Sat 14 Nov at 12 a.m. | Pakkala Hall | Free admission

Total time: 60 mins | No dialogue

Czechia 2018 | 5 mins
Original title: Pod mrakem
Directors, script: Filip Diviak, Zuzana Čupová
Production: Lukáš Gregor, gregor@utb.cz | Tomas Bata University in Zlín

A purple elf, who had been relaxing contentedly on a sun lounger, frowns as a cloud covers the sun. Fortunately, he knows exactly how to make the sun shine again.

Czechia 2019 | 7 mins
Original title: Betonová džungle
Director: Marie Urbánková
Script: David Dvořák, Marie Urbánková
Editor: Alexander Kashcheev
Music: Martin Horáček, Petr Vrba
Production: Mária Môťovská, Zuzana Křivková | MAUR film, vandasova@maurfilm.com

A boy is playing a game in his room when sounds from the building shatter his concentration and set his imagination alight. Instead of the bustling cityscape, he suddenly finds himself looking out of the window at a jungle and a monkey that snatches him away. How deep into the jungle might the sounds take them?

Czechia 2023 | 3 mins
Original title: Průlet
Director: Filip Dobeš
Music: George Wilson, Jaroslav Nečas
Production: Lukáš Gregor, gregor@utb.cz | Tomas Bata University in Zlín

A contented cloud looks after a tiny pink flower. The cloud gets angry and the lovely moment is interrupted when an aeroplane flies through the cloud, and a petal falls from the flower.

Czechia 2023 | 2 mins
Original title: Ježek
Director, script, animation, editor, production: Daniela Hýbnerová
Music: Ondřej Vomočil
Distribution: Alexandra Hroncová | CINEFILA, alex@cinefila.cz

A inquisitive little boy decides to see if a hedgehog can swim.

Czechia 2020 | 6 mins
Original title: Lístek
Director, script, animation: Aliona Baranova
Editor: Jan Saska
Music: Petr Mazoch
Production: Tomas Bata University in Zlin
Distribution: MIYU Distribution

A tall, bearded sailor is letting people onto his ship. At the back of the queue is a girl carrying a leaf. Her mother is searching her bag for a ticket to board the ship, whilst the girl hands her leaf to the sailor. It reminds the man of his homeland, and he realises it is now high time to return there. How does it feel to return home?

Czechia 2023 | 4 mins
Original title: Pan Dřímota
Director, script: Zuzana Matysová
Production: Lukáš Gregor, gregor@utb.cz | Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Mr. Slumber manages to put everyone to sleep except for one television viewer munching on popcorn, who fights back against him. What happens to the viewer in the end?

Czechia 2020 | 15 mins
Original title: Zvuky spoza lúky
Director, script: Filip Diviak
Editor: Peter Mikušine
Music: Noemi Valentíny, Barbora Kadlíčková, Jan Nevyjel, Vít Přibyla
Production: Tomas Bata University in Zlín
Distribution: Miyu Distribution

The Queen hears pleasant music coming from the street and rushes over. Upon arriving at the square, she finds a musician dressed in red. The Queen strips the man of his clothes and, to her surprise, is shocked by what she sees. The guards take the musician away from the city and smash his instrument. However, the man does not give up. What happens when the musician manages to repair his instrument?

Czechia 2018 | 11 mins
Original title: Vlčí stezky
Director, script: Noemi Valentíny, Vojtěch Dočkal

A poorly little boy, who lives with his mother, hears a wolf howling outside. He is sitting on the sofa, using his inhaler, until his curiosity gets the better of him and he gets up to open the window. Startled by the howl, he drops his inhaler outside. The boy goes to fetch it but bumps into the wolf holding it. How will meeting the wolf change his life?

Czechia 2024 | 13 mins
Original title: O lýkožroutce
Director: Eva Matejovičová
Script: Eva Matejovičová, Ráchel Absolonová – from the book Pohádka o Ipsíkovi by Aneta Františka Holasová
Animation: Petr Hofman, Daniela Hýbnerová, Natalia Czernocḱa, Eliška Kerbachová, Philippe Kastner, Anna Rybecká, Teodor Matejovič, Anna Belová, Jaroslav Klimeš, Marie Jarošová
Editors:  Savva Dolomanov, Marguerite G. Farag
Music:  Juras Karaka
Cast: Kateřina Hrdinová, Patrik Mojžíš, Mísa Hoffová, Berenika Boháč, Eleni Bartas, Jasmínka Bergová, Deniska Schmiedová, Jan Karel Boháč
Production: Jiří Sádek, Kristýna Žďárská | Famu alex@cinefila.cz
Distribution: Cinefila, www.cinefila.cz, alex@cinefila.cz

A fearless bark beetle finds some matches and a cigarette butt left by people at the foot of its home tree. After a hard day’s work, it curls up in its blanket of leaves, but its sleep is interrupted when smoke from a fire started by the cigarette butt drifts in. Soon the tree is engulfed in flames, and as everyone flees, the beetle is separated from the others and carried far away by the stream. How will the little beetle find its way home?