An animated clip on the theme of the series Miami Vice, created with the George Orwell novel 1984 in mind as well as reflecting the 1984s Apple advertisement filmed by Ridley Scott. In words of the author herself: the film is unsuitable for epileptics... Competion category: 5C
A good night's sleep, a breakfast, a newspaper, the fall asleep, have a breakfast then the newspaper again... A short animated film about an old man whose days are merging at a melancholic pace. The cycle of solitude is disrupted by an unexpected visitor. 3A
What would you do if your middle daughter fell into a drug addiction in her teens? Documentary investigating why is it easy to develop an addiction at a young age thanks to the testimonies of a mother and a school counselor coming forward with their explanations.
Search for answers is always blocked by “tons” of obstacles and the medieval alchemist therefore has a notorious bad luck. Short animated episode shows both a mysterious world of the alchemist but also his specific way of watching the meteors. Competition category: 3C
Search for answers is always blocked by “tons” of obstacles and the medieval alchemist therefore has a notorious bad luck. Short animated episode shows both a mysterious world of the alchemist but also his specific way of watching the meteors. Competition category: 3C
A young person has lost himself in a mask he puts on everyday for public. He's brought to the court and sentenced to death by a judge who is himself. How can he break free? Short experimental film about gaining back a sense of oneself and ones self-esteem. Category for the competition: 1C
Short sci-fi film about the loneliness of a world without human connection. This film was created in our Advanced Digital Storytelling Program, a virtual film program for youth in Vancouver, BC, offered in partnership with S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and made possible by Telus StoryHive. Participants deepened their film production skills learned in a previous Digital Storytelling program, by telling original stories and using advanced editing software. Competition category: 2C
Every day we say things to others and especially to women that support unequal norms and evoke shame and negativity. It doesn't matter if it's men or females saying them. A short narrative film shows that we should all strive to do good and say good. Competition category: 4C
Avi is from the north. From the land of ice, legends and culture. The short documentary introduces Avi and her country and community as the teenage girl herself knows her. Competition category: 2C
A short film about bravery, heritage and love. A little girl is looking through her great grandmother's diary. One of the entries from the war years tells a story of a young woman with a yellow star on her clothes and an aviator who saved her more than once.Competition category: 1B
It’s spring time, flowers are sprouting and greenery is growing buds. All that is happening just thanks to the dancing and the effort of the spring fairy, who is blessing the flowers so that they can bloom under her touch. Competition category: 4A
How to save your garden from pests and not become one in the process? A playfully educational movie about a more sensitive approach to "bad bugs" and the importance of using "natural solutions for your bug problems" was animated by a 10 year old Bryn on themes she's passionate about.3.A Competition category: 3A
Two older friends share the rest of their lives together. They keep each other company on walks and listen to the radio together sitting on a bench, yet there is a difference between them. A short narrative film about a passive and an active approach to life. Competition category: 1D
Thanks to a stop-motion animation technique, Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione come to life, as well as the infamous Voldemort, who also chases the famous trio down into the depths of the famous book. A motivational film created as part of a project encouraging the readers to engage in reading the "Harry Potter" books. Competition category: 3A
A group of friends is killing time. When the girls out of boredom make the boy change into girls clothes, the boy comes to a comforting conclusion. A short film on self-acceptance and friendship. 1
Can a boy and a girl be just friends? Why does society label it to be such a big deal? Students share their views on friendship between boys and girls. Competition category: 2B+C
A short documentary about local Iranian traditions and culture narrated from the perspective of a castle. The castle, being of thousands of years of age, speaks of events it's walls have seen, dangers it kept protecting people from through the centuries and of it's present - a journey to becoming a long forgotten ruin. Competition category: 2C
Beautiful trees and untouched nature? Open your eyes. Climate change is here. And it is time to act. Competition category: 2B
Bickering cats are provoking the birds in their cage so much that the tables are turned and the roles switch. A short animated film about the result of a provoking behavior, about house pets that are not to be pet any more and about the pace at which patience can be lost. Competition category: 3B
A surreal story of a goat travelling through strange worlds. A short animated film full of visual humor about how a "goat became a gardener" or rather how an enlightened goat became a baker of cakes in the wild. Competition category: 3D
Child marriages, even in the modern world, still exist. Elimination of the practique is highly necessary in order to secure the future of young girls. A group of middle school girls takes on the role of finding out about why it still not a matter of the past and the problems it causes. Competition category: 2B+C
Light it, exhale it and disappear in the puff of smoke. The woman is tempted by the "ghost" of cigarettes at every step of her journey so much so that she gets stuck in a vicious circle. A short animated film about the essence of addiction.
