Czech Horizont

Czech Horizon I.

Deep In Moss

Filip Pošivač, Barbora Valecká | Czech Republic | 2015 | 27 min

Forest elves Bertík and Josefka live in a deep forest. They take care of the forest, Josefka makes hats for sassy mushrooms and Bertík puts out and lights up night-time mushroom lamps. But one day, Bertík’s lamps start to go missing… This charming story for children, which was in production for seven years, builds on the poetics of Czech forests and the Czech puppet-film tradition.

We 04/05/2016
10.30-11.48

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
09.30-10.48

Schwarzenberg Hall

About Creation

Magdalena Kvasničková | Czech Republic | 2015 | 3 min

Jak byl stvořen svět? Kdo z vás to ví? Asi každý, ale každý trochu jinak. Autorka si vzala za cíl představit tři ze světových mýtů o stvoření světa. Vyprávění doplňuje krátkou animovanou ilustrací využívající prvky dětského kresebného rukopisu a tajně si představuje, že by jednou mohla vzniknout celá animovaná encyklopedie světové mytologie pro děti.

We 04/05/2016
10.30-11.48

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
09.30-10.48

Schwarzenberg Hall

Transport Er

Miloš Zvěřina | Czech Republic | 2015 | 10 min

This poetic but also chilling film about hope and human solidarity standing in evil’s way is mainly for children and young adults. The story of seven exact replicas of puppets made by child prisoners of the Terezín ghetto takes place in a train carriage on the way to a concentration camp.

We 04/05/2016
10.30-11.48

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
09.30-10.48

Schwarzenberg Hall

Don’t Call Me Panda, My Name is Fanda

Kristina Dufková | Czech Republic | 2015 | 11 min

This short, artistically original and wonderfully animated film by Kristina Dufková uses a playful way to draw the attention of children and their parents to the issue of speech impediments. Due to poorly pronounced words, a girl called Vanda experiences a series of misunderstandings. What she doesn’t know, is that her sloppy pronunciation is hurting the alphabet letters who, in the end, will have their due revenge, and teach Vanda how to speak properly.

We 04/05/2016
10.30-11.48

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
09.30-10.48

Schwarzenberg Hall

What Happened in the Zoo

Veronika Zacharová | Czech Republic | 2015 | 4 min

This humorous and vigorously drawn film takes us to a zoo where a mother who is constantly on the phone won’t let her daughter look at the sad animals behind the bars. But everything turns upside down when the girl figures out how to get into one of the cages… and she and a huge monkey spend a lovely afternoon together.

We 04/05/2016
10.30-11.48

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
09.30-10.48

Schwarzenberg Hall

Rosa & Dara and Their Great Holiday Adventure

Martin Duda | Czech Republic | 2015 | 25 min

Seven-year-old twins Rosa and Dara are spending holidays at their grandparents’. But what may seem boring at the first sight is actually a great adventure! Especially when the naughty dog Lajko scatters a herd of cows literally to every corner of the world. Rosa and Dara are left with no choice but to go and find them with the help of their grandmother, and a flying car…

We 04/05/2016
10.30-11.48

Roháč - ČT Hall

Sa 07/05/2016
09.30-10.48

Schwarzenberg Hall

Czech Horizon II.

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Toro!

Pola Kazak | Czech Republic | 2015 | 5 min

This suggestive relationship parable in the spirit of a Spanish corrida was made by a student of the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek. A man and a woman set out for the bullring to see a fight, but they miss their bus. Whose fault is it, who is responsible and who has the right to be angry and upset? The relationship drama suddenly turns into the ruthless fight between matador and bull at the same moment as the bullfight begins in the nearby arena.

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Love

Jan Zach | Czech Republic | 2015 | 9 min

This fairy-tale anecdote about a stubborn elderly couple deals mainly with love and an eternal effort to engage in an open dialogue and find ways towards mutual understanding. Among other things, director Jan Zach utilised his experience from Jiří Trnka’s studios where he worked for over twenty years. His latest film is full of situational comedy, humorous commentary and unexpected situations.

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Outdated

Martin Máj | Czech Republic | 2015 | 10 min

Technological development takes enormous strides ahead. Decades have passed since gramophones were replaced by radios, which were replaced by televisions, CD players, computers and eventually all-in-one tablets. The director of this nostalgic but humorous film meditates on where all those once revolutionary technologies have gone… and what has happened to their owners in the meanwhile.

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre

BabyBox

Katariina Lillqvist | Finland, Czech Republic | 2015 | 9 min

Finnish director Katarina Lillvist has been based in the Czech Republic for 25 years and follows in the best tradition of Czech puppet animation. We can see it in her latest work, BabyBox, in which a social drama suddenly turns into an incredible farce. The film tells the story of a desperate street musician who decides to put his baby into a babybox…

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Dam

Klára Břicháčková | Czech Republic | 2015 | 8 min

Many people in the Czech Republic, mainly from Central Bohemia, know the sad history of the Želivka water reservoir. Especially those who were personally affected or whose lives were changed because of it. These people are the main heroes of this sensitive and nostalgic film by a student of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The director dedicated her work to the thousands of people who were forcibly removed from their homes because of the construction of Czech water reservoirs.

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre

The Tap Tap: My Choice

Jakub Ježek | Czech Republic | 2015 | 3 min

Czech animation has recently produced some noteworthy music videos. One of them is an artistically stylized playful music video for the song Moje volba by the famous group of handicapped musicians The Tap Tap. The rhythmical song is accompanied by an entertaining visual in which various universes cross at the path of a hero sent by his father to find “his place in the sun.”

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Orfea

Michaela Hoffová | Czech Republic | 2015 | 12 min

For her artistically refined post-graduate project, Michaela Hoffová chose a theme from Greek mythology. The hero of this story sets out for an arduous journey into the underworld. On his journey full of painful memories of love and loss, the hero is accompanied by the Ferryman, a mysterious figure with the face of the moon, who uses his gruesome thunderous drum – capable of summoning storms, thunder and death – to test the hero’s courage and perseverance during the journey.

Th 05/05/2016
11.00-11.54

Sa 07/05/2016
13.00-13.54

J. K. Tyl Theatre