Film programme 2023

Garden (1977)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Břetislav Pojar

Czechoslovakia, 1977, 14 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Four boys seek out an educated whale. They want help for the next day's test, but the whale is a book worm and they do not learn anything practical from it.

How They Met at Kolin (1965)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Břetislav Pojar, Miroslav Štěpánek

Czechoslovakia, 1965, 14 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Two bears meet in Kolin. Their games transform them. The older bear is worldly-wise and foxy; the younger is naive and swallows the bait every time.

Jája and Pája (1986)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Břetislav Pojar

Czechoslovakia, 1986, 10 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Mila must return home after the holidays, but doesn't want to. She wants to stay with the boys. They decide to hide her, but where so that no one can find her?

Dashenka (1979)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Břetislav Pojar

Czechoslovakia, 1979, 7 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Who doesn't know little Dashenka? Seven stories combine the life of a real puppy, Dashenka, with animated dog fairy tales, told to help her sleep well.

Břetislav Pojar - Short Animations

Section: Check the Czechs

, 0, 45 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Live from the Moss: Rap, lazybones! (2016)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Filip Pošivač

Czech Republic, 2016, 3 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Bertík and Josefka meet a young Rusalka and encourage her to become a forest radio presenter so that she can transmit stories from the mossy meadow.

Snowman (1966)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Hermína Týrlová

Czechoslovakia, 1966, 9 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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A boy builds a snowman next to his house. He improves it so much that the snowman and the boy become friends and then they have a lot of adventures together.

Overboard! (2019)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Filip Pošivač, Barbora Valecká

Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2019, 12 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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A chameleon and a kiwi: one revels in color, the other avoids attention. But when a storm approaches, they help each other board a boat and set off from the shore!

The Mole and Other Animations

Section: Check the Czechs

, 0, 47 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Little Mole (1957)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Zdeněk Miler

Czechoslovakia, 1957, 12 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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The mole asks the other animals to help make his trousers. When it is done, the mole admires himself in his mirror and is satisfied.

Blueberry Hunt (2017)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Kateřina Karhánková, Alexandra Májová

Czech Republic, 2017, 7 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Two bears get a taste for blueberry dumplings and go hunt for blueberries. But a case of hiccups complicates things...

ZOO Story (2015)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Veronika Zacharová

Czech Republic, 2015, 4 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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What happens to a little girl who gets bored during a visit to the zoo, notices a big gorilla, and wants to make friends with it?

Wool Fairy-tale (1964)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Hermína Týrlová

Czechoslovakia, 1964, 10 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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A poetic fairy tale about a woolly man and his lamb friend.

Matylda and Other Animations

Section: Check the Czechs

, 0, 54 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Incorrectly Drawn Hen (1963)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Jiří Brdečka

Czechoslovakia, 1963, 13 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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A grotesque story of two boys - a good but fawning creep, and a distracted but creative boy.

Awaker (2017)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Filip Diviak

Czech Republic, 2017, 9 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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The main character goes to wake up the inhabitants of a northern village in all weather. His life runs quite routinely until he gets a bell instead of money.

A Horseshoe for Luck (1946)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Karel Zeman

Czechoslovakia, 1946, 5 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Mr. Prokouk finds a lucky horseshoe. He can’t find a good place for it at home, so he takes it to a factory where new products are made from old raw materials.

Otylie and 1580 Blots (1965)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Miloš Macourek, Stanislav Látal

Czechoslovakia, 1965, 9 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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A little girl gets dirty with ink every time she writes. The teacher cleans Otylie with an ink eraser and she becomes invisible.

Matylda and Her Spare Head (1985)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Miloš Macourek, Jaroslav Doubrava, Adolf Born

Czech Republic, 1985, 8 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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The little girl Matylda likes to play, but doesn't like to study; when she has to, she remembers little. Her mother is thinking of getting her a spare head.

Fík, the Maxidog (1976)

Section: Check the Czechs

Directed by: Václav Bedřich

Czechoslovakia, 1976, 7 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2

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One day, Aja's dad brings her a puppy. She names him Fig. Fig grows extremely fast, outgrowing a shoe box, a basket and a shed. And when does he stop growing?