Three masters of football. They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals. But what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks? In his audiovisually intensive film, Jevremović looks for a parallel between sport and society-wide frenzy.
A confession of love to a city that has suffered a lot. Depicted by many artists, the city was destroyed many times throughout centuries. Just as the events have transformed the place, the director paints over one layer of paint with another, again and again. But the memory of the place remains. A romantic and expressive journey through the history of Dresden.
A story about the fearless five-piece Prague band Treska Jednoskvrnná, which sets off to destroy the dangerous warlock Mrakomor. The humorous combination of stylised live action and stop-motion animation foreshadows the subversive nature of the story: is Mrakomor really as dangerous as the stories would have us believe?
Panther is an intensive study about freedom. What does an animal in captivity feel? Can these feelings be visualised at all? The director’s characteristically restless animation found ideal material in Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem about a panther kept in the menagerie of a Parisian botanical garden. Once again, the director accompanies his suggestive visual style with expressive music, this time based on the electric guitar.
This dreamy collage combines original digital drawings with photographs dominated by various flowers in bloom. The rays of the setting sun gleam on the water and create a fitting backdrop for the melancholy song of a musician who came to the Netherlands from Cameroon.
To learn how to process bad news and face adversity in life, you undoubtedly need some skills. In this short humorous film, probably loosely inspired by Inside Out and Inside Out 2, we get to see the mental processes of an unfortunate person and hopefully get some tips on what to do.
Jan Šrámek is a constructor of vector nostalgias with the sense for a style unity boardering with unification. This time he has even managed to tame the rain that, in regular grid, sprinkles the damaged and desertedremains of an urban infrastructure. The amount of ruined military hard-ware confirms it is a standard post-apocalyptic scenario, for which the people themselves are to blame.It is not clear who will change places with them (us). Veronika Vlkova “Little Girl“ is the only living person we see in our wanderings through the deserted city, she does have to bet he the seed of a new civilization, not a remainder of the…ours. Maybe she is only one the only one, the one and only
The short film The Patron’s Body portrays the dedication and calculation of an art donor. In the story, the patron donates his own body to serve as material for the exhibition. From the sponsor’s point of view, this is the largest possible donation, as well as advertising at the same time.
This original spot made for the Czechia 2026 project was created to mark the Czech Republic’s honorary presence at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Using playful animation, it metaphorically connects literary worlds with the vision of the Czech Republic as a cultural haven and invites people to discover our stories.
