Program - Short Films A

Short Films A

Tio

Juan Medina | Mexico | 2021 | 13 min

Barren hills pierced by mine shafts hide more than just minerals. Generations of miners well aware of this fact were ready to make sacrifices to the mysterious ghost of the underground. Martin, the protagonist of this puppet story with horror elements, who thinks the nightmarish Tio is a mere fable, will have to prove his respect for tradition.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

I’ll Be Your Kettle

Tobias Rud | Denmark, Canada | 2021 | 10 min

The heroine of this humorous film about an unusual relationship crisis will find that love has many shapes and forms. The willingness to do anything to please someone pales with the sacrifices she is ready to lay on the altar of love. But for what?

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Granny’s Sexual Life

Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard | Slovenia, France | 2021 | 13 min

This animated documentary follows the intimate lives of several Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century and the expectations society placed on them. Using expressive animation, the film tells their stories, thematises the disdainful attitude of men and describes their wounds and desperate strategies for surviving in harshly patriarchal unions.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

The Train Driver

Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim | Germany | 2021 | 6 min

A seemingly amusing conversation when fishing describes the essential moments in the life of a man. Without being able to do anything about it, he, a train driver, ended the lives of six people who had decided to commit suicide. What mark have these experiences left on him? An animated documentary.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Anxious Body

Yoriko Mizushiri | France, Japan | 2021 | 6 min

This contemplative film gradually becomes unexpectedly disturbing and almost physically uncomfortable as the author combines individual innocent motifs and creates anxious anticipation of the climax of the slow scenes. The main role is played by the body, flexibility and the uncompromising rigidity and sharpness of the materials it encounters.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

A Long Protracted Scene of an Accident

Lars Henrik Andersson, Lisa Rydberg | Sweden | 2021 | 15 min

A ten-year-old boy named Henrik must come to terms with the consequences of a creeping crisis threatening his nuclear family. The deliberately ‘crude’ stylisation of the film and usage of authentic home videos underscores the quirky black humour and the rawness of the anxiety little Henrik experiences under the pressure of responsibility.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Bad Seeds

Claude Cloutier | Canada | 2020 | 6 min

An acclaimed Canadian director introduces an inventive visual pun based on one of the fundamental strengths of animation – variability of form. We witness a fight between two plants, their efforts to outsmart each other and win, while their metamorphoses become a commentary on and a metaphor for human inability to perceive something in its entirety.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Swallow the Universe

Nieto | France | 2021 | 12 min

Everything was fine in the Manchurian jungle until a little boy appeared. His presence among the animals triggered a chain of crazy events and irreversible changes. In this visually mesmerising film, animal narrators comment on the rapidly unfolding events which mercilessly head towards the end of a scroll on which the film is seemingly drawn.

Tue 10/5/2022
14.30-15.50
free seats: 202
Cinema City 1 - Czech TV Hall

Thu 12/5/2022
10.00-11.20
free seats: 63
Cinema City 4

Fri 13/5/2022
14.00-15.20
free seats: 89
Malé Theatre

Online catalogue

Short Films A

Tio

I’ll Be Your Kettle

Granny’s Sexual Life

The Train Driver

Anxious Body

A Long Protracted Scene of an Accident

Bad Seeds

Swallow the Universe