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Czech shorts selected for Sundance!

11 December 2019

Czech Film Short Films

Czech shorts selected for Sundance!

Czech Film Short Films

Czech shorts selected for Sundance!

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Two Czech animated shorts, Daughter by Daria Kascheeva and SH_T HAPPENS by Dávid Štumpf and Michaela Mihályi, were selected to the Short Film Program at Sundance Film Festival 2020, the largest independent film festival in USA.

Daughter was produced by Zuzana Roháčová at Prague's FAMU in co-production with MAUR film, a Czech production company with many years of experience in the field of animation. The production of the film was supported by the Czech Film Fund as part of a package of three short animations called Three Voices, altogether with amount of EUR 15,294.

SH_T HAPPENS is thirteen minutes long film directed by Michaela Mihályi and Dávid Štumpf, produced by BFILM.cz and co-produced by Bagan Films (FR), BFILM (SK) and FAMU (CZ). The film was supported by the Czech Film Fund with EUR 21,923 and is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story transformed into a contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

Both films were selected from unbelievable 10 397 submissions from all over the world, and it is not their first international success. Daughter has been nominated for an Oscar in the category Short Animated Film and already has won Student Academy Award in the same category. Last summer, SH_T HAPPENS was showcased in Venice's Orizzonti section. 

It is not the first participation of Czech films at Sundance Film Festival. Director Ondřej Hudeček has won the Directing Award for his short fiction film Peacock in 2016 and Bohdan Sláma has presented his feature length film Four Suns in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition four years earlier.

Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 23 till February 2, 2020.

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Daughter

A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to…

Director

Daria Kashcheeva

Year

2019

Genre

Animation

SH_T HAPPENS

An apartment building full of self-centred inhabitants: an utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife, a widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they…

Year

2019

Genre

Animation

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