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School of Animation powered by the PPF Foundation

510 min

Animation workshops use an entertaining form to introduce the process of making animated films to children. Under the tutelage of experienced lecturers, children can make their own animated films from scratch – including writing the script and animating. In the process, they will use many artistic techniques including cut-out animation, traditional animation, computer animation, sand animation, claymation, pixilation and stop-motion animation.

School of Animation powered by the PPF Foundation

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Garden Wing

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Garden Wing

Stas Santimov – gif art

In addition to films, Anifilm juror Stas Santimov uses video loops to externalise his dark visions.

Stas Santimov – gif art

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

putler kaput animation jam

This anti-war project involving dozens of Ukrainian animators started with an online appeal by director Mykyta Lyskov. The assignment was to portray the death of the archenemy of (not only) free Ukraine.

putler kaput animation jam

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Polis

Together with his students from the Technical University in Liberec, Ivo Louda returns to Anifilm with a new installation utilising the principles of augmented reality.

Polis

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Přes hranici / La Traversée / The Crossing

This modest exhibition presents the feature film The Crossing. Several Czech animators collaborated with French director Florence Miailhe on this film. In addition to visual designs from the film, the exhibition includes an animation table demonstrating the technical aspects of the chosen technique.

Přes hranici / La Traversée / The Crossing

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Café Godot – Two Pots

An endless Dada café of loneliness. Men and women, together and alone, in futile expectations of something. Men turn into women, women turn into men; repeating gestures, absurd fragments of sentences. Michaela Pavlátová’s pun originated in pure joy of unhinged creativity that followed the completion of her feature film My Sunny Maad.

Café Godot – Two Pots

Tue-Sat 10-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Redern Wing

Amelie Siba

60 min

This young songwriter from Prague is one of the most visible faces of the contemporary Czech independent music scene. In the last couple of years, Amelie has released several singles, an introductory EP titled It Was Nice to Meet You, and an album titled Dye My Hair, recorded and produced by the artist herself. Her debut album won the then-seventeen-year-old songwriter the critics’ choice Apollo Award. At the beginning of 2021, Amelie released her second EP, titled when is our time, in which she used electronic beats, giving the EP a hint of dance music. She is now working on her second album, which will also present guest artists from the contemporary alternative scene.

Amelie Siba

Tue 10/5/2022
22.00-23.00
Festival Tent

Loutky bez hranic: The Three Bears and Cheeky Máša

45 min | ZDARMA / Free Entry

The bears went hunting for honey and left their cottage empty. Little Masha is bored in the forest and decides to climb through the window of the cottage. What happens next?

The 45-minute performance is suitable for children above 3 years of age.

Loutky bez hranic: The Three Bears and Cheeky Máša

Wed 11/5/2022
10.00-10.45
Festival Tent

Obligatne

60 min

This three-piece band formed by Slovak composer, singer and guitarist Kristína Mindová plays quirky pop characterised by emotional lyrics in Slovak. Originally a solo project based on bedroom songs, the band is now complemented by bass guitarist Štěpán Havel and drummer Jan Čuma. The new lineup introduced a fresh rhythm with elements of jazz and soul. The result is a compact modern sound you can hear on their debut record, Monológ Spasy, coming out this year.

Obligatne

Wed 11/5/2022
20.30-21.30
Festival Tent

Never Sol

60 min

Prague-born musician Never Sol creates melancholy songs that are based on layered analogue synth soundscapes, dreamy melodies shrouded in tons of reverb with thick yet delicate vocals. A strong connection to songwriting, intricate chord progressions, synths and voice are the cornerstones of her musical output. In 2018, she released her second album, Chamaleo.

Never Sol

Wed 11/5/2022
22.00-23.00
Festival Tent

Dubbing Studio with Czech Television

Have you ever wondered how many sounds there are in an animated film? Such as water splashing, knocking on doors, birds singing, gates opening and of course, talking. All these sounds have to be created before the film is released. Would you like to learn how? Do you want to see what it takes to be a voice talent or a Foley artist? You will find out in our entertaining sound workshop!

