OF ANIMALS AND MEN
4. and 17.4. 2023
People and animals are similar in many ways. For millions of years, they have been sharing one planet; they cannot exist with, nor without each other. They love, hunt, are born, and die. Some people love animals with all their hearts, and some animals are capable of loving people. Some people love elephants and collect all the promotional items associated with them. Other people behave just like a flock of birds in captivity. And there are some animals that could have changed the course of history, just like people did. We still do not know many things about animals and men, but this selection of movies is trying to reveal at least partly the mystery behind their coexistence.
SANCTUARY (CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA)
Director: Eva Matejovičová | Producer: FAMU |
Year: 2021 | Length: 5 min | Animation |
Even animals can have disabilities. But how do they survive? In this animated film by Eva Matějovičová, an animal rescuer (with many allergies) tries to find the ideal master for every orphaned animal. Every one of them deserves a second chance.
AURICA, A DOG'S LIFE (ROMANIA)
Director: Mihai Dragolea | Producers: Mihai Dragolea, Andra Gheorghiu |
Star: Marton Aurel, Iulian Postelnicu, Rex |
Year: 2023 | Length: 12 min | Live action |
Aurica just escaped from prison. Living in the middle of a corn field he befriends a chained dog and kills an abusive man.
EVA'S KATZE (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Director: Šimon Štefanides | Producer: FAMU |
Star: Lenka Krobotová, Roman Luknár |
Year: 2015 | Length: 7 min | Live action |
Eva Braun lives in a villa in Munich where she is still waiting for her beloved Adolf. Besides their love meetings, she feels lonely and abandoned. One day a mysterious black cat appears outside her window, which Eva soon tames and falls in love with. However, Adolf is allergic to the intruder who competes for Eva's attention.
THE ANIMALS (SWEEDEN)
Director: Joakim Thörn | Producers: Hilding Bjersby, Joakim Thörn, Jimi Vall Peterson |
Star: Léonie Vincent, Anno Lindblad, Katja Ferm |
Year: 2022 | Length: 14 min | Live action |
A teenage deer who, after her mother has been shot dead, struggles to find her place in life. Together with her newfound animal friends, she starts to think… What would their lives be like if humans did not exist? This is a modern fable and a dark comedy-drama, in the middle of the Swedish nature.
FOXES (IRELAND)
Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Producer: Brunella Cocchiglia |
Star: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Marie Ruane, Karen Griffin |
Year: 2011 | Length: 16 min | Live action |
A young couple trapped in a remote estate of empty houses and shrieking foxes are beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world. A world of the paranormal or perhaps insanity.
BEGIN (ISRAEL)
Director: Roni Bahat | Producer: KM Productions |
Star: Carolina Lehan, Reina, Romelyn Marinduque, Roni Shamiss, Ami Asyag |
Year: 2022 | Length: 24 min | Live action |
Gil is on a journey to find a home for her dog, Begin, but what she's really looking for, is a place for herself.
Total length of the screening 96 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
