Czech Short Films 2025
Czech Short Films is an annual collection showcasing the best short films made in the Czech Republic. It includes both student and professional works, spanning across all genres — fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental. The collection is intended exclusively for promotional and distribution purposes and is available to film professionals only.
You can watch each film by clicking on 'Film Preview' after registering. The confirmation process takes up to 24 hours. Once your registration is successfully completed and confirmed, you will be able to watch the films. If you are interested in any of the films, you can contact the Czech Film Center at info@filmcenter.cz, or find the direct contact information for the 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…
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…
Gone
After a sleepless New Year's Eve, Jindra and his daughter Bara search for her missing dog. The frustrating situation reignites unresolved conflicts. Bara blames Jindra not only for the loss of the dog but also for the recent divorce from her mother. Cluelessly wandering through deserted fields,…
Hello Summer
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family…
Hun Tun
A young woman measures her strength against the king of chaos himself. The more she wants to win, the less she succeeds. Through a mythological story, the author looks back to the time when she discovered that there are things in life she will never control.
Hurikan
Hurikán rushes to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst. Despite getting the keg, he succumbs to temptation.
I Died in Irpin
On 24th of February, in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and undervalues all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly…
Medical Field Guide or Rules of Engagement with Native E-Girls
Engaging with the local population on a foreign peacekeeping mission is risky, even if the drone pilot does not get in touch with them. At least physically. He routinely monitors strategic objects in the area where conflict occasionally flares up between the natives. Among them is another object of…
Stone of Destiny
The animated musical follows the journey of the anthropomorphized Stone of Destiny. On a path filled with mysterious encounters and hidden symbols, he is driven by a desire for freedom. Singing Stone is accompanied not only by a newfound freedom, but also by a fear of failure. He settles in a…
They Can Hear Your Smile
The eponymous debt collection call center's marketing slogan is taken to its extreme, depersonalized operators are roused from their lethargy by unbridled laughter. Not mockery, but pure, contagious laughter at the tragicomedy of trapped debtors, its echo tearing apart the operator's apathy and the…
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…
Visiting Heaven Gate
After her father's tragic passing, a daughter returns from the Czech Republic to Vietnam to be with her mother. They travel to Sapa and embark on a shared pilgrimage to Heaven Gate, a tourist attraction in northern Vietnam. The mother hopes to reunite with her late husband, ascending the mountains…
Weeds
Far, far away, endless fields overgrown with weeds stretch to infinity. A beautiful garden is hidden in the middle of them, and it is carefully looked after by the Gardener. Her endurance is put to the test when a severe storm breaks out and her garden is flooded with seeds of weeds. This innocent…