Christopher Hunte and his journey to knowing and accepting his own self. A short documentary confession of a "troublemaker", an individual, a human. 2C
A thoroughly animated “invitation” to an evening show in which the principal and the whole ensemble of a circus present themselves to the audience. A short animated film was produced as a graduation work of a student of SUŠ. competition category: 3D
A thoroughly animated “invitation” to an evening show in which the principal and the whole ensemble of a circus present themselves to the audience. A short animated film was produced as a graduation work of a student of SUŠ. competition category: 3D
The poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe turned into a film. A man is being tortured by the reminders of his late Lenora: the poetic and raw, the woman and the raven, the beloved and dead. An experimental lyrical film sensitively edited into a raw reflection of the poet's soul. 4
A short advertisement on what and where to drink the correct way. So, what are you drinking again? Competition category: 5D
Hearing. One of our most important senses. The short film uniquely animates atypical noises and visually illustrates the certainty with which our hearing determines our orientation in space and notices even the smallest sound perceptions. Competition category: 3D
Johana does not leave the room, does not associate with anyone and is overall barking mad. She named the stuff in her household and "has a relationship" with all of them. A short experimental film about sex, madness, murder, friendship and love, and especially about the search for oneself. Is this really a reality?
Can you imagine a boy with the dream to become a make-up artist? How daunting can that be for the stereotypical society? Sakhi shares how he can't wait to grow up and find out.
An experimental clip in which tracks, cities and their power lines rule nature. Will it at least be left with something for our grandchildren? Competition category: 4B
Is education only important for boys? Children from Dawn Valley School, Bhakkar explore how education creates and identity for both boys and girls equally. Competition category: 2B+C
Time flies like water. The experimental horror film captures the transformation of the author's feelings from the approaching deadline. The unstoppable arrival of our nightmare expressed through allegories and visual metaphors. 4D
Filip was a friendly, cheerful boy, helpful and kind to others. At least to some people. A story about bullying, an unexpected letter and the fact that not everything is as it seems. Competition category: 1D
A boy with an unusual combination of totally opposite personalities, happily fails to live up to the societal stereotypes, proving that our life should be just the way we want to live it and should the way others shape it up to be like. Competition category: 2B+C
Diana's parents watch in disparagement as she humorously misbehaves in an attempt to grow up and find the best version of herself. Competition category: 1D
Who ate the salami? The investigation of the gross robbery of a precious meal shot as a pure family crime movie with absurd elements. Competition category: 1B
Get up, brush your teeth, cook your breakfast, brush your teeth, get up ... How to get out of the vicious circle? A short film about why it's important to do hard things. Competition category: 2C
The film describes the diffcult times of a student due to the bullying from his classmates until his rubik's cube reveals how to confront his fear. Short film about bullying and how to overcome the tyrans. Competition category:1B-C
A paper man's ride on a toy motorcycle 318 Č-BN. When his cottage on the shelf lights up in the dark, the dwarves living at the top of the wardrobe shake until the doodl reaches his (un)happy ending. A short energetic stop-motion animation. Competition category: 3C
A short documentary about four young female gymnasts competing on the highest level within Umeå Gymnastikförening. The ten and eleven year old girls talk about their dreams, fears and their drift to continue. Competiton category: 2D
Young man's tragic past is preventing him from enjoying even the simplest things in life, including his own birthday party. When he meets a girl capable of enjoying every aspect of life, his life changes. 1C
A short animated film about a girl watching a TV show and the unforeseen moment when the broadcast she's watching gets disrupted. Her remote control seems too far, though. How to reach it without having to take the "exhaustive" walk to the table? Competition category: 3D
Ting ting! The number of "likes" under the girls instagram photo is rising and so are the compliments. But the comments below soon take on a negative tone. A short animated film about the influence of social networks on our ego. 3
"Where have you been? Give me your password! I've beaten you only 'cause I love you." No, it's not love. A short feature film about the toxicity of relationships and domestic violence. Competition category: 1D
To live in a world without faces. A young girl who has given up on fitting in finally gets a chance at having a normal relationship. However, she cannot see how her boyfriend looks like. A drama about a medical condition and a way to overcome it. Competition category: 1D
