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Czech Short Films 2018
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 registration process last up to 24 hours. Please, use your work email for registration, if possible. You can watch the films once your registration is succesfully completed. 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
Atlantis, 2003
2003, four years before Slovakia joined the Schengen Area. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get illegaly to Germany through Slovakia, like many others. The border between Slovakia and Ukraine will be in a couple of years one of the most secured borders in Europe, but…
Awaker
This short animated film is set in a cold Nordic country in the early 19th century and tells the tale of an old man who works as an awaker, waking people up. His life is always the same — until one day he gets a shiny old bell.
Blueberry Hunt
Two hungry bears with a craving for blueberry dumplings set out for the forest to look for berries. But on the way, they come down with a case of the hiccups, which complicates their blueberry picking, and even the most sophisticated methods don’t seem to help. Just when the situation looks…
Bo Hai
They think like Czechs, speak like Czechs, but look Vietnamese. Bo Hai looks at the relationship between older and younger generations of Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The parents moved to Europe in the ’80s and ’90s and started their own businesses. The children, although integrated into…
Everything Has Its Own Time
How do we come to terms with loss? What do we do with what’s left? What is the meaning of memories? When we enter a picture, we leave the frame. We meet ideas of images. And through this encounter we gain a new image: an image of the future.
Friendly Sport Meeting
Futnet is a typical Czech sport. Almost every village hosts amateur futnet tournament from time to time. And these tournaments are not just about sport. It's saturday, beautiful summer weather and one of these tournaments begins in a small village. Futnet is played, rump is being roasted and…
Fruits of Clouds
Furry lives in a clearing surrounded by dark woods with a pack of animal friends. Their only food is rare orange seeds that transform into large glowing fruit as soon as they touch the ground. Furry’s friends are afraid to venture into the scary woods, but he’s bored doing nothing but waiting.
Chase
Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture…
I'm So Tired of Being Alone
A 23-year-old closeted gay man reunites with his former best friend, whom he loves platonically. But catching up becomes even more difficult when a third friend unexpectedly joins them on their trip to the countryside, eager to take a break from her premature role as wife and mother. The atmosphere…
The Last Shift of Thomas Hisem
“I hope everything turns out OK and you’ll get something out of this,” says coal miner Tomáš Hisem at the start of his shift in Ostrava’s Paskov Mine. With a sense of immediacy and in his own distinctive manner, he captures a particular place at a particular time — one day before the Paskov Mine is…
The Little One
A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be both at home and a stranger at the same time, her family heads toward a fatal decision. Who will leave? Who will stay? Who is at home here?
The Nettle
From the moment Nikola’s girlfriend Ana puts the lipstick on Nikola’s lips, nothing is ever the same again. No one wants to confront or justify any behavior and the secrets grow as wildly as the nettles in the backyard.
The Truck
An abandoned truck sits along the highway, parked by a forest, outside the parking lot. The license plate is foreign. The driver did all he could to prepare for this special journey, but some unexpected events occurred along the way.