Dubbing Studio with Czech Television

Thu-Sat 12-14/5/2022
09.00-18.00
Chateau - Redern Wing - 103

Sun 15/5/2022
09.00-16.00
Chateau - Redern Wing - 103

Damúza: Fimfárum

45 min | ZDARMA / Free Entry

Fimfárum is a twig that fits into a welly and is only a hair’s breadth thicker than the thinnest cane. If you whip it once, everything around you stops moving. Movement doesn’t restart until Fimárum is whipped again. There was only one in existence and it was owned by a devil…

This puppet play stages three fairy-tales from the popular book by Jan Werich.

The 45-minute performance is suitable for children above 3 years of age.

Damúza: Fimfárum

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-10.45
Festival Tent

Kalle

60 min

The alternative band Kalle was formed in 2013 by long-term collaborators Veronika Buriánková and David Zeman. The band won the Anděl Award for alternative music in 2014 and 2017. Their debut album, Live from the Room, was recorded on a 4-track tape recorder and released on vinyl in 2014. This record, as well as their LP Saffron Hills (2017), was nominated for the Vinyla Award. Their latest album, Songs with the Acoustic Band, was released in 2020

Kalle

Thu 12/5/2022
21.00-22.00
Festival Tent

Méta Monde

60 min

Méta Monde is a synth-pop duo from Vršovice, Prague, formed by songwriter and pianist Jakub Baierl and digital artist and bass guitarist Roman Gordienko. Their music inspired by a wide spectrum of genres from post-punk, dreampop, electro to disco is full of harmonic synthesisers, thundering bass, intricate lyrics and is closely connected to their visual style.

Méta Monde

Thu 12/5/2022
22.00-23.00
Festival Tent

Divadlo Kordula: Little Red Riding Hood

40 min | ZDARMA / Free Entry

A hand puppet adaptation of the classic fairy-tale. Two actresses perform the story of Little Red Riding Hood – but each in a different way. The drama needs to be toned down, however, and it’s necessary to get some laughs. The reaction of the audience (children and grown-ups as well), reciprocated by the actresses, turns the performance into a unique experience. The performance is staged by two theatres – Bořivoj from Prague and Kordula from Liberec.

The 40-minute performance is suitable for children above 3 years of age.

Divadlo Kordula: Little Red Riding Hood

Fri 13/5/2022
10.00-10.40
Festival Tent

Něco něco

60 min

Něco něco play light-footed pop with intimate lyrics. The band is formed by Alžběta Trusinová and Tomáš Tkáč, who sings and plays the synthesisers and the guitar. The band sees themselves as an electro-folk project smoothly transitioning between (synth)pop, playful electronics and dance music. In 2021, the band was joined by drummer Václav Šafka and published its latest record, Útržky.

Něco něco

Fri 13/5/2022
21.00-22.00
Festival Tent

Jury Programe – Hisko Hulsing: Undone 2 (complete season)

Hisko Hulsing | United States | 2022 | 193 min

Enjoy this unique opportunity – ANIFILM will screen the complete, recently released season 2 of Undone by director and jury member Hisko Hulsing. The first ever binge-watching in the festival’s history.
Undone is an American adult animated psychological comedy-drama television series created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy (who have previously collaborated on BoJack Horseman), and starring Rosa Salazar. The series premiered on September 13, 2019, on Amazon Prime Video, to critical acclaim. It is Amazon’s first adult animated original series and its first to use rotoscoping. In November 2019, Amazon renewed Undone for a second season which premiered on April 29, 2022. Undone explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma. After getting into a nearly fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.

