Country: Czechia • Poland • Slovakia | Genre: Short, animation | Year: 2019-2024 | Duration: 51’ | Without dialogues
Recommended age: 6+
Summer holidays with family, helping each other out, making new friends, dealing with tricky feelings or spotting cute creatures where they definitely don’t belong! This playful collection of five animated shorts by Slovak and Czech filmmakers invites you to explore different emotions and dive into colourful worlds full of surprising stories and distinctive, imaginative animation styles.
Hello Summer
Directors: Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová Country: Slovakia, Czechia, France
duration: 11
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 above all!
Awaker
Director: Filip Diviak Country: Czechia
duration: 10
At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he gets an old shiny bell.
Criss Cross
Directors: Nina Rybárová, Tomáš Rybár Country: Slovakia, Czechia
duration: 8
We briefly experience with the animal protagnists their story, freely inspired by folk culture, in which good values conquer evil. The film works with a simple well known saying “A friend in need is a friend indeed“, making it accessible to viewers of any age or nationality.
The Kite
Director: Martin Smatana Country: Czechia, Slovakia, Poland
duration: 13
A little boy likes to visit his grandpa and go kite-flying with him. But as the seasons change, grandpa seems to change too.
The Pit
Director: Markéta Smolíková Kubátová Country: Czechia, Slovakia
duration: 9
In a desolate landscape process strange creatures. The foreman of the group picks a suitable spot and the whole multiplying colony starts excavating a pit. They encounter various natural disasters that ruin their efforts – but the colonists always rise from the ruins and continue their work. We do unequivocally sympathise… till the moment when we return to the people’s daily lives.