Film programme 2020

Truffles (2019)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Kateřina Karhánková, Alexandra Májová

Czech Republic, 2019, 7 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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Finding a recipe for truffles only wild pigs can sniff, a group of bears think they can manage it on their own. BIOGRAPHY Kateřina Karhánková She is a director, screenwriter, animator, illustrator and visual artist. Her short films The New Species (2013) and The Fruits of Clouds (2017) were selected by the Annecy IFF for competition and have won a number of awards. Film Fruits of Clouds was also nominated for European Animation Awards 2018, BAFTA 2018 and was awarded by European Children’s Film Association as the best animated film for children on Berlinale 2019. Katerina is one of the directors of the animated TV series Hungry Bear Tales. Alexandra Májová She is a illustrator,visual artist, animator and director. She studied animation at FAMU. In the course of her studies, she spent time at the animation department of Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. She has directed the short animated student films Allergy (2008), Swimming Pool (2010) and Mythopolis (2013) among others, which won a number of significant awards both domestic and international. She currently illustrates children’s books, works on children TV series Hungry Bear Tales and a new short animated film Washing Machine.

Truffles (2019)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Kateřina Karhánková, Alexandra Májová

Czech Republic, 2019, 7 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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Finding a recipe for truffles only wild pigs can sniff, a group of bears think they can manage it on their own. BIOGRAPHY Kateřina Karhánková She is a director, screenwriter, animator, illustrator and visual artist. Her short films The New Species (2013) and The Fruits of Clouds (2017) were selected by the Annecy IFF for competition and have won a number of awards. Film Fruits of Clouds was also nominated for European Animation Awards 2018, BAFTA 2018 and was awarded by European Children’s Film Association as the best animated film for children on Berlinale 2019. Katerina is one of the directors of the animated TV series Hungry Bear Tales. Alexandra Májová She is a illustrator,visual artist, animator and director. She studied animation at FAMU. In the course of her studies, she spent time at the animation department of Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. She has directed the short animated student films Allergy (2008), Swimming Pool (2010) and Mythopolis (2013) among others, which won a number of significant awards both domestic and international. She currently illustrates children’s books, works on children TV series Hungry Bear Tales and a new short animated film Washing Machine.

Mitch-Match (2020)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Géza M. Tóth

Hungary, 2020, 2 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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There’s only one matchstick left in the box. This stick, this ordinary thing is the protagonist of the Mitch-Match series.

Mitch-Match (2020)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Géza M. Tóth

Hungary, 2020, 2 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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There’s only one matchstick left in the box. This stick, this ordinary thing is the protagonist of the Mitch-Match series.

Kaiju Confidental (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Ethan Shaftel

United States of America, 2019, 6 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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An immersive VR comedy about big creatures and small slights. Grigon is not the biggest Kaiju on the block, but he’s the most neurotic.

Kaiju Confidental (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Ethan Shaftel

United States of America, 2019, 6 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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An immersive VR comedy about big creatures and small slights. Grigon is not the biggest Kaiju on the block, but he’s the most neurotic.

Cosmix - Comet (2020)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Vojtěch Dudek

Czech Republic, 2020, 5 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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The robot Kit detects an unknown signal and seeks its source. He discovers a comet with the Philae and Rosetta probes on the surface.

Cosmix - Comet (2020)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Vojtěch Dudek

Czech Republic, 2020, 5 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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The robot Kit detects an unknown signal and seeks its source. He discovers a comet with the Philae and Rosetta probes on the surface.

The Kindergarten Show (2019)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Loïc Bruyère

France, 2019, 8 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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In a theatre, an owl schoolmaster tries to present the year-end kindergarten show. Unfortunately, the evening does not go as planned.

The Kindergarten Show (2019)

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Loïc Bruyère

France, 2019, 8 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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In a theatre, an owl schoolmaster tries to present the year-end kindergarten show. Unfortunately, the evening does not go as planned.

The Kindergarten Show and other animations

Section: International Competition of Short Animated Films for Children

International, 0, 39 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 4

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Starry Road (2019)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children

Directed by: Deju Xie, Zhanchang Huang

China, 2019, 90 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 5

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There is no basketball court in the school, so Weiqiang Du chooses rope skipping, a low-cost sport. To attract pupils to sign for joining, Weiqiang Du tells students that “anyone who joins the rope skipping team will be given a new team uniform and shoes.” Two brothers named Jiang Hai and Jiang He thus join the team. However, they are “punished” by senior team members, including Xiaoqin Fang and Yuxiang Ren. Unable to endure the hard training, these two brothers want to exit from the team repeatedly. But when a volunteer teacher named Yuxin Feng joins the rope skipping team, bringing in new concepts and techniques, things change for the better. Eventually, the rope skipping team makes leapfrog development. Now all of the team members insist on practicing for the World Rope Skipping Championship. BIOGRAPHY A creative tandem from China. Together they have made many film and video projects that have been awarded, e.g. I Will Dance and Happness Comes from Hard Work (2018). The children's film Starry Road (点点 星光, 2019) is their latest film.

Anthropocene VR (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Nicholas De Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky

Canada, 2019, 18 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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Three immersive stories present 3 human activities: the ivory trade, the topping of a landfill in Africa, and the mining of Italian marble.

Anthropocene VR (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Nicholas De Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky

Canada, 2019, 18 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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Three immersive stories present 3 human activities: the ivory trade, the topping of a landfill in Africa, and the mining of Italian marble.

Summer Rebels (2020)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children

Directed by: Martina Saková

Germany, Slovak Republic, 2020, 92 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 1

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Eleven-year old Jonas expects to go fishing, riding in a truck, and rowing down the crystal streams of Slovakia for the holiday. But there hasn’t been much contact with the Slovak side of his family since his father died. And Jonas´s mother Beate decides that instead of going to Slovakia like they used to do with the boy’s dad, they should enjoy the healthy sea climate at Aunt Anne’s. Jonas is stunned. He promptly packs his bags and sets off, on his own, to visit his cool grandpa Bernard in Slovakia. When he arrives, everything seems to be the same as ever, but without a wife or job, grandpa is not in the best of moods. Jonas knows that something must be done, and it’s all up to him to do it! He teams up with Alex, a tomboy who becomes his best friend, and together they develop a series of criminally good ideas.

Space Buddies (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Ethan Shaftel

United States of America, 2019, 6 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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It takes a special team of astronauts to survive the 9-month voyage to Mars without killing each other. This team’s not that special…

Space Buddies (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Ethan Shaftel

United States of America, 2019, 6 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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It takes a special team of astronauts to survive the 9-month voyage to Mars without killing each other. This team’s not that special…

Kaiju Confidental (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Ethan Shaftel

United States of America, 2019, 6 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

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An immersive VR comedy about big creatures and small slights. Grigon is not the biggest Kaiju on the block, but he’s the most neurotic.

Kaiju Confidental (2019)

Section: Brainz VR Cinema

Directed by: Ethan Shaftel

United States of America, 2019, 6 min

Projection place: University Centre U13

Score:

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An immersive VR comedy about big creatures and small slights. Grigon is not the biggest Kaiju on the block, but he’s the most neurotic.

The Crossing (2020)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children

Directed by: Johanne Helgeland

Norway, 2020, 95 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema, 2

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The story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto's parents are arrested, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: to help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents. This is a film about the confidence, uncompromising loyalty and great courage you can find in even the youngest of children.