for the impatient child, these five minutes are an eternity, and the girl tries to kill time by watching other visitors of the beach. In her film, the Armenian director who studied and works in Russia, portrayed the relaxed atmosphere of holiday timelessness and children’s perspective on the (non)flow of time.

Five Minutes to Sea

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Raymonde or The Vertical Escape

Sarah Van Den Boom | France | 2018 | 17 min | FR

This strangely provocative story set in the French countryside starring animal protagonists follows the story of an owl who satisfies its desires in a not particularly appropriate way. The author’s fourth film (but her first puppet film) uses a combination of puppets and 2D animation to depict the inability to make one’s own wishes come true, strange interpersonal (in this case interanimal) relationships and the unbearability of everyday routine.

Raymonde or The Vertical Escape

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Trump Bites – The Unraveling

Bill Plympton, Billy Shebar, David C. Roberts | United States | 2018 | 2 min | EN

One episode from a series of short animated comedies based on real recordings of Donald Trump. Along with two co-directors, Bill Plympton, a classic of the American independent scene, explores the brain of America’s most powerful man. Thanks to Plympton’s lively animation of Trump’s words, he not as much illustrates, but rather ironises them and gives them other, often unexpected contexts and meanings.

Trump Bites – The Unraveling

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Flood

Malte Stein | Germany | 2018 | 10 min | DE

This cold film about an unhealthy relationship between a mother and her adolescent son is set in a city which is gradually flooded by water from a polluted lake. The despotic mother finally has a reason to keep her child at home, but the drama that slowly unfolds in their apartment is ultimately far more tragic than the flood outside. Especially when phobias and fears start to mingle with reality and become too much to handle.

Flood

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Musical Traumas

Miloš Tomić | Serbia | 2018 | 11 min | SR

In this rhythmical and inventive anidoc, the author portrays the experiences of several people who attended, or rather were forced to attend courses at a musical school as children. But the parents often did not know what was happening behind the walls of these institutions. This humorous film by an author who studied at, among other schools, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, uses hand drawn animation to visualise music.

Musical Traumas

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Rain

Piotr Milczarek | Poland | 2018 | 5 min

In this bitterly humorous study of a relationship between an individual and a collective, the author’s minimalistic artistic style brings forward its urgency and the risk of generalisation. One day, an inconspicuous superhero has to ask himself what the well-known saying “With great power comes great responsibility” actually means.

Rain

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

Between the Shadows

Alice Guimarães, Mónica Santos | Portugal, France | 2018 | 14 min | PT

This film with excellent pixilation atypically combined with the elements of gangster and thriller films, tells a complicated story of a young woman named Natalie and an unknown man. In a world where you can deposit your heart in a bank, the theft of emotions is possible. Natalie, led astray into a world of crime, faces the dilemma of how to deal with this opportunity and turn it into profit.

Between the Shadows

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.48
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
17.30-18.48
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
18.30-19.48
Světozor Cinema

The Last Day of Autumn

Marjolaine Perreten | Switzerland, Belgium, France | 2019 | 8 min

The biggest event of the season is here - the big race of forest animals towards winter hibernation. But how does a snake take part in a bicycle race? Or a small hedgehog? Self-taught animator with experiences from many study stays Marjolaine Perreten tells a charming story about an interdependent forest community intended for the youngest audiences.

The Last Day of Autumn

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Mr. Mare

Luca Tóth | Hungary, France | 2019 | 20 min

The hero of the latest film by an award-winning Hungarian filmmaker is an attractive young man with a strange tumour on his body concealing a miniature person. While the person sets out to explore a claustrophobic apartment after he is freed, we draw nearer to understanding the hero’s love life and the theme of unrequited love.

Mr. Mare

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Selfies

Claudius Gentinetta | Switzerland | 2018 | 4 min

This excellently animated tragicomic film with a brilliant plot deals with the human addiction to mobile devices and social media. Its author developed a single idea into a four-minute-long dynamic sequence of scenes and created a dismally truthful testimony about the loss of human identity which has moved to the displays of our smartphones.

Selfies

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Somewhere

Paul Muresan | Romania, Czech Republic | 2018 | 9 min

Death is only the beginning. But even with a reliable guide, the journey through Purgatory seems very difficult. Houses walking on spider legs, a dark forest and insidious fledglings are only a fraction of what the dead hero of this dark film can expect when trying to find himself and not get stuck in Purgatory for eternity.

Somewhere

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

The Lost Garden

Natalia Chernysheva | France | 2018 | 3 min | FR

Young French authors (under the supervision of the company Tant Mieux Prod) present the fifth instalment in the series of adaptations of classical French poetry – this time the works of Claude Roy. In The Lost Garden, old fruit trees, flowers, strawberries and the smallest inhabitants of an abandoned garden set out to a big city in search of their roots.

The Lost Garden

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Kids

Michael Frei | Switzerland | 2019 | 9 min | EN

Frei’s artistically minimalistic student film Plug and Play won its category at the 2014 Anifilm. In his latest film Kids, the director sticks to his trademark style. By means of simple stylisation, absence of detail and meticulous work with repetition, he explores the dynamics of a group of his anonymous characters representing not only kids.

Kids

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

The Cat’s Regret

Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli | France, Belgium | 2018 | 9 min | FR

The parents deal with the hatred of their son towards his own older brother without any hesitation. Everything will surely be fixed when the boy meets his uncle Daniel. Although Daniel isn’t exactly his uncle… In any case, the whole town knows this reclusive weirdo. But only a few know about his terrible secret.

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Le Mans 1955

Quentin Baillieux | France | 2018 | 15 min | FR

Saturday, 11th June 1955. The starting line of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is occupied by the fastest cars of the era and the track is surrounded by thousand of curious fans. The competition between teams such as Jaguar and Mercedes promises a remarkable spectacle. The race ended in one of the bloodiest accidents in the history of motorsport.

Le Mans 1955

We 8/5/2019
20.30-21.45
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.00-14.15
Světozor Cinema

Animal Behaviour

Alison Snowden, David Fine | Canada | 2018 | 14 min | EN

Lorraine the leech, Cheryl the mantis, Todd the pig, Jeffrey the bird and Linda the cat all attend group psychotherapy. Each of them struggles with their own self. But is there really something wrong with them? A newcomer, Victor the monkey, turns Doctor Clement’s sessions upside down. Should they go back to the trees?!

Animal Behaviour

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

Matches

Géza M. Tóth | Hungary | 2019 | 12 min | EN

The hero of this film is a lonely seven-year-old boy. And even though we never get to see the boy, we have an opportunity to take a sneak peek into his world thanks to an inventive and precise game with animated matchsticks that transform according to the boy’s narration. This animated documentary made by a renowned author uses an authentic sound recording.

Matches

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

A Double Life

Job Roggeveen | Netherlands | 2018 | 3 min

A moustache and a drill instead of an iron? In this humorous film, a story of a man and wife confronted with gender stereotypes and the image of one another leads to a dark ending. A Double Life is the latest film by trio Job, Joris & Marieke whose Oscar-nominated film A Single Life, along with their other films, was screened at last year’s Anifilm.

A Double Life

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

Riviera

Jonas Schloesing | France | 2018 | 15 min | FR

A slow tempo and score characterised by the unrelenting chirp of the cicadas help to create a sleepy atmosphere of a rather pitiless summer that old Mr. Henriet spends on his balcony with binoculars in his hands. The room behind him is full of memories and hot air. Down by the pool, people are sunbathing. Among them is a young girl.

Riviera

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

WAAAH

Sawako Kabuki | Japan | 2018 | 2 min

Screaming as a sign of life. Crying as an expression of a need that requires fulfilling… Irritating sounds accompany humans from their very birth in moments of fright, excitement and frustration. The author says of her minimalist film: “I’ve grown up to be a mature person. But I would love to be a baby again.”

WAAAH

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

Carlotta's Face

Frédéric Schuld, Valentin Riedl | Germany | 2018 | 5 min | DE

Valentin Riedl is a neurologist focusing on the complexity of the human brain. While working on this film, he joined forces with animator Frédéric Schulde and made an animated documentary about a woman who his not capable of recognising human faces. They have captured Carlotta’s journey to recognise her own appearance through art.

Carlotta's Face

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

The Hunt

Mateusz Jarmulski | Poland | 2018 | 8 min

The summer holidays will soon be over. There is not much time left to have great adventures in the Wild West. But the film’s eleven-year-old protagonist can still look forward to having some. Even though he’s spending his summer in a remote Polish village surrounded by woods and lakes, he is about to experience something that he will not soon forget.

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

The English Teecher

Andy London | United States | 2018 | 19 min | EN

When Andy London set out to be a teacher of illegal immigrants in New York, he did not know what his calling would be. This film, reminiscent of the bestseller The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, tells the story of a teacher charging nine dollars per lesson, and recounts his experience with people of various characters that made him into what he is today. Which is certainly not an English teacher.

The English Teecher

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.17
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-18.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.00-14.17
Světozor Cinema

Augur

Vasco Sá, David Doutel | Portugal, France | 2018 | 16 min | PT

In a remote secluded house in the mountains, two cousins live surrounded by harsh nature and frosty weather. The water in a nearby river freezes and, besieged by the cold wind that rises that day, the hostility of their relationship grows, reaching its limit. This film with a stifling atmosphere is characterised by a strong visual style reminiscent of oil paintings and uses only minimal words to masterfully evoke tension.

Augur

Tu 7/5/2019
20.00-21.17
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.17
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.17
Světozor Cinema

Cyclists

Veljko Popovic | Croatia, France | 2018 | 8 min

The cycling season is nearing its grand finale. During the final race, the two men in the lead are competing for more than the Grand Trophy; they are fighting for the affection of a lady and fulfilment of their erotic fantasies. Meanwhile, the small port town prepares for the arrival of a large ocean liner and its dashing captain.

