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Suzie in the Garden

Lucie Sunková | Czech Republic | 2022 | 14 min

This atmospheric and poetic story for children is made using a very demanding but all the more remarkable technique of paint-on-glass animation. A little girl named Suzie spends time with her parents in an allotment garden. One day, she runs into a black dog; another day she finds a key. In the end, she discovers a garden which seems to be magical. The director has managed to superbly portray a notion of a magical world so typical for childhood and a child’s imagination.

Tue 10/5/2022
08.30-09.05
free seats: 212
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
09.30-10.05
free seats: 13
North Bohemian Museum

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

Our Piggy

Jaromír Plachý | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

This animated miniseries based on a book series of the same name by Jaromír Plachý is suitable for the smallest viewers. The protagonist, Piggy, has various adventures – it discovers the magic of vacuum cleaners and wires and finds out that things buzz sometimes.

Tue 10/5/2022
08.30-09.05
free seats: 212
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
09.30-10.05
free seats: 13
North Bohemian Museum

When I Grow Up

Ester Kasalová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

Along with her crew, the director visits a kindergarten and asks the children what they want to be when they grow up. The kids’ minds are made up and the director visualises their plans with a simple style and artistic shortcut typical of children’s drawings.

Tue 10/5/2022
08.30-09.05
free seats: 212
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
09.30-10.05
free seats: 13
North Bohemian Museum

In the Woods

Ivana Češková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

This atmospheric and mysterious film is set in the deep woods. A little boy gets hurt and seeks help. But the woods are dark and rather scary. The ghosts of various animals emerge from the darkness and give the boy hope for rescue.

Tue 10/5/2022
08.30-09.05
free seats: 212
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
09.30-10.05
free seats: 13
North Bohemian Museum

Snoozy the Badger – How He Found His Damsel

David Súkup | Czech Republic | 2021 | 9 min

Snoozy the Badger, an enthusiastic handyman and inventor, lives in the forest. He is a luckless fellow with peculiar ideas that need to be steered in the right direction by an owl and other friends of Snoozy. A new series made by Czech Television, starring the popular book character.

Snoozy the Badger – How He Found His Damsel

Tue 10/5/2022
08.30-09.05
free seats: 212
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
09.30-10.05
free seats: 13
North Bohemian Museum

Samsara

Hsin-chien Huang | Taiwan | 2021 | 21 min

The end of Planet Earth is nigh. But before that, the viewers will go through several transformations – they’ll become a child, an aggressor, a refugee and an astronaut leaving the devastated planet. However, after leaving Earth, the endless cycle of misery and reincarnation continues and the viewers’ hands change beyond recognition. What would the world look like if there was no end to suffering?

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Glimpse

Benjamin Cleary, Michael O’Connor | United Kingdom, France, Ireland | 2021 | 22 min

Herbie is a talented illustrator. His artistic world full of pandas welcomes another artist – the musician Rice, a doe. Together, they enjoy the most amazing moments until suddenly everything goes wrong. Herbie takes us on an immersive ride through his memories, desires and pain inflicted by the breakup with his beloved Rice.

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Goliath

May Abdalla, Barry Gene Murphy | United Kingdom, France | 2021 | 25 min

What’s it like to live with schizophrenia? This acclaimed interactive VR documentary slowly reveals the problems of the protagonist Goliath, a man who has become addicted to online gaming and developed schizophrenia. Passages from films and games blend in a pixilated artistic stylisation. Will the games help Goliath find a way from illusions to the real world?

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The Severence Theory: Welcome to Respite

Lyndsie Scoggin | United States | 2021 | 60 min

This unique project introduces a popular new genre on the VR scene – virtual reality theatre. Join two actors and immerse yourselves in the story of Alex, who faces some of the most difficult moments in their life – they suffer from a dissociative identity disorder. The viewer can take on the lead role of Alex or be a mere observer.

The Severence Theory: Welcome to Respite

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Kusunda

Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran | Germany, Nepal, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan | 2021 | 23 min

A Nepalese mountain community has only two surviving members – Lil Bahadur and his granddaughter Hima. Their family line is slowly dying out, as is their language. In this interactive animated documentary, viewers record their memories of life in the community, but primarily try to save their dying language with these recordings – using their own voices.

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Biolum

Abel Kohen | France, Germany | 2021 | 25 min

At first glance, it seems this will be a rather routine submarine quest. The viewer dives into the depths of the ocean accompanied only by a colleague through a headset. Soon enough, the depths start revealing their secrets, combining terror with lethargic beauty. Is the light at the end of the tunnel really salvation or will it bring doom?

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Namoo

Erick Oh | South Korea | 2021 | 12 min

In Korean, ‘namoo’ means tree. The life story of a rather ordinary man takes place around a tree. The tree is a metaphor of the human memory and heart. As time flows, the man’s tree changes and all his decisions are reflected upon it. But what happens when the crown can no longer hold the weight of being?

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Strands of Mind

Adrian Meyer | Germany | 2021 | 11 min

Nighttime. In the darkness, we can only make out the silhouettes of several patulous trees. Their crowns intertwine and create an arch. In the centre of it all is a big, cracked tree. One more step and it will happen. We fall below, into another world, into the depths of the matrix of the human mind and soul. This experimental VR film with elaborate digital effects carries the viewers on the waves of high and low tides along the strands of a mysterious mind.

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The Sick Rose

Zhi-Zhong Tang, Yun-Hsien Huang | Taiwan | 2021 | 17 min

The whole country is consumed by a pandemic. A little girl is sad that her mother must go to the hospital every day and care for the sick. One day, the girl gets angry and drives her mother away. After a while, she starts to regret it and sets out to find her mother, carrying a magical rose. Her journey is full of the darkest challenges.

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Madrid Noir

James A. Castillo | France | 2021 | 42 min

After many years, Lola returns to the apartment where she once lived with her uncle, who is now deceased. In the apartment, memories come flooding back. Every night, her uncle would leave the apartment and Lola was convinced he was a criminal. In this thrilling noir story, the viewers join Lola on a detective quest where nothing is as it seems.

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Dagon by H. P. Lovecroft

Hubert Mróz | Poland | 2021 | 35 min

Dream, horror, Dada and a scary monster. This VR adaptation of a story by H. P. Lovecraft sends the viewers to the sea where one day something unexpected and strange happens. All the water disappears and with the help of diary entries, the viewers search the dry seabed looking for the secrets behind this mystery.

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They Dream in My Bones (Insemnopedy II)

Faye Formisano | France | 2021 | 17 min

What would the world look like if dreams were saved in our bones? What if we used to be a man, a woman and a bacterium? In this experimental black-and-white mockumentary, the viewers retrace the steps of Roderick Norman, who can extract dreams from our DNA. For her visual essay, director Faye Formisano drew inspiration – among other things – from Virgina Woolf’s novel Orlando.

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Limbotopia

Wen-Yee Hsieh | Taiwan | 2021 | 25 min

In this surrealist 360° ride, the viewers drift through the space between the conscious and the unconscious mind, dream and reality. A collage of lights in the distance blends with non-traditional architectonic wonders dominating the space and letting the imagination transform the space into a whole new world. A psychedelic, yet peaceful probe of the human mind.

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Marco and Polo Go Round

Benjamin Steiger Levine | Canada, Belgium | 2021 | 12 min

It may come across as Marco Polo’s journey around the world. But it is, in fact, a Dadaist VR romance in which partners Marco and Polo explore their collapsing relationship. When logic fails in argumentation, their world starts turning upside down. Literally.

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Rebels

Federico Moreno Breser | Argentina | 2021 | 10 min

Dystopias come in many forms. In most cases, the citizens aren’t allowed to express themselves against the ruling regime in any way. In this one, however, there’s another special restriction – they aren’t allowed to sing or make music. Luckily, there’s a group of young rebels who aren’t bothered by it.

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Card Shark

NERIAL, Arnaud de Bock | 2022

A wild card of its genre, Card Shark will teach you real card tricks and manipulations as you fleece and cheat your way to the top of 18th century French society. As you move from the parlour to the King’s table, build up your array of card tricks and use your ill-gotten gains to buy your way into some truly high-stakes games.

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Figment 2: Creed Valley

Niels Sørensen, Klaus Pedersen, Bedtime Digital Games | Denmark | 2022

An action-adventure game set in the human mind. Nightmares are spreading chaos and have overrun once-peaceful lands. Join Dusty, The Mind’s courage, as you make your way through puzzles, musical boss fights and unique environments. Face your fears head-on. Nightmares have shattered the Moral Compass, making The Mind unable to function properly. Dusty and his ever-optimistic sidekick, Piper, must travel to Creed Valley, where The Mind’s ideals are formed to restore peace.

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Growbot

Wabisabi Play | 2021

Growbot is a 2D point-and-click adventure set in a beautiful biopunk space station. You play as Nara, a growbot in training to become a captain. When your station home is attacked by rapidly growing crystals, it’s down to you to save it. The game is inspired by classic adventure games like Loom and modern adventure games like Machinarium, and aims to appeal to both seasoned and new gamers. It is being developed in Unity for Windows, Linux and Mac.

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Happy Game

Jaromír Plachý, Amanita Design | Czech Republic | 2021

Happy Game is a psychedelic horror adventure game from the creators of Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Instead of charming landscapes or cute microscopic worlds, Happy Game’s little hero finds himself in a horrible nightmare, and you can bet there won’t be too many friendly creatures to meet. Quite the opposite. With its many smiley faces, inexplicable abominations and unsettling audio by the Czech freak-folk duo DVA, Happy Game is sure to make its players very happy. Or maybe not.

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Heavenly Bodies

2pt. Inter\ctive | 2021

Discover the ever-changing nuances of weightless motion in Heavenly Bodies. Wrangle the hands and arms of cosmonauts and push, pull and twist your way through a precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios where, without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure and nothing is simple. Assemble space telescopes, maintain delicate solar arrays and research cosmic botany – all with your bare (or at least, gloved) hands.

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Inscryption

Daniel Mullins Games | 2021

From the creator of Pony Island and The Hex comes the latest mind-melting, self-destructing love letter to video games. Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

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Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

Darjeeling, Noam Roubah | 2021

Adapted from the bestselling book Pierre the Maze Detective: The Search for the Stolen Maze Stone, Labyrinth City is a labyrinthic narrative adventure game. Mr X has stolen the Maze Stone and turned Opera City into a giant maze. Help Pierre and Carmen find their way through 10 giant mazes to stop Mr X. Journey through a fantastic world of amazing cities, treetop towns and haunted houses. Trace your way through each maze, spot the clues and solve the extra mystery challenges along the way!

Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Mundaun

Hidden Fields | 2021 | After learning of his grandfather’s mysterious dea

After learning of his grandfather’s mysterious death in a fire, the protagonist travels to Mundaun for the first time since childhood. He will soon discover that something old and diabolical is haunting the remaining inhabitants. The quest to find out the meaning behind these sinister events takes the player on an odyssey up Mundaun Mountain, from steep meadows across stony fields and to the snow-covered peak. Mundaun is a lovingly hand-pencilled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of the Alps.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Papetura

Petums | 2021

Papetura is an atmospheric puzzle adventure game, in which everything is made entirely out of animated paper. From tiny bugs, strange creatures, monsters and unique locations, everything is cut and glued together by hand. Together with beautiful music made by Floex, it creates a mysterious paper world, covered in light and darkness.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sable

Shedworks | 2021

Guide Sable through Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerising landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders. Explore the dunes on your hoverbike, scale monumental ruins and encounter other nomads as you unearth mysteries long forgotten and discover who she really is behind her mask. With its unique art style and original soundtrack by Japanese Breakfast, envelop yourself in Sable’s world and explore everything at your own pace.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Slice of Sea

Mateusz Skutnik | 2021

Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore a desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in a unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea. The music was created by Thumpmonks and the main theme song was written and performed by Cat Jahnke.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

The Artful Escape

Beethoven and Dinosaur | 2021

On the eve of his first performance, Francis Vendetti battles with the legacy of a dead folk legend and the cosmic wanderings of his own imagination. Francis, a teenage guitar prodigy, sets out on a psychedelic, multidimensional journey to inspire his stage persona.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

The Eternal Cylinder

Ace Team | 2021

In The Eternal Cylinder, players control a herd of adorable creatures called Trebhums and must explore a strange alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. All whilst the constant threat looms of the Cylinder, a gargantuan rolling structure of ancient origin which crushes everything in its path. In this unique alien ecosystem, real-time world destruction, animal AI, exploration and puzzle design all combine to deliver an unforgettable adventure.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

There You Are

Rong Deng | United States | 2021

An exploratory narrative game that features stop-motion-inspired graphic design and two endings from the player’s choices and actions. In this game, the player will role-play the girl, Su, to deal with her father’s relationship to move on from the past and accept the loss of her mom. While many games already touch on this type of topic to a certain extent, There You Are uses both storytelling methods and game design principles to craft each story beat and depict an emotional bittersweet story.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Wildermyth

Worldwalker Games LLC | 2021

Wildermyth is a character-driven, procedurally generated tactical RPG, designed to help you tell your wildest stories. Like the best tabletop role-playing experiences, Wildermyth gives you choices and answers your every decision with consequences that drive your characters forward. Lead a band of heroes as they grow from reluctant farmers into unique, legendary fighters. Combat unexpected threats and strange monsters across interactive battlefields.

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Zámek - Game zóna

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Zámek - Game zóna

The Ape Star

Linda Hambäck | Sweden, Norway, Denmark | 2021 | 76 min | EN

This sweet family film with an original story, co-produced by three Scandinavian countries, is based on a book by Frida Nilsson.

An 8-year-old girl named Jonna lives in an orphanage and dreams of being adopted one day. What will her new mommy be like? Much to the girl’s surprise (and, initially, horror), she is adopted by a gorilla. The girl gets into the gorilla’s car and together they drive to their new home. Jonna has to get used to the unexpected situation, but it doesn’t take long and she and the talking gorilla become close. Their life, full of exciting moments and inspirational experiences, is, however, threatened by a local businessman who has set his sights on the gorilla’s land. A beautiful story about love, friendship and the fact that things may be different than they seem.

‘Frida Nilsson’s novel was recommended by a friend, and I fell in love with the story immediately! I just thought it had such a potential, especially through animation, where we are free to colour and adapt the world to something new. This film took three years to make, together with a dream team from Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Working with animation is like creating a big moving collage, where the artwork, animation, music and voices slowly become moving picture images,’ the director says about her film.

Tue 10/5/2022
10.00-11.16
free seats: 23
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Wed 11/5/2022
10.00-11.16
free seats: 194
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.46
free seats: 84
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Tio

Juan Medina | Mexico | 2021 | 13 min

Barren hills pierced by mine shafts hide more than just minerals. Generations of miners well aware of this fact were ready to make sacrifices to the mysterious ghost of the underground. Martin, the protagonist of this puppet story with horror elements, who thinks the nightmarish Tio is a mere fable, will have to prove his respect for tradition.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

I’ll Be Your Kettle

Tobias Rud | Denmark, Canada | 2021 | 10 min

The heroine of this humorous film about an unusual relationship crisis will find that love has many shapes and forms. The willingness to do anything to please someone pales with the sacrifices she is ready to lay on the altar of love. But for what?

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Granny’s Sexual Life

Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard | Slovenia, France | 2021 | 13 min

This animated documentary follows the intimate lives of several Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century and the expectations society placed on them. Using expressive animation, the film tells their stories, thematises the disdainful attitude of men and describes their wounds and desperate strategies for surviving in harshly patriarchal unions.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

The Train Driver

Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim | Germany | 2021 | 6 min

A seemingly amusing conversation when fishing describes the essential moments in the life of a man. Without being able to do anything about it, he, a train driver, ended the lives of six people who had decided to commit suicide. What mark have these experiences left on him? An animated documentary.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Anxious Body

Yoriko Mizushiri | France, Japan | 2021 | 6 min

This contemplative film gradually becomes unexpectedly disturbing and almost physically uncomfortable as the author combines individual innocent motifs and creates anxious anticipation of the climax of the slow scenes. The main role is played by the body, flexibility and the uncompromising rigidity and sharpness of the materials it encounters.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

A Long Protracted Scene of an Accident

Lars Henrik Andersson, Lisa Rydberg | Sweden | 2021 | 15 min

A ten-year-old boy named Henrik must come to terms with the consequences of a creeping crisis threatening his nuclear family. The deliberately ‘crude’ stylisation of the film and usage of authentic home videos underscores the quirky black humour and the rawness of the anxiety little Henrik experiences under the pressure of responsibility.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Bad Seeds

Claude Cloutier | Canada | 2020 | 6 min

An acclaimed Canadian director introduces an inventive visual pun based on one of the fundamental strengths of animation – variability of form. We witness a fight between two plants, their efforts to outsmart each other and win, while their metamorphoses become a commentary on and a metaphor for human inability to perceive something in its entirety.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Swallow the Universe

Nieto | France | 2021 | 12 min

Everything was fine in the Manchurian jungle until a little boy appeared. His presence among the animals triggered a chain of crazy events and irreversible changes. In this visually mesmerising film, animal narrators comment on the rapidly unfolding events which mercilessly head towards the end of a scroll on which the film is seemingly drawn.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Flee

Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway | 2021 | 93 min | DA

This award-winning suggestive and meaningful feature ani-doc uses a specific story to reflect the theme of refugees. This theme is now even more topical for Europeans than it was when the film successfully premiered in cinemas.
The director explores the story of an acclaimed 36-year-old academic struggling with a painful secret he’s been keeping for 20 years. Amin has kept this secret for fear of ruining the life he built for himself and his groom-to-be, so he decided not to tell anyone the truth about his escape from Afghanistan. In the end, he shared his story with director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, a close friend and high school classmate. Thanks to the director’s sensitive approach and their heartfelt dialogue, Amin was able for the first time to look squarely at his terrifying past and take the viewers with him. Using animation, the film tells the story of a child refugee’s extraordinary journey.
Flee is not only a ruthless insight into the world of refugees (how the escape happens, how human smugglers operate, what happens inside a smuggling container hidden in a ship’s hold), it’s also an unforgettable story of getting to know one’s true self. It turns out that only when confronting the past can one sculpt the future and that the universal truth applies that only after we stop running from who we truly are, do we find the real meaning of home.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-18.03
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
21.00-22.33
free seats: 63
Malé Theatre

Leopoldo from the Bar

Diego Porral | Spain | 2021 | 6 min

For many years, Leopoldo frequented his favourite bar for a glass of vermouth. But the bar isn’t what it used to be. The world isn’t what it used to be. Leopoldo begins to realise that change is inevitable, but he didn’t come to this realisation on his own. An overgrown tattling pigeon named Mauricio becomes his guide, and his urging forces Leo to make a surprising decision.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

The Night Watch

Julien Regnard | France, Belgium | 2021 | 12 min

A wild party with masks apparently didn’t go as planned for the heroes of this atmospheric film. An arguing couple gets in their car, but their drive is cut short. When George wakes from a coma after a serious accident, he finds out that his partner Christina disappeared. He goes back to the only place he can find her.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

Selection Process

Carla Pereira | Spain | 2021 | 4 min

Everyone deals differently with stressful situations. Even a small detail can trigger inadequate reactions. From stupid motivational posters to a wrongly answered question to the disdain of a committee to which you’re trying in good faith to describe truthfully ‘what’s your biggest weakness’. A humorous film about a fateful job interview.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

A Guitar in the Bucket

Boyoung Kim | South Korea | 2021 | 15 min

A vending machine for houses, dogs and showers. The acclaimed author introduces a film set in an absurd world where nothing is certain and everything is contingent upon acquiring tokens which people can use to rent a standard day with standard experiences while hoping their dreams will come true. But the vending machines even offer the people themselves.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

Vadim on a Walk

Sasha Svirsky | Russia | 2021 | 8 min

Self-taught animator Sasha Svirsky thematises how hard it is to overcome one’s fear and step out of one’s comfort zone. His Vadim leaves the safety of a closed square and sets out on a wild journey through animation techniques and artistic styles on a stream of consciousness accompanied by a diverse score. The film was screened at Berlinale.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

Bestia

Hugo Covarrubias | Chile | 2021 | 16 min

The co-director of Paper Port, the popular series for children, has set his latest film in Chile in 1975. It explores the dark depths of the soul of a secret police officer. The director superbly animates a puppet with a shiny porcelain surface reflecting the coldness and cruelty the officer deals with every day.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

Regular

Nata Metlukh | United States | 2022 | 5 min

Green, yellow and blue, striking graphic stylisation and five dwarfs; these are the building stones of this playful film. In absurd moments, a world defined by lines and geometric shapes transforms and disintegrates until someone who can restore its lost order comes along.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

Impossible Figures and Other Stories I

Marta Pajek | France, Canada | 2021 | 17 min

An ominous ticking sound triggers an explosion. Wandering deserted city streets, an elegant elderly woman recalls what was and what could have been. The final film (and first part) of Marta Pajek’s acclaimed trilogy, Impossible Figures and Other Stories I is a mysterious and haunting portrait of personal and societal self-destruction.

