30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth
20. 4. 2023

Zlín dog´s Section: The Quality of Student Films Is Increasing Each Year

This year's edition of the Zlín Dog festival will offer exactly 50 competition films. Each section will present a selection of student fiction, animation and documentary work from all over the world. You can watch the trailer here.

Just like established film professionals, aspiring filmmakers are plagued by topical burning themes such as women's issues, femininity and feminism (the documentaries Birthmarks and My Grandmother Is an Egg), and the Iranian/Indian live-acted film Katvoman. Of course, there is no shortage of war conflict and its consequences. The film Waking Up in Silence depicts the lives of Ukrainian children in temporary housing in Germany. Vinland describes the working conditions of economic migrants in the Czech Republic. Debit Card, on the other hand, focuses on job assistance in the environment of the prosperous Netherlands. Those Who Follow thematizes extremism and the Hungarian film Winners  focuses on excessive aggression in the environment of young people. Optimism and inner human strength are brought into this selection by films reflecting the lives of disabled people in the live-acted film Of Kisses and Capes, as well as the documentary Two Souls, One Mind. Politically incorrect humor is represented by the Hungarian animated film Decent Hoggery, about what a boar would say if given the gift of speech, but not the thoughts of a man. Once again, Slovak filmmakers did not disappoint and have provided proof that they have mastered the art of filmmaking. The comedy genre's most difficult discipline is represented here by the feature film Rave To The Grave and a documentary portrait of a man with a passion for collecting small models of trucks After the Wedding.

This year, a record number of Czech films have entered the competition. A total of 12 films represent the FAMU school, such as Rites, Vinland, Ice Break, Dede Is Dead, Carp Xmass,and the documentary films Eva Eisler and Everything’s Fine, Potatoes in Line capturing the battle over a brown coal mine and the Turów power plant against the background of a competition for the best potato salad. From Tomas Bata University you can look forward to the animated films Metamorphosis and Whatman, the dance film Selfmotion and the ambicious Island of Freedom starring Jiří Mádl and Judit Bárdos.     

The great joy and good feeling that it makes sense to support young creators, is evidenced by nominations and awards collected by student films supported by the FILMTALENT ZLÍN Endowment Fund. This year's competition section will feature several feature and animated films that sharply, though with exaggeration, reflect the gifts and talents of the emerging filmmaking scene. The topic of bullying and social status is the focus of Rites. Selfmotion, on the other hand, expresses the inner workings without a single word. Dede Is Dead,has also become an international success in the form of an honorable mention in the Generation Kplus section of the Berlinale. Another film to boast successful acceptance outside its home country is the Singaporean film Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays, which premiered at the Locarnu festival and Spring Roll Dream screened at the Cannes Film Festival in France. If we stay in the Czech pond, we cannot forget two student films that were awarded by Czech juries with Czech Lions. The Best Short Film Award went to Rites and the Magnesia Award for Best Student Film to Vinland.

We are therefore very pleased that the quality of student films is getting increasingly noticed by the organizers of not only festivals, but also film awards. We are keeping our fingers crossed for this year's competitors and we are curious to see how Czech representatives will stand up to such strong competition. Either way, they will again be the most interesting student works in the whole world. 

List of competition films:

CZECH NAME

NAME

YEAR

COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

HRANÉ FILMY

 

 

 

 