Cyclists

Tu 7/5/2019
20.00-21.17
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.17
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.17
Světozor Cinema

The Call

Anca Damian | Romania | 2018 | 10 min | RO

A full bath as a gateway into memories. To submerge and once again meet your husband or see things evoking the fleeting moments of joy. That’s how a son remembers his mother. Along with her collaborators, the director uses or alludes to various materials and artistic methods such as embroidery or the remnants of wallpaper on the walls of a torn down house and connects them into an originally branchy whole.

The Call

Tu 7/5/2019
20.00-21.17
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.17
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.17
Světozor Cinema

This Magnificent Cake!

De Swaef Emma, Marc James Roels | Belgium | 2018 | 45 min | NL

An anthology film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century telling the stories of five different characters: a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter and a young army deserter. All these felt puppet characters comprise a remarkable whole with a chilling reach into the present.

This Magnificent Cake!

Tu 7/5/2019
20.00-21.17
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.17
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.17
Světozor Cinema

The Other

Marta Magnuska | Poland | 2018 | 5 min | PL

This dynamic black-and-white film made at the famous Polish school in Lodz is characterised by expressive animation and sound. While waiting for the arrival of a mysterious newcomer, people keep on trying to guess who he is. The blurry vision of the stranger takes shape and his presence feels almost real. The initial excitement of the crowd turns into anxiety.

The Other

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Inanimate

Lucia Bulgheroni | United Kingdom | 2018 | 9 min | EN

The hero of this puppet film lives a happy but routine life, but one day, she finds out that “something is different”. She suddenly notices discontinuities in time and space and that everyday objects are actually flat and fake. But is this not the real life of a puppet that needs to be accepted? The author suggestively portrays the confused mind of the hero in whose brain the awakening provokes a raging storm.

Inanimate

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Grand Bassin

Héloïse Courtois , Adèle Raigneau, Victori Jalabert, Chloé Plat | France | 2018 | 7 min

Animated scenes from spas and swimming pools are a favourite among animators (especially French animators), but they sometimes tend to focus more on atmosphere than situations. That is not the case of the artistically inventive and purely animated film Grand Bassin in which – against the backdrop of a peaceful spa – incredible stories unfold both above and below the surface of the water.

Grand Bassin

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

My Little Goat

Tomoki Misato | Japan | 2018 | 11 min | JA

This suggestive Japanese horror film is a shocking variation on the popular story about the wolf and little goats. The she-goat rescues her children from the wolf’s belly but she can’t find her oldest son. A scary naturalistic story unfolds which in fact addresses a much deeper issue than it may seem at first sight.

My Little Goat

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Hello Emptiness

Louison Chambon | Belgium | 2018 | 5 min

With humour and irony, the film touches on the often taboo subject of depression. The film’s hero is controlled by a feeling of absolute emptiness and so he seeks comfort with his family, then the doctor… but not even his self-appointed friends can chase away his gloom in the end. This minimalistic film is a testimony to feelings that torment a greater part of the population than we think.

Hello Emptiness

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

West Question East Answer

Dal Park | United Kingdom | 2018 | 7 min | EN

This autobiographical anidoc observes the difficult communication between a Korean grandmother and her granddaughter who grew up in Germany. The author illustrates their dialogue, or rather attempts to engage in one, against the backdrop of cultural and historical events. The gap between them is so wide that it is uncertain whether these two women can understand each other.

West Question East Answer

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

The Stained Club

Alice Jaunet, Béatrice Viguier, Chan Stéphie Peang, Marie Ciesielski, Mélanie Lopez, Simon Boucly | France | 2018 | 7 min | FR

A disturbing and visually cold story about a boy who meets a group of strangely distant children. He feels a kinship with them and would like to fit in. All the children have stains on their skin. The authors draw us into a world where they look for an answer to whether there is any difference between psychological terror and physical violence inflicted on children.

The Stained Club

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Blocked, Blurred and in the Dark – The Diver

Sophia Twigt | Netherlands | 2018 | 4 min | NL

The author of this ambitious ten-episode project aims to visualise the incredible stories of people who want to remain anonymous for some reason. She wants to create a series of anidocs based on sound recordings of respondents without giving away their identity. The Diver is one of them, and the author, who is interested in using animation in journalism, bestowed the story with poetic style and inventive execution.

Blocked, Blurred and in the Dark – The Diver

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

New Neighbours

Andrea Mannino, Giacomo Rinaldi, Sara Burgio | Italy | 2018 | 6 min

This excellent film full of gags made by young Italian authors is an homage to and imitation of classic American slapsticks from the 1930s. The film, which includes many allusions to existing slapsticks and their characters and which tries to reflect contemporary issues of immigration and integration, tells the story of a white nationalist who can’t tolerate who his new neighbours are.

New Neighbours

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

First Contact

Vaiana Gauthier | France | 2018 | 5 min

This rather sad story with a poetic atmosphere is set in the second half of the 18th century in Tahiti when colonisers arrive to this island untouched by western civilisation. Naïve Tahitians trade the treasures of their island for nails that they apparently have no idea how to use. We watch the story through the eyes of a girl who refuses to make the trade at a critical moment.

First Contact

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

The Kite

Martin Smatana | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland | 2019 | 14 min

The graduation film of Slovak director Martin Smatana uses symbols and tender metaphors to poetically tell the story of a young boy dealing with the death of his grandfather. This artistically atypical film made using a demanding animation technique is intended mainly for children. It wants to show them that even though all beings must eventually pass on, there is a way to still be with them.

The Kite

We 8/5/2019
12.00-13.16
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Th 9/5/2019
12.00-13.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

Sa 11/5/2019
15.30-16.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Good Intentions

Anna Mantzaris | United Kingdom | 2018 | 9 min | EN

Anna Mantzaris won the prize for the Best Student Film at Anifilm 2018. Her latest film is also characterised by felt puppets, peculiar humour and the director's fondness for escalated situations. After the film's hero causes a serious accident, she tries to make up for her fatal mistake and subsequent imprudent decisions.

Good Intentions

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Fuse

Shadi Adib | Germany | 2018 | 8 min | EN

A little hole in the wall of a trap is its only contact with the world while a parade of distorted sadistic figures argue about its fate. Will a trapped rat survive until the end of the film? In her artistically expressive and disturbing film full of rough humour, the Iranian author plays God.

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Sirens

Julia Tudisco | Hungary | 2018 | 4 min

As the sea waves crash on the beach, a group of women enjoy themselves while building a ship together and playing with dolphins. Meanwhile, above them, on the balcony of one of the houses, a sad girl sits on a cactus. The merriment below and the pastel coloured sea remind her of the freedom she is probably going to lose soon.

Sirens

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Monster

Ioana Laura Pop | Romania | 2018 | 5 min

Growing up isn’t easy. Definitely not for the hero of this artistically minimalist film, who tries to fight a monster with many eyes, a leg and a million requirements she should fulfil. Will she win this important battle or will the suspiciously familiar monster get her?

Monster

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Hide N Seek

Barbora Halířová | Czech Republic | 2019 | 7 min

When a young boy hides into a wall clock during playtime, his life shrinks into a single game of hide and seek. He becomes an old man with lots of memories of his childhood that manifest themselves in surreal scenes and tell a story about something which concerns every single one of us. Hide N Seek is Bára Halířová’s graduation film from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Hide N Seek

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

The Diver

Iulia Voitova | France | 2018 | 5 min

This film, specific with its inventive approach to the technique of paper cut-outs, indicates that sporting achievements aren’t always the result of the diligence of the athletes and the stubbornness of the coaches. Its author uses the natural properties of the chosen material to pay homage to the work of a sports massage therapist fixing broken bodies.

The Diver

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Happy Ending

EunJu Ara Choi | United Kingdom | 2018 | 5 min | EN

This film is based on anonymous testimonies by a Korean prostitute found on the internet. By means of captivating animation, its author explores the relationship of the protagonist to her own body and her perception of her status in the society as well as the arguable presumption that she must by definition enjoy her work.

Happy Ending

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Thermostat 6

Maya Av-Ron, Mylène Cominotti, Marion Coudert, Sixtine Dano | France | 2018 | 5 min | FR

Diane doesn’t want to watch how established family patterns overshadow the reality hidden beneath the surface any longer. She decides to fix the leaking plumbing above a set table that the rest of the family refuses to see and goes on with the feast. But maybe it is a symptom of something else which does not affect only her family.

Thermostat 6

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Sigh of Sighs

Bo-seong Gim | South Korea | 2018 | 6 min

A greyish haze covers the Korean river Han. It turns animals and things into blurred black shapes. The biggest of them is a dead whale on the riverbank. It seems that it is not of any interest to anyone except a stray dog and a flock of birds. While the city lives on, the forces of nature prepare the colossus for a posthumous lamentation over the situation in the country.

Sigh of Sighs

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Irene's Island

Hippolyte Cupillard | France | 2018 | 5 min

Surrounded by objects, old Irene’s bed slowly becomes a safe island where everything is within reach. With the assistance of dozens of little helpers, Irene prepares for an important voyage so everyone has to make sure that everything goes smoothly and she can set out in peace.

Irene's Island

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Goderdzi

Petre Tomadze | Georgia | 2018 | 7 min

Funerals are usually not very amusing. But in this case, it is an unexpectedly (black humorously) uplifting occasion – when a gravedigger falls for a widow whose husband he is just burying. Daring and colourfully crafty artistic style underline the unique expression of this Georgian film.

Goderdzi

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Pétanque 51

Theo Guyot | Belgium | 2018 | 6 min | FR

Théo Guyot’s film about passion for the game and a longing for revenge will convince you that pétanque is definitely not a boring sport played exclusively by French pensioners. The author stylises the members of a young ambitious team and their veteran opponents as ruthless tough guys reminiscent of fearless superheroes.

Pétanque 51

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

Facing It

Sam Gainsborough | United Kingdom | 2018 | 8 min

You can’t say that Shaun likes to be alone. But he doesn’t exactly fit in with the others. With all the joyful and confident others. While he waits in a crowded place for his parents, he submerges into a vortex of memories of events that have shaped him. And he knows that he will have to face his fears tonight.

