STUDENTS SHORTLY 2024
Plzeň
The traditional spring short films program of film schools is back! Also, this year, you can look forward to a short film battle featuring four films from Prague's FAMU, Pisek's FAMO, Zlin's UTB, and Bratislava's VŠMU. Which film will win your vote this time?
My dear Nephew (FAMO)
Director: Ondřej Veverka | Producer: FAMO |
Star: Pavel Nový, Vasil Fridrich, Tomáš Kořének, Tomáš Turek |
Year: 2023 | Length: 29 min | Live Action |
Emperor Franz Joseph I has little love for his nephew Franz Ferdinand d'Este - the new heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their complicated relationship is furthered when he wishes to marry the Czech Countess Sophie Chotek. For this reason, in 1899 he secretly visits the Benešov castle Konopiště, where the heir to the throne resides...
Lady Midnight (UTB)
Director: Tadeáš Růžička | Producer: UTB |
Star: Felix Šrámek, Iveta Jiřičková, Richard Rataj, Martina Rodková |
Year: 2023 | Length: 17 min | Live Action |
Nine-year-old Oliver is left home alone after his mum goes to work on the night shift. The boy's initial excitement at the freedom of the night is quickly replaced by the terror caused by the eerie shadows and strange noises that take over the old apartment block. Will Oliver face his fears?
It Can Be Any Day (FAMU)
Director: Vojtěch Konečný | Producer: FAMU |
Star: Veronika Jeníková, Petr Kostka, Hana Frejková, Simona Postlerová, Martina Babišová |
Year: 2023 | Length: 28 min | Live Action |
Nothing can prepare you for the death of your parents.
The Bus (VŠMU)
Director: Daniela Sláviková | Producer: VŠMU |
Star: Attila Mokos, Agáta Lieskovská, Aniko Vargová, Adriána Moravčíková |
Year: 2024 | Length: 20 min | Live Action |
During one day at the end of the school year, different generations of differently frustrated characters, the bus driver Ján, the teacher, the trainee and teenage Emma, meet on a bus trip. After a series of conflicts between the provocative Emma and the angry Ján, the backgrounds of their lives are gradually revealed in the interior of the bus, and the generation gap is replaced by an unexpected closeness. Both are connected by an absent family and a sense of belonging, thanks to which they would be able to move on in life. The whole story is witnessed by the old Karosa, a bus that is a silent companion carrying the story of the people it transports.
Total length of the screening 94 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