Stressed from a lack of sleep and daily pressure surrounding grades and tests, high school student Hyunwoo listens in as his friends discuss a spooky myth; every year during testing, a student disappears and a mysteriously rotten odor fills the classroom. That night, Hyunwoo studies through the night and nods off at his desk. Ending up at the abandoned building behind school, he hears strange noises and smells a strange odor before jolting awake. The nightmares continue, conflicts arise with his friends, and the burden of school intensifies as Hyunwoo lives out each anxious day. What is Hyunwoo's fate? Will the myth prove to be real? Will he survive? 1D
A story about a boy who faces fear every day of his life. Will he be able to overcome it? Competition category: 1C
Detective Ronkainen is working on his last case. His methods are unique but effective. A slight parody on murder cases covers a case of an incapable detective with humor and talks of movie cliches, and even gender roles in films. Competition category: 1D
Christmas, a lonely man and his cat. Fiodor. Have you seen it? When a young man loses his cat, a woman soon brings the animal back to him. The cat she brings, however, is not his Fiodor. A short feature film about loneliness and loss. 1D
Fear of missing out. A teen is waiting for the bus gets immersed in the alternative world a little bit too much. Drama with animated features shows how paradoxical the FOMO really is. 4C
Have a safe trip! A man with angel's wings is leaving a mask behind to leave for a train station named Světice - a Saint. A short student videoclip dedicated to the memory of a phenomenal singer, Mrs. Hana Hegerová. Competition category: 5C
A meteorite is approaching the Earth. The animated music video tells the story of a superhero who discovers her abilities at the right time and just in the right place. Competition category: 3D
A grey elephant in a grey jungle. There is a black cloud covering his forest, making it and every creature in it sad and scared. A short animated story contemplating the nature of darkness and how to see beyond the clouds. Does the elephant succeed?Competition category: 3A
A young hopeless romantic Felix tries ot win the heart of his chosen-one Susan. The path to her heart, however, is not as easy as it initially seemed. A short animated film on love and hope... Competition category: 1B-D
Short animated film on the importance of small sacrifices in the name of friendship and that when we help others open up, the whole world in time becomes a kinder place. Competition category:3C
Why was the baby abandoned in a Victorian drain? And how can the four maids on a mission save its life? This surreal, screwball road movie pits four teens against the elements in a race against time. Competition category: 4C
Motion graphic made to inform and educate children on the corona virus and how to prevent it's spread. Graphic made to assist in a sensitive yet helpful manner in managing the global pandemic as a child by maintaining good hand-washing habits and staying in our homes if possible. Competition category: 3D
An explosion on the horizon, a triple evacuation in just 45 days and costs of 348,000,000 CZK. The documentary opens up on a very current topic of the explosion of the ammunition depot in Vrbětice in 2014 and the evacuation of the surrounding villages. The film thus bears testimony from the Zlín Region, even before the media-watched case of 2021, when 60 tons of ammunition exploded in Vrbětice. Competition category:2D
This was Hermína Týrlová and this is us. An animated portrait of a famous Příbram-born animator viewed through the eyes of children. In this short film the students of ZUŠ Příbram and ZUŠ JJR show not only the life and work of the famous author but even follow up with their own purely childlike story inspired by her legacy. Competition category: 3A-C
One day, a curious villager stops at a watering hole. The water in it is unusually red. A film contemplates the nature of dreaming, as well as our fear and brutality. Competition category: 3D
Do you know them? It is only in the black chamber that the faces of women who have changed the history of mankind sink into the light of the world. A short film with an empowering message. Competition category: 2D
In his educational program teaching people how to survive in the wilderness, a guide Jim Křovák shares his practices for overcoming pitfalls one can encounter in the wild. None of his procedures, however, are very effective. The short satirical film looks at the genre of "educational-adventure" shows, its celebrities and even itself with humour and a dash of irony. Competition category: 1B
Animated grotesque film about thieves turned good and a piece of gum. Two men at the shop window are united by hunger and their twitching bellies. When they don't have enough money for a snack, their hunger forces them to buy something else instead. 3
An island, it's animals and the roads leading through the clouds. While the adventurer is exploring a flying island, his airship is pushed off from the island by a giant snail. How to return home? A short animated film about nature and it's ingenuity. Competition category: 1A
