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Czech Short Films 2024
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
3 MWh
A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to consume. The energy that should have lasted him for the rest of his life is slowly running out, forcing him to decide on its final use. 3 MWh is a film poem about degrowth and shows what…
About a Cow
A patchwork of true stories from the life of cows. The film starts with an idyllic image of a pasture with cows enjoying their free movement after having spent the winter in a cowshed. The joy is disrupted by episodes from all over the world showing cows going through both positive and negative…
Dede Is Dead
Death of a beloved pet is hard to deal with, and even if we try to prepare for it, it often takes us by surprise. This is the story of a boy and his dog Dede, who suddenly passes away. Lost in the depths of grief, the boy eventually discovers that her death does not necessarily mean that Dede is…
Eighth Day
A religious sect congregates by a lake in a forest. They are preparing to perform a baptism the next day, but teenage Anna has her own plans. She is fed up with life in the strict community and longs to experience freedom for the first time.
Electra
Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with imagination and hidden dreams. Isolated in her fantasy world full of made-up busty dolls, plastic men’s body parts, juicy strawberries and dentist tools, she builds up her own relationships with her body and sexuality. Diving deeper and…
Free the Chickens
A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the inhospitable wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for…
My Father
The director explores her relationship with her father Jamshid. Before the revolution, he was a filmmaker who had created several 8mm short films, some of which are included in this documentary. With a camera always in hand, he captured photographs and films, establishing himself as a revolutionary…
Rising Above
Based on events told by a survivor that almost lost her life in a violent sexually motivated assault, the film reveals her harrowing experience and the subsequent emotional toll it takes on her. We follow her journey of healing and self-discovery as she finds a way to move forward highlighting the…
Sea Salt
On this hot summer day on the southern seaside of Lebanon, 17-year-old Nayla is faced with the same dilemma every Lebanese youngster is faced with today – to leave or to stay. Two men in her life have set ideas about it, but both might wake up to a surprise.
Stuck Together
Viki, Sara and Kiki, inseparable from childhood, have always dreamt of leaving their backwater town. Now one of them will get the chance by proceeding to the next stage of a modelling audition. The remaining two friends will definitely not forgive this. The film chronicles their last day together.
Time Metallurgist
The experimental film Time Metallurgist uses artificial intelligence to work with found footage materials (photographs, excerpts from newspapers, letters from the life of Eadweard Muybridge), attempts to reconstruct what happened in the second half of the 19th century in California and describes…