Accompanying Film Programme

For quite a while now, animated films have not been intended exclusively for cinemas. Screenings at the Třeboň square will pay homage to the history of the town by presenting various short
films connected to the town by their themes – fish, fishermen, water and the underwater world. This showcase for children as well as adults was created in cooperation with the non-profit organisation AniPromítačka. This organisation aims to increase awareness of independent authorial animation by organising various thematic screenings in interesting “non-cinema” premises such as the Třeboň square. The showcase will include newer and older short films of both Czech and foreign production made by students and professionals alike. Worth our special mention is definitely one of the oldest
Czechoslovak animated films Wedding in the Coral Sea (1944). Another work worth mentioning is The Little Cousteau by Jakub Kouřil which won the author the Czech Lion Award in 2014.

This classical puppet film by the puppeteer and director Radek Beran is based on the Magnesia Litera award nominated children’s book The Great Journey of a Little Lord by Lenka Uhlířová and photographer Jiří Stach.

Little Lord who lived in the forest in a little hollow hill had a dream one night. He dreamt of a little house with a sign above its door reading: “Here you will find what you miss.” Willy-nilly, Little Lord had to set out for a journey in the morning.  He was driven by the feeling that he has indeed been missing something. His journey was not easy, he had to prove he had courage, overcome many obstacles and fulfil many tasks. But after all the adventures, an unexpected surprise was waiting for him.

Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer’s glory and luxurious lifestyle. One day he gets a knock on the door. His neighbour Tereza, an older prostitute that Filip tries to avoid by all means, asks him to write a letter for her fiancé. Filip agrees. And it would all end up fine if…

"Kiki de Montparnasse" was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.

Anatole is always dragging his little saucepan behind him. It fell on him one day and nobody really knows why. Since then, it gets stuck everywhere and it keeps him from getting on. One day he’s had more than enough and decides to hide. Luckily things are not that simple.

Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion...

Christmas is approaching and Cowboy and Indian are eagerly awaiting the delivery of their presents. As they’re gearing up for the celebrations, their excitement and anticipation gets out of hand and they accidently destroy the mouth-watering Yule Log Horse had been fastidiously preparing.

A story of a lonely illustrated graffiti-tiger whose home are walls and facades of Prague houses. The city full of sprayed dirty streets and corners is a wild jungle where the tiger looks for a way to find his lost love. The film is processed by a combination of 2D animation and live action footage with actors.

Madagascar, a Journey Diary describes the journey of a European traveller who is confronted with the Famadihana tradition. The pages of the travelogue turn and the drawings come to life. Before we get acquainted with the Malagasy culture, we travel through the fertile landscape of Madagascar. This collage film is characterised by captivating graphic style.

Similarly to his successful 2010 film Madagascar, a Journey Diary director Bastien Dubois takes the audience to exotic nature and native people untouched by modern civilization who live isolated from the world events. The on-going war only reaches them as war aircrafts fly in the sky. At first, the planes are enchanting.

The twenty-episode-series “Faces from Places” by Bastien Dubois continues the captivating graphic style of his successful film Madagascar, a Journey Diary. This piece on Ivory Coast portrays a wax seller who introduces various types of fabric and its social meanings.

“Faces from Places” take us to twenty different places all around the world and introduce twenty different cultures. This episode about Pakistan introduces the annual festivities in the town of Lahore where each year the sky fills with thousands of flying kites and neighbours compare their kites from their rooftops. 

Another episode of the captivating and visually impressive series “Faces from Places” takes to Syria to meet the not very popular pigeon farmers on the rooftops of Damascus. They are said to be thieves and liars. But is it true? One of them tells us about his passion.

Another episode of “Faces of Places” that continues the captivating graphic style of Dubois’s successful Madagascar, a Journey Diary. In this episode we meet a survivor of the Haiti earthquake. He recounts the disaster and his life after the trauma it caused. 

In his series “Faces from Places,” Bastien Dubois portrays scenes from his travels and tells the stories of people from the whole world. This episode portrays two young men who build a raft to go down the river Dordogne and succumb to the charms of wild life.

An early 3D animated documentary, Hidden is based on an interview with Giancarlo, 12-year-old boy from Peru. He now lives in Sweden without a permit to stay and describes what it is like to live in hiding, without friends and chased by the police.

A mix of 2D animation and live action, Ladyboy is a documentary about Jessica, a transsexual working in Bangkok's red-light district. She is facing the hardest choice of her life: should she follow her lover to Canada or stay in Thailand, providing for her mother as a prostitute?

After losing her unborn child due to a cardiac malformation, a mother relives her feelings of sorrow and anger. A well-crafted, both poetic and brutal film, voicing a wish to break the well-meaning silence of the world around her.

Lies is a triptych, three stories told in quite different visual styles. Based on authentic interviews, a criminal, a child and a drug addict “confess” about lying to people and – to themselves.

Four people tell the story of their “first time”. Based on documentary interviews, each narrative is animated in a different style, according to the context, the spirit of the time and the mood of the story remembered – matter-of-fact, with embarrassment, horror and even nostalgia.

This inventive music video for the rhythmical song Napséta that combines drawings and animated alphabet pasta takes us for a walk around Lake Balaton, up to the mountains and their dense forests and on the puszta, a typical Hungarian landscape with endless horizons! 