Tearing of one's own identity, self-alienation and the position of a n individual in the world. An assortment of visuals illustrates a story that lies with and in everyone, everywhere, everything and then paints a story of a girl in an abandoned soda factory. A delicate film poem, based on an excerpt from the book In the Melon Sugar by Richard Brautigan called This is my name gracefully describes the fusion of human thoughts and their transformation and merging into a human being. How to look at life as a poem? Competition category: 4C
The eyes are windows to the soul. So how do you tell the story of someone whose face is covered in a white mask and his eyes are covered in black velvet? Who is it? Experimental horror deals with the impact of society on humans as individuals. Competition category: 4D
Captain Marvin wakes up on an alien planet, locked in a rescue module, without a single memory of what happened. Time is running out, the captain's chances of rescue are diminishing and his mental state is deteriorating in the isolation. A sci-fi film contemplating the ambiguity of one's situation and that everything does not have to be as it might seem at first glance. Competiton category: 1D
Despite being in a judgmental society, Zain confidently takes control of his own identity doing what he loves and wants to do. Competition category: 2B+C
An educational film on Jakub Jan Ryba's life seen through the eyes of children. The film was created as a one year long project as a part of Ryba's birth and death anniversary celebrations. The pupils processed the materials such as Ryba's diaries, visited museums, exhibits, archives and churches where Ryba himself used to play. Competition category: 3A-C
Short spots from the Fest Michael with a surprisinly explosive point show that what's to come is certainly going to be big... Kabel, Lamp, LEGO, Toilet Paper
Jiya wants to be a strong, independent girl, ride a bike and also she really does want to help her mother with the chores. Her passion for cycling is however halted by her mother when she strictly forbids her as the girls are not supposed ride bikes. Will Jiya be able to convince her mother and perhaps the society otherwise? Competition category: 3B+C
Elder John Tsetso shares his teachings from his life journey in this heartfelt biography, "The Good Side". An Indigenous youth-made documentary featuring an Elder from Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, reminds us to "be good and do good". Competition category: 2B
A short animated film made by students of ZUŠ Bechyně follows a falsely accused admirer of art escaping from prison. During the grotesque journey to freedom, the falsely convicted tries to find and to capture the burglar for whose crimes he was imprisoned.
Two friends, a human and a robot, are forced to take a break on their journey - the robot is running out of energy. His human friend sets out on a quest to find something to resurrect his friend. The short animated film was created as the final exam at the ŠUP, Architecture and Design, majoring in animated production. Competition category: 3C
What will the today's youth look back to when they grow up well into the age of "veterans"? A videoclip of a famous melody by Elvis Presley draws a parallel between the age of online-schooling and a prison-like environment. Competition category: 5B
When a storm drives a knight into an enchanted castle, haunted by an unfriendly poltergeist, strange things start to happen. A spooky film animated both digitally on Ipad as well as manually using the technique of cutout animation. Competition category: 3A
An Indigenous youth artist transcends feelings of social isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic by connecting to community online. Short documentary film tells a story of being on one own, importance of being together and motivation. Competition category: 2C
Lennon, spray paint and a dash of inventive spirit. A documentary follows a happening in Vranov u Brna, young people's creativity and and installation of a "wall" that they decided to take into their own hands. Competition category: 5C
Les Filles de Sète is a story of retired women who decide to stay active in their lives and entertain the others by creating street performances in a really peculiar way. Short documentrary film about being forever young and agile. 2D
A short episode about Liam and his friends. Liam Butler is a fifteen-year-old, autistic animator, based in Los Angeles. For the past four years, he has been a part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, an after school program teaching art and animation techniques to students around Los Angeles. During the pandemic, he was able to work with SPMAP teachers via Zoom, to complete his first animated pilot. 5C
Can you glow? An animated film on where and why the lights of our life light up, why to esteem our friends and why to open our hearts to the others. Competition category: 3C
Little Lotta loves nature. She hides her flower drawings in her textbooks and doesn't get along very well with her classmates. The animated drama sensitively deals with adolescence and rediscovering oneself.