1. The Cave
2. The Painting
3. Mexico
4. Reflections
5. Lungs
6. Help Me
7. Rectify
8. We All Love Each Other

Jury Programe – Hisko Hulsing: Undone 2 (complete season)

Fri 13/5/2022
21.00-00.13
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

DVA

60 min

The Czech duo DVA was formed by Jan Kratochvíl and Barbora Ungerová. Their first record, Fonók, was released in 2008 and cemented the band’s status on the Czech scene and elsewhere. Their following record, HU (2010), won the Czech Anděl Award for alternative music. Their latest record, Nipomo, was released in 2014. In recent years, the band has been focusing on music and sounds in computer games. Their collaboration with Amanita Design on their game Botanicula (2012) won them the ‘gaming Oscar’ – the IGF Excellence in Audio Award in San Francisco. They also worked on music for the award-winning games Attentat 1942 and Svoboda 1945: Liberation by Charles Games.

DVA

Fri 13/5/2022
22.30-23.30
Festival Tent

Fras: Behind the Door

35 min | ZDARMA / Free Entry

A big house in the middle of a big city. Jáchym lives here with his mother and father. It’s summer, and his friends are gone. Jáchym hangs around the house alone. Ema arrives for part of the summer holidays. Mysteries are about to be revealed. As soon as Jáchym and Ema meet, a riddle involving a clumsy old man and a locked door begins to unfold. The children don’t have a choice; they must get to the bottom of this mystery.

In 2022, the show was supported by Nová síť as part of the New Blood on the Stage programme.

The 35-minute performance is suitable for children above 5 years of age.

Fras: Behind the Door

Sat 14/5/2022
09.30-10.05
Festival Tent

Arleta

60 min

Artist, rapper. Arleta impales toxic masculinity on the nails of her femme poetry and sends all misogynist beings to dark, mouth-shutting corners. So far Arleta has released numerous well-received singles, produced by the likes of David Herzig (first EP, Ability to Damage Plant) or Fvck_Kvlt (‘Styl’ and the brand new ‘Statement’). Her new single, ‘Weapon/Paranoia’, released in spring 2022, was produced by Jakub Šindler (Never Sol, Bert & Friends, Unikat). Arleta is now working on a new EP.

Arleta

Sat 14/5/2022
21.00-22.00
Festival Tent

P/\ST

60 min

A Prague-based rap duo you know from their LP Expedice do vnitrobloku (2019). Creeping out of the depths of prop storage to trap you in the rhythm of sub-bass brass. The trap is two-fold. One side is reinforced by steel rods and shaft hole echoes, the other was forged by Sudetenland and hardened by rap. A twisted response to the current emptiness of the Czech rap scene by two guys who met at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and had a feeling they ‘needed to do something together’.

$P/\ST$

Sat 14/5/2022
22.30-23.30
Festival Tent

Naivní divadlo: Kuba and Markyta + The Three Threadmakers

50 min | ZDARMA / Free Entry

Kuba and Markyta

Using several puppets, actress Markéta Sýkorová illustrates the ridiculous behaviour of a stupid boy named Kuba who tries to follow his mother’s advice, but always messes things up. Kuba is to marry Markyta and bring her a present, but he misunderstands his mother’s advice and does something dumb again. This triggers a chain of advice and the nonsensical following of it, which is hilarious for children, as even the smallest child is cleverer than our Kuba.

The 25-minute performance is suitable for children above 3 years of age.

The Three Threadmakers

In addition to the legendary performance Kuba and Markyta, which has been in the repertoire of Naivní divadlo Liberec for more than 20 years, the troupe has introduced a new ‘Grimmesque’ fairy tale, The Three Threadmakers in 2010. In this piece, the dumb Kuba is replaced with a very lazy girl. The current performer of both pieces, Markéta Sýkorová has written a fairy-tale anecdote about laziness and promises unfulfilled (once again inspired by the Brothers Grimm).

The 25-minute performance is suitable for children above 3 years of age.

Naivní divadlo: Kuba and Markyta + The Three Threadmakers

Sun 15/5/2022
09.30-10.20
Festival Tent