The graduation film Heritage by Zsolt Bukta is inspired by Hungarian folk music and culture. The author depicts the intergenerational relationship between the master and his disciple that carries its values through generations over centuries.

The MOME students Olivér Hegyi and Marcell Szénasi used colourful drawings, cut-outs and Claymation to make their graduation music video for a children’s song about dancing in a whirling skirt. The film builds on the aesthetics of children’s drawings and authentically presents their world.

This fast one-minute-long rap music video is based on a Hungarian children's poem by János Lackfi. The song is performed by the Hungarian rapper and beatboxer Pista Busa. The director created a suggestive ride on the border between narration and non-narration.

In this short film by Milán Kopasz a man dancing to the rhythm of the music creates, transforms and erases various colourful shapes. This inventive film is shot in a real space and combines more animation techniques.

Drawn upon art students’ blindfolded portrait drawings, a new face is about to be born in front of our very eyes. 

An intuitive ride through a world with twisted proportions will take is into space and also below the sea. The author uses a single shot to let us observe parts of stories in a world connected by a red line.

Enter is the first music video by the Hungarian band Bin-Jip. The singer wanders through a beautiful black and white world based on 16^th to 19^th century etchings and woodcuts. The Czech audiences will certainly be reminded of the aesthetics of Karel Zeman’s combined films. 

One day, when Hamlet and Ophelia enjoy their afternoon tea, their imagination is penetrated by something disturbing. While the prince leafs through a book and the girl embroiders, disturbing images appear out of nowhere. But is it just their imagination?

This short film is a visual concept for a future feature film about a gentleman called Henry Waltz. He lives on a little forgotten artificial planet full of fantastic machines. He unexpectedly gets into a situation in which he will need to save the planet.

The main characters of this dark horror-comedy are a young alcoholic and his pregnant wife who drive through the forest at night when the man hits a stag. Angered, he goes to the forest to punish the wounded animal. The film mainly uses puppet animation but combines also other techniques and styles.

This film is an experimental animated short based on the action, the activity which is presented constantly at every part of the world at every moment. It's built by accidentaly featured actions from this whirlwind of spiritual energies. Conversation between nature, creature and creativity.

Stereoscopic music video for Mountain King by the MTV European Music Award winners Kolin. This film about the flight to space combines several techniques – live action, stop motion animation, computer animation and cutout animation.

This atmospheric music video presents a graphically elaborate apocalyptic vision in a specific tempo. A stag, perhaps the last living creature, moves through a dying world and tries to make sense of what remains of the decomposing landscape.

A dark puppet music video that uses other, often unusual materials, tells the story of a man with a mask of a wild beast that goes on a quest to find the spirit of a longed-for woman. He undertakes a gruelling journey but the real question is whether he will be free at the end of it.

This music video will take us on a psychedelic trip into a world of growing plants and buds that are creating neat ornaments. The fly-bys through this space of floral motives have a dizzying tempo.

An image film for WWF Hungary in which the values that WWF stands for, become visible on the level of a micro-world; where everything refers to the slogan: “We are all connected”.

Consisting of 47 scenes, the film applies an unconventional narrative to present a unique subjective world of the characters. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. Absurd and surreal situations stem from the interactions of humans and nature.

A child flourishes in the arms of its father. In her first, almost a minute long film, Michèle Cournoyer works with photographs.

The wind blows away the veil of a young Venetian bride on the day of her wedding. The director used a mix of several techniques - drawings on paper, collages and work with the film stock itself.

A young spaghetti maniac … is eaten by the spaghetti to the sound of the Italian national anthem.A one-minute-long collage play by the experimenting director Michèle Cournoyer.

The Sun leads a young woman from the beach into a world of illusion. Women turn into sirens, the parasol into a man… and the lifeguard into a lobster. Michèle Cournoyer often creates very surreal worlds, as is the case with this film.

A woman watches her own aged saggy body in the mirror. A magical dance returns her youth, her loves and her former figure. In this film, Michèle Cournoyer used the technique of rotoscopy.

 Taking on her lover's fantasies, a woman adorns herself in her finest feathers and assumes a seductive but demeaning role. Caught up in his own game, the man plays on to the bitter end--a cruel game in which love is stripped of its golden glow, leaving only the naked reality of dependency and desperation. Film without words.

A girl is so carried away by her love of music that she forgets about her household chores. Her father tells her to finish the dishes. Instead of washing them, she turns them into musical instruments, and he finally recognizes her talent. This film illustrates children's right to develop their talents and abilities to their fullest potential.

 A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses.

A woman connects to the Internet, embraces technology and downloads her body and soul to her electronic lover. Drawn in sepia ink, Accordion is a mind-bending, darkly humorous world where sexual desires and dehumanizing machines intermingle.

 War has got inside a woman's very being. Inside her head the soldiers march out, trampling down everything in their path. Like a grieving Madonna, she weeps for son and brother. From her pain and the blood of men killed in battle, an army of women springs up, a powerful column inspired by faith and rebellion.

Soif is a tragedy in five acts centered on a woman who must confront the fate of her existence. Michèle Cournoyer has created another hard-hitting film. She broaches a sensitive topic in her inimitable style, using black ink on paper to render dazzling metamorphoses.