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An elderly man looks after his paralysed wife. His daughter helps him, trying to balance the care with her work in a hospital and her family life. Everyone has a different view on how to properly care for the sick, which often causes arguments.  The film portrays the hopelessness of the end of a life with uncompromising authenticity.

Miya and her cat Aristotle are hunters. In a dry zucchini field, they hunt cloud animals to secure enough moisture for their plants. All they have to do is tie the creatures like balloons above their dying crops. But during one hunting trip, one of the heavenly creatures charms Miya so much that she starts thinking about its fate.

A woman who can’t stand the passage of time turns herself into a black hole. A thousand unchanging years pass until finally, one day, the singularity awakens inside her. An immovable woman meets an unstoppable girl in this operatic quest to discover the beauty of transience and letting go.

An idyllic scene with a lush field and a grasshopper frolicking between the plants is suddenly disrupted by a gunshot. A huge deer was caught in a trap and had to be killed. A hunter surrounded in smoke bends over the lifeless body. A little girl watches his actions with displeasure.

Meticulous and mesmerising paint-on-glass animation is characteristic for this atmospheric film by the Polish director, who takes us on a bus ride one Monday afternoon. The melancholic ride through a rainy city reminds the main protagonist what it would be like to escape the everyday routine of jammed streets.

On a beautiful balmy night, Seolgi lies with her friends in tall grass and watches myriad stars above them. She can even see some falling stars. And along with them, the thoughts and the inner world of the main protagonist fall into darkness in this musical film full of black humour.

This horror story inspired by folk tales stars a cheerful and spontaneous girl named Rosa who would like very much to dance at a country dance, but no one wants to ask her. So when a mysterious stranger appears and gives her a pair of red shoes, they end up in a whirlwind of a dance. This film, made at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, references the Czech poetic tradition of K. J. Erben.