Facing It

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
14.00-15.16
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.30-15.46
Puppet Theatre

What if I am...?

Dita Stuchlíková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 9 min | CS

For some people, it is just a bad habit, for others it is a serious disorder. The moment they leave their apartment, they come back to check if all the electronic devices are switched off. This suggestively animated film showing how one can be terrorized by his own thoughts was made by a student of film and theatre theory.

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Days Off

Filip Blažek | Czech Republic | 2018 | 12 min

This atmospheric black-and-white film tells the story of two lonely characters, neighbours from a prefab building in an alienated environment of a dirty city. Are they distant or close? An original story set in original decorations and with a strange timelessness.

Days Off

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Three Messages From the Mind of a Believer of Nothing

Eliška Oz, Lee Oz | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min

Three short loops that predict the future of a city and AI through playful work with sound and improvised work with clay were made by Eliška and Lee Oz. These two animators set out on a shared career path in 2016.

Three Messages From the Mind of a Believer of Nothing

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Selfshe

Kamila Mullerová | Czech Republic | 2019 | 3 min

This black-and-white film bordering on experiment depicts Hotel Kladno where time stands still. The rooms are empty, corridors on the highest floors decrepit and flies on the window sills dead, but despite all that, the author manages to find certain poetics in this space.

Selfshe

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Fleeting Autumn

Vojtěch Domlátil | Czech Republic, Japan | 2018 | 8 min | EN

A collection of audio-visual Haiku poems. Stop-motion poetry, oscillating between animation, documentary and experiment. Transforming Haiku poetry based on 5-7-5 syllables to the audio-visual form using a 5-7-5 second shot structure. The author made the film during a two-month art residency in Japan and uses typical local motifs, which he often puts in unusual contexts.

Fleeting Autumn

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Tremble

Josef Žárský | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min

Old Eskimo woman is addicted on social networks, and that has a fatal influence on her ability to obtain food. Film about guns and self phones. Breaking ice included.

Tremble

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Life of a Pig

Matthew Kvasnik | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min

This hand animated and sad short film depicts the life of an ordinary pig. Its author Matthew Kvasnik draws attention to the terrible conditions in factory farms and slaughterhouses but also uses some humour (albeit black) at the end of the film.

Life of a Pig

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Fifty Years Later

Jekaterina Bessonova | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | RU

This anidoc is based on the testimony of a former soldier who was a member of the Soviet invasion troops that attacked Czechoslovakia in 1968. A Russian director studying at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague visualised the soldier’s memories. What’s also interesting about the film is that – without justifying them – it shows the events from a different perspective than we are used to.

Fifty Years Later

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Narkissós

Nora Štrbová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min

Short animated puppet probe into endless self-love, freely drawing on the ancient myth of Narcissus. If you want to love others, you must first be able to love yourself. The film was made by a Slovak student of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Narkissós

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Air.ratio

Seunn Lee | Czech Republic | 2018 | 5 min

The artist is imagining some of the smallest particles and constantly vibrating and oscillating waves that exist in the air. Strings which burrow inside all things, living and inanimate, only to later be exhaled and continue with their journey. The film is an impressive experiment made by a Korean animator living and studying in Prague.

Air.ratio

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Circus

Martin Hahn, Pavel Endrle | Czech Republic | 2019 | 2 min

Two students who are both interested in the same animation technique and share a common sense of humour made a short slapstick using half-relief puppets. The movie shows a few (un)usual performances from an (un)usual circus.

Circus

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Woman's day

Evgeny Terpugov | Czech Republic | 2018 | 6 min

Woman’s day is a sensitively made film about domestic abuse and female self-confidence. An unhappy woman leaves her partner. Walking through a snowstorm, she is so exhausted she falls to the ground, but luckily, other women appear. They were taking a sauna nearby and they are about to show the mentally and physically exhausted heroine that there is a way out.

Woman's day

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

The Garden

Julie Lupačová, Linda Retterová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min

The authors, both focusing on stop-motion animation, present a short but impressive film. The Garden was made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of independent Czechoslovakia and the authors managed to fit these hundred years into a single minute.

The Garden

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Gambler

Michaela Režová, Ivan Studený | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | CS

This audiodocumentary made by duo of authors Michaela Režová and Ivan Studený, with the help of colourful images, tells the personal story of a man who fell for into gambling. First came the sound, then the image. They support each other and together they present the furious flashing past of someone who was addicted.

Gambler

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

A Date

Michaela Mihalyiova | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min

This Slovak director studying at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague brings another short and playful film with a good punchline starring products for intimate hygiene. She uses her distinctive style that we know from her previous film FOOD.

A Date

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Journey

Marek Jasaň | Slovakia, Czech Republic | 2018 | 9 min

Journey is the story of a man who daydreams about entering the minds of people around him, stealing their dreams, desires and personal experience in order to fill his own, empty mind. This ambitious co-production uses various animation techniques.

Journey

Tu 7/5/2019
18.00-19.23
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
10.00-11.23
Puppet Theatre

Technaturia

Porin Rašpica | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min

In his experimental film, Croatian student Porin Rašpica from the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek compares the forces of traditionally opposite principles – human, technical and natural. To depict the struggle for domination, he chose coloured sand capable of smoothly portraying the film’s comprehensible visual symbolism.

Technaturia

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Apart

Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic | 2018 | 10 min | CS

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 prematurely exposed to death.

Apart

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

The XXXL Plumber Jack Dingbongs Her Tiny Skinpompom: Episode 8

Vojtěch Kočí | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min | EN

This film was created during the director’s study stay in Sweden as an artistic commentary on pornography, its means of expression and influence on people. By using grotesque deformation and exaggeration, the film points out the falseness of pornography as a modern myth and reveals its absurdity through a typical script.

The XXXL Plumber Jack Dingbongs Her Tiny Skinpompom: Episode 8

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

inscenacEno.1948

David Daenmark | Czech Republic | 2018 | 12 min | CS

The usage of puppets in this interpretation of the events of 23rd February 1948 becomes more than symbolic. The main protagonists of the film are Klement Gottwald, Antonín Zápotocký, Rudolf Slánský and Edvard Beneš. Beneš’s puppet version finds itself under pressure of the other protagonists. The film was made at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

inscenacEno.1948

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Eternity

Yea-eun Jang | South Korea, Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | SILENT

The film’s director, a Korean student of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, uses captivating and sometimes even demonically scary images to deal with the topic of eternity. In her work, she is inspired by art brut and indigenous cultures.

Eternity

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Bloody Riot

Marcela Drobná, Terezie Kajabová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min

Bloody Riot is an animated film about menstruation and situations that men can only imagine. The stars of this film are hygienic products such as menstrual pads and tampons. Their escapades give a wide audience an idea of situations that commonly happen during the menstrual cycle.

Bloody Riot

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Music Box

Veronika Pasterná Szemlová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 13 min

A seemingly automated and functional mechanism doesn’t tolerate any deviations or mistakes. In case of a music box, a false tone, however weak it may be, can have immeasurable consequences. In her film, the director who studies at the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, points out that the existence of such tones doesn’t always have to be undesirable.

Music Box

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Our Number Eight

Petr Mischinger | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | CS

To commemorate a great deal of important anniversaries in the history of the Czech and Slovak Republics, this short anidoc about the meaning of the number eight in the lives of its protagonists was created at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. A number of more or less important events from the lives of the film’s protagonists are put in highly subversive contrast with the “big eights” in our history.

Our Number Eight

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Ladislav Tejml | Czech Republic | 2018 | 8 min

The author sees his project as a candy with a filling made of interacting ingredients. The first one is post-apocapitalism, the second temporality, the third posthumanism and the fourth the Anthropocene and Capitalocene. The last ingredient is a binding agent called the internet – saliva flowing all over the ingredients and giving them all an unpleasant taste.

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

The Parasites

Ivana Zapletalová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 6 min

At the beginning, there was a nit. The Parasites is a story about parasitism that concerns the everyday lives of us all. The destruction of one system is an ideal opportunity for another. This commentary on the historical development and the current political situation made by a student from the Ostrava University appeals to civil responsibility.

The Parasites

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Advertising the Earth Radio – Stephen P. McGreevy’s VLF Cut-outs

Zbyšek Semelka | Czech Republic | 2019 | 6 min | EN

This advertisement is advertising the electromagnetic radiation in wavelengths of around 0.1 to 15 kHz that naturally occurs in the atmosphere. With the help of Stephen P. McGreevy's huge recordings archive and using ordinary drywall and simple space illusion we can see this untraditional field of human interest and fascinating natural phenomena.

Advertising the Earth Radio – Stephen P. McGreevy’s VLF Cut-outs

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Where My Home Is?

Juras Karaka, Manri Kim | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min | CS

The political situation forces the citizens to react; Wenceslas Square is filling with people. When one of the protestors gets hungry, the closest solution is a Turkish restaurant on the corner. The man leaves satisfied but he forgets his banner. The waiter must act in order to return it to him in time.

Where My Home Is?

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

No Man’s Delta

Terezie Unzeitigová, Terezie Unzeitigová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 17 min

This film oscillating between anidoc, music video and film essay takes us to the delta of the Danube known for its beautiful nature. The author focuses on the area’s transformation from an industrial zone and uses its example to thematize the evolution of thinking and society in post-Communist Europe.

No Man’s Delta

We 8/5/2019
16.30-17.59
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
16.00-17.29
Puppet Theatre

Episode 11

Viktor Svoboda | Czech Republic | 2019 | 9 min

Space hero Hart is captured by enemy robots and his son must save him before it’s too late. Viktor Svoboda from the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín presents the eleventh episode of a sci-fi series that doesn’t exist (yet). Its form is reminiscent of Japanese anime productions with a daring colour stylisation.

