Short films, strange tastes, single WTF.

We've mixed up a special drink evening for these strange, wild, and unexpected short films. You can look forward to a mixture of animations, experiments, and one sitcom bizarre, which tastes just as strange as the cocktails that accompany them. Get ready for a shaker full of absurdity and moments when you don't know whether to drink or not.

In Eldorado, Otello moves between a sprawling Parisian construction site and a rundown nightclub, where he finds solace alongside his friend, the decadent entertainer Bernardino Femminielli. With the snoring Ivar by her side, Anne turns to the camera and lists everything that is wrong with him. Duck & Sauerkraut turns loneliness and hunger into an animated story of impossible love, full of mishaps and misunderstandings. In Loynes, a corpse with neither name nor past is put on trial in a Kafkaesque courtroom where ritual, bureaucracy and justice collide. And in Abortion Party, director Julie celebrates her abortion with a peculiar group of guests.

Total duration is 83 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

The fraudulent Cold Call unexpectedly turns into an intimate conversation about loneliness and creative block. 4some with Your Parents playfully reveals what lies behind the fences of Germany’s neatly trimmed front gardens. Fittko: Resistance and Exile returns to Lisa Fittko’s youth and her resistance against Nazism. In The Lighthouse Keeper, Clive is cut off from the world after a storm, and a giant whale becomes his only hope. And The Tower is about the fear of losing oneself and the roles life sometimes thrusts upon us without asking.

Total duration is 85 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

A romantic New Year’s Eve in Sauna Sickness turns into a tense test of a relationship and of Cleo’s own perception of reality. Bad Ideas brings together a musical page-turner, pianists and gangsters in an absurd comedy. In Tourists, Hana and Kornel get lost in the forest, exposing the cracks in their stagnant marriage. Volklore moves through Czech folklore, social media, fashion and marketing, asking what authenticity still means. And in Into the Forest, three monkeys trapped in a frozen stop-motion studio build their own jungle as a way out.

Total duration is 68 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

On her last evening before leaving, Vera tells her younger sister a fairy tale about the City of Owls, swallowed by an eternal night, where its inhabitants slowly begin turning into these mysterious birds. In Something Wild, straight-A student Zsofi occasionally turns into a bear. Happily Ever After pieces together home videos and memories to form a portrait of a woman who left her abusive husband and children years ago. In Full Nest, a squirrel must make room among its treasures for animals seeking shelter from a flood. And on Easter Day, a young man in the streets of Kyiv tries to avoid the attention of two soldiers from the army recruitment office.

Total duration is 86 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

In Dog Ear, eleven-year-old Berci spends an afternoon alone with his dog, trying to process the emotions left behind by his parents’ fight. In Can You Hear Me?, Nastia teaches her mother how to use the internet, and their lessons gradually reopen old family wounds. Nobody Barks follows Candela, who invents a story about a dog pilgrimage rather than admit she accidentally ran over her nephew’s pet. And in Recess, one mistakenly sent nude photo turns Annie’s life upside down.

Total duration is 76 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

WARNING: Film Dog Ear contains a sequence with mild probe effects.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

In Atomik Tour, reckless Hugo heads into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in search of content for Instagram. With Tapes and Toasts in the Car takes the terminally ill Shari on an unexpected journey through space, where she realizes how precious time with her family really is. In But I Never Asked, a young pianist’s performance opens a path to her family