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This poetic and pleasantly stylized film is a graduate film from the University of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín. Its director Aliona Baranova colourfully and wordlessly depicts the story of a sailor returning home by playfully using colours, scale and distorted perspective. The film competed at Berlinale, among other festivals.

Thanks to his vivid imagination, the protagonist of this puppet film verifies that a big city can offer adventures as wild as a jungle. This film was made in collaboration with MAUR Film by a student of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague who used paper props that are naturally reminiscent of the box-like cityscape.

In her graduation film, a student of the University of Ostrava uses aquarelle colours to bring bizarre creatures from the past to life. A childish fascination with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures meets a strictly managed institution where everything has its place.

The film’s grumpy old hero does not particularly enjoy the company of a squirrel, a bird and a hare. But a ferocious storm is approaching that will shake his conscience as well as the feelings in his vascular bundles. This film fable about the importance of compassion and finding friends was made by a student of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.

A young hunter is preparing for a crucial moment in his life. What happens when a fired arrow misses its target? And can the miss mean that the hunter in fact passes the rite of passage? This film by a student of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague characterised by an impressive contrastive artistic style meditates upon the meaning of a mistake.

In her film combining stop-motion cutout animation with drawing, a student of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín takes us to a natural history museum. Where else can you embark on an adventure with real dinosaurs? It’s time to leave the pages of the books and go out into the field.

On his perilous journey from Troy back to Ithaca, Odysseus faced many dangers. The monstrous Scylla and deep-dwelling Charybdis were among them. Or was there a different ending? The film humorously plays with Greek mythology and the idiom about a situation when a man finds himself between two evils.

The author of this film, a student of the University of Ostrava, was inspired by her hometown. Her hero Emma doesn’t like living in a big grey world. It also seems that boredom, responsibilities and numbness have affected her mom as well. In an unguarded moment, she loses Emma from her sight. Do they have a chance of overcoming the city and finding each other?

The bonfire blazes and around it sits a group of children. Unlike the others, Clementine is not enjoying the evening. Telling scary stories is not her favourite pastime. When it turns out that she is easily scared, she gets upset, leaves the others and goes back to the camp through the woods.