Short fiction films marathon - North
Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine 2020-2021

Beyond Is A Day / Dalej jest dzień by Damian Kocur (Poland, 2020, 25’)
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Somewhere in Europe, somewhere in Poland lives Pawel - a simple man working on a small river ferry close to his village. He spends most of his day taking the villagers to the other side of the river. Every day looks the same, but one day he notices somebody crossing the river swimming. This person is Mohammad, an immigrant from Palestine. Finally, Pawel has somebody to talk to.

Clermont-Ferrand IFF 2021 (Best European Film - European Film Awards Nomination)
Trieste FF 2021 (Best Short Film)
Krakow FF 2020 (Silver Hobby-Horse)
Warsaw FF 2020

Dad’s Sneakers / Папині кросівки by Olha Zhurba (Ukraine, 2021, 19’)
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These are the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children without parental care. He is one of the luckiest – an American family has finally adopted him. Today he will move to another country forever but there’s something that holds him back.

Locarno FF 2021 (competition)

Delimitation / Vymezení by Tereza Vejvodová (Czech Republic, 2020, 15’)
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A young woman is looking for an apartment in a busy metropolis, while overcoming the overwhelming sensation of alienation and trying to build relationships. The film uses a combination of stylised movements and expressive dance to discover new forms of film language with an emphasis on the role of sound and pictures over dialogue. As she explores the spaces, a new meaning is given to the seeming banalities of everyday life. This is a physical dance and dialogue with the void and the question of space identity in an anonymous cityscape.

Ji.Hlava IDFF 2020 (national premiere)
POFF Shorts 2020
Slamdance FF 2021 (Special Jury mention)
Dance FF 2021 (winner)

Fibonacci by Tomáš Hubáček (Czech Republic, 2020, 8’)
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The human flock flows across ondulating fields. An unenlightened hunter crosses its path. This is an inspiring environmental dance film or audiovisual meditation on Fibonacci patterns in the landscape, herd behaviour, film structure and music.

Pöff Shorts 2020
Cinedans Fest 2021
Dance FF 2021 (Special Mention)
Short Waves 2021– (II Award)
Ischia FF 2021 (Youth Jury Award)

Kevin, no! / Kevin, ei! by Leslie Laasner (Estonia, 2020, 17’)
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A bunch of juvenile gaming millionaires decide to organize an adventurous summer camp on an isolated island to enjoy their favorite activity - surfing on their phones.

My Dear Corpses / Mu kallid laibad by German Golub (Estonia, 2020, 34’)
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Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki faces a rather difficult task of taking care of his lonely mother. He’s forced into becoming an undertaker. But the situation is about to get a whole lot worse, when Erki meets his new colleague for whom it's just another day on the job.

Student Academy Awards 2020 (Gold medalist in International Narrative category)
Black Nights Film Festival PÖFF Shorts 2020

The Dress / Sukienka by Tadeusz Łysiak (Poland, 2020, 30’)
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Julia lives in the Polish countryside. Her music is death metal. Her favourite pastime: playing on slot machines. She works at a wayside motel. She’s lonely, she has never been with a man, never been intimate with anyone. Julia is short in stature and her entire life has been dictated by her height - the local community can’t seem to accept her different appearance. Then everything changes when she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver. Their eyes meet. Julia’s heart beats faster. The man soon becomes the object of her loving, almost erotic obsession...

Krakow FF 2020 (competition)
IN THE PALACE Short FF 2021 (qualifies to an Academy Award - Best Student Fiction Film)
Atlanta FF 2021 (qualifies to an Academy Award) - Best Narrative Short
Long Story Short FF 2021 (Best Short Feature Film)