What seems like ordinary glasses, turns out to be a thought-provoking reality check. Competition category: 2B+C
A short documentary portrait of Matěj, a fashion designer with his own style, opinions and a way of life, proves that the key to reaching a happy and satisfied life is to do what we enjoy and what fulfills us. 2D
"And what were you wearing?" A short film about the dangers andthe amount of violence that women have to face and yet, as victims, they are held accountable instead of their assaulters and rapists. "Not all men do it, but all women have experienced it." Competition category: 2D
A family drama on the power of solidarity and importance of having a meal together. Minseo is satisfied with her modern-day reality and the fact she can order a food delivery to her front door. However, when her older sister gets nostalgic and starts missing her childhood, she and Minseo leave for their grandma's house to see how things used to be back in the past.1C
Kasper is tired of his boring and ordinary life, but when receives an electronic personal assistant as a gift, everything seems to change. A seemingly humorous short drama contemplating our growing dependence on AI. 1
In the fairy-tale-like animated world, Christmas is coming when the teacher warns the pupils that a monster is wandering around, stealing children. What happens when the monster steals one of her students from her? A short film about fairy-tale characters viewed from an unusual perspective. Competition category: 3D
Two friends visit the gorgeous Seongam Island marvel at it's beauty. When they meet an adult who spent his childhood in this Island they discover it's shocking past. Short documentary talking of political changes and coming to terms with the past. Competition category: 2D
Why did they disappear from the corridors? Children set out in search of missing Pakistani heroines' posters, ignored by their school authorities. Will they be able to find them? Competition category: 2B+C
A man fighting monsters any way he can. An animated short movie with a surprising twist. Competition category: 3C
Kugluktuk, Nunavut and the life in and around it. Short documentary follows Inuit youth speaking of what their culture means to them. 2
A documentary portrait of the naive painter Luděk Farkaš. Poetic paintings of the landscape intertwine with his paintings and merge into a sentivitely animated reflection of the painter and the unique world, which he himself tries to capture. 2
Everybody is dealing with different "stuff", but bullying is a universal thing. A short film about a long-distance relationship between two teenagers who are going through difficult life trials. Competition category: 1C
When a new student comes to school, his new classmates annoy and insult him, to the point of almost exploding. An animated short showing that sometimes just three words are enough to avoid a disaster. Competition category: 3D
Everything, even this short feature film, begins "in the country of brewing beer and meth". "Plague on your families," spits out Franta on his walk through the vacated construction site. His philosophical contemplation on the subject of social differences, morality and the sole meaning of being is interupted only once by an unexpected visitor who may change his miserable life. Competition category: 1D
Does genre segregation really exists when it comes to playing with toys? Children share their experience with the times they were stopped from playing with toys "meant for the opposite gender". Competition category: 2B+C
A tiny glimpse into the extraordinary life of Richard Pace. A different approach to life might have seen him crushed under the weight of the physical and mental stresses he has been through since he was a child, however, healing waters have helped him rise above it all! Competition category: 2D
When we look at great art, do we realise it is looking back? With eyes that see more clearly than we do? In a mysterious gallery imbued with strange life, shadows of the past and unresolved futures collide when a child's vision peels away the layers of what we call 'reality'...join a journey through the masterpieces you thought you knew as their hidden souls are finally given a voice. As layers of contemporary 'reality' are stripped away, art's unseen soul brings a challenge we can neither ignore nor escape. Or can we? Will their message be heard in time? The door is open. The masters' works await us. Who will enter ? Competition category: 3D
"Hey? Shh! Can i borrow your pencil?" A short animated sketch for fun and nostalgia was created as part of the final work on animation in the 3rd year. "Here you go!" Competition category: 3D
An encounter with a sly smile hanging in the wall takes us on a journey through a surreal landscape and then one step further on a seemingly banal storyline. The short animated film filled with dreamy ideas and absurd monologues play with the themes of greed, resignation, shame and covering up the truth. Competition category: 3D
Join the ranks of the Ireland Radio station! It's cheap, easy and will make you famous! A short narrative film tells a 1980s story of Barry and his friend who set up their own radio show in an attempt to beat the bullies and get the girls. Competition category: 1B-C
One plastic bag here, another bag there and plastic bags pretty much anywhere. The witty narrative feature film with a charming plot twistillustrates the growing problem of plastic polluting the environment. Competition category:
A short dance-video from an academic environment. The students of Kulturskola and the members of DansGrupp are introducing themselves as well as their school. Competition category: 5D
Are you recording this? An animated short with a spooky atmosphere is focusing on Basila Jean, a young reporter, and her cameraman Alex as they set out to explore the mysterious interior of the Cappyville sanatorium. Her feearlessness can however be fatal - there is an unpleasant surprise awaiting for them inside. Competition category: 3D
Andrés Ribagorda, Pablo Jimeno (Les Filles De Sete (Sete Girls))
We can all be human in our lifetime. An emotive animated short about a dutiful robot being torn between obeying it's duty and it's inner voice. Competition category: 3D
Stillness, distance, community and gratitude. Remember this is a short doumentary portraying glimpses of life and feelings of the young author during the pandemic. The film made as a reminder for us to remember and be able even to come back to this strange time. 2
The band The Dog Soldiers (Psí vojáci), efforts to flee the country and the bonds of mutual trust. Two young couples, Ester and Dalibor and Áňa and Marcel, in the midst of historical events. A psychological drama set in the year of 1989 just minutes before the fall of communism in Czech republic. Competition category: 1C
Stop-motion animated short tells the bittersweet story of Nick, a piece of candy who falls in love with a girl who seems out of reach. Self-aware romantic comedy made by 15-year-old Carter Rostron of Kansas City, using cardboard, construction paper, and a bunch of candy. Competition category: 3C
You are on the internet and the hours fly by. Do you know the feeling? A short film about a familiar setting of getting immersed into the world of technology and social media to the point of becoming addicted. How not to forget to live our life in the present and don't waste it on a screen? Competition category: 4D
"The way the others see us does not define us." The children of ZŠ Dobříš created a short clip about how important it is to love yourself first and not be influenced by the opinions of the others. Competition category: 2B
You know the dril; boy meets girl, they click and the romance begins. Not always do they live happily til the death sets them apart – the signs, however, are always there. Will they see it? Watch closely. Competiition category: 1B
A proverb becomes a rule of life. What follows if we go against the rules? Short experimental film about freedom and rebellion.
