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Life tends to be unstable especially when one is living on water. And for Nestor, a man with OCD who is derailed by the slightest deviations from anything, life is unsettling. And just wait and see what happens when his houseboat is caught in a storm. The author has focused on work with rhythm and gradation.

This Academy Award nominated and Student Oscar and Annecy Cristal winning film is the biggest success of Czech animation in recent years. Made by a Russian director studying at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, this impressive puppet film uses dynamic hand camera and detailed close-ups of the puppets’ faces to emphasise the story about a not-so-ideal relationship between a father and his daughter.

While two birds talk about their existence, a small apple makes its way into the depths of a cave. This humorous an unusually sophisticated film, which was successful at many international festivals, depicts three worlds, three conversations and three levels: heaven, earth and the subterranean world. And it does so with an ideal detached perspective and great attention to detail.

A black and white and heavily absurd film inspired by the works of Jacques Tati. The free composition movie defines the real substance of day to day life with the sensation achieved by connecting scenes that are independent from one another. The essence of the work is in the relationship between these scenes.

This mesmerizing one-shot ride made using an unusually stylized CGI animation will take us from the bottom to the top of a human civilisation operating on the principle of late and ruthless capitalism. How do individual floors fit together and what binds them?

This autobiographical ani-doc with abstract passages was made by a Chinese filmmaker living in Los Angeles and explores her uneasy relationship with her mother. The pressure exerted by the Chinese society on the mother whose situation was far from ideal was transferred to her daughter when she was young. The two women started to work on mutual understanding only after she grew up.

This poetic and pleasantly stylized film is a graduate film from the University of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín. Its director Aliona Baranova colourfully and wordlessly depicts the story of a sailor returning home by playfully using colours, scale and distorted perspective. The film competed at Berlinale, among other festivals.

This experimental film bordering on abstraction was made by a German-British animator and sound engineer. Her vivid film is set in a room where a man sits and explores our perception of time, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.

In a limited space (both with regards to the film’s running length and its setting), the young French author of this family drama explores the relationships between a father, two sons and a distant mother. The father takes the kids to the sea, but the quiet trip suddenly ends when their boat starts sinking. But as the director humorously shows, the real cause of the family crisis lies elsewhere.

Vast plains, colourful sceneries, a red dog that seems to reach into the sky. This is how Tom experiences summer in Blieschow, on his grandfather’s farm. But the reality seems to be different, especially when a competitive cousin enters the scene. Breath-taking artistic style full of inventive ideas and captivating animation turn this holiday drama into a remarkable “flick”.