Episode 11

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

Cloudy

Filip Diviak, Zuzana Čupová | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2018 | 5 min

Zuzana Čupová and Filip Diviak, whose films were screened in the International Competition of Student Films during previous editions of Anifilm, have this time joined forces to tell a story about a dwarf whose only desire is to enjoy the sunbeams. But an annoying cloud gets in the way, so Mr. Dwarf must act.

Cloudy

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

The Incredible Wardrobegadget of Dr. Stein

Gabriela Plačková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 15 min

This sci-fi puppet fairy tale tells the story of doctor Stein who loses his best friend during one of his experiments. But when he brings his dog back to life, he needs to find an answer to the question of whether this uncontrollable monster that is nothing like his friend, has the right to live.

The Incredible Wardrobegadget of Dr. Stein

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

Hopus

Lucie Kokoliová | Czech Republic | 2019 | 4 min

Ski jumping is a popular sport not only for humans. In this animated film by Lucie Kokoliová, a student of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, various animals including a polar bear compete against each other but when the competition is nearing its end, events suddenly take an unexpected turn.

Hopus

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

Wolf Paths

Noemi Valentíny, Vojtěch Dočkal | Czech Republic | 2018 | 11 min

Despite his health problems, the asthmatic hero of this story leads a peaceful but also boring life with his mother. But when he loses his inhaler he must leave his home and venture into the wilderness where he meets a wolf. Despite the evident danger, he sets out on an adventure with it. Where will the wolf paths lead him?

Wolf Paths

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

The Witch

Anna Němečková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 5 min

To fulfil the wishes of all your customers is not always easy. Just ask the heroine of this film made by Anna Němečková from the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín. For the right price, she can magically make almost anything appear or disappear. The limits of her abilities and patience are tested by a permanently displeased princess who would like to have a charming prince instead of an ugly frog.

The Witch

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

On the Same Wavelength

Radoslava Lacková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 7 min

Radoslava Lacková’s animated film proves that even beings that seemingly have nothing in common can sometimes find themselves on the same wavelength. It explores the power of music that can connect the worlds of humans and creatures looking for their place in the sun in a bush in the garden or among the inhabitants of a pond.

On the Same Wavelength

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.06
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
10.30-11.36
Zlatá Hvězda

Homesick

Hila Einy, Noy Bar, Yoav Aluf | Israel | 2018 | 8 min | HE

A crisis in a young woman's life forces her to return to her parents' home. Her reappearance disrupts the delicate balance in the family nest. In their film, a collective of Israeli students offers a casual take on a rather common life situation. But they choose an unusual metaphorical portrayal easily understandable to everyone.

Homesick

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

The Taste of Loneliness

Laura Passalacqua | France | 2018 | 2 min

This film influenced by surrealism uses very little space to visualise the feelings of boredom and emptiness. The only escape from them is the garden behind the bedroom window. In it, the astonished hero finds human limbs. But a leg, a hand or a mouth aren’t terrifying; on the contrary, they challenge the hero to a game that enables him to perform a certain form of self-analysis and look for balance.

The Taste of Loneliness

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Contact

Mari Kivi | Estonia | 2018 | 5 min

In this film, we – in “an Estonian way” – watch a peculiar relationship between a man and a woman that is stuck in stereotypical activities symbolised, among other things, by washing and hanging laundry. An instinctive need for contact between the partners has created an unhealthy addictive relationship which cannot work for long. But what will stop the endless “washing cycle”?

Contact

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Elise

Valentine Moser | Switzerland | 2018 | 6 min | FR

Elise, who lives in a retirement home, realises she's losing control of her life: Alzheimer's prevents her from understanding the world and leaves her just a few memories to cling on to. Soon, the presence of her daughter, her last anchor to reality, won't be enough to keep her from diving into her memories. The artistic style of the film indicates that colours and contours have also vanished.

Elise

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Dog Days

Jack Brown | United Kingdom | 2018 | 8 min | EN

Jack Brown’s graduation film uses the aesthetics of American road movies. We follow a young man who is looking for his musically gifted dog that ran away. But as it happens on hot desert roads, unusual things start occurring and our hero meets weird characters. Will the owner and his dog meet at the evening performance despite all their difficulties?

Dog Days

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

A Blink of an Eye

Kiana Naghshineh | Germany | 2018 | 4 min

A woman walks home at night. She is overwhelmed from behind by a stranger. He grabs her and tries to rip off her clothes. They fight. The point of view switches between man and woman. Reality and fears blur into each other. A new point of view is involved: eyewitnesses who live in surrounding houses. They look down at an escaping perpetrator and a helpless victim. But for the woman herself this situation is not so clear.

A Blink of an Eye

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Hedge

Amanda Bonaiuto | United States | 2018 | 7 min

A little girl seems lost in a house full of mourning guests. Everyone is getting ready for a funeral. But she fails to see the meaning in what they’re doing and we cannot blame her for it. The absurd scenes in which we see the bereaved people are not very usual. In order to overcome difficulties, we sometimes need to face them with humour.

Hedge

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Stuck in the Middle

Cécile Minaud, Denis Fleurion, Etienne Bonafini, Julien Adoum, Léo Nezot, Romain Marchetti | France | 2018 | 6 min | FR

Four French friends are doing a road trip across the United States. In the middle of the desert, they pick up a really strange hitchhiker. From this moment their journey won't go as well as they thought. In their film, six French students combine 3D computer animation with typically rough gangster dialogues.

Stuck in the Middle

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Soapboy

Agne Jurkenaite, Daniel O’Connor, Anna Smirnova | United Kingdom | 2018 | 7 min

Dark apartments and closed-up spaces create an atmosphere in which peculiar obsessions bubble up. A mother and son relationship takes an unexpected turn, which leads to a dramatic change in their fates. This film, remarkable not only in terms of its technique and style, uses various ways to cause deep unease in its viewers which they won’t shake off until the film’s horror ending.

Soapboy

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Vertigo

Liana Mihailova | Latvia | 2018 | 4 min

While having an exciting summer swim and diving one after another into the water at the foot of a cliff, the main character is unexpectedly separated from the rest of his group of friends by an unsurpassable cliff edge and amplified experience. An animation inspired by the phenomenon of acrophobia – fear of heights.

Vertigo

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Spell of the West

Sam Lane | United States | 2018 | 8 min | EN

On an isolated cactus farm, three frightened birds ask cowgirl Rose to help put a stop to a dangerous axeman. But she can’t find him and meanwhile something terrifying happens with the surrounding forest. Rose then unexpectedly becomes “the woman who planted trees”. This film with a changing atmosphere uses psychedelia and humour to convey an ecological and political message.

Spell of the West

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Entropia

Flora Anna Buda | Hungary | 2018 | 10 min

Entropia contains three parallel universes where three girls are living in different circumstances. One of them represents the animalistic side of human nature, one of them is a consumer filled with her own frustrations, and the third one is living in a futuristic room where she has to run to keep the system working. But a fly gets in and breaks the system.

Entropia

We 8/5/2019
15.30-16.51
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.30-16.51
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
20.00-21.21
Světozor Cinema

Stars – Karel and Josef

Lucie Štamfestová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 5 min | CS

This series presents the giants of Czech history through stories from their childhood and adolescence while searching for the ordinary, human and humorous sides of every personality, however serious they may be. The animation reminiscent of contemporary comics connects modern drawing with period artistic elements.

Stars – Karel and Josef

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Mury the Cat – Lunchtime

Jernej Zmitek | Slovenia, Czech Republic | 2018 | 12 min | SL

This series starring likeable cats of different colours was made by Slovenian director Jernej Zmitek in a Slovenian-Czech co-production. Mury is taking Missy for a birthday lunch. Both are so hungry they can only talk about food on their way to the Chat Noir restaurant…

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

No no no! – Kuk

Daniel Špaček | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min

Humorous one-minute-long animations with a playful artistic style, quick punchlines and slapstick poetics. The director lets the micro-stories unfold in a small space while resourcefully using colour combinations in line with the visuals of the Czech Television’s ČT:D children’s channel.

No no no! – Kuk

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

The Kokoška Family on the Road – The Race in Grand Canyon

Ivo Hejcman, Jitka Petrová | Czech Republic | 2019 | 8 min | CS

The heroes of this humorous series are the hens of the Kokoška family. Daddy – a journalist – writes reports from various parts of the world where he takes his loved ones with him. This time, they travel to the United States to see the Grand Canyon. And even though exciting situations seem to avoid reporter Kokoška as if on purpose, in the end he – as always – submits a sensational report.

The Kokoška Family on the Road – The Race in Grand Canyon

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sing with Us – Christmas Special

David Súkup | Czech Republic | 2018 | 5 min | CS

Renowned Czech director David Súkup has turned popular Czech songs into charming animated stories that are popular with children. A clever little fox presents every episode, this time Christmas-themed.

Sing with Us – Christmas Special

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Speaking of Our Country – Jumping Symbol

Maria Procházková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 5 min | CS

This animated series created to commemorate the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of independent Czechoslovakia introduces the Czech national symbols to children in an entertaining way. Director Maria Procházková uses playful and inventive animation.

Speaking of Our Country – Jumping Symbol

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Mimi a Lisa – Christmas Lights Mystery

Ivana Šebestová, Katarína Kerekesová | Slovakia, Czech Republic | 2018 | 27 min | CS

Almost a 30-minute-long Christmas special of the poetic Slovak-Czech series about the deep friendship of two girls, one of whom can’t see. Christmas Lights Mystery takes place in a magical Christmas atmosphere enhanced by the tender artistic style of the characters and the settings.

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
11.30-12.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Athletes Who Touch the Stars

Miroslav Kemel | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min | CS

This film portrays Czech athletes who have cemented their places in history. We travel all over the world and watch how the performances of our athletes influence children’s games and dreams. And maybe even the dreams of children far beyond our solar system. This spot for the Czech Olympic Committee was made by a renowned caricaturist.

