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Edited by: Jiřina Pěčová

In the Night Kitchen

Gene Deitch | United States | 1987 | 8 min

Czech viewers haven’t had many chances to see this imaginative and not very well-known work by the legendary Gene Deitch. In this surreal film, a sleeping little boy finds himself in a night kitchen with cooks waiting for him. Anything can happen and anyone can become a roast in the dream realm…

In the Night Kitchen

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Maxipes Fík Shoots a Film

Václav Bedřich | Czechoslovakia | 1978 | 11 min

Czech audiences know Maxipes Fík from animated Bedtime Stories. In addition to two series (Maxipes Fík and Maxipes Fík’s Wild Dreams), a New Year’s Special for grown-ups was made. The authors use self-deprecating humour to make fun of themselves. Fík goes to a casting for a film role, and, as it happens, the events unfold in a very different manner than Fík, Ája and the director anticipated.

Maxipes Fík Shoots a Film

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Four Loves

Czech Republic | 2003 | 6 min

After seeing this short but educational film, women will find out that love is an emotion that men feel their entire lives, and men will see for themselves that it’s possible to love someone from cradle to grave. As is customary for him, Pavel Koutský used grotesque exaggeration and abbreviation. He also included the animation of real objects.

Four Loves

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Dessert

Anna Mastníková | Czech Republic | 2011 | 4 min

This short and provocative film by a notable Czech author was made during her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In an extreme manner, the film combines two sayings – that love can take many forms and that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Among other things, the author typically relativises gender roles, challenges stereotypes and uses original drawing.

Dessert

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Scene from the Life of Antelopes

Edita Krausová | Czech Republic | 2004 | 4 min

The film is inspired by a story written by French poet Jacques Prévert. Antelopes live in Africa with black and white people and have their own lives, which sometimes become very dangerous due to the white men’s rifles. The film is black-and-white and boasts playful and stylised naive (childlike) drawing and excellent narration.

Scene from the Life of Antelopes

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Long Live the Little Mouse

Pavel Koutský | Czech Republic | 1993 | 6 min

The slapstick comedy Long Live the Little Mouse, combining hand-drawn animation with live action, is one of Pavel Koutský’s earlier works. He portrays the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse in his typical original style. In this case it means that the film is a humorous parable of human hypocrisy.

Long Live the Little Mouse

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

A Garden Enclosed

Magdalena Bartáková | Czech Republic | 2008 | 12 min

This ambitious student film was inspired by Song of Songs, freely adapted on various levels of meaning. The film, made on multiple layers, will captivate audiences thanks to its impressive dream-like misty atmosphere, work with symbols and meticulous drawing.

A Garden Enclosed

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Václav Blín | Czech Republic | 2002 | 3 min

This rather furious but all the more humorous collage-style music video was made by Václav Blín. Guests gather at a country wedding and, holding a beer in one hand and a blood sausage in the other, they dive right into a brass-band-rhythmised whirlwind of wild fun lasting until the morning dew.

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Lucie Štamfestová | Czech Republic | 2004 | 8 min

The graduate film of Lucie Štamfestová, former student of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. A disturbing and gloomy story about the fact that everything has a price. The director and animator later worked on other authorial projects, series and book illustrations.

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Hypnagogia

Magdalena Hejzlarová | Czech Republic | 2017 | 5 min

Hypnagogia is an original experiment that combines abstract scenes with techniques of traditional ani-docs. The film depicts the state of falling asleep and describes and illustrates the visual sensory phenomena that are experienced when crossing the borders of sleep in its own poetic and documentary-style way.

Hypnagogia

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava

Patrick

Gene Deitch | United Kingdom | 1973 | 7 min

Not interested in anything, Patrick roams through a marketplace until a junk dealer offers him a violin. When Patrick begins to play, magical and fantastic things start to happen. Another of Gene Deitch’s lesser-known films, on which Jiřina Pěčová worked as editor. The film is an adaptation of a children’s book of the same name by Quentin Blake.

Patrick

Wed 11/5/2022
17.00-18.13
free seats: 160
Kino Varšava

Sun 15/5/2022
10.00-11.13
free seats: 177
Kino Varšava