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Czech Short Films 2011
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.
You can watch each film by clicking on "Film Preview", upon registration. The confirmation process last up to 24 hours. You can watch the films once your registration is succesfully completed and confirmed. If you are interested in any of the films, you can contact Czech Film Center on info@filmcenter.cz, or find the direct contact to rights holder or distributor in the profile of each film.
Films in collection
At Command
A morale story about aggressive commercialism and the society that is willing to accept its influence. Come and see what can happen with this controversy when you decide not to follow the crowd.
Automatic for the People
Adam has an undgrateful job. He operates a vendng machine from inside. A vendning machine that everybody believes to be automatic. Isolated from the society, he desperately longs for a more personal relationship than that in which he is involved trhough the metal wall of the vending machine. With…
Departure: On time
A deeply motivated film about a non-motivated friendship of two life's outcasts - the twenty-year old Ondřej who does not yet know what to do with his life and the fifty-year old Karel who already does not know what to do at all.
Dominoes
Built on domino blocks, the world is split into two, what is missing in one you find in the other. Suddenly, a pear arrives in the city. Remaining absolutly idle, the pear does nothing but "sits" on a building. Trying to find out what is going on, a young man reaches a place where his world…
Elevator
A symbolic expression of a human life in which the main protagonist goes through different floors of the building like through different periods of the human life, problems, questions, temptations and doubts until he reaches his final destination.
Father
A fiction film with documentary features that attempts to authentically portray a complex relationship of the father and the son. Both are Slovak and they both live in Prague - each for a different reason, though. The son studies at university, focusing on his career, while his lonely father is…
Graffitiger
A humorous and sweetly melancholic story about a lonely graffiti-tiger and his life on walls and facades of Prague houses and buildings. Full of dirty lanes and corners, the city serves as a wild jungle in which the tiger is searching for his lost love. Thrilling and humorous, the story is…
Lucas - Curse of the Drawned Cat
A dramatic story about village cats and their struggle to save their cat fellows bewitched and kept by an evil sorcerer's cat in the village pond. Prowling for his prey, the Drowned Cat casts a spell on the village cats and keeps them in the local pond, sleeping. Fortuately, the city cat Lucas…
People Involved
Beginning in Brighton, the story ends in Ústí nad Labem. Emily is English, Petr is Czech. He dies and she sets off to meet his parents. Her journey is a journey for forgiveness on which the language barrier is not the only thing to overcome.
Rousek
Mr Rousek wanders, mourns, phones – in his own way. What must happen for the windows to be open...
Swimming Pool
A night love story of two outsiders set in a closed city swimming pool.