Athletes Who Touch the Stars

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Antitalent: Správnej čas

Leoš Matějček | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min | CS

This minimalistic 3D computer animation takes us into an abandoned city. There’s no one alive in sight and the streets still bear marks of a recent revolution. The captivating black and white visual is dominated by uniform houses that the author eventually uses to form the band’s logo.

Antitalent: Správnej čas

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Undistorted Science – Bees

MAUR film | Czech Republic | 2019 | 9 min | CS

This is an episode from the fourth season of the educational series by the Czech Academy of Sciences that uses a playful format to introduce current topics and scientific evergreens. This time, the show’s long-term narrator Pavel Liška explores a bee hive. The guarantor of this episode was bee expert Václav Krištůfek from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Undistorted Science – Bees

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

We Have Your Presents – Eallin Christmas Card

EALLIN Team | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min

As an attempt to make Christmas more exciting last year, Eallin delivered a special 3D animation Christmas campaign titled “We Have Your Presents.” The story follows an autonomous pre-teen who has kidnapped Santa and has taken control over all the presents.

We Have Your Presents – Eallin Christmas Card

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

500 Years of Architecture

Oliver Vršanský | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min | CS

This commercial spot belongs to a series created in collaboration with the company Česká produkční Social Media to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the distillery Palírna U Zeleného stromu. As the title suggests, the spot plays with famous buildings in whose story a bottle has always somehow played its role.

500 Years of Architecture

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Brnocop

Martin Jůza | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min

The Brno Municipal Police were looking for new people. They were lacking 50 police men and women in their force. So they made a creative competition in which company Krutart took part with the craziest idea that popped into their mind. They did it in pixel art video-game style.

Brnocop

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Market: Coronado

Šimon Marek | Czech Republic | 2018 | 5 min | EN

Píseň Coronado je popisem dvou poloh nešťastné romantické lásky – apokalypsy a vykoupení. Stejně tak i klip tvoří dva radikálně odlišné druhy vizuality. Skladba pochází z dílny pražské pětičlenné skupiny Market a o její vizuální doprovod se postaral její zpěvák a kytarista Šimon Marek.

Market: Coronado

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

BIOZET – Attack Plus Eliminator

Yoes Benli | Australia, Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min | EN

This TV commercial for Biozet Attack Plus Eliminator tries to persuade the viewer that Biozet soldiers destroy 99.9 % of odour-causing bacteria. After a live-action intro, we fly through a washing machine and find ourselves in a land full of hideous bacteria. But the Biozet carriers are coming to save the day.

BIOZET – Attack Plus Eliminator

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

iPhone People Talking Pixel – JT talks Google Lens

Dávid Štumpf, Michaela Mihalyiova | Czech Republic, United Kingdom | 2018 | 1 min | EN

Working in collaboration with Google Creative Lab and Anyways Creative, a Slovak filmmaking duo from FAMU designed, directed and animated this spot as part of the “iPhone People Talking Pixel” campaign for the Pixel 2 phone.

iPhone People Talking Pixel – JT talks Google Lens

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Manufaktura – Thank you, Mrs, teacher

Alžběta Göbelová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min | CS

This short animated commercial for the Czech brand Manufaktura was created by a UTB University graduate. It uses slight exaggeration and a subtly stylised 2D visual to suggest that instead of bringing the customary and often impractical flowers, children should give their favourite teachers a gift package.

Manufaktura – Thank you, Mrs, teacher

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Photon

Michal Kubíček, Markéta Michálková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min | EN

This stop motion infographic describes the function of a software for compression of photographs based on the findings of quantum physics. Its author combines the techniques of cut-out and object animation to illustratively complement the commentary describing abstract principles.

Photon

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Iluze feat. M.C.: Byciclist

Pavel Kroupa | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | CS

According to its author, “Byciclist” is dedicated to all those who realise that riding a bicycle requires skill much like our everyday lives… This electronic song with cyclist rap is accompanied by a mix of morphed real footage of cyclists of various kinds.

Iluze feat. M.C.: Byciclist

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Contact Your Polititian

Ester Thelander, Vojtěch Kočí | Czech Republic, Sweden | 2018 | 1 min | SV

Short animated promo video made for Naturskyddföreningen (Swedish Society for Nature Conservation) with the intension to make the viewer contact his/her local politician about urgent ecological issues. The video was made during the “Professional Context” assignment at Konstfack.

Contact Your Polititian

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

It has Matcha!

Veronika Zacharová | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min | EN

Sparkling and boosting your brain to the max without any after effects. That’s Seicha Matcha. But how did the Japanese Matcha green tea get to the bottle of Seicha? That’s the subject of this lively and captivating stop-motion spot made by a former student of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.

It has Matcha!

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

TETA – Fairy Ellie

David Súkup | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min | CS

This commercial for the Czech drugstore chain TETA and their brand Ellie was made by the renowned Czech director David Súkup who created an animated scene from the life of an ethereal fairy. He combines 2D animation in which the feminine beauty is supplemented by butterflies, with real footage and objects.

TETA – Fairy Ellie

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Tři sestry: Háskov

Tomáš Hájek | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min | CS

In relationships, we all go through the same things regardless of skin colour or sexual orientation. For a while we are angels, and for a while demons. No one is black or white. This animated visualisation of the lyrics by the legendary Czech band Tři Sestry was created by a graduate of the Department of Animation of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Tři sestry: Háskov

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Total Loss

Gabriela Plačková | Czech Republic | 2018 | 1 min | CS

A short animated spot for an insurance company covering their new “total loss” insurance product. The author is a former student of animation at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. She based her commissioned spots on absurd cases of car accidents and included constantly present typographies.

Total Loss

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

J.A.R.: Jsem vymletej

Norbert Neuschl | Slovakia, Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | CS

Music video of the legendary Czech band J.A.R. The frame by frame animation technique is used to show a psychedelic explosion of colours, a car trip to an unknown destination and pictures a lot of details from the original complex lyrics of the song.

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Bageterie Boulevard – The French Legend

Leo Verrier | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min

The script by Young & Rubicam Prague aimed to establish a “French legend” for the brand created around a Boulangerie based in Paris during the Nazi occupation, and how by means of comical fortuity it became a crucial part of the Journalistic Revolution.

Bageterie Boulevard – The French Legend

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Boris Carloff: In the Sky

Martin Živocký | Czech Republic | 2018 | 4 min | EN

In recent years, Martin Živocký, a graduate of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, has been active in the field of music videos. In his latest music video for the song In The Sky, he takes the viewers on a suggestive journey through space, so it's no wonder that the music video exists also as a 360-degree video. It draws us into interplanetary space where we observe the story of two planets that are in love with one another.

Boris Carloff: In the Sky

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Save the Chicken

Filip Veselý | Czech Republic | 2018 | 2 min | CS

There are millions of chickens living just for one purpose – to lay eggs. They are held in a space as small as a sheet of paper. So OBRAZ, an animal protection NGO, decided to change that. They raised awareness through mainstream media and used this animated spot to push their idea to the public.

Save the Chicken

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Shabazz Palaces: Gorgeous Sleeper Cell

Mikuláš Suchý, Vojtěch Kočí | Czech Republic | 2018 | 3 min | EN

Gorgeous Sleeper Cell is a fan music video for Seattle-based abstract rap duo Shabazz Palaces. It narrates an abstract story based on the duo’s poetic, almost symbolistic lyrics. We watch some sort of a genie who got into our reality from his animated world.

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Jack and the Peasant Goblin

Tomáš Červený | Czech Republic | 2018 | 8 min

This film tells the story of a little elf called Sedláček and his friend, young Kuba, who finds himself at an abandoned farm thanks to a magical grinder. This playful fairy-tale in which Kuba helps Sedláček to improve the house and surrounding fields introduces the cycle of nature, farming and harvest to the children. The film was made for an exhibition of the National Agricultural Museum in Prague.

Jack and the Peasant Goblin

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Khoiba: Log

Petra Hermanová | Germany | 2019 | 4 min | EN

This experimental music video for the ethereal single Log from Khoiba’s third album was made by a Czech author living in Berlin. A morphed image floats through the video in all directions as if we were descending a forest water hole. Fragments of a female body and streams of hair blend into a fluid whole entirely dominated by a shade of blue.

Khoiba: Log

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Changes of Tábor

Jan Míka | Czech Republic | 2019 | 12 min | CS

This film mapping the transformations of the historically important South-Bohemian town between the 13th and 17th centuries was made in collaboration with the Hussite Museum. Photographs and vedute will soon be replaced by computer-animated cut-outs. Petr Kostka’s commentary full of historical facts is supplemented by humorous visualisations and time-lapse footage.

Changes of Tábor

We 8/5/2019
18.00-19.09
Puppet Theatre

Grands Canons

Alain Biet | France | 2018 | 11 min

An infinite number of everyday objects is brought to life in a very specific way. The author instils new life in them by drawing them on paper with documentary precision. Thousands of objects can then parade on the screen in meticulous choreographies. They overlap, shrink, multiply and create a true visual symphony which gradually culminates until the very end of the film.

Grands Canons

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Aperture

Emanuele Kabu | Italy | 2018 | 3 min

In his film, the director combines two seemingly contradicting techniques – real footage and hand drawn animation on paper. He chose this unusual approach to re-establish his relationship to his hometown of Belluno in Northern Italy. Rapidly moving black and white drawings can be perceived as flowing memories with real places in the town acting as a background.

Aperture

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Don't Know What

Thomas Renoldner | Austria | 2018 | 9 min | EN

Don’t Know What combines elements of mainstream cinema, like an entertaining dramaturgy, slapstick-like surprise effects, etc., with strategies of avant-garde cinema, like the short-cut technique or the formal and aesthetic reduction of the imagery. The audience is then left to find their way between humour and seriousness in this strange “genre-hybrid”.

Don't Know What

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Forest

David Ehrlich | China, United States | 2018 | 3 min

This contemplative film by the renowned American animator David Ehrlich pays homage to the magic of nature. Growth and metamorphoses depicted with classic animation evoke the processes that the forest goes through. As the seasons change, the trees change with them. Everything is accompanied by traditional Chinese music.

