Additional programme
Animated shorts
6. 9. 2024
20:30
Hraničář
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.
Switzerland; 10 minutes
Karen Lips is a researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
Germany; 15 minutes
Death of a beloved pet is a difficult thing to deal with, and even though we try to prepare for it, it always seems to come too soon. This is a story of a boy and his dog Dede, who passes away suddenly and the boy is left alone with his grief.
Czechia; 8 minutes
Doomer watches digital content in his room. He watches a techno optimistic explainer, a motivational fitness video and an affirmative meditation. He's been through it all, but it turns out he too is just a nonfunctional and simplistic view of the world.
Czechia; 9 minutes
The film reveals her harrowing experience of the survivor of sexually motivated assault and the subsequent emotional toll it takes on her. Follow the journey of healing and self-discovery as she finds a way to move forward highlighting the resilience and courage of all survivors.
Czechia; 4 minutes
Once upon a time there was a Girl that had enough. So she decided to kill everyone she knew and went on a journey of self-discovery with a ghost of her beloved dog.
Poland; 18 minutes
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no problem at all in this day and age. However, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal, perhaps to understand it better after all.
Austria, Germany; 6 minutes
Anka loves cats. And Jesus. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty.
Poland; 27 minutes
V obývacím pokoji mladé ženy se najednou objeví černá díra, ze které vypadne neznámý muž a z nečekaného setkání je láska na první pohled. Vidí se ale opravdu poprvé?
Sweden; 8 minutes
Iiti se právě přestěhovala do nového bytu, ale dovádí ji k šílenství myš, které se žádnými prostředky nemůže zbavit a problém graduje. Je možné, že Iiti je vlastně také myš?
Finsko; 18 minut
Doubt is a short animated essay, which, through voices of four different authors from various fields of art, describes all stages of the creative process.
Czechia, 6 minutes
