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Patty is bullied by everyone at school until a sudden weight loss turns her into a beauty queen. Now she wants her revenge.

What would happen if mum was always right? Do mums always tell their children the truth? If I squint, will I stay cross-eyed forever? And what about beer, can it be safely tasted? Or will it make me the shortest granddad in the old folk’s home? Will I really have muscles like Popeye if I eat spinach? The film follows mothers and children in several households. Their grotesque and absurd tales are based on the most common phrases told to children , for whom though they are an utterly plausible reality. In my film these situations will be showing what would happen if our mothers were always right. Absurdities like unravelled belly button, frogs in one’s stomach, eyes in the neighbours garden etc. are a great opportunity for the animated film, for which not a single literal meaning is impossible or inconcievable to shoot. The film is targeting primarily the adult viewers, parents, to make them realise the power and absurdity of their warnings. But I hope children will enjoy it too.

A crowd. A touch. Uncertainty. What now? Tereza finds herself in a room full of people, unsure of what to say, even though she feels so much inside. Words fail her, but her inner world is vivid and alive. Through a variety of textile materials, the film gives shape to her unspoken emotions and sensory experiences, transforming fabric into a language of its own. It is a story about the quiet struggle and gentle courage of searching for closeness.

Hun Tun was an ancient emperor of chaos. He was both admirable and scary. Life with him was beautifully unbearable. In the Chinese myth, the world is born out of Hun Tun's dying body. Magdalena is an ordinary millennial. Her life is full of little twists and adventures: work, friends and love. But now she has only one mission – to get her sleep back. The more she tries, the more she gets stuck. It is only when she sees the chaos in her life clearly that the situation changes. And suddenly, there are other people with their “chaoses” too. This is how being spotted and recognized, Hun Tun starts losing power over Magdalena. Living together (un)happily forever.

Liebe. What begins as a trivial romantic etude about the lives of four young people who arrive on the island of Rügen to shoot a film about love gradually descends into a vortex of mutual suspicion, self-accusation, recriminations, and animalistic sex. When one of the two girls apparently drowns in the stormy waves of the Baltic Sea, the fates of those involved head toward an unexpectedly dark climax. The mysterious drama Liebe is a tribute to the goddess of cult and pagan times, when gods themselves entered into people. Whether they wanted it or not.

An animated short film about a school where the students keep mysteriously disappearing. Rybnická elementary school has a new sensation - one pupil dies in teacher Zimová's class every year. Is it a morbid coincidence or are the students in the class really cursed? Filmed based on the comic of the same name by Josef Blažek and Lenka Šimečková.

The Stone of Destiny longs for freedom and wants to overcome its self-doubt. So it embarks on a journey and meets strange creatures in strange places.

The kitchen of a forgetful granny comes to life when she’s not around. Saltshaker, Sugarbowl and the rest are set to fix what she's accidentally forgotten.

Abigél came to the Czech Republic from Hungary with a super important goal: to learn how to pronounce the most difficult letter in the world ... rrrzs,rrr, rzsr rhz ... Ř!

Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture taking place in the background.

This architecturally unique resort on the shores of Lake Orlík was a secret retreat for the communist establishment in the 1960s, but later, rampant capitalism handed it over to now infamous businessmen. Imbued with a mysterious atmosphere, this portrait captures the genius loci and turbulent history of a hidden summer paradise that was never marked on any map.

The smell of borscht, which my grandmother cooked on a sunny day, takes me back to my childhood memories. Although they are vague, appearing and disappearing at lightning speed, they are filled with a certain nostalgia and tranquility. Moments of summer and warmth that I want to preserve forever.

A short animated film dedicated to the boundlessness of children's imagination. What can a child think when he hears a neighbor drilling a wall? What wonderful pictures his imagination can draw.

Inspired by the traditional Slavic folktale “The Enormous Turnip,” a beetroot grows so huge that no one can pull it from the ground. When a local crane operator is hired to do the job, the giant vegetable turns violent and destructive. As chaos unfolds, an army is mobilized to stop it — but maybe there’s another way to appease this monstrous force... 2D animation, stop-motion, and live action mix together in this wild riff on Japanese kaiju movies.

We live in a world which is bombarding us with images, stimuli, sensations and demands – what are the possibilities of escape, and which of them are the right ones? Director and artist Anastázie Rainischová responds to the situation with another form of saturation – her short film is surprising for its mutual communication of seemingly contradictory animation techniques. The vibrant playfulness and mischief, and also the palpable unease beneath a veil of melancholy, shift the film’s aesthetics somewhere closer to David O’Reilly. Might the path to Zen take us past absolute overload?

i think it’s much better if we go now let’s just leave don’t you think yes let’s go yes why not why don’t we go oh yes lets go please

i hear something i hear something. oh no I hear it, it’s all beatle sounds it’s ringo it’s paul it’s john it’s george oh i’m so overwhelmed