Tue 10/5/2022
16.30-17.51
free seats: 195
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.21
free seats: 44
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
10.30-11.51
free seats: 78
Malé Theatre

Mise Špuntix – Špuntix

Jakub Hussar | Czech Republic | 2021 | 2 min

You don’t see a wandering asteroid in the atmosphere of Planet D every day. So princess Prga and her little tots decide to explore this celestial object. This film is Czech Television’s follow-up to its educational series The Planet Comes First and this time, the authors focus on modern technologies.

Wed 11/5/2022
08.30-09.21
free seats: 186
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
11.00-11.51
free seats: 64
North Bohemian Museum

Mom Is Always Right

Marie Urbánková | Czech Republic | 2022 | 8 min

This humorous and ironic film shows what big lies can do to small children. They say mum and the director are always right. The author of this film shows us what things would look like if this were true. You can see for yourselves whether she is right or not.

Wed 11/5/2022
08.30-09.21
free seats: 186
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
11.00-11.51
free seats: 64
North Bohemian Museum

Befriend the Wind

Aneta Paulíny | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

A short film about the problems living in severe weather conditions can cause. A man living on a windy hill faces many difficulties but thanks to the strong wind, he eventually makes a discovery that lifts him to the sky.

Wed 11/5/2022
08.30-09.21
free seats: 186
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
11.00-11.51
free seats: 64
North Bohemian Museum

Forgive

Alžbeta Mišejková Mačáková | Czech Republic | 2022 | 8 min

Two girls argue when playing. They get so upset and angry that they puff up until they become balloons floating in the air. They get stuck in the clouds and can’t figure out how to get back down. This film shows that forgiveness is not as hard as it seems.

Wed 11/5/2022
08.30-09.21
free seats: 186
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
11.00-11.51
free seats: 64
North Bohemian Museum

Žeprej – Public Opinion Survey

Jakub Hussar | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

Adults often use words children don’t understand. This new series produced by Czech Television focuses on such words. In these short episodes, professor Žeprej illustratively and comprehensibly explains everything – for instance, what is a public opinion survey.

Wed 11/5/2022
08.30-09.21
free seats: 186
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
11.00-11.51
free seats: 64
North Bohemian Museum

A Devil’s Tale

Miroslav Zachariáš | Czech Republic | 2021 | 30 min

What happens when a naughty little devil named Florimón meets a beautiful chimney sweep named Tradamila who has a ladybug in her hair? He falls in love. But there’s a problem – Tradamila is a fair girl who is also a deaf-mute. What will the devil’s last wish from the depths of hell be? A Christmas fairy-tale based on a book by Pavel Čech.

Wed 11/5/2022
08.30-09.21
free seats: 186
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
11.00-11.51
free seats: 64
North Bohemian Museum

Wet

Chloé Peyrebrune, Elvira Taussac, Lauriane Montpert, Marianne Bergeonneau, Mélina Mandon | France | 2021 | 6 min

A spa is a perfect place for seduction. Naked bodies, steam, sweat and an almost palpable sensuality. A masseur catches the eye of one of the ladies in the spa and becomes the target of her lust. Their tantalising game begins with a massage, after which the protagonist finds himself in a maze of feelings and bathing bodies. Thanks to the film’s magnificent 3D animation, viewers can experience strong feelings of bodies.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

The Package

Zina Shcherbatova | Russia | 2021 | 6 min

Using black-and-white drawing, the young Russian director depicts the atmosphere in the besieged city of Leningrad. Strokes of India ink reveal the fate of a woman who finds a package on the street. Her state of mind and hunger distort the true contents of the package. How deep can a human being sink because of a devastating war?

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

In the Upper Room

Alexander Gratzer | Austria, Hungary | 2022 | 9 min

Each year, a young mole visits his blind grandfather in his burrow deep underground. As the years go by, their relationship becomes increasingly intense and important questions arise. The film’s style, combining a certain naiveté and absurdity with philosophical overtones – which the author used in his previous film – builds on refined dialogues.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Crush On

Shu-yu Chu | Taiwan | 2021 | 5 min

The moment I saw you, it was as if a train had gone through my head… The author manages to depict the fleeting moment when one experiences the ‘crash’ of love at first sight with a metaphor of an uncontrollable train hurtling through the streets. We find ourselves in a Gondryesque world inside the head of the young protagonist, where the artificial meets the real.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Winter Nights

Gergana Simeonova | Bulgaria | 2021 | 8 min

Winter Nights is an animated evening walk in the poetic world of the famous Bulgarian poet, Hristo Smirnenski. The film represents the struggles of the lower class in the big concrete city and their never-ending battle for survival and human dignity. The author uses elaborate hand-drawn animation on paper.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Channidae

Pauline Morel | Belgium | 2021 | 7 min

Three friends like spending their time together in a park. This time, Colin suggests they can pretend to be a family. They put on masks, build a house and start playing the roles of the father, mother and son. After some time, the game starts getting out of hand as Colin immerses himself in his role, for which he has an awful lot of inspiration. Some masks are hard to take off.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Do Not Feed the Pigeons

Antonin Niclass | United Kingdom | 2021 | 9 min

It’s 2 am and a diverse group of passengers are waiting for their last connection at an uninviting station. Their aimless killing of time is turned into a magical experience thanks to a flock of local pigeons, who connect the disparate types of people for a moment. This originally conceived stop-motion animation will captivate viewers with its technical finesse and an impressive atmosphere created from a banal situation.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Girls Talk about Football

Paola Sorrentino | Italy | 2021 | 8 min

What’s it like to be a girl in a boys’ world? Six girls share their experiences in various countries playing women’s football in this male-dominated sport. Their stories are translated by different animation techniques to explore various narrative possibilities. Together, they form a captivating ani-doc with an important message.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

GONZO

Mariia Stepunina | Israel | 2021 | 6 min

This world is really dangerous and full of bad guys. Luckily, there’s supersoldier Yosi, who is sent to retrieve a secret weapon of mass destruction called Shawarma. As the title of the film suggests, nothing is as it seems and everything can get even stranger in a heartbeat. Yet it can also get more peaceful. Will humanity be saved by a kebab or a falafel?

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Mom, What’s Up with the Dog?

Lola Lefevre | France | 2021 | 8 min

Little Gwen and her dog share a passion for exploring. As for one’s own sexuality, the animal seems a bit more experienced and the 11-year-old girl finds inspiration in the dog. As it turns out, significant milestones in one’s life often come hand in hand with embarrassing or disgusting moments. The eventual feeling of self-realisation and liberation is, however, priceless.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

In His Mercy

Christoph Büttner | Germany | 2022 | 12 min

One evening a prison director announces to an exhausted convict that he will be executed the next day. As if by a miracle, later that night his cell door opens. On his odyssey to gain freedom the convict is tossed back and forth by various mental states: his fear of being discovered, his hope for salvation and moments of sheer madness.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.00-12.19
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 165
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
12.00-13.19
free seats: 123
Kino Varšava

Mitchell Leonard: MA1NFRAME

Qieer Wang | United States | 2021 | 6 min

MA1NFRAME is the story of an artificial intelligence created to bring us together as a planet after so many millennia of divisiveness.
A visually captivating and smoothly animated music video with slightly disturbing content.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Irvin Venyš & Epoque Quartet: Cimpoiasca

Barbora Halířová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

Czech music video Cimpoiasca boasts superb animation and plays with folklore elements and many visual ideas. Made by a FAMU graduate, the music video plunges into a nightmare and tells the story of a female friendship that is pungently delicious, just like homemade plum brandy.

Irvin Venyš & Epoque Quartet: Cimpoiasca

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Trohi: Aggressive Schtreiss // Sims 5 idm

Ivelina Ivanova | Bulgaria | 2021 | 4 min

The author of this digitally blurry and visually incomprehensible music video likes to experiment with combining animation techniques. This passion is also projected in this obscure music video set mainly in a gyros shop.

Trohi: Aggressive Schtreiss // Sims 5 idm

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

JNKYRD: Varsity (feat. Ohhyuk)

Gyuri Cloe Lee | South Korea | 2021 | 3 min

It’s the end of August, the varsity soccer pre-season is almost over… This music video by a young independent director from South Korea has a pleasant retro style and works with many visual associations and screen divisions.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

HappyRadio: Wolfeater

Philippe Kastner | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

Wolfeater is an experimental musical project with influences in genres like industrial, metal and alternative rock music. It combines semi-realistic rotoscoping with stylised cartoonish gore to achieve a surreal blend that (hopefully) entertains the eye and disturbs the mind.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Youli: Move Your Body

Tímea Laura Varga | Hungary | 2021 | 4 min

This rhythmical music video with a clear message works with vivid colours, various contrasts and vigorous dancing. It was made by a young independent director from Hungary, who converted the strength of visual art into dynamics of movement.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Tomahawk: Predators and Scavengers

Diego Cumplido | Chile, United States | 2021 | 3 min

This music video for the new album by Tomahawk, the post-metal super-group formed by Mike Patton, is a hybrid of plasticine animation and frantic hand-held footage of a forest, in which some eerie antropomorphic creatures sing and perform spastic dances following the rhythm of the music.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Kutiman: Saluf

Deby Cywiner, Jennifer Cywiner | Israel | 2021 | 6 min

In this inventive and fresh music video, the Argentinian creators combine several animation techniques. The main one is rotoscoping but after filming live action sequences, the creators drew the characters manually on paper and subsequently cut and coloured them. The result is an extraordinary audio-visual spectacle full of hand-drawn magic.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Alpha-ray: Paper Trails

Andrea Schneider | Switzerland | 2021 | 5 min

In this music video with hints of nostalgia, we see black-and-white photographs and pictures in the form of pages cut from a diary, which together with real objects form a delicate collage of experiences shared by the characters wandering through this memory landscape.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Duso band: Us

Shira Giladi | Israel | 2021 | 3 min

A journey between moments, moods and consciousness, which produce a portrait of a romantic relationship. This music video by an Israeli animator, illustrator and designer is characterised by skilfully stylised drawing.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

ECHT!: 500Gr

Simon Breeveld | Belgium | 2021 | 4 min

A fly-through of an apocalyptic fantastically portrayed world where everything crumbles, melts and disappears and appears again. Just like the bodies and heads of the musicians levitating in a pulsating city, created by perfectly distorted 3D animation which somehow doesn’t hold together.

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Elton John, Dua Lipa: Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)

Raman Djafari | Germany, United Kingdom | 2021 | 5 min

Four friends on a surreal disco night out follow Elton John and Dua Lipa into a fantastic universe. The experienced director of many music videos for various artists took extra care to animate dance choreographies and portray a hallucinogenic atmosphere.

Elton John, Dua Lipa: Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)

Wed 11/5/2022
11.30-12.14
free seats: 162
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.14
free seats: 48
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.14
free seats: 53
North Bohemian Museum

Alberto Amar: Sunrise

Daniel Amar | Spain | 2021 | 4 min

Tones of warm colours melt in the glow of the sunrise. The first rays illuminate the world and awaken various creatures and elements. In this rhythmical music video, the sunrise is a remarkable (and occasionally bizarre) kaleidoscope.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Gosheven: Until Exhaustion

Magdalena Hejzlarová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

First, growth seems unlimited, then a peak comes; we break and vanish and again and again, the game of life. Behind this circle, an everlasting nostalgia is present.

This graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, with a penchant for visual experiments made her latest music video in the Golly open-source program.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Corps: Carnivore

Yoann Stehr | Belgium, France | 2021 | 4 min

This music video collage using the popular technique of replacing made entirely from paper advertisements is a nightmarish stroll through a consumer society. The result is a ruthless reflection on what a consumer – meaning every human being – is exposed to every day.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Sophie Cairo: Keep Left

Maya Reményi | United Kingdom | 2021 | 4 min

In her frantic music video, the London-based Hungarian director visualises the frustration of some drivers. Specifically, those who have to switch and drive on the other side of the road in some countries. The director works with split-screen and titles adding comic book aesthetics to the music video.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Chini.png: Fissure

Maria José Ayarza | Chile | 2021 | 4 min

This video explores digital painting with a pictorial treatment, kind of an exquisite cadaver. A music video that talks about falling in love with somebody for their appearance, only to realise how different their versions of the world are.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Lao Ra: Suena Taz

Silvia Prietov | Colombia | 2020 | 3 min

An obscure and almost horror-like probe into the mind of a deranged woman, her dark thoughts and surreal visions. A captivating, strongly visual music video combining disturbing images with comic book aesthetics.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Vooid band: Rabbit Hole

He Lo | Taiwan | 2021 | 7 min

He Lo, a freelance animation filmmaker from Taiwan, usually works in hand-drawn style or combines various digital media to depict elapsed time, memory, or a peculiar worldview. Even in this music video, He Lo’s images have Asian characteristics and a geometrical, balanced layout.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Brother Sun Sister Moon: A Whale Song

Sacha Beeley | United Kingdom, Japan | 2021 | 3 min

In her music video for the Japanese band, director, animator and illustrator Sacha Beeley used a naive artistic style with many visual ideas. She used pink and violet tones to create a pleasant contrast to the more or less absurd scenes.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

An Alien Called Harmony: After The Dance

Shunsaku Hayashi | Japan, United Kingdom | 2022 | 4 min

This music video is inspired by the realisation that someone you thought you knew has changed in frightening ways. Our understanding of people is mediated by our own experience, limited, and the indirect ritualism of relationships is like dance or sport.

An Alien Called Harmony: After The Dance

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Mathieu Boogaerts: How Many

Bianca Scali | Germany | 2021 | 3 min

The latest music video by the young French director, a graduate of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany, is a tender play of subtle drawing against various shades of blue. It emphasises the melancholy of the song dealing with sadness and living through it.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Under the Reefs Orchestra: Sakurajima

David Delruelle, Yoann Stehr | Belgium | 2021 | 5 min

In this extraordinary music video by Brussels-based artists David Delruelle & Yoann Stehr,

the dreamlike and surreal world of a collagist is overtaken by great disturbances, slipping out of his control.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

Wataru Takada: Sunset Train (Yuyake)

Honami Yano | Japan | 2021 | 4 min

On this nostalgic train ride full of charming metamorphoses in soft colours, we hear the sounds of a rather melancholy song. The train is crammed and this leads to certain misunderstandings. The author observes the loneliness of the passengers and follows the story of a little girl.

Wed 11/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 163
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 65
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-13.43
free seats: 153
Malé Theatre

The Crossing

Florence Miailhe | France, Germany, Czech Republic | 2021 | 80 min | FR

Not many animators use paint-on-glass animation. This method is extremely challenging in preparation and the execution itself. The animators use multiple planes (multiple layers of glass) at once. For their patience, they are rewarded by a uniquely charming visual magic which can’t be achieved by any other method.

The Crossing is the very first feature film made using this technique. In six chapters, its director tells the story of a girl named Kyona and her brother Adriel, who are fleeing their hometown of Novi Varna because of a pogrom during which their parents were arrested. Without any money and with no help in sight, they quickly find themselves among the children of the streets and various thieves only to be placed in a spartan family for re-education. The siblings escape again and their journey takes them to a deep forest, a circus and a mountain camp. Kyona slowly realises that to live a free life, they will have to pay a high price.

The authors skilfully painted the atmosphere of the film full of impressive images, scenes and particularly, emotions.

Director Florence Miailhe has been focusing on the technique of paint-on-glass animation for a long time and her filmography includes several acclaimed short films made using this technique. In her feature debut, she has joined forces with other animators, including a team working in the Czech Republic (Lucie Sunková, Polina Kazak, Eva Skurská, Anna Paděrová, Zuzana Studená and Marta Szymanska).

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 183
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.20
free seats: 76
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Au cas où le corps éxulte

Florian Genthial | France | 2021 | 7 min

This disturbing black-and-white film explores the theme of personal responsibility against the backdrop of a pornographic film shoot. In it, adult film actress Beatrice must endure an unplanned scene of violence. Her friend, the cinematographer Johan, is part of the crew led by an uncompromising director.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Homebird

Ewa Smyk | United Kingdom | 2021 | 10 min

The thoroughness of this film’s artistic style gives away the author’s roots in graphic and book design and illustration. The story follows a young heroine coping with her decision to leave her native village and settle in a big city different from everything she has known. The film thematises the fragile period at the beginning of a young person’s new life.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Animal Locomotion

Asa Rikin, Noga Sirota | Israel | 2021 | 8 min

A wild whirl and twirl of various cultural and religious symbols and metaphors. Using rhythmical music, paint animation and other techniques, the Israeli duo of directors take us on a hypnotic journey into the mind of a person who’s been trying to free himself from his animal roots ever since the moment of self-realisation.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Balaclava

Youri Orekhoff | Belgium | 2021 | 8 min

Nadja and Tina love long, varnished nails and enjoy wearing balaclavas covering their entire faces. Why wouldn’t they? You can’t just break into someone’s flat with your face uncovered! Distinct stylisation, often minimalist animation and the expressive gesticulation of both anti-heroines turn this film into a uniquely entertaining, albeit illegal, ride.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Mother

Subarna D | India | 2021 | 5 min

Mother is the story of a woman haunted by nightmares of her past and her possible future of becoming the next village circumciser. When she is asked to take up the job and circumcise her own daughter, she realises she can’t conform to the traditions and customs of her community; she must fight back. A unique Indian submission to the international competition.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Sisters

Andrea Szelesová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 12 min

This charming animated film by a FAMU student explores an unusual relationship. Big Sister – a person of colossal size – is trapped in the sand in a deserted landscape. As she has no way to take care of herself, the burden falls on her resentful little sister. But Big Sister keeps growing and sinking further into her trap. Despite Little Sister’s attempts to stop it, she is left with just one night to say goodbye and let go.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

The Immoral

Ekin Koca | France | 2021 | 5 min

A quiet lunch in a restaurant turns into an unexpected drama. One of the guests has a cardiac arrest and as other guests gather hesitantly around him, the burning issue of their guilt arises – was there no way to help him? Definitely not. But what about the person in the back who keeps blatantly stuffing his face with steak and fries?!

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Good Resolutions

Sara Priorelli | Italy | 2021 | 3 min

One house, its inhabitants, and their efforts to satisfy their needs. This Italian animated film combines several stories with a tragicomic tone highlighted by a palette of cheerful colours. ‘I tried to investigate the relationship between man and his grotesque aspirations, some more tragic than others,’ the director says about her graduate film.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Girl in the Water

Shi-Rou Huang | Taiwan | 2021 | 8 min

In her film, an animation student from Taiwan explores the personal and intimate experience of unfulfilled love and the subsequent healing process. Flaked walls and scars remind her of uneasy moments and create a unique perception of time she captured sensitively in 1500 phases painted by light pastel and watercolour tones.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Golden Margarite

Keren Karasik | Israel | 7 min

A housing estate somewhere in the suburbs doesn’t offer many possibilities for meaningful activities. The dismal feeling isn’t improved by the only sounds ‘brightening up’ the dreary place. The buzzing of electric lines, noises from buildings and chimneys create a unique soundtrack to the lives of three teenage boys from post-Soviet Europe whose day is portrayed in the film.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

Fall of the Ibis King

Josh O'Caoimh, Mikai Geronimo | Ireland | 2021 | 10 min

The graduate film of a directorial duo from the Irish National Film School recounts the scheming and decisions of an antagonist in a dark opera. The return of the leading actor triggers suppressed fears and the backstage (and the stage) slowly turns into a place of a real tragedy.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.00-15.19
free seats: 93
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
16.00-17.19
free seats: 130
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
19.00-20.19
free seats: 96
Malé Theatre

The Picking Piper

Jim Jack, Marie Nováčková, Max Gell | Czech Republic, United Kingdom | 2021 | 5 min

The film was created as a collaboration of animator Marie Nováčková with Max Gell and Jim Jack in The Cursed Verse project. It’s one of twelve animated poems made by animators from all over the world during the winter Covid lockdown. The protagonist is a little boy who has a nightmare before he falls asleep in his room.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Little Death

Vera Raspopova | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

Little Death – an expression which in modern usage refers specifically to the “sensation of post orgasm” – is used here literally, as a description of a short coma resulting from a heroin overdose. This anidoc is a visual and verbal monologue of a person slowly dying. What is it like to die?

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Blue

Lucie Lisníková | Czech Republic | 2020 | 3 min

A short film based on the director’s poem titled Sharks. A girl breaks up with a boy by text. The boy is devastated. Memories of his girlfriend haunt his dreams. But now’s the time to accept that a relationship, just like a dream, must end.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Ivan Wernisch – In the Coffee-grinder

David Súkup | Czech Republic | 2021 | 2 min

The first episode from the series Poetry in Animation. In this case, the combination of poetry and animation (and the unmistakeable voice of Arnošt Goldflam) have created a one-minute-long atmospheric film. The whole series should be finished in 2024 and include 52 animated poems.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Carp Xmass

Anna Heribanová | Czech Republic | 2022 | 7 min

In a small village in a far-away land, carp are preparing for Christmas Eve – peaceful and happy as required by tradition. But Christmas failed to meet these values a long time ago. It has become the peak of year-round consumption and some carp may lose their lives in honour of this sacred day. A short naturalistic dramedy.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

CRASH! BANG! BOOM!

Iris Hobson-Mazur | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

An animated documentary about sound design for animation. Julie Lupačová describes her process as a sound designer and the importance of sound in relation to moving images. This film was created as part of a joint project between UMPRUM, FAMU and Sutnarka.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Eternia

Jáchym Štulíř | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

The film, which was made as part of the 70th anniversary of the animation studio at UMPRUM, is loosely inspired by the work of three graduates: Václav Mergl, Jan Souček and Vratislav Hlavatý. Motifs from their films, illustrations and paintings have been placed in new contexts to create a new work of authorship.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Dear Eva

Veronika Martišková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

Veronika Martišková’s graduate film is based on personal correspondence between two artists who know very well what it’s like to fight with yourself. The film reminds us that an overwhelming desire for perfection kills creativity and spirit. Throughout the film bordering with non-narrative animation, we hear energetic spoken word.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Foreigners from East Asia

Tan Lui Chan | Czech Republic, Hong Kong SAR China | 2021 | 5 min

Interviews with three foreign graduates from East Asia⁠ – China, Japan and South Korea – telling stories about how they came to study animation in the Czech Republic. An animated documentary made for the 70th anniversary of the animation studio at Prague’s UMPRUM.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

A Little Bit of Snack to It...

Andrea Kmecová, Pavel Holub | Czech Republic | 2021 | 8 min

A self-proclaimed food critic is about to ruin the career of yet another prestigious, reputable restaurant. Despite the efforts of the chef and the staff, there seems to be no cuisine that can satisfy the critic’s spoiled tastes. The chef’s ego can’t stand it and he decides to make cuisine that is just right to please the critic’s needs.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Free Hands

Thanh Mai Tranová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

Three authors, three different generations, three views on their own work. All three have worked in the audiovisual industry, advertising and other commercial spheres. Through animated interviews, the film looks at their experience and asks whether an author’s work has a place in their lives.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Bodies of Water

Niko Mlynarčík | Czech Republic | 2021 | 8 min

When Lake is drowning in his own thoughts, Mac takes him on a lake-break. With all the leisure and chill, he definitely won’t be stuck in his head anymore. The film’s Slovak director studies animation in the Czech Republic.

Wed 11/5/2022
14.30-15.33
free seats: 133
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
12.30-13.33
free seats: 68
Cinema City 4

Louise

Camille Bozec, Constance Bertoux, Mila Monaghan, Pauline Guitton, Pauline Mauviere | France | 2021 | 7 min

This realistically portrayed episode from the life of a ballerina is set at the end of the 19th century. Louise is ready to head home after her performance, while the other dancers are getting ready for the stage. Louise is stopped by a friend to whom she owes money. Luckily, the charming ballerina knows how to acquire the necessary sum that very evening.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

The Last Jew

Julia Scherer | Israel | 2021 | 5 min

This morbid slapstick comedy, suitable for our Midnight Animation programme block, tells the story of the last Jew returning to the Promised Land. There he can finally have proper falafel and buy great Israeli souvenirs! The Jewish people are finally complete. Everyone has been waiting for this. But what no one has expected is the chain of tragic events triggered by the return of the last Jew.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Crab Soda

Chuchu Guo, Lingbo Fei | China | 2021 | 11 min

This socially critical Chinese film skilfully combines elements of social drama, horror and black humour. After school, schoolgirl Wang Wuwu would like to drink soda just like her classmates. But her father, an unsuccessful crab seller, cannot afford to make her dream come true. When the girl finally gets her soda after an unsettling anabasis, she can’t even feel joy.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Goodbye Jerome!

Chloé Farr, Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet | France | 2021 | 8 min

A man arrives in Paradise and his first and only concern is to find his beloved wife, Maryline. Has he crossed to the other side solely to find her? The worst thing is that no one knows where to find Maryline. This ironic pun is set in a fantastic world which may be Paradise for everyone but the protagonist.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Eating in the Dark

Inari Sirola | France | 2021 | 10 min

Siro is trying to find a way to get to know herself and her body. Will a unique vibrator passionately recommended by a sex-shop assistant do the trick? Or is defining one’s own boundaries and a trip through the forest at night better? Or both? This visually ‘wacky’ film full of pastel colours tells us that some people must work hard to find pleasure.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Blindness

Yu-seon Park | South Korea | 2021 | 5 min

The author of this hand-drawn film uses many metamorphoses and charming blurred watercolour images. At the same time, her disturbing film (taking place on a split screen) includes elements of horror and dark existential drama. It deals with alienation and loneliness at a time of social media and the confrontation of a human with a cold image on the screen.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

The Prejudiced Hierarchist

Conform Cox | Netherlands | 2021 | 3 min

This inventive sequence of scenes contemplates the emancipation of certain species of animals. We observe the animals in various situations in which they achieve remarkable levels of humanisation and organisation. Who would have thought that hens can use cutlery or that bats give birth in maternity hospitals? Besides, the film is based on real events.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Underwater Love

Andrea Falzone, M. Cristina Fiore, Veronica Martiradonna | Italy | 2021 | 6 min

This film explores anxiety and plays with the aspect ratio, which the author changes according to the events happening in the film. A girl faces personal problems mainly related to her body and sexuality, and also her inner demons. The film is dominated by expressive drawing and genuine hand animation.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Lesser of Two Evils

Máté Horesnyi | Hungary | 2021 | 10 min

This black-and-white, grotesquely depressive spectacle intertwines several utterly absurd situations reflecting Eastern European mentality. It does so with a coarse and specifically Hungarian (meaning hard-to-grasp) humour. The centre of it all seems to be the fate of a bus driver reflecting his (apparently lousy) life after an accident.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Krak

Stan Lievens | Belgium | 2021 | 6 min

A man crawls out of a banana and explains how he found himself in the fruit. Meanwhile, a fish contemplates her own beauty. These two stories are observed and dissected and cause a reaction that cracks the reality the observer is in.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Love, Dad

Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2021 | 13 min

An original ani-doc by a young Czech-Vietnamese director who achieved success with her previous film, Apart. In her take on an animated documentary, the author goes one step further – she adds a personal level and with a combination of multiple techniques (including superbly executed replacing) tries to reconnect and reconcile with her father.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.00-17.20
free seats: 77
Cinema City 4

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Fri 13/5/2022
16.30-17.50
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Sat 14/5/2022
15.30-16.50
free seats: 90
Malé Theatre

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

My Sunny Maad

Michaela Pavlátová | France, Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2021 | 85 min | X_DAR

The film, which has won many awards including the Jury Award at Annecy, is based on the riveting book Frišta by Czech journalist Petra Procházková.

A girl abandons her life in Prague to marry her beloved classmate Nazir in Kabul. In Afghanistan, Herra (originally Helena) must now find her place in an entirely different culture with other family customs and a society denying women their rights. Especially when the things she expected and anticipated don’t arrive. But what she didn’t expect, and what brings light into the joyless situation, is the arrival of a sensitive boy named Maad from the distant mountains. The tension in the family grows, however, and even the respectful Nazir finds it unexpectedly difficult to have a European wife. Not even the family’s progressive grandfather can change the fate that awaits the family.

The director has excellently balanced the film’s serious theme by keeping a detached perspective. The film provides an almost documentary insight into everyday Afghan life. It reflects the situation of discriminated women, who have no chance to decide their own fate, let alone the fate of their children.

At the same time, the characters in My Sunny Maad are portrayed with simple and distinct drawing and the film uses a pleasantly stylised yet sufficiently realistic background.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.55
free seats: 166
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
21.00-22.25
Náměstí Dr. E. Beneše

Sat 14/5/2022
14.30-15.55
free seats: 76
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Once There Was a Sea…

Joanna Kożuch | France, Poland | 2021 | 17 min

This captivating ani-doc recounts the fate of the dried-up Aral Sea and the search for it. The lake has almost disappeared because of insensitive human-induced changes to the land surrounding it. The director repeatedly went to investigate how and why the lake disappeared. She managed to capture the stories of several local people whose lives were and still are bound to the lake.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Steakhouse

Špela Čadež | France | 2021 | 9 min

This film by renowned director Špela Čadež, author of several acclaimed films, is a raw and symbolical ‘relationship film’. A man expects his wife to come home at the exact agreed time, at the very moment the steak he carefully prepares is ready to be served. But the woman deals with his aggression and calmly turns it against him.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

The Laugh

Capucine Gougelet | France | 2021 | 3 min

Each year, French company Tant Mieux Prod offers new graduates of animation schools the opportunity to direct an adaptation of a poem. The project, titled ‘En sortant de l’ecole’ is also supported by French Television. This year, a poem by André Chedid titled The Laugh was picked and its adaptation characterised by visual gentleness works with contrasts between colours and shades of grey.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Cucumbers

Leonid Shmelkov | Russia | 2021 | 16 min

Simon is a renowned and popular photographer who enjoys his popularity and the interest of media with the grace of a celebrity. But only until the moment when something snaps in him, and he suddenly starts seeing cucumbers everywhere. This film about a deep artistic and personal crisis made by a student of the Russian SHAR school utilises a detached view and includes many cucumber gags.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Thing

Malte Stein | Germany | 2021 | 5 min

This disturbing film with an atmosphere enhanced by elaborate sound design and strange deathly expressions of its characters tells the story of a man who is pursued by someone (or rather something). But the moment when the pursued person becomes an aggressor who doesn’t hesitate to resort to extreme measures is not far away.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Red Table

Hakhyun Kim | South Korea, Japan | 2021 | 8 min

An obscure South Korean parable revealing the hidden face of capitalism. The film features, for instance, a seemingly blind child, a neurotic dog, model trains and a bizarre cave with burning bones inside. This morbid pun has rich colours, a specific rhythm and many hard-to-grasp motives.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Awkward

Nata Metlukh | United States | 2020 | 4 min

The occasionally fragmentary and humorous film Awkward is a mosaic of absurd moments related to various communication and social ineptitudes that happen during a single day. The film, bursting with ideas, is characterised by dynamic animation and pleasantly stylised drawing.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics

Terril Calder | Canada | 2021 | 19 min

The movie dives deeply into the innate contrast between the Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride and Envy) and the Seven Sacred Teachings (Love, Respect, Wisdom, Courage, Truth, Honesty and Humility), as embodied in the life of a precocious Métis baby. Brought to life by darkly beautiful stop-motion animation, her inner turmoil of abuse is laid bare with unflinching honesty.

Wed 11/5/2022
16.30-17.49
free seats: 132
Malé Theatre

Thu 12/5/2022
15.30-16.49
free seats: 127
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
13.00-14.19
free seats: 84
Malé Theatre

Cutout

Yoshinao Satoh | Japan | 2021 | 9 min

This Japanese film, using the impressive technique of replacing, takes us into unsuspected worlds of urban space. In this reality, seemingly immovable ordinary objects usually not worth our attention perform a dynamic dance. Pavements, signs and railings form impressive patterns.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.00-18.45
free seats: 51
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
11.30-12.15
free seats: 161
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
16.00-16.45
free seats: 35
North Bohemian Museum

Skin to Skin

Mel Arranz | Spain | 2021 | 8 min

Between lines and shapes, hands touch; they explore and experience each other, wanting to break down the boundaries between their skins. The tactile sensations of the film are enhanced by animation and a layer of perforated paper forming a raster resembling skin.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.00-18.45
free seats: 51
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
11.30-12.15
free seats: 161
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
16.00-16.45
free seats: 35
North Bohemian Museum

Still Life

Conner Griffith | United States | 2021 | 8 min

Composed of over 1000 engravings from the 18th and 19th century, Still Life is a meditation on objectivity and meaning. The film explores the idea that we live in a world of objects and that a world of objects lives within us. Our evolved capacity to make sense of our environment has shaped our perceptual experience, demanding that we divide the world into distinct intelligible ‘bytes’.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.00-18.45
free seats: 51
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
11.30-12.15
free seats: 161
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
16.00-16.45
free seats: 35
North Bohemian Museum

Rites of Spring

Yiorgos Tsangaris | Cyprus | 2021 | 5 min

The film is inspired by Kostis Kolotas’ text An Unfinished Novel. In the novel, Christian Orthodox tradition and the mysterious world of travelling theatre troupes, considered sinful by organised religion, fascinate the young protagonist equally. The film explores hidden and not-so-hidden paths that connect Christian tradition, pagan ritual and theatre.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.00-18.45
free seats: 51
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
11.30-12.15
free seats: 161
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
16.00-16.45
free seats: 35
North Bohemian Museum

Sacred Clockworks

Moritz Schuchmann | Germany | 2021 | 5 min

Sacred Clockworks reflects religions through photographic animation of their impressive sacral architecture. Thereby the domes of churches, mosques and synagogues are treated like clockworks – infinitely continuous, embodying thousands of years of history. The film examines the dome’s distinctive structure, built from multiple layers of circular patterns.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.00-18.45
free seats: 51
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
11.30-12.15
free seats: 161
Kino Varšava

Sat 14/5/2022
16.00-16.45
free seats: 35
North Bohemian Museum

The Land of Cruciform Sun

Aleš Zůbek | Czech Republic | 2021 | 12 min

The watersheds are saturated with a parasitic substance and have become a hatchery for a crystalline matter slowly overgrowing entire ecosystems for which time has run out. There is only the moment of endless refraction, which materialises and conserves the diverse expressions of their host in repetitive sequences.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.00-18.45
free seats: 51
North Bohemian Museum

Thu 12/5/2022
11.30-12.15
free seats: 161
Kino Varšava

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
16.00-16.45
free seats: 35
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Swop – Prima Ballerina

Job, Joris & Marieke | Netherlands | 2022 | 10 min

In their latest film, the acclaimed trio of Job, Joris & Marieke, specialising in originally stylised 3D animation, once again deals with gender stereotypes. Sef has a gift for ballet, but as a boy, he’s too shy to attend ballet courses. Then he finds out that he can switch heads with his friend, a girl. It turns out, however, that this solution is only temporary. What happens once it doesn’t work out?

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

King’s Garden

Iraj Mohammadi Razini | Iran | 2021 | 8 min

For his latest hand-animated film, the experienced Iranian director, who’s been animating for thirty years, chose atypical material. This tragic fairy tale, which tells the story of a young man trying to get a red rose for his beloved, is made using tree needles. On backlit glass, the director created settings and characters that are diverse both in detail and as a whole.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

Pig

Jorn Leeuwerink | Netherlands | 2022 | 9 min

A sleeping pig becomes an excellent source of power for other animals, as its snout works as a socket and the animals sometimes plug in various appliances. Then someone comes up with an idea to create an electric main to supply an entire city. Its inhabitants have no clue where the power comes from, but their consumption keeps increasing. A tragicomic film with an openly ecological message.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

Bird in the Peninsula

Atsushi Wada | France, Japan | 2022 | 16 min

The author of effortlessly drawn and more or less absurd films, Japanese phenomenon Atsushi Wada, has made another film in his unmistakeable style. On a meadow, children are rehearsing a dance with their teacher. A girl watching the dance starts disrupting the lesson inconspicuously, while one of the little dancers starts slowly drifting away from synchronised choreography and begins exploring other worlds.

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

In Nature

Marcel Barelli | Switzerland | 2021 | 5 min

This richly coloured and playfully animated film narrated by a child has a clear message: homosexuality isn’t limited to homo sapiens, but is common and completely natural for all animals; the director supports it with ample evidence. Marcel Barelli is the author of many animated films about animals and nature, with which he has won many international awards (with films, not animals).

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays

Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar | Belgium, France, Switzerland | 2021 | 26 min

A Town Called Panic has become a proven classic which hasn’t disappointed its fans. On the contrary, the series keeps gaining fans and the latest episode certainly won’t disappoint them either. It’s a holiday and Cowboy and Indian are bored. Horse decides to take them to see a film that inspires the two unlikely adventurers, and they decide to build a ship and sail the seas. As it happens, nothing goes according to plan.

A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays

Wed 11/5/2022
18.30-19.56
free seats: 106
Malé Theatre

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.26
free seats: 24
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-11.56
free seats: 115
Malé Theatre

Yaya e Lennie – The Walking Liberty

Alessandro Rak | Italy | 2021 | 98 min | IT

Naples, the future. An impenetrable jungle has consumed the very last remains of civilisation. Dilapidated houses are held together by ubiquitous lianas, heavy racemes of exotic flowers dangle in the green gloom, palm fronds shield all free people from the sun. A unique and very unlikely duo wanders through this post-apocalyptic world – fifteen-year-old cheeky, gutsy Yaya and her close friend Lennie, a bulky, thirty-year-old man inspired by Lennie Small from the book Of Mice and Men. Their life is simple, although definitely not easy. The jungle may feed them, but Yaya knows that the only place they will be safe is the Land of Music. It is an imaginary land she tells Lennie about constantly. She gives both of them hope to be free forever – two pure souls in the womb of nature, unburdened by human order and universally challenged civilisation. It seems, however, that they cannot escape its reach. In the depths of the jungle, a new human society is being born. This new order, called the Institution, strives to achieve its meritorious goal and reinstate the reliable ‘system’.
In this film, Alessandro Rak returns to his favourite motifs of corrupted society, problems of well-intended but rigid systems, democracy, freedom and responsibility. After his previous film Cinderella the Cat, he introduces a dystopic fairy-tale for grownups with mesmerising, unrestrained characters and dynamic animation, sound and music.

Wed 11/5/2022
20.30-22.08
free seats: 178
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Fri 13/5/2022
15.30-17.08
free seats: 160
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Belle

Mamoru Hosoda | Japan | 2021 | 122 min | JA

Enter a world where you can be yourself. No limits, no compromises. Be the one you want to be, even though in the real world of a small Japanese village, home of the film’s main heroine, you wouldn’t dare…
The inconspicuous Suza has suffered a terrible tragedy. Not only has she lost her mother, but because she’s unable to cope with this loss, she’s been drifting apart from her dad and choosing to escape into the virtual world of a social platform called U. This escape from reality, however, means an unexpected success for her. Thanks to her alter ego, a singer called Belle, she’s able to find her voice and use her lyrics to express emotions she can’t handle in the real world. People quickly notice the sincerity of her songs and Belle suddenly becomes a hugely popular diva, moving crowds. But even virtual reality has its bad guys. And the baddest of them all seems to be the mysterious Beast, the loved and hated protagonist of riveting fights organised in the alternative world of U. Belle and the Beast meet and the virtual space becomes a place of struggle to save real human souls.
Director Mamoru Hosoda, whose film Mirai charmed juries and audiences at Anifilm 2019, uses a superbly executed combination of 2D and 3D animation to present a classical theme put in the current context of modern technology. He can see the potential of social media with faith in the human spirit and the conviction that technology can represent a platform, instead of taking control of us.

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-12.02
free seats: 144
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
10.30-12.32
free seats: 16
Cinema City 4

Tunable Mimoid

Vladimir Todorovic | Australia | 2021 | 8 min

This video demonstrates the most recent research achievements of the Centre for Mimoid Studies (CMS). According to their recently published paper, scientists have discovered that tissue from an extraterrestrial organism (mimoid) regenerates after being exposed to the harmful effects of radiation. For the experiment, mimoid samples were cryogenically transported from Solaris to Earth.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

1 MTH/MIN

Ethann Néon | Belgium | 2021 | 4 min

1 MTH/MIN is a reflection on space-time in cinematographic form. Each image represents a 24-hour scan taken each day from March 21 to June 21. Through the frame of a window, the landscape stages natural spring phenomena: the blossoming of trees, weather changes, the days lengthening until the summer solstice.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

Hamartia

Marcos Montane | Argentina | 2021 | 6 min

Hamartia is a contemplation of the limits of the body, nothingness, sacrifice and asceticism. It explores the opposition between being and non-being. Hamartia is inspired by the awareness of the body during meditation. It takes symbolic elements from both Buddhism and Christianity.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

Imaginary Landscapes

Mykyta Lyskov | Ukraine | 2021 | 5 min

At first glance, this fly-through of an imaginary landscape seems minimalist. But the passing layers of colours, lines, structures and image nuances gradually consume the viewer. Thanks to the soundtrack, the impression left by this semi-abstract film intensifies gradually. The film was made by a representative of the new generation of Ukrainian filmmakers, known for his film Deep Love.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

O

Paul Wenninger | Austria, France | 2021 | 6 min

This hypnotic pixillated dance of the protagonist, who is also the film’s director takes place in an abandoned room of what was once an opulent mansion. The whirlwind speeds up and the furniture is getting dangerously close. What’s the relation between an isolated individual, his inner state of mind and the world behind the windows which, it seems, has entirely different rules?

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

I Want To Be Bored

Magda Kreps | United Kingdom | 2021 | 4 min

A hand-drawn film, visualising a wandering mind during the experience of doing absolutely nothing. The film is motivated by the desire for a break from constant distractions and endless to-do lists. When making the film, the author proceeded responsibly: “I started to schedule weekly moments of doing nothing, just sitting and recording passing thoughts, sensations and ambient sounds with a microphone.”

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

Concatenation 2 - Olympic Games

Donato Sansone | Italy | 2021 | 2 min

Chain reaction as a new Olympic sport. Acclaimed Italian experimenter Donato Sansone follows up on his film Concatenation with a sequel in which he concatenates professional athletes. Or at least recordings of their performances, which he turns into protagonists of his alluring animated manipulation.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

Floating Memories

Se-young OK | South Korea | 2021 | 5 min

In this short film, images on transparent plastic sheets overlap – just like memories – in an impressive sequence. Thanks to simple animation tools, inconcrete planar drawings supplemented by realistic photographs by Eadweard Muybridge acquire depth (when sequenced).

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

Frozen Jumper

Tina Frank | Austria | 2020 | 7 min

A significant element of the formally daring film Frozen Jumper is formed by Peter Rehberg’s track of the same name. The Austrian director interprets it almost literally and uses motifs of film perforations. Their movement defines the precise rhythm of the soundtrack. Subsequently, the celluloid chimera dissolves in an admittedly digital visual.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.13
free seats: 158
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
17.00-17.43
free seats: 84
Cinema City 4

Sat 14/5/2022
19.30-20.13
free seats: 50
North Bohemian Museum

TEDx Untold

Eliška Oz, Lee Oz | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

The opening video for TedX from Vienna, focusing on the Untold. TedX is a series of live lectures and performances organised independently but with direct ties to the more popular TED. This short video made by the Anifilm 2021 visual identity designers uses their unmistakeable claymation style.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Gregor Mendel and the Mystery of Peas

David Súkup | Czech Republic | 2022 | 4 min

As a little boy, Johann asked many questions and spent his whole life searching for answers. In their short animated film made for the Brno Observatory and Planetarium, Vendula Chalánková and Ján Obyšovský follow the life story of the modest scientist from Hynčice.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

CI3: Obzor

Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

This poetic music video by Alexandra Májová and Martin Máj takes us to an imaginary landscape where we see simple symbols representing a problematic relationship between a man and a woman. The music video’s graphic aesthetics is dominated by a motif of hands manipulating the heroes against a backdrop of a thematised horizon.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Akira – Comics Trailer

Lukáš Bača | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

A teaser for the iconic manga series Akira, published in Czech for the first time. The teaser animates scenes from the comic book and introduces its world to potential readers. Akira is a cyberpunk manga popular worldwide thanks to the legendary animated film.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Incon – Fits to Your Home

Luboš Vacke | Slovakia, Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

This puppet commercial humorously promotes windows you can buy, for instance, when peaceful moments at your home spent listening to your favourite vinyl are disrupted by unwanted sounds from outside.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore

Iris Hobson-Mazur, Michaela Matějková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

A music video created for the song by the Pilsen-based band leads us through a bizarre-looking shop in the middle of nowhere. Our tour guide is a questionable character in a bowler hat, who may not be as friendly as he seems. The store contains all number of different bizarre products, even leading us through portals into different worlds.

Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

The Way to School

Dorota Březinová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

A journey to school from the perspective of a boy suffering from depression and anxiety. This suggestive black-and-white spot made using non-traditional sand animation was created for the project Blázníš? No a! (Getting Crazy? So What!) coordinated by Fokus Prague.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Zapomělsem: Kdesi

Dita Stuchlíková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

This music video for the song Kdesi by Zapomělsem is based on two meanings of the Czech word ‘kdesi’. The word originally means ‘somewhere’ and its colloquial variant ‘kdesi’, the contracted version of ‘kde jsi’, means ‘where are you’? The music video uses natural materials like moss and foam to represent various places. The author also creates a collage from the word ‘kdesi’ written in various fonts to represent searching.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Industry – Opening Credits

Jan Wolf | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

The opening credits of a Czech Television documentary series broadcast since September 2021. Limited colourisation of the credits supplemented only by yellow refers to an older factory environment and to the robotisation of current production.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Pokáč: Kouření je hnusný zvyk

Antonín Chod, Ondřej Brýna, Silvie Radová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 2 min

This comical music video for Czech musician Pokáč portrays various situations experienced by active and potential smokers in order to (hopefully) convince the younger audience that smoking is bad. The authors study at the Secondary School of Business, Applied Art and Design in Pilsen, and this music video is their first collaboration.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Chained

Barbora Halířová | Czech Republic, Poland | 2021 | 2 min

Home, family, solidarity, help, independence, human being… These are just some of the words that resonated strongly in the stories of women from the Kuchinate organisation, helping female African refugees find a place in Israel through the craft of crocheting. The film follows the story of a woman who has lost her home and is forced to set out to find a better future.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Kvítek: Ten sen

Anastázie Rainischová, Julie Černá, Ondřej Salava, Petra Mikolášová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

This music video was created as the final assignment at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Four first-year students faced the challenge of combining their different approaches to visual style and animation itself. The central motifs of this film are the range of cartoon animation and building friendships, metaphorically shown in the theme of this work.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Covid 19

Denisa Jánská | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

This campaign for the Public Health Institute Ostrava was made to support the Covid-19 vaccination initiative. The director is the head of the Studio of Animation at Ostrava University. Under her tutelage, the students established long-term collaboration with the Institute, creating various promotional materials and campaigns for different specialised departments.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Michal Mihok: Mirroring 1

František Topinka, Jan Kolegar, Nikola Micajová, Theodora Pfeffermannová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

A robot cleaner does his daily routine work in his black-and-white world. But in one of the abandoned streets, a world full of colour and unknown places awaits him… The collective of authors is engaged in teaching animation and other film disciplines at the Aeroškola film and educational institution.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Neklid – spot

Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

A teaser for the podcast series Neklid by Czech Radio Wave. This short teaser bears the author’s distinct artistic style, which festival viewers may know from her film Apart.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama: Šedesátá léta

Michaela Pavlátová, Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

For this music video for a song from Vladimír Mišík’s album Noční obraz, graphic artist and director Michaela Pavlátová intergenerationally joined forces with her former students Alexandra Májová and Martin Máj.

Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama: Šedesátá léta

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Windows to Prehistory

Jan Sklenář | Czech Republic | 2021 | 4 min

One of many animations made for the new, popular paleontological exhibition Windows to Prehistory in the National Museum in Prague. When a boy goes to see the exhibition with his grandparents, they trigger a series of short scenes from individual geological periods, starting in prehistory and ending with the modern-day museum visitors.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Září: Tajný vzkaz

Martin Kukal | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

Weird things happen in a strange but beautiful garden. A young boy lives here, picks the fruit that grows in it and observes the beauty that flourishes here, but he is sad because he has no one to share his life with. But something is changing in the garden. Something is about to happen.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Dwarves

Marie Nováčková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

A commercial for Kredum, makers of original rings. The video, sent to customers on their big day, also expresses thanks and congratulates the owners of Kredum wedding rings on their wedding. Animator Marie Nováčková studied animation in the Pilsen Studio of Animation.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Sunday Baking – Opening Credits

Pavla Dudová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 1 min

The opening sequence of the programme Pečení na neděli (Sunday Baking) was made by Czech Television’s long-time collaborator Pavla Dudová. She used watercolours to depict an idyllic rural landscape projected into a real kitchen.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

Pan Lynx: Výlety do temnoty

Martin Šafus, Michal Skořepa | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

Through a glass pyramid in his hands, Michal’s sinister alter ego Mr. Lynx (half human, half lynx) transports him to mysterious worlds of dark forests, groves and deserts. They confront each other in pitch darkness.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

One World 2022

Matyáš Trnka | Czech Republic | 2022 | 1 min

A simple, but all the more telling graphic jingle of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. It uses the symbol of feet to portray conflict – shoeless white feet encounter black feet wearing boots. Footprints and bootprints aren’t the only things that remain, however, and something else becomes coloured with the relevant colour.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

How the Johannites Came to Bohemia

Jan Míka | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

An animated film about the formation of the Order of Saint John and its beginnings in Bohemia, made for the Museum of the Middle Pootaví in Strakonice. It will captivate viewers with its technical execution, combining animation techniques giving a historic lecture with an original visual style.

Thu 12/5/2022
13.30-14.36
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.06
free seats: 121
Malé Theatre

My Neighbors’ Neighbors

Anne-Laure Daffis, Léo Marchand | France | 2021 | 92 min | FR

An older French house becomes the main setting of crazy tangled stories of neighbours and those who became their neighbours by accident. The inhabitants seem to be dealing with the hazards of life: an ogre breaks his teeth on the very same day of the annual Ogre Feast, while being asked to watch over his neighbour’s kids; a magician cuts his assistant in half and her legs run off; a hiker and his dog spend several days stuck in the elevator; an old man falls in love with a pair of legs.

This imaginative film uses elegant lexical and visual humour. Its peculiar and uncharacteristic poetics are built around a wide variety of animation techniques ranging from classic (such as 2D and 3D computer animation) to live-action footage and even pinscreen. Through layers of humorous situations, we sometimes catch glimpses of nostalgia for a lost world as well as irony and a light ridicule of contemporary France. The dramas, delights, surprises and dangers of real life are mixed with magic as if it was meant to be.

Thu 12/5/2022
15.00-16.32
free seats: 131
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
18.00-19.32
free seats: 135
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

The Girl from the Other Side

Satomi Maiya, Yutaro Kubo | Japan | 2021 | 70 min | JA

WIT Studio introduces the anticipated feature film follow-up to its short film from 2019. This adaptation of a manga of the same name by Japanese artist Nagabe was partially crowdfunded by a Kickstarter campaign.

Once upon a time, in a land far away that was divided into two realms… The Outside was roamed by teratomorphic creatures who had the power to curse whomever they touched. Humans could only live safely in the Inside. But when a lost little girl from the Inside named Shiva, and a demonic beastly looking Outsider, simply known as Teacher, initiate a quiet coexistence on the same side of the forest, their bond seems to transcend their incompatible natures. It is the beginning of a folktale about two outcasts – one human, one inhuman – who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.

This mystical film is a dark and peculiar fairy-tale which will leave a strong impression on viewers, further emphasised by a delicately executed artistic style balancing the grim content. The film’s characters deal with intense emotions which they show with matching expressivity.

Thu 12/5/2022
17.30-18.40
free seats: 74
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
18.30-19.40
free seats: 1
Kino Varšava

Countdown of Hope

Sebastian Veselka | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

A drama with horror undertones. Filled with sadness, anger and madness, an Elven Grand King hopelessly watches his tormented people and decides to do the only thing possible. How can he stop the genocide of his race? He will have to go to the enemy fortress and challenge the Lord of Darkness himself to a duel.

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Misophonia Orchestra

Daniela Hýbnerová | Czech Republic | 2022 | 6 min

It is said that silence is the best sound, and the protagonist of this animated pun agrees completely. But how can this young woman manage in a world that is a big symphony of sounds like sneezing, panting, humming and stamping?

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

How Can I Help You? – John Rawls, Veil of Ignorance and a Bar Bill

Patricie Švadlenková | Czech Republic | 2022 | 2 min

How can you tackle your own conscience and feelings of injustice when you can afford to pay for more beers than others at your table? An episode from an 8-episode series exploring basic philosophical concepts and suggesting how they can be helpful in solving everyday problems and dilemmas.

How Can I Help You? – John Rawls, Veil of Ignorance and a Bar Bill

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Rotsethornet

Karolína Pravdová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

The author’s film is inspired by the experience of a study stay in the Norwegian city of Volda. It describes the joint ascent of a pair of heroes to a local landmark – Rotsethornet. The author uses classic animation, for which she used painting with gouache paints to depict the sleepy atmosphere of a Norwegian town.

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Trees and Us

Tereza Motýlová, Rudolf Mašata | Czech Republic | 2022 | 11 min

This film is an unusual filmic poem in which the director follows the destiny of wood and its journey back to the forest. The film was made using refreshing stop-motion animation in a real forest where various wooden objects and pieces of furniture end up.

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

A Window Means Longing

Mariia Galaeva | Czech Republic | 7 min

The heroine of this melancholic film longs for a more fulfilled life. But she faces many concerns and anxieties. They can seem banal at first but – as it turns out – they are much more serious.

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Some Magic

Veronika Skalická | Czech Republic | 2021 | 3 min

Jan Balej and Filip Pošivač, two prominent Czech animators, have been focusing on puppet animation for many years. What makes this complicated but charming technique so appealing to them? We will find out in this short ani-doc by Veronika Skalická; while in an old workshop, an unworked wooden puppet comes to life.

Thu 12/5/2022
19.00-20.01
free seats: 42
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
13.00-14.01
free seats: 66
North Bohemian Museum

Dozens of Norths

Koji Yamamura | France, Japan | 2021 | 65 min | JA

‘North is solitary everywhere. Here, all is North. This is a record of the people I met in the North. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I’m starting to wonder my efforts have come to nothing. I’m just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull perception that changes shape little by little,‘ Koji Yamamura, a legend in world animation, says this about his latest film. For the first time in his career, Yamamura didn’t opt to make a short film, but instead used his demanding, visually and artistically fascinating style in a feature film. He managed to tackle this uneasy task without compromising his approach. The fragility of his animated drawings perfectly reflects the ideas the film explores. In addition to visually mesmerising images, Yamamura also uses captions to outline his themes. Otherwise, his filmic poem with music by Willem Breuker has no dialogue. The film uses Yamamura’s drawings and texts created in response to the catastrophic earthquake that decimated Japan in 2011. Despite the film’s nostalgic atmosphere with elements of a magical nightmare, Dozens of Norths also includes Yamamura’s delicate humour.

Thu 12/5/2022
20.30-21.35
free seats: 106
Kino Varšava

Fri 13/5/2022
20.30-21.35
free seats: 25
North Bohemian Museum

Sun 15/5/2022
15.00-16.05
free seats: 150
Kino Varšava

Best Birthday Ever

Michael Ekblad | Germany, Netherlands, Sweden | 2021 | 75 min | EN

The little rabbit Charlie will soon turn five. Understandably, he’s very excited. Like every kid, he knows very well that one’s birthday is the best day of the year. But this birthday will be slightly different for Charlie, perhaps more important than all his previous birthdays. When his little sister Clara is born, the life of the rabbit family stops revolving around him. Is Clara crying? Everyone needs to find out what happened to her. Does Clara have a fever? She needs to be taken to a doctor. The programme of his eagerly anticipated birthday is in shambles and Charlie is convinced that the only person who cares about him is his granny. He decides to visit her, even though she lives quite far away. And so begins his adventurous quest, on which Charlie finds out how important he is not just to his family, but also to his friends and brave pets. He may even change his opinion on his new-born sister.
This family film about courage, friendship and understanding based on books by Rotraut Susanne Berner was made by Michael Ekblad, an acclaimed Swedish director of films for children, who also worked on the film Molly Monster, popular among Czech children. Many viewers will recognize his original artistic style, known from an immensely popular collection of picture books (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Night) published in the Czech Republic and also written by Rotraut Susanne Berner.

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-11.15
free seats: 189
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-10.15
free seats: 172
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Where is Anne Frank?

Ari Folman | France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel | 2021 | 93 min | EN

For his latest film, Israeli director Ari Folman, known for his Oscar-nominated ani-doc Waltz with Bashir (2008), drew inspiration from the world-famous diary of Anne Frank, which he adapted into a comic book in 2017. The film’s story, however, doesn’t focus on Anne, whose diary documents her life between the years of 1942 and 1944, which she spent hiding with her family in a concealed apartment in an Amsterdam house. The director is interested in Anne’s imaginary friend Kitty, who was the addressee of Anne’s diary entries.
It’s this approach that differentiates Folman’s work from other (mostly live-action) adaptations of The Diary of Anne Frank. His film is not an adaptation but rather a variation on this topic. The story is set in present-day Amsterdam and its protagonist is the red-haired Kitty. One stormy night, she steps out of Anne’s diary, displayed in the Anne Frank Museum and, dressed in 1940s fashion, sets out to look for her friend. She finds the Anne Frank Library, Museum and Theatre – but there’s no sign of Anne herself. Her original story permeates the film and seems pressingly topical. Kitty suddenly realises the limits of her own existence, becomes close with a young pickpocket named Peter and finds herself on the run from the police. This smoothly animated film with an original story, atmospheric depiction of the setting and playfully stylised characters was included in the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection.

Fri 13/5/2022
12.30-14.03
free seats: 58
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Sat 14/5/2022
10.00-11.33
free seats: 9
Cinema City 4

Forest

Nikol Mazepina | Czech Republic | 2021 | 2 min

The deep forest is a place where people get lost and the chance of getting out is minimal, but not impossible. The only way to escape is to just walk and try to respect the forest. A man disrespected the deep forest and now he’s about to pay for his deed.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

At Spiral’s End

Eliška Kerbachová | Czech Republic | 2022 | 5 min

This ani-doc made by a young Czech FAMU student visualises the experiences of two heavily addicted respondents. The authentic testimonies of Marie and Prokop take us into a vicious circle of addiction where it’s important to get from one end of the spiral to the other.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

Reflections

Ekaterina Bessonova | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

Everyone has the feeling sometimes that they are getting old. The main character of Reflections has this feeling after her 30th birthday. She starts to fear mirrors and as a result, gets into all kinds of embarrassing situations. In order to solve her problem she needs to look at her past.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

If People Were Oviparous

Anna Smékalová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

This mockumentary takes aim at 21st century society, which is still full of prejudice and intolerance towards people of different sexes, opinions and genders. The author asks the question whether these problems would disappear if humans were oviparous. Would we be more tolerant and perceptive of our surroundings?

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

Vision Fugitive

Lou Sanitráková | Czech Republic | 2021 | 2 min

Sergei Prokofiev composed Vision Fugitives for his friends. In her abstract film matching the intoxicating rhythm of composition No. 14, the author captured the fleeting sensation of something pulsating and unrestrained. It is as if the cycle of metamorphoses performed by young pianist Matyáš Papp was trying to break out of its predetermined format.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

Between the Shelves

Thanh Mai Tranová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 5 min

This authentic ani-doc captures the experiences of young Vietnamese people who were born in the Czech Republic and spent their childhoods between the shelves of convenience stores. Through anonymous interviews, the film highlights the cultural differences between the second generation and the first generation of Vietnamese diaspora.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

Where My Home Is?

Pavel Koutský | Czech Republic | 2021 | 6 min

An edited version of the new, ruthlessly satirical series by prominent Czech animator Pavel Koutský. He perceives Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historic moments, rulers and presidents which he embellishes with all manners of possible – and impossible – animation gags.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

Scales Do Not Fit

Eliška Plechatová | Czech Republic | 2022 | 2 min

The film reflects the structure of the days and moments around the winter holidays. In this embroidered animation, patterns and shapes are organically intertwined with emotions and feelings. The spoken word points to the elusiveness of inner experiences and thus contrasts with the clear rules and hidden key of the image.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

The June of 2021

Klára Kacířová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 9 min

A social documentary by a student of FAMU’s Centre for Audiovisual Studies. The author focuses on the situation of homeless people during the Coronavirus pandemic. How did these marginalised people perceive the situation regarding Covid-19? The film offers a different view of the pandemic than the one we know from epidemiologists, public health offices and various ministers of health.

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

The Universe Is Too Beautiful Not to Be Experienced by Someone

Patrik Bałon | Czech Republic | 2021 | 19 min

What would we see if we could take a glance at the soul of the universe? Is fleeting life something special for empty eternity, or is it just a spark in the never-ending darkness? A story of everything that ever was and ever will be, told in a slow-paced, meditative way.

The Universe Is Too Beautiful Not to Be Experienced by Someone

Fri 13/5/2022
13.00-13.58
free seats: 89
Cinema City 4

Sun 15/5/2022
14.30-15.28
free seats: 148
Malé Theatre

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Suzie in the Garden

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When I Grow Up

In the Woods

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There You Are

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Mom Is Always Right

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Forgive

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A Devil’s Tale

Wet

The Package

In the Upper Room

Crush On

Winter Nights

Channidae

Do Not Feed the Pigeons

Girls Talk about Football

GONZO

Mom, What’s Up with the Dog?

In His Mercy

Mitchell Leonard: MA1NFRAME

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