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21st edition
October 2-11, 2026

Special Guest Country : Czech Republic

The Czech Centre is invited with a selection of the best recent and historic animation works. While the roots of the Czech animation reach back to the mid-1920s, cartoon and puppet animation asserted after World War Il. The Czech School gained in definition, becoming a phenomenon whose exponents' exploitation of both form and content evinced a force of poetic imagination that echoed the long-standing traditions of Czech art. Different generations of talented artists, directors, animators and musicians worked on the movies in the presented section.

 

ANIFEST SELECTION FOR ANIM'EST

The Czech animation festival AniFest selected for anim'est a program of the best recent short animation films. Thus you can watch movies produced within 2000- 2006.

  • Kontakt/ Contact - director Martin Duda, 7'40"
  • Hra/ The Game - Gallina Miklínova, 5'31"
  • Františku, k večeri!/ Frank, dinner is ready!/ Frank, cina e gatal - J. Plass, 15"30"
  • Automat/ Automat - Lucie Stamfestové, 8'10"
  • 4 lasky/ 4 lovers - Pavel Koutský, 6'30"
  • Samotar/ Looner - Bedrich Glaser, 9'15"
  • Priušnice/ Mumps - Maria Prochazkové, 8'
  • Prasavci/ Premammals - Michal Žabka, 9'20"

 

THE "SUBSOL" SELECTION

"In our Embassy Archive here in Bucharest we found a treasure we want to share with you: 35 mm prints of wonderful animations from the 80s. Take your kids and come to enjoy movies such as Lost World of Gloves; A White Princess; Black and White; Kisses of Mr. Pip; A Walk of Mr. Pip; Boomerang; Jam Session, Imago ..."

  • Muzikantska 11' (About Musicians) 
  • Konec krychle 5' (End of the Cube)
  • Polibky pana Pipa 8' (Kisses of Mr. Pip)
  • Prochazka pana Pipa 7' (A Walk of Mr. Pip) 
  • Nesplnitelny sen 8' (An unreacheable dream) 
  • Zanikly svet rukavic 16' (Lost World of Gloves)
  • Black and white 4'
  • Doma je doma 11' (Home is Home)
  • Jam Session 6'
  • Bumerang 9'
  • Muzikant a smrt 9' (Musician and the Death) Muzicianul şi moartea
  • Imago 11'
  • Fair play 7'
  • Ex libris 10'
  • Nerovný souboj 10 (Uneven fight)
  • S úsmevem 11' (With a smile)
  • O bile princezne 8' (About a white princess)

 

CZECH STUDENT ANIMATED FILMS

  • Kukaéka / The Cuckoo - 2005, 2 min 15 S, Director: Pavel Kout; Producer: Vysoka tkola. A film about the difficult life of a cuckoo living and working in an old clock. 
  • Pop - 2005, 5 min 30 s; Director: Adrian Kukal; Producer: FAMU Praha. A sarcastic "industrial" story about people whose apathy (and not just that) leads them to the state when they let the world transform them in anything and anybody. Have you noticed there are more and more of them around?
  • In Sleep in - 2005, 6 min; Director: Dana Bubakova; Producer: FAMU Praha. Story of one night. 
  • Dr. Psycho - 2005, 9 min - Director: Michal Kubicek - Producer: Vy₩i odborna tkola filmova Zlin. A lonely man longs for woman. There is only posibility remaining - to construct a mechanical one. 
  • Co pohadky zatajily / What the Fairy Tales Haven't Said - 2004, 6 min- Director: Radek Pluha; Producer: Vyti odborna ikola filmova Zlin. A prince watching the countryside from a high rock sees two thieves abducting a princess. The prince decided to rescue the princess ...
  • Ze Sivota matek / From the Lives of Mothers - 2006, 7 min30s; Director: Kristina Dufkova; Producer: FAMU Praha From life of mothers. From life of mess. About a reckless offspring and its caringly caree-laden mother.
  • Naturefiction/ Naturaficțiune - 2005, 4 min 30 s; Director: Jan Blin; Producer: Vylli odborna ikola graficka Jihlava. Video based on the realtionship between man and nature. 
  • Od ned le do soboty / From Sunday to Saturday - 2005, 5 min; Director: Radovan Marcek; Producer: Vylli odborna tkola filmová Zlín. A hand-drawn animation describing life in modern times when everything is dedicated to work...
  •  PsiCHO - 2005, 9 min 30 s; Director: Libor Pixa; Producer: FAMU Praha. The high-spirited dog "psycho" or a coronary encounter on the writing desk.
  • Cesta / Journey - 2006; Director: Tomat Kopećnð; Producer: Vyli odborná lkola graficka Jihlava. Film about relations between urban and nature living environment. 

 

FEATURES FILMS

 

  • Fimfárum 1 (Jana Wericha) Czech Republic/ Cehia, 2002 Directors/ Regia: Aurel Klimt and Vlasta Pospišilova Running time/ Durata: 100' Production co/ Produs de: MAUR Film

Do you know what a fimfarum is? Fimfarum is a magic cane, the only one in the world! However, it is also the name of a book full of gentle fairy tales about various human weaknesses and virtues, as well as a range of successful puppet films to entertain and educate filmgoers of all ages. In short, it is an encyclopedia of stories, which happen from time to time, every other day, even some very very peculiar ones.

Awards : Best animated film- Czech Critics Awards; Best art direction - Czech Lion

Aurel Klimt is a producer, director, screenwriter and editor. Vlasta Pospisilova is a director and animator.

 

  • Fimfárum 2 Czech Republic/ Cehia, 2006 Directors/ Regia:Jan Balej, Aurel Klimt B?etislav Pojar, Vlasta Pospíšilova Running time/ Durata: 97 Production/Produs de: MAUR Film

A collection of stories: "Three Hunchbacks from Damascus" evokes the atmosphere of the Far East and an oriental narrative style; "Tom Thumb", a picturesque telling full of reversals and adventure; "Three Sisters and One Ring" employs a rustic instruction manual ala "The Decameron"--how to fool a husband out of a ring; "Why, Uncle, Is the Sea Salty?" offers to explain a natural phenomenon, and to relive the age-old fairy tale about envy and devils.

 

  • Žralok v Hlave (Shark in the Head) Czech Republic/ Cehia, 2005 Director/ Regia: Maria Prochazkova Running time/ Durata: 75' Production: Bionaut Films (Vratislav Slajer)

 

Mr Seman is single, middle-aged man living in Prague. His pastime is to peer out the window of his ground floor apartment in Prague striking up conversations with passers by, looking into waste bins that line the pavement and at other times talking to himself. This first feature film by animator Maria Prochazkova was inspired by a real situation.

Maria Prochazkova graduated from grammar school in 1993 and has been student of animated film at Prague Film and Television Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). In 1998 she graduated as animation director. She writes and directs short animated films, music videos and commercials.
 

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