Wed 11 Nov at 7:15 p.m. | Studio | Tickets 3 €

Total time: 72 mins

Czechia 2023 | 13 mins | No dialogue
Original title: O krávě
Director: Pavla Baštanová
Script: Eva Prchalová
Animation: Bára Halířová, Jénay Vogel
Production: Mária Môrproduktká | MAUR Film

Cows live all over the world, amongst all sorts of people, in different regions and in various life situations. What sort of situations might cows find themselves in?

Czechia 2025 | 6 mins | Language: Czech | Subtitles: English
Original title: Lepší člověk
Director, script, animation: Eliška Jirásková
Editor: Viktorie Perlová
Music: Jakub Kraus
Production: Tomas Simon | FAMU

These men, who have transformed themselves into veritable superheroes, were, as children, either overweight, underweight, bullied or victims of violence. They explain how going to the gym has made them better men.

Czechia 2022 | 8 mins | Language: Czech | Subtitles: Finnish, English
Director, script, animation, art direction: Anna Heribanová
Cinematography: Martin Šafus, Tomáš Kotas
Editor: Anna Heribanová, Martin Šafus
Music: Dead Pigeon, Olaf Olafsonn, Kilián Kešner, Michal Skořepa
Cast: Žaneta Vargová, Jan Vokrouhlecký, Martina Šťastná, Lukáš Bech, Štefan Capko
Production: Ondřej Šejnoha | FAMU
Distribution: FAMU, www.famu.cz

Traditionally, people’s Christmas dinners have included various fish dishes. But what if those roles were reversed?

Czechia 2021 | 9 mins | No dialogue
Original title: Hrůza v tónu gramofónu
Directors: Kryštof Ulbert, Zuzana Čupová, Martina Tomková
Script: Kryštof Ulbert, Martina Tomková, Zuzana Čupová
Animation: Kryštof Ulbert, Martina Tomková, Zuzana Čupová
Cinematography: Filip Neřold
Editor: Josef Erla
Production: Lukáš Gregor, gregor@utb.cz | Tomas Bata University in Zlín

A nasty boss orders two reluctant subordinates to steal the hat he wants from an abandoned manor house. Eerie corridors lead the men to the hat, which is sitting on top of a gramophone. What happens when picking up the hat sets the gramophone playing and causes ghosts to appear?

Czechia 2020 | 14 mins | No dialogue
Original title: Rudé boty
Director, animation: Anna Podskalská
Script: Anna Podskalská, Matěj Podskalský
Editor: Matěj Podskalský
Production: Ondřej Sejnoha | FAMU

A woman living on a farm goes to a dance wearing shoes, one of which keeps falling off. She has no dance partner, so she ends up watching the others dance from the sidelines until a man she doesn’t know asks her onto the dance floor. The shoe falls off again, and the man offers her a pair of red shoes. She accepts them and begins to dance energetically. The others are already getting tired, but she carries on dancing alone. What happens when she realises that the shoes are controlling her?

Czechia 2024 | 14 mins | No dialogue
Original title: Plevel
Director, script: Pola Kazak
Animation, cinematography: Jakub Lojda
Production: Mária Môťovská, Jiří Pecinovský, Martin Vandas | MAUR Films

In the middle of a field overrun with weeds lies a hidden garden belonging to a woman with a hair bun, filled with colourful flowers. When a storm strikes, the weed seeds are scattered, and one begins to grow amongst the flowers in the garden. However, simply pulling it up is not enough, and the tension in the garden escalates. A war breaks out between the woman and the weeds.

Czechia 2023 | 8 mins | No dialogue
Director, script: Nika Zinověva
Production: Mária Môťovská

Everything is made of paper: the house, the furniture, the tree and even the character living in the house. The weary character finds a newspaper lying in front of his door. He makes a paper aeroplane out of it and sends it on its way. However, this does not guarantee peace from the world’s problems. What happens when news stories and exclamation marks start appearing everywhere?