In a society where girls don´t even have equal opportunities and a right to travel alone, Shumail is taking the matters, and her motorbike, into her own hands. Competition category: 1B+C
Where is it coming from? A short S.O.S. report on smog in which factories, cars and whole houses are disappearing due to their own doing. The one-minute film draws attention to consequences of burning and releasing smoke into the air, the subsequent pollution of the environment and the destruction of human health. Competition category: 3B
"I love my friends to death but I never call, I never text." A film essay meditating on modern-day loneliness talks of a very personal struggle with being contently alone and a desire to seize the day. Solitude was created as part of the Black Brilliance 2.0 virtual film program, an all-Black space for youth of African descent to empower themselves and tell their stories. Competition category: 1D
First aid basics in the 1970s or in other words saving a life in the rhythm of the most popular song by The Bee Gees. Ready? It's time to save lives! Competition cagegory: 5C
First aid basics in the 1970s or in other words saving a life in the rhythm of the most popular song by The Bee Gees. Ready? It's time to save lives! Competition cagegory: 5C
Teaching mathematics, helping in an inn and a fatal accident. The short animated film captures the fate of the elderly Karel Mikulášek. The narrative short came about as the result of the Stories of Our Neighbours project, which is realized in cooperation with Studio Scala and Post Bellum. Competition category: 2B
The world isn't black and white but our film is. Thus are the authors presenting their filmwork about three people who engage in extreme activities in their free time. Through those, the short movie uncovers the concept of freedom, the role of nature in our lives, but also the reality of individuals and our differences. 2D
Stay and stand a trial or leave and face prison. Min-hyeok spends a day borrowing suits from his friends to prepare for an important refugee trial tomorrow. A short film about an Iranian living in Korea since childhood forced to fight for his citizenship or face dangers of being a Catholic-convert in Iran. 1D
Czech documentary film about a homeless man from Nymburk (Fridrich Demeter) and his life containing shocking past, devastating present and uncertain future. Let's look through the homless man’s eye. Our crew will follow him on his way to a charity, he'll let us know how he gets money, how has he made his shack and if he feels like moving to a regular house. 2C
Tea, a mysterious forest and an even more mysterious figure in a kimono. Short experimental film contemplating nature, life and of course, tea.
A meeting of an ever-beaming bear and the passer-by mushroom pickers in a play doh forest. The short animated footage thoroughly introduces a first-time 7 year old author. Competition category: 3A
A meeting of an ever-beaming bear and the passer-by mushroom pickers in a play doh forest. The short animated footage thoroughly introduces a first-time 7 year old author. Competition category: 3A
An adventurous trop of the Czech Pepík to China to find a mysterious cure for Covid-19. The short animated film deals with a difficult topic from a child's perspective. 3B
An urban fairytale about Ashton, a lonely boy with neglectful parents, who embarks on a global adventure when he enters a contest to become the new butler of Bob Chan, a grieving, reclusive singer. The first film by nine-year-old writer/director Andrew Chan-Possemato. Competition category: 1A
A joyful allegory, in which a restless dumpling flees from it’s finicky cook. An animated slapstick comedy made by the children of ZUŠ Bechyně foreshadows that even a dumpling can have feelings and above all be witty enough that he decides not to be a simple minded meal. Competition category: 3B
What lies at the core of our fears? Two aliens from another planet observe events at a farm and analyze a scarecrow. What are the crows so afraid of? A short animated film contemplates the concept of fear itself. Competition category: 3D
What happens when a mechanical digger drives a fox out of it's burrow? The animated film bearing an environmental theme tells of forest animals that have no choice than to gather, line up their ranks and fight for saving their homes. Competition category: 3C
A fable of Aesop told through play doh tells a story of a voracious fox and a hiding place filled with hamburgers. Competition category: 3C
A fable of Aesop told through play doh tells a story of a voracious fox and a hiding place filled with hamburgers. Competition category: 3C
The Death is quitting his job. In the ancient times, Death was taken seriously, but those days are long gone. The Death walks through the modern world, past the passing cars, past people who show little to no respect for him. When he finds he has no joy from his work left anymore, he figuratively tries to cut ties with his job. The short narrative film deals with the question of existence and death itself. competition category: 1D
Poker on a farm. When three men meet at a game table. The tension rises when one of them repeatedly wins the game to the detriment of his friends who gradually lose their chips. What's at stake, though? A short feature film with a comedic plot twist. Competition category: 1D
She will find you and she will stop at nothing. A young inspector observing a suspicious residential houses while the radio broadcast tells of a missing young student. A gripping thriller with an eery twist. Competition category: 1C
The third eye, the sun and the moon. A short, purely authorial clip on the connection of our mind, the world and the universe told in one imaginary shot that encourages us to focus on what bears inside of us. The universe is all around. Competition category: 3D
