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This film critically examines institutional care for children in the Czech Republic and its heritage from the communist era. Authentic testimonies of the film’s protagonists are sensitively underlined by a moderate artistic style. The Slovak director made this film at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

This Academy Award nominated and Student Oscar and Annecy Cristal winning film is the biggest success of Czech animation in recent years. Made by a Russian director studying at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, this impressive puppet film uses dynamic hand camera and detailed close-ups of the puppets’ faces to emphasise the story about a not-so-ideal relationship between a father and his daughter.

This experimental anidoc toys with multiple animation techniques and styles. The author depicts memories of her brother, who suffered from a serious condition causing short-term memory loss. The director visualised his distorted perception of time and space in a remarkable way.

In her film, a student of the University of West Bohemia makes a humorous commentary on her grandpa’s journeys across Africa. To portray his memories and give a vivid picture of the African countryside and wilderness, she chose plastic in natural brown and beige colours.

This film inspired by world-renowned artists and the music of contemporary Czech composer Martin Klusák is a collaboration of five directors. Among the animated artworks, we can find traces of Joan Miró and Edward Hopper. Film from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

This 3D black and white film by a director from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen visualises a metaphor of dealing with problems in our lives. Using a minimalist setting and score, the director starts a cycle of escapes from cages in which we inevitably find ourselves again and again.

This film bordering on an experimental music video was made in the animation studio of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague during a workshop led by the authors of this year’s festival jingle Dávid Štumpf and Michaela Mihályiová. The film is characterised by a colour palette that the authorial team limited almost exclusively to red, blue and white.

Tones of Idyll, one of the lesser known compositions by Leoš Janáček, are harmonically accompanied by the atmosphere of Brno where Janáček lived and worked. Using pastels to animate her dreamlike film, Miriam Obršlíková sensitively managed to capture the atmosphere and create an impression of an idyllic place.

Even though the period fashion was apparently against their love, there was no need to panic or give up! This humorous film from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague dealing with difficulties that noblemen and noblewomen had when meeting each other during the Rococo, was made with puppets and excellent stop-motion animation.

Professor Jiří Barta, renowned Czech graphic artist, director and animator, has been teaching at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia since 2009. For his 70th birthday, students of the Studio of Animation and Interactive Art made a film with several techniques inspired by his own films and even with his own participation.

You will find out what Matouš Valchář saw during his Erasmus study stay in Budapest in his animated journal. You will see how he animated, prayed and longed to return to Prague (however amazing his experience in Budapest might have been) because his friends were at home in the Czech Republic.  

This film is an honest film testimony about a semester at a university with which many students juggling responsibilities, obligations and deadlines of various papers can identify. Its simplified artistic style reflects the minimalist result of all the attempts to finally start doing something.