Forest

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

The Thing Is Lost

Arash Akhgari | Canada | 2018 | 3 min

The Thing Is Lost is an abstract, audio-visual experience, inspired by the monotonous, yet overwhelming and omnipresent existence of the internal dialogue. This film is an emotional journey through expressions, confusion, colours and affects. A journey undertaken to "find" or to "be found", yet "the Thing is Lost".

The Thing Is Lost

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

I Am Twisq

Chun Fai Mok, Hoi Hung Wong | Hong Kong SAR China | 2018 | 3 min

Two young authors use their film as a tool to explore the pure architectonic beauty of Hong Kong’s buildings. Instead of a boring concrete greyness, they find a pulsating rhythm in this urban jungle. The movie takes the concrete buildings and landscape to re-create an urban playground by animating shape, forms and colours extracted from drone footage.

I Am Twisq

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Orbit

Tess Martin | Netherlands | 2019 | 7 min

The Sun’s energy circulates through the Earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess, throwing the cycle out of orbit. The author uses the rediscovered technique of zoetrope.

Orbit

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Little Boy

Kristian Pedersen | Norway | 2019 | 5 min

On 6 August 1945, there were two suns over Hiroshima. One was the dawn of a new day. The second was the nuclear bomb code-named Little Boy. The author uses hints to allude to a human failure – the devastating catastrophe. The viewers find themselves inside the explosion, as if in the centre of the second “Sun”. They watch eruptions and energy transfers animated by an impressive technique and accompanied by an interesting score.

Little Boy

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Half Asleep

Caibei Cai | United Kingdom | 2018 | 6 min

Half Asleep presents a silent relationship between two half bodies in a poetic way. It reduces the narrative but enhances mixed feelings of anxiety, pleasure, struggle and endurance. Despite using minimalist methods such as flickering hints of the bodies, subtle symbolism and an elaborate score, the author has created a mesmerizing film.

Half Asleep

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Ride

Paul Bush | United Kingdom, Portugal | 2018 | 6 min

Anyone who has felt a desire for a beautiful and strong two-wheeler is bound to understand the author of this film. Hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by frame in this homage to the iconic motorcycle design and culture of the 1950s and 60s. A rider prepares his bike and departs on an idealised journey into the countryside and into the future.

Ride

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Supersad

Faiyaz Jafri | United States | 2018 | 4 min | EN

Once upon a time in a deserted parking lot, in a galaxy far far away, everything turns rainbow, rainbow, and rainbow… The US-based experimenter returns with another unsettling vision made by unmistakeable 3D animation. His typical motifs undergo morphing as does the whole continually divided screen.

Supersad

Tu 7/5/2019
13.00-14.18
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
15.00-16.18
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.00-15.18
Puppet Theatre

Fastlanes: All I Knew

Mathilde Bédouet | France | 2018 | 4 min | EN

Apart from illustrations, French author Mathilde Bédouet also makes animated music videos. The latest addition to her filmography is a music video for the French-American hip-hop project Fastlanes. To tell a story of rappers from suburban New York, Bédouet used exclusively hand drawn crayon animation on paper.

Fastlanes: All I Knew

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Šuma Čovjek: Bouge Ton Coeur

Andrea Schneider | Switzerland | 2017 | 4 min

In this music video, the young Swiss director who graduated from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts used the method of collage. She made a pleasant “retro music video” composing and decomposing pictures resembling old books and encyclopaedias. The author submerges in her own imagination which, it seems, has no boundaries.

Šuma Čovjek: Bouge Ton Coeur

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Lydmor: DIM

Jeanette Nørgaard | Denmark | 2018 | 4 min | EN

This visually captivating music video by a Danish author who calls herself DIM is based on the footage from the pilot episode of the web series FJER. FJER initiates a poetic and freaky urban fantasy web series about the young bird-woman Crane’s emancipation from father, ruler and lover Hawker.

Lydmor: DIM

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Elohim: Connect

Oksana Kurmaz | Ukraine, United States | 2018 | 4 min

In her latest music video, Ukrainian director Oksana Kurmaz used original flickering animation and a melancholic tone. Its story revolves around a meeting of a girl and an alien. The alien comes to Earth in search of “pure energy”. But the meeting of these two beings can result in so much more.

Elohim: Connect

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Seth Schwarz & Be Svendsen: Elves of Karoo

Yves Paradis | Germany | 2018 | 7 min

Renowned Canadian-French director and maker of authorial films, commissions and also illustration, comes with a new music video built on a naïve but all the more effective artistic style. Sailing the sea to the beat of pleasant music, a small walnut boat brings its funky guests to a mystical party island.

Seth Schwarz & Be Svendsen: Elves of Karoo

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

F I N K E L: w / o

Sanni Lahtinen | Finland | 2018 | 5 min

This suggestive Finnish music video takes us underneath the surface of the Earth and the mind. It depicts a rather confusing ride on an endless subway. But perhaps it is a flight through an unclear mind visualised by a not-too-complicated but lively animation.

F I N K E L: w / o

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Żywiołak: Bóstwa

Łukasz Rusinek | Poland | 2018 | 5 min | PL

This gloomy and even morbid music video was made by a Polish author who is a three-time winner of the biggest Polish festival of music videos, Yach Film. In his music video for the song Bóstwa, we watch a rather unfortunate story of a biker stuck in a forest in the middle of the night. His otherwise calm wait to be rescued is unpleasantly disrupted by strange beings.

Żywiołak: Bóstwa

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Benjamin Scheuer: Hello Jemima

Peter Baynton | United Kingdom | 2018 | 4 min | EN

The cooperation between the renowned British director Peter Baynton and the American singer Benjamin Scheuer yielded many award-winning music videos. Their latest one for the song Hello Jemima combines real footage with playful animation. Ben sends himself in a box from New York to London, but the package gets lost on the way.

Benjamin Scheuer: Hello Jemima

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Kaho Nakamura: Kittone!

Sivan Kidron | Japan, Israel | 2019 | 5 min | JA

An animated music video for Japanese musician Kaho Nakamura’s song Kittone!, about secrets and feelings we keep to ourselves. The music video explores these ideas through infinite repetitions and inner layers, in mostly back-and-white.

Kaho Nakamura: Kittone!

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Subsonica: Respirare

Donato Sansone | Italy | 2018 | 4 min

Donato Sansone is known primarily as an author of more experimental films. But this time, he imprinted his distinctive style into the music video for the song Respirare. He intertwines paintings with reality while deforming both beyond recognition. He takes us inside his characters where we find an infinite number of strangely deformed worlds.

Subsonica: Respirare

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

David Roush & Ecce Shnak: Katy's Wart

Simon Wilches, Hollye Bynum | United States | 2018 | 3 min

This provocative and visually mesmerizing action music video for David Roush’s song Katy’s Wart was made by directors Simon Wilches-Castro and Hollye Bynum. A pervert is harassing a pair of twins. This is their revenge story.

David Roush & Ecce Shnak: Katy's Wart

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Deseisaocho La banda: Limones

Daniela Godel | France, Spain | 2018 | 5 min | ES

This rhythmical and colourful music video for the song Limones was made by Daniela Godelová as a commissioned work. The music video creates an atmosphere of the seaside during tropical heat. A blue man called Nadir emerges from the water and takes a bicycle ride along the beaches and through arid mountains, where he meets a mysterious woman called Derina.

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Usted Señalemelo: Mañana

Rudo Company, Ezequiel Torres, Pablo Rafael Roldán | Argentina | 2018 | 4 min | ES

The makers of this music video from the Argentinean studio Rudo Company are known for not being afraid of using various animation techniques. In this music video, they mixed several of them. This “mix” takes the viewers into a subtly illuminated sand world where they experience a dynamic ride through time and space – the memory of a man stirred up by emotions connected to his lost love.

Usted Señalemelo: Mañana

We 8/5/2019
21.00-21.55
Puppet Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
22.00-22.55
Puppet Theatre

Diogal Sakho: Reer

Francois Vogel | France | 2018 | 5 min | WO

Diogal sings his song Reer. Words fly out of his mouth and meet a feminine figure who will spread out, deform and finally take off. This experimental music video was made by renowned French author François Vogel known, among other things, as a tireless explorer of new animation techniques.

Diogal Sakho: Reer

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Harley & Quin: Water in the Cup

ikuo kato | Japan | 2018 | 6 min

This Japanese music video made with classical crayon animation on paper depicts the endless water cycle. Water from a cup gets into the atmosphere and back to Earth. The poetic artistic style of the music video is complemented by fluid animation.

Harley & Quin: Water in the Cup

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Maikeulboudjan: The Dishwasher Groove

Capucine Muller | France, Belgium, Hungary | 2018 | 4 min

Jean and Chantal are a pretty normal couple living a pretty normal life in a pretty normal neighbourhood. Jean and Chantal love each other. Could a simple dish washing problem break them up? This music video with traces of black humour is characterised by richly coloured and pleasantly stylised animation.

Maikeulboudjan: The Dishwasher Groove

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

nvmeri: Art of the Trial

Radka Capková, Vanda Kotradyová, Ondřej Chlapec, Erich Bačo, Sára Kancianová, Denisa Gavalcová, Adriana Ondrušová, Klára Kanuščáková, Sofia Siváková, Barbara Kowalczuková, Katarína Plačková, Alžbeta Zimmermannová, Matej Mihályi | Slovakia | 2018 | 4 min | EN

This captivating music video for the song Art of the Trial was made by a collective of students of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava under the guidance of Michaela Čopíková. For being a result of a workshop, the music video is unusually precise and compact and can stand comparison with international competition. It works with a clear colour vision, numerous metamorphoses and fusions of abstract and concrete elements.

nvmeri: Art of the Trial

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Siamés: Mr. Fear

Ezequiel Torres, Pablo Rafael Roldán | Argentina | 2019 | 5 min | EN

This action music video for the song Mr. Fear with style reminiscent of comic book aesthetics was made by the progressive Argentinean studio Rudo Company. We watch the stories of beings from different worlds that are instinctively drawn to each other even though this attraction may cause destruction. The authors of this music video, which can be labelled as fantasy, divide the screen and so they can fit in more action than the viewers expect.