Keys, a phone a facemask. Film made druing the year of 2020 - the year of the global pandemic - talks of the changes in our every day life in quarantine. Can you remeber the previous life? Competition category: 2C
A middle-aged alcoholic is being accompanied just by several empty bottles when an empty parcel starts to be routinely delivered at his door. A mystery drama deals with human natura and the burdens that are difficult to get rid of. Competition category: 1C
Roses, a thorn and a set of colored pencils. A variation on the famous fairy tale about the Sleeping Beauty in an animated coat. Competition category: 3B
First comes a meeting, second comes connection, third comes love. Romantic tale in three chapters raises a question if what the poet sees is reality or just the boys imagination... Competition category: 1C
When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation. The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover? Short animated film with a deep concept. 3D
What are the reasons that lead to disagreements between classmates? The short narrative film on bullying was made during the summer film camp at the Scala cinema. Competition category: 1B
Tick tack, tick tack. Move the clock, it’s too loud. Take a better pen… A short film follows a young man supposed to write an essay doing his daily rituals of procrastination. Isn't it what we all do? And how do you usually break the cycle? Competition category: 4D
Tragic story of a lion, who finds himself alone in the wild sea. There, he must face not only the monster under the surface, but also his own grief. A short story of fight, natural elements out of our control and our transformation. Competition category: 3D
The food at the stores is currently selling out, everybody in the streets are panicking... An animated look at the world during the covid-19 quarantine through the perspective of a television broadcast. An animated short glossing over the state of public health and even the current Czech political situation. Competition category: 3B
When a grandpa comes to live with his son's family, everything seems to be going well at first but gradually he loses his strenght. The bond of a loving family is thus tested by forthcoming complications brought on by taking care of another family member. The film draws inspiration from Jan Neruda's poem The Grandpa's Bowl (Dědova mísa) Competition category: 1D
A joyfully narrated forbidden romance between sand and mud. Animated clans of "Mudders" and "Sanders" add a modern view "with both feet on the ground" to a classic Shakespeare's theme. Competition category: 3D
The first one alone, the second one beloved and the third ... the third are a couple. Or at least they could be. The film follows three stories of "ordinary" young people. Can you see yourself in any of them? A short miniseries was created at the Summer Ambrose Festival 2021 in the Town of Touškov under the direction of David Bumbálek Competition category: 1B/C
If you had only 3 minutes of life left, what would you do? A short film captures the race for the last minutes of life and the effort for them to be spent right. Category for the competition: 4C
A filmmaker is trapped in the quarantine of corona virus but eventually manages to find a new direction. Competition category: 4D
"I'm frightened, that's why I do what he writes to me." To be vigilant and not to let ourselves be manipulated by others. That is the underlying message of a short animated tale about a girl who receives letters every day with tasks for her to be performed. Competition category: 3D
Group of friends is trying to hold themselves together as the pandemic and subsequent lockdown highlights the difference in their situations at home and threatens to tear them apart. Narrative short film focused on troubles of youth during the lockdown; the harsh new reality, isolation and even fear of missing out or dealing with fake news among peers. Competition category: 1D
Spring, summer, autumn and decay. The short animated film follows the changes in one restaurant shown during the period of one year, of a decade, of one human life. Moments pass by, the changes are slight and are almost imperceptible until it is too late. A film on the transience of things and on the cycle of life. Competition category: 3D
Young girl stepping up and managing herself against a jungle, a tiger, a huge forest fire and perhaps eventually saving even the whole world. At first glance the story from a jungle covers one girl’s bravery and wit, but besides that it even follows themes of ecology and environmentalism. Competition category: 3A
Young girl stepping up and managing herself against a jungle, a tiger, a huge forest fire and perhaps eventually saving even the whole world. At first glance the story from a jungle covers one girl’s bravery and wit, but besides that it even follows themes of ecology and environmentalism. Competition category: 3A
A Wallachian Edison, two totalitarian regimes and a theatre stage - all that had crossed paths with Tomáš Sousedík - a personality presented in a delicately animated film. Competition category: 2A-C
What is it that can be found on the Internet? The film-guide introduces the viewer into and through its depths. 1B-C
How to enjoy a birthday party and deal with overly protective parents? A film with elements of a thriller movie deals with fear, challenges and especially on the situation when a birthday party turns into a nightmare. 1B
Short experimental drama, showing fragments of an everyday life of a young woman, deals with feelings of depersonalisation from the contemporary world and of being figuratively drained just by using powerful imagery of suffocating water.
