The Czech Short Films is an annual collection of best short films made in Czech Republic. It represents student as well as professional work and spans over all genres - fiction, documentary, animation and experimental. The collection is intended for promotion and distribution purposes and for film professionals only.
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Benny is a succesfull young man. As a hitman he earns a lot of money and also earns a lot of women. How it can end up when he finds out that he should kill himself? Cynical crimi-comedy, verbal shootouts about perverse values and empty relationships.
A short film about finding a partner in 21st century. I'm searching under the bed, behind the wardrobe, in the cellar and I'm still not finding it. I'm searching behind the corner, I'm searching in the pot, but it is not even there. A short movie about the fact of my loneliness and my urgent need…
Jakub lost his job as a teacher, and unemployment only increases his nagging doubts of inadequacy, which are certainly not allayed by his father-in-law. The latter imagined someone better for his daughter, and he never lets an opportunity slip by to make this perfectly clear. A job offer as a…
This experimental metric film shines a light on esthetic rhythms of economic cycles related to industry from the beginning of the financial crisis till the present recovery. The picture is organized along the facts and figures of the development of the automotive, chemical and heavy industries from…
Animated short based on an urban legend from the era of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during the WW II. The phantom avenger with spring-heeled shoes jumps above the streets of Prague and fights the occupants. He has to stop the Nazis from waking up the Golem - a dreadful artificial being from…
Old Mr. Tošovský has knocked down Mrs. Pařízková by a car. His daughter Zuzana is boiling with anger and takes the car keys away from him to prevent him from further driving. On one hand Zuzana solves the problem with her father, but on the other she antagonizes her mother Jana, who is planning a…
A short animated film from a world much akin to ours. It begins with a family that leaves their small suburban home, something the house cannot abide. Thus begins its journey to find the family. The one clue left to the house is a shiny red business card that leads it to a strange part of the city,…
In the ruins of the city, destroyed by the war, a small boy survives. He is hiding from fighting machines and collecting old broken toys that he carries to his shelter to repair them. They replace his friends and family. One day he finds a Christmas gift and runs away with him to the mound of the…
A personal film poem about blending and ingrowing of the past and the present, the dead and the living. Traces are the imprints of the past in the present. Fragments are the result of a sudden change of state, the breaking of the continuity between the past and the present. Roots are the…
Tony, a young trombone player in a brass band, leads a humdrum life. He plays the same music over and over every night. But this night will turn out to be special. While playing his solo, a tipsy female dancer collapses on the dance floor. Tony ends up taking her home. After he drops her on the…
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