Siamés: Mr. Fear

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Sigrid: Focus

Moth Studio | United Kingdom | 2018 | 4 min | EN

A balladic music video made by the relatively new but already established studio Moth. To accompany the slow song by a young Norwegian singer and composer, the authors created a predominantly abstract visualisation with levitating and pulsating shapes. Dimmed pastel colours are a perfect fit for the melancholic tune.

Sigrid: Focus

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

The Academics: Hit Radio Tune

Ynon Lan | United States | 2018 | 3 min | EN

The video uses bold colours and basic geometric shapes juxtaposed with minimalistic rotoscope animation focusing only on the musician’s hands and facial features. The animation is based on videos of the musician’s performance, shots of NYC where he lives, and a few personal videos made by the musician himself of his close friends and family.

The Academics: Hit Radio Tune

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Tom Rosenthal: It Won't Be Me

Chloe Jackson | United Kingdom | 2018 | 4 min

British director Chloe Jackson’s music video for Tom Rosenthal’s song uses blossoming artistic style and dynamic animation. The music video is stylised as a slightly infantile drawing and even though the images illustrate the lyrics, the author puts their meanings into an unexpected context.

Tom Rosenthal: It Won't Be Me

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Marimasil: Yanira

Jakob Werner | Germany | 2018 | 4 min | EN

In his music video for the song Yanira, the author combines abstract scenes and the story of a silhouette character (or rather a story of its fall). But the message of this disturbing and visually minimalist music video is: We all have a ghost inside that makes us rise. If we dig deep enough, it will appear.

Marimasil: Yanira

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

The Beatles: Glass Onion

Alasdair Brotherston, Jock Mooney | United Kingdom | 2018 | 3 min

A new music video for the song by the iconic Beatles was made on the 50th anniversary of the release of the legendary White Album. Its two directors, who previously made music videos for other Beatles songs and also for example for David Gilmour, inventively revived a collage of old photographs. The authors also work with archive footage they animate.

The Beatles: Glass Onion

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

The Dutch: Sunday Afternoon (Hello Sunshine)

Iris Frankhuizen | Netherlands | 2018 | 4 min | EN

Young love can be colourful and beautiful, but this animated music video shows the dark side of romance. Two youngsters are out and about on a Sunday afternoon, but things don’t turn out as planned… This gloomy music video works with changing colour tones to assign a corresponding atmosphere to individual sequences.

The Dutch: Sunday Afternoon (Hello Sunshine)

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Aphex Twin: T69 Collapse

Nicky Smith | United Kingdom | 2018 | 5 min

This incredibly inventive music video for the electronic song T 69 Collapse is inspired by the simple aesthetics of computer code and text. The surface of letters and numbers transforms into a three-dimensional world playing with various colours even though, in general, it seems it is heading toward absolute decomposition.

Aphex Twin: T69 Collapse

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Dominique A: Se Décentrer

Sébastien Laudenbach | France | 2018 | 5 min | FR

French director Sébastien Laudenbach is known primarily as the director of the graphically original feature film The Girl Without Hands. But not everyone knows that Laudenbach also makes commissions. And in the case of this music video, he once again used his original style that has impalpable transparent figures emerge from a colourful background.

Dominique A: Se Décentrer

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Søren Lau: Lystfiskeren

Sara Aunbirk | Denmark | 2018 | 6 min | DA

A dream about a man, a boat and the fish he is in love with was made by a young Danish animator who graduated from prestigious school The Animation Workshop. For her music video for the song Lystfiskeren, she used a classic-looking 3D computer animation, which is not very common for music videos.

Søren Lau: Lystfiskeren

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.00
Puppet Theatre

Th 9/5/2019
11.30-12.30
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
19.00-20.00
Puppet Theatre

Beat Saber

Beat Games | Czech Republic | 2018

Beat Saber is a unique VR rhythm game, where your goal is to slash the beats as they are coming at you. The game can be easily described as a mashup of Guitar Hero and Fruit Ninja in VR. The game’s goal is to make players almost dance, while cutting all the cubes and avoiding obstacles.

Beat Saber

Donut County

Ben Esposito | United States | 2018

Donut County is an adventure that lets you control a hole in the ground. It grows bigger every time it swallows something until it devours almost an entire city and its inhabitants. The game stars a racoon who must fix what he has inadvertently caused when trying to kill some time with a mobile app while at work.

Donut County

ELOH

Christian Baumgartner | Austria | 2018

ELOH is a meditative puzzle game that helps ease the mind thanks to its simple and toned-down melodies. The players help to co-create the atmosphere by correctly placing stones with different properties. The contemplative atmosphere is also enhanced by the fact that the players can’t lose and the game ignores wrong moves.

Euclidean Skies

Miro Straka | Slovakia | 2018

Experience these mystical worlds with game-play completely twisted around, gorgeous graphics, floating castles and scary foes. Euclidean Skies combines marvellous architecture and turn-based movements to create a beautiful world with mind-bending puzzles. The game’s focus is on shifting the world to overpower enemies.

Euclidean Skies

FAR: Lone Sails

Goran Saric, Don Schmocker | Switzerland | 2018 | EN

FAR: Lone Sails is a vehicle adventure game. You travel across a dried-out ocean in a unique vehicle, following the tracks of a once thriving civilization. Through an array of roadblocks and through hazardous weather you need to keep your vessel going. Where will this journey take you?

GRIS

Nomada Studio | Spain | 2018

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. As the story unfolds, Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way, revealing new paths to explore using her new abilities.

GRIS

Homo Machina

Marc Lustigman, Noam Roubah | France, Germany | 2018 | FR

Homo Machina is a puzzle game inspired by the work of avant-garde scientist Fritz Kahn. Set off on a crazy journey to solve the surreal puzzles of Homo Machina and learn about the internal working of the human body, represented as a gigantic 1920s factory. Each scene breaks down daily acts, such as opening your eyes or listening to music.

Liff

Jérémie de Barry | France | 2018 | EN

Dive inside a world inspired by impressionist paintings. As the god of life, you can sculpt the world by spreading and erasing the matter around you. When you wake to watch over the land, you find a strange dark matter invading it and resisting your powers. You must heal your world!

Liff

Michalovy nálady

Štěpánka Sunková, Kristina Volná | Czech Republic | 2018 | CS

It’s Michal’s birthday today and he’s looking forward to his birthday cake. But at the same time, he’s afraid: What if his friends have forgotten?! The player helps him to live through a day full of adventures and decisions that will affect how will Michal feel. This game is designed for the youngest children who learn what individual emotions mean thanks to interaction with a popular television character.

Michalovy nálady

Minit

Kitty Calis, Dominic Johann, Jukio Kallio, Jan Willem Nijman | United States | 2018

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time. Journey outside the comfort of your home to help unusual folk, uncover countless secrets, and overcome dangerous foes, all in hopes of lifting a rather unfortunate curse that ends each day after just one minute.

Minit

Return of the Obra Dinn

Lucas Pope | United States | 2018

The merchant ship Obra Dinn set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn’t met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea. Return of the Obra Dinn is a first-person mystery adventure based on exploration and logical deduction.

Return of the Obra Dinn

Wandersong

Greg Lobanov | United States | 2018

A musical adventure where you use singing to save the world. In Wandersong you’re a walking musical instrument, and you use song to interact with everything. Different things respond to your music in different ways, so it’s up to you to sing your songs, unlock the world’s secrets and make new friends.

Wandersong

Za devatero horami

Štěpánka Sunková, Filip Smetana | Czech Republic | 2018

Sheep have wandered far from home and they can’t find their way back on their own. Will you help the popular sheep from the Czech Television’s children’s channel CT:D to overcome all obstacles and find a way back? The game will take you to a circus, jungle and also under water. This travel game starring a popular sheep from CT:D was created as a follow-up to a summer contest.

Za devatero horami

Ruben Brandt, Collector

Milorad Krstić | Hungary | 2018 | 94 min | EN

Since the beginning of animation, animators have always found the transparent boundary between fine art and animated film tempting and inspiring. Several feature films have appeared in recent years that successfully balance on this line (for example Loving, Vincent which was screened at last year's Anifilm). But Hungarian film Ruben Brandt, Collector defies most of such films in terms of both genre and story and artistic style. Slovenian director Milorad Krstić opens his feature debut with a car chase through the streets of Paris and continues in the tradition of thrilling action films for the entire 90-minute running length. On the way, he adopts elements from crime, gangster, detective and mystery films as well as psychological dramas. The protagonists of the film are the famous psychologist Ruben Brandt, expert in art therapy, and four of his extraordinary patients. After the death of his father, the psychologist is tormented by haunting nightmares full of paintings by classical masters. It seems that the only way to chase away the nightmares is to steal the paintings from galleries. And so, together with the patients, he forms an intrepid gang, who soon have a price put on their heads. Apart from its complex and thrilling story, the film is unique in the way in which the director stylises the settings, characters and the paintings. The story is swarming with characters who are works of art themselves with qualities underlined by expressive and at times even extreme stylisation.

Ruben Brandt, Collector

Tu 7/5/2019
15.00-16.34
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
17.30-19.04
Aurora Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
13.30-15.04
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Mirai

Mamoru Hosoda | Japan | 2018 | 98 min | JA | 8+

The life of a four-year-old boy named Kun is turned upside down by a defenceless alien – his newborn sister Mirai. Up until this moment, the attention of Kun’s parents could only have been diverted by work, but now the world revolves around the little girl. No matter how hard Kun tries, he can’t seem to grow fond of his little sister. But what if he first learned to accept her older self from the future? Lonely and betrayed, Kun befriends the strange visitors to their house who turn out to be his late grandfather, a human incarnation of his pet dog Yukko and even Mirai herself who is suddenly much older. But despite that, the family situation seems irresolvable until a fateful trip to Tokyo where Kun ends up being all alone. Director Mamoru Hosoda has lots of experience with stories set in the world of children (in 2016, his film The Boy and the Beast competed at Anifilm). But the story of Kun and his little sister is suitable for all kinds of audiences. It sensitively explores the topic of family relations and uses brilliantly animated fantastic images to appeal to all generations. The film was nominated for an Oscar.

