FANTASY SHORTS
9., 15., 16. and 17.1. 2019
Are you wary about what our world will be like in 2019? Join us on an adventure beyond the mundane daily reality and into the imagination of the best short fantasy genre films filmmakers. Magic, time-travel and alternative reality at the first iShorts in the new year!
BELLE A CROQUER (FRANCE)
Director: Axel Courtière | PProducers: Les Fées Productions, Offshore |
Star: Sylvain Dieuaide, Lou de Laâge, Ophélia Kolb, Catherine Deneuve |
Year: 2017 | Length: 15 min | Live Action |
The gourmet cannibal Oscar falls hard for his neighbour, the charming and fanatically vegetarian Miss Carrot. Their dinner together will be a dramatic battle of veggies-hatred and passion, supported by Oscar’s guardian angel - the French cinema chief goddess Catherine Deneuve herself.
Fishwitch (UK)
Director: Adrienne Dowling | Producer: Hélène Sifre |
Star: Sam Apley, Natalia Tena |
Year: 2016 | Length: 10 min | Animation |
A charming puppet animation with a frosty British wit about a grumpy fish witch, who gave up on the world. But one day, a green visitor floats up to her ice floe...
NINGYO (USA)
Director: Miguel Ortega | Producers: Faisal Campwala, Sultan Saeed Al Darmaki, Pen Livings, Vince Livings |
Star: Rodrigo Lopresti, Jerry Lacy, Tamlyn Tomita |
Year: 2017 | Length: 26 min | Live Action |
A visually spectacular and thrilling mystery depicts the search for the ningyo, a Japanese magical sea creature from the legend, set at the eve of the previous century.
TIME CHICKEN (UK)
Director: Nick Black | Producer: Ben Aston |
Star: Coleman James |
Year: 2016 | Length: 6 min | Animation |
A crazy adventure with a dash of philosophy and an abundance of explosions follows a brave chicken that set out on a quest to answer the eternal question of what came first, the chicken or the egg.
FISHERMEN (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Director: Bára Anna Stejskalová | Producer: FAMU |
Year: 2016 | Length: 10 min | Animation |
A lonely fisherman fishes a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He runs from his terrifying haul back to his igloo, losing himself in the cheap fun of social media on his tablet. He can’t hide from himself nor the reality knocking on his door though. A poetic puppet film from Prague’s FAMU.
THE INCREDIBLE WARDROBEGADGET OF DR. STEIN (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Director: Gabriela Plačková | Producers: UTB, Nadační fond FILMTALENT ZLÍN |
Year: 2018 | Length: 15 min | Animation |
When Doctor Stein's best friend dies during his last experiment, the grieving scientist is ready to do everything it takes to get his dog back. Building a dead-reviving machine is not a rocket science for him but this time the experiment goes monstrously wrong.
Guardian (Israel)
Director: Amit Ruderman | Producers: Adar Eylon, Amit Ruderman |
Star: Iftach Ophir, Natalie Entenberg, Dudu Zar |
Year: 2018 | Length: 11 min | Live Action |
Michael, a guardian angel, discovers in next week's newspaper that the human whom he guards, Jennifer, is going to commit suicide. He decides to embark on a journey to change the destiny. How far will he go and will he defy God's direct order?
Total length of the screening 93 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
