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Czech Short Films 2021
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
Anatomy of a Czech Afternoon
Crowds of people are laying on top of each other at the beach of a Czech swimming lake. A mother is looking for her two boys. A search with an uncertain end starts and gradually all the participants realize the burden of the whole situation. The unimaginable becomes reality. A huge crowd is leaving…
Ant Hill
A story of an adolescent ant worker living in the outskirts of a dying human world who wants more from her life than accepting the given fate. Seemingly she scorns the winged ants, the aristocracy of the ant hill, but secretly she envies them their future beyond the colony. However, when cast out…
Delimitation
Young woman is looking for an apartment in a busy metropolis, while trying to overcome a ubiquitous alienation and find closeness. Combining stylised movement and expressive dance, the film creates new film language forms, emphasising sound and image over dialogue. As the woman explores different…
Fibonacci
Human swarm running through the land. Thirteen performers in a drop-shaped formation create a single organism, controlled by a collective intelligence or intuition. It spills over the land of geometric patterns, terrain waves, divides and re-connects. It stops at the horizon to rest and then runs…
Kanya
Kanya intimately explores the inner dissonance of an adolescent girl who is experiencing puberty in a traditional Indian family. Kanya is a successful swimming champion with a promising career in sports. Her world collapses when she gets her first period, and her family demands that she accepts the…
Leaf
A huge sailor receives a lovely autumn leaf from a little girl. It reminds him of his home. How long has he been away? The sailor takes off after his memories. What will he find there?
Love Is Just a Death Away
A dog carcass, a dump, and beautiful moths high in the sky. This is the life of Steve, a parasite desperately looking for a soul mate. Unfortunately, all his attempts to be close to someone end in disappointment: The bird he saves from another dog dies; the rat that touches him dies; the…
Must Be Painful
Danny, a Czech student, and his Spanish boyfriend go on a trip to the Czech countryside. At the railway station they meet a couple of locals who do not know Danny understands them, so they start to make sarcastic comments. It does not take long until this situation generates a conflict, the outcome…
Pripyat Piano
Radioactive Pripyat pianos are telling the story of Chernobyl disaster in their own unique way. Due to the high radiation level in former city of Pripyat, abandoned pianos became the only inhabitants who can maintain its sounds even if the surrounding walls collapse. Also, a piano is too heavy to…
S p a c e s
The film explores memory as a container of our identity. It's based on the personal story of the author and her brother who got a brain tumor diagnosis. The narrative and form of the film follow the idea of perceiving reality with a broken memory. An animated documentary experiments with art and…
Sounds Between the Crowns
The movie about the homeless musician who was kicked out of the city after the queen saw his face. Even the guards destroyed his instrument, he didn´t lose the motivation to fix it.
Washing Machine
Alexandra Májová’s humorous and playful film is a remarkable parable of human relationships. Only in her film, instead of with a woman, a man is trying to solve problems with a troublesome home appliance.