Mirai

We 8/5/2019
10.00-11.38
Světozor Cinema

Th 9/5/2019
14.30-16.08
Aurora Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
09.30-11.08
J. K. Tyl Theatre

The Tower

Mats Grorud | Norway, France, Sweden | 2018 | 77 min | AR

The story of the co-production The Tower by Norwegian director Mats Grorud centres around a little Palestinian girl from a refugee camp in Lebanon. Eleven-year-old Wardi is a curious and sensitive girl so when her beloved great-grandfather gives her the key to his house in Galilee, she is taken aback. He was among the first to arrive to the camp in 1948 and Wardi fears that this might mean that her great-grandfather has lost all hope of ever returning to his house.
In the scenes when The Tower recalls events from the past, its authors combine classic animation with puppet animation. As Wardi collects testimonies from the family and tries to provoke them to do something, we learn about the troubled history of Palestinian emigration. In an original way, the film reflects upon the era when almost one and a half million Palestinians were driven from their homes – and they have been living in refugee camps scattered across the whole Arab world ever since. In one of these camps, where the families build bizarre high towers, the director himself taught the children animation.

The Tower

We 8/5/2019
14.30-15.47
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
14.00-15.17
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Another Day of Life

Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow | Poland, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Germany | 2018 | 86 min | EN

This anticipated feature anidoc is an adaptation of a book of the same name by the renowned Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. In 1975, he spent three months in war-torn Angola where he witnessed drastic events that fundamentally changed his life and his perspective on the journalistic work. The story is based on real events. Against the backdrop of the horrors of war, Kapuściński suddenly finds himself dealing with his inner conflict: he no longer wants to be a passive observer delivering objective reports. He meets people whose tragic fates don't leave him indifferent. He feels drawn into the conflict, absorbed by the events and wants the world to know real stories. He resigns from his position as a journalist, a job with boundaries he perceives to be relative, and becomes a writer-storyteller. His suggestive story is full of dynamic scenes that immediately draw the viewers into the centre of the action. This film, screened in Cannes and Annecy, has won many awards, including the Goya award.

Another Day of Life

We 8/5/2019
18.30-19.56
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Fr 10/5/2019
12.00-13.26
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
15.00-16.26
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Funan

Denis Do | France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cambodia | 2018 | 84 min | FR

When Pol Pot’s forces occupied Phnom Penh, Cambodia was plunged into a four-year-long reign of terror during which two million people were killed. In depicting this nightmarish episode of the history of Funan, French director Denis Do prefers an intimate portrayal of the suffering of one family – representing thousands of other families – to an open depiction of bloody violence. Inspired by the story of his own mother and her peers, he tells the story of Chuo and Khuon who lose their four-year-old son Sovanh when they are being forcibly moved from the capital to a Khmer Rouge labour camp. While the parents are forced to work on rice fields in inhuman conditions, Sovanh, along with other children, is subjected to systematic brainwashing. Regardless of the horrors, we have an opportunity to watch a number of moral victories and displays of humanity of individual characters in their efforts to be reunited with each other. The authors did their best to animate fine facial expressions of the characters as well as the Cambodian nature that presents a unique contrast and hope in the film. This captivating story from a painful era of human history is unique in its poetics and does not rob the depicted stories of their authenticity. The unique qualities of the film were recognised at the Annecy Festival where the film won the main award.

Funan

We 8/5/2019
21.00-22.24
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
20.00-21.24
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
12.30-13.54
Aurora Cinema

Pachamama

Juan Manuel Antín Morpurgo | France, Luxembourg, Canada | 2018 | 72 min | EN | 8+

In this French-Luxembourgian-Canadian co-production, Argentinean director Juan Antín takes us into the Peruvian Andes. We find ourselves in the 16th century in a remote village, the home of a ten-year-old rascal named Tepulpaï. The boy has a clear plan; he wants to become a shaman. But in order to do that, he has to persuade the Great Shaman of his village that he is mature enough and doesn’t lack concentration. And soon enough, the village faces big trouble. The Great Inca (tax collector) confiscates the sacred statue Huacu to compensate for the harvest that the villagers sacrificed instead of handing in. And that presents a great opportunity for the fearless Tepulpaï who sets out to recover the indispensable statue. And whether he likes it or not, he’s not alone – he is joined by his friend Naïra and a typical Peruvian pet. Pachamama, originally a name of the Incan goddess of fertility, is a film abundant in pleasant South-American colourfulness and uses a 3D animation technique deliberately “flattened” to 2D.

Pachamama

Th 9/5/2019
10.00-11.12
Světozor Cinema

Fr 10/5/2019
15.30-16.42
Puppet Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
10.30-11.42
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Marnie's World

Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein | Germany | 2018 | 92 min | EN | 6+

This feature film that premiered at the last edition of the Annecy Festival was made by German twin brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein. In their rendition, the unexpected adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Town Musicians of Bremen acquires a slightly morbid tone but nonetheless remains a family film that will entertain children and grown-ups alike. Its hero is a spoiled ginger house cat named Marnie who is pampered by her eccentric and anxious owner Rosalinde. Marnie has never left the house and knows the outside world only from TV. But when Rosalinde’s brother comes seeking temporary asylum, an adventure begins. Even though they haven’t seen each other in years, Rosalinde accommodates her brother and unexpected things start happening. Soon after that, Marnie finds herself alone at a crossroad just outside the town. She joins forces with other animals and, in their efforts to return home, they steal a van. But the van belongs to wanted criminals, so everyone suddenly thinks that Marnie and the rest of the animals are them. The whole group must therefore clear their names and catch the real criminals. The film is an example of sophisticated European CGI animation by experienced authors.

Marnie's World

Th 9/5/2019
13.30-15.02
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Fr 10/5/2019
15.00-16.32
Roháč – Czech TV Hall

Sa 11/5/2019
11.00-12.32
Světozor Cinema

Ville Neuve

Félix Dufour-Laperrière | Canada | 2018 | 76 min | FR

Although this melancholic film is set in 1995 during the Quebec independence referendum, the political situation is not its main theme but rather a symbol of uncertainty and ambivalence characterising its protagonists. In this tense atmosphere, alcoholic Joseph retreats to a remote countryside house at the edge of the Gaspé town Ville Neuve where he spent the most beautiful days in his life with his former wife Emma. This time, he tries to quit drinking here in hopes that Emma will come visit him. The hesitant woman finally agrees, but their son Ulysses is reluctant to see his father and is more interested in the political-societal situation. Félix Laperrière-Dufour’s debut is based on a short story by Raymond Carver and sensitively captures the doubts of all its characters while the director’s minimalist artistic style plays the main role. The charm of classical Indian ink on paper enhances the intimate atmosphere of a story about re-establishing bonds between people and is one of the main virtues of this lyrical film.

Ville Neuve

Th 9/5/2019
19.30-20.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 11/5/2019
11.30-12.46
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

Kaspar Jancis | Estonia, Belgium, Ireland, United Kingdom | 2018 | 80 min | EN | 6+

Although official materials state that the director of this extremely ambitious puppet film (at least for a European production) is only Kaspar Jancis, the truth is that it was a co-production of three directors (apart from Jancis, also his colleague Riho Unt, and Henry Nicholson) and four countries. The result is a precisely animated artistically interesting family film with an original story that takes us into the world of a ten-year-old boy named Morten. The boy's life is not very happy – separated from his father who sails the seas and living with his disliked aunt Anna in a café in the port, Morten creates his own world. In the centre of this world is a small boat that Morten made. It represents a way out and a hope that, one day, Morten will become a real captain just like his father. But when he is magically shrunk to the size of an insect and assumes command of his small schooner, the real drama of growing up and exploring the world according to one’s own limits begins. With an insect crew, Morten sets sail for a dangerous voyage across the flooded café. At the end of their liberating voyage, he learns what it's like to take responsibility for his own life.

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

Fr 10/5/2019
09.30-10.50
Světozor Cinema

Sa 11/5/2019
14.30-15.50
Aurora Cinema

Su 12/5/2019
09.30-10.50
Světozor Cinema

The Wolf House

Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Chile | 2018 | 75 min | ES

Southern Chile. A young girl called Maria is on the run. She has managed to escape from a colony run by a German religious sect and find shelter in a strange house inhabited by two pigs. This new friendship eventually changes all three of them. That’s how the Chilean directorial duo plays out their claustrophobic horror inspired by the tale of the Three Little Pigs. The film addresses a dark and suppressed chapter of the not-too-distant Chilean past. The directors use animation methods that are scarcely used in feature films such as animation of large-scale paintings and human-sized puppets. The tension and insecurity are multiplied by frequent transformations and decompositions of anything that appears in the film. Moreover, the authors composed the film as if it was one long take. This unique experimental feature film invokes the spirit of the real and sinister Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) that was for decades run by a former Nazi, Paul Schäfer, who was protected by Pinochet’s regime. Thanks to archive recordings, the former Chilean dictator acts as the narrator of the film.

The Wolf House

Fr 10/5/2019
16.00-17.15
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
10.30-11.45
Puppet Theatre

Best Feature Film for Adults - screening

80 min

Sa 11/5/2019
21.30-22.50
Světozor Cinema

Awarded short films and animations

různí / various | 70 min

Sa 11/5/2019
21.30-22.40
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Su 12/5/2019
13.30-14.40
J. K. Tyl Theatre

Best Feature Film for Children - screening

80 min

Su 12/5/2019
10.00-11.20
J. K. Tyl Theatre