Vondrášek will present his second short feature Imprisoned (2016), which was nominated for the Magnesia Award for Best Student Film presented during the Czech Lion Awards.

The participants of Future Frames will take part in a master class and an industry meeting with producers and sales agents in order to expand their international network.

Damián Vondrášek (b. 1991) studies direction at Prague's Film Academy (FAMU). He was already making movies before entering school, his short work In the Rain (2014) screened at the 10th Prague Short Film Festival. Together (2015) took best director at Famufest 2015.

IMPRISONED (2016, 27 min.)
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 prison educator may at least partially resolve existential and familial tensions, but Jakub must answer a fundamental question: Will he control others and be controlled by them? The claustrophobic feelings from the prison visit in no way differ from the hopelessness dominating his own life, and the decision isn't easy...

Imprisoned is a part of collection of Czech shorts (you can watch film online HERE). The Czech Film Center has been involved in promotion of Czech short films since 2010, when the first collection of Czech shorts was released. The online database contains all films from the previous annual collections and the selection of Czech shorts which succeeded at major international festivals.  

Another selected director is Slovac Michal Blaško, who studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and won several prizes with his second short film Fear. His bachelor project, Atlantis, 2003, was shot in Czech co-production (FAMU) and premieres at the Cinéfondation competition during this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Future Frames is an important platform for discovering up-and-coming European directors, with the EFP member organisations having nominated their most interesting young talents.Czech candidate was nominated by Czech Film Center. The final selection made from the 26 entries is undertaken by KVIFF's artistic director Karel Och and programme coordinator Anna Purkrabkova.

CFC initiates numerous promotional events and showcases abroad and cooperates with all important institutions connected with film. Since 2002, CFC is a member of European Film Promotion and participating at its international activities. Learn more  HERE.