Děda zombie

My Zombie Grandpa

2022

Taiwan

Ning Qian

Ice Break

Ice Break

2023

Czech Republic

Elvira Dulskaia

Kočičí žena

Katvoman

2022

Iran,India

Hadi Sheibani

Konec světa

The End of the End of the Earth

2022

Austria

Meike Wüstenberg

Kreditní karta

Debit Card

2022

Netherlands

Thijs Bouman

Láska s handicapem

Of kisses and capes

2022

Germany

Elena Weiss

Letní polibek

Kiss All Summer Goodbye

2022

China

Tiange Xiang

Malé lásky

Little Love

2022

Kazakhstan

Aizhan Kassymbek

Následovník

Those Who Follow

2022

Germany

Frederic Kau

O mrtvých jen v dobrém / O mrtvych len v dobrom

Rave To The Grave

2022

Slovak Republic

Vladimír Horník

Ostrov svobody

Island of Freedom

2022

Czech Republic

Petr Januschka

Rituály

Rites

2022

Czech Republic

Damián Vondrášek

Rodinný přípitek

Family Toast

2022

South Korea

KIM Junhyung

Selfmotion

Selfmotion

2022

Czech Republic

Martin Bystriansky

V neděli čas plyne podivným způsobem

Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays

2021

Singapore

Giselle Lin

Včera jsem byl na měsíci

Yesterday I was the Moon

2021

China

Yihan Lin

Vinland

Vinland

2022

Czech Republic

Martin Kuba

Vítězové

Winners

2022

Hungary

Dániel Füzes

 

 

 

 

 

ANIMATED FILMS

 

 

 

 

Kmeny

Tribes

2022

France

Emmanuel Kurukulasuriya, Lucile Mangenot, Raphaël Jolivet, Ilowna Lust, Alexandre Canivet, Mélodie Tanier

Zvědavost

Curiosa

2022

United Kingdom

Tessa Moult-Milewska

Karneval

Kurent

2021

Slovenia

Miha Reja

Proměny

Metamorphosis

2023

Czech Republic

Niko Mlynarčík, Lucie Lisníková, Karolína Pravdová

Příze

Loose Threads

2022

Singapore

Chayanid Siripaiboolpong, Jessieca Junesha

Keksíkovo dobrodružství

A Cookie’s Adventure

2022

France

Jérémie Amicone, Camille Triponney, Ileana Borzan, Zoé Rivera, Myriam Lecomte, Alexis Bleusez, Margot Lamascon, Romain Tersigni

Odpočívající mlha

Resting fog

2022

Hungary

Nikolett Fábián

Jarní závitek

Spring Roll Dream

2022

United Kingdom

Mai Vu

Já ještě nechci odejít

I don’t want to go yet

2022

Slovak Republic

Klára Fedora Homzová

Bezhlavý osel

Headless Mule

2021

Estonia

Tamires Muniz

Deniska umřela

Dede Is Dead

2023

Czech Republic

Philippe Kastner

Ahoj

Hi

2022

Netherlands

Hajar Mehrani

Mix

Mixed

2022

Slovak Republic

Veronika Valentová

My

Us

2022

Israel

Nika Zhukova, Eli Hofman

Carp Xmass

Carp Xmass

2022

Czech Republic

Anna Heribanová

Rybí chlapec

Go Fishboy

2022

France

Denise Cirone, Zhen Tian, Lan Zhou, Andrey Kolesov, Sebastian Doringer

Štípnutí

Headprickles

2022

Poland

Katarzyna Miechowicz

Ryba bez vody

Fish out of Water

2023

India

Nonisha Negi

Whatman

Whatman

2023

Czech Republic

Nika Zinoveva

Slušné prasárny

Decent Hoggery

2023

Hungary

Martin Helstáb

 

 

 

 

 

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

 

 

 

 

V tichu banánovníků

The Silence of the Banana Trees

2022

Albania

Eneos Çarka

Dvě duše jedna mysl

Two souls, one mind

2022

Slovak Republic

Matej Molnár

Dech

A breath

2021

Tunisia

Nourhene Lazrag

Mateřská znaménka

Birthmarks

2022

Germany

Lenia Friedrich

Všechno v pořádku, brambory na řádku

Everything’s fine, potatoes in line

2022

Czech Republic

Piotr Jasinsk

Zpráva o stavu krevet šedých

The Gray Shrimp's report

2021

Belgium

Remi Murez

Eva

Eva Eisler

2022

Czech Republic

Allegra Stodolsky

Probuzení do ticha

Waking Up in Silence

2023

Germany,Ukraine

Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

Má babička je jako vejce

My Grandmother Is an Egg

2021

United Kingdom

Wu-Ching Chang

Po svatbě

After the Wedding

2022

Slovak Republic

Matej Kľúčik

 

 

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