Flying tigers, a cortoutionist or a live statue of Rübenzahl. A series of short episodes by students of ZUŠ Bechyně who managed to conjure each their own short circus act just b animating their own drawings. Competition category: 3A/B
Flying tigers, a cortoutionist or a live statue of Rübenzahl. A series of short episodes by students of ZUŠ Bechyně who managed to conjure each their own short circus act just b animating their own drawings.Competition category: 3A/B
Adventure of the little Dora during family trips in the surroundings. On journey we are joined not only by her parents and her small teddy bear Biscuit sitting in her tiny backpack but also by the thelikesroaming tales of baldness of the Bald mountain, envious town of Envy and the absence of popcorn in the throats of the opera singers. And above all, maybe - just maybe - we’ll be joined by a dog, too! Competition category: 3D
Adventure of the little Dora during family trips in the surroundings. On journey we are joined not only by her parents and her small teddy bear Biscuit sitting in her tiny backpack but also by the thelikesroaming tales of baldness of the Bald mountain, envious town of Envy and the absence of popcorn in the throats of the opera singers. And above all, maybe - just maybe - we’ll be joined by a dog, too! Competition category: 3D
"When I was 9 months old, a team of doctors cut into my skull, removed my forehead, put my eye-sockets on a table, reshaping my face completely." A partly animated short documentary investigating it's author's life-changing event that seemed to have only changed the lives of the author's parents and not the author himself. Competition category: 2B
Music instructions for a meaningful life during quarantine precisely sung by a children's music group. Competition category: 5 A + B
Music instructions for a meaningful life during quarantine precisely sung by a children's music group. Competition category: 5 A + B
Elder Jonas Antoine speaks to Dene youth about the changes he has witnessed in his environment, attitudes he encountered while travelling and the role the Dene people could take in healing the climate. Short documentary following a community and it's efforts to help the environment. 2
The paths of the subconscious are unpredictable. The short humorous film follows a typical attempt at meditation through James and his gray cortex. Competition category: 4D
Bullying, manipulation and toxic relationships in the school environment. A raw narrative short tells the story of Andrea who is being tyrannised by her classmates. Is it possible to end the cycle of mobbing? Competition category: 1D
A young couple is moving into an apartment to live together. Pressured by responsibilities, they leave the new home for a bicycle ride that brings them to a yard full of things for sale- things from the life one man is leaving behind. Short story of youth, love and freedom. Competition category: 1D
Arthurt (Joker) is a lonely man, trapped in a rat race trying to figure things out. On his way he will meet Harley, who has a proposal to get him out of his cage. Competition category: 1C
Alice has an unwelcome encounter with someone at a party. Psychological film with a horror atmosphere. Competition category: 1C
A treefrog in an educational film guides through its own life, the function of its ecosystem and even through a poetically animated landscape showed in every season. The children-animated film was created in cooperation of ZUŠ JJR, Podbrdské Museum and Aeroškola during a one-year long project of CHKO Brdy. Competition category: 3A-C
Young Yaoi is flying from her homeland in Japan so that she could travel the world in her hot-air balloon and to help others in returning to their home, too. Short animation of elementary school students is connecting places that are supposedly far from each other. Competition category: 3A
When a plane blows up in the air, it’s pilot gets stranded on a lonely island. Short animated film about how nothing can be as it seems. Competition category: 3C
These boys' question society's subconscious' view on gender stereotypes. Can you see it too? Competiton category: 1B+C
Young man lives with his grandma. But is he really the person she had always seen in him? A short film about coming to terms with other's self-identity and accepting them for who they really are. Competition category: 1D
"Everything is different in here." An optimistic letter to the young refugee's family clashes sharply with scenes from his life in the refugee ghetto. A narrative short about the difficulties and motivation of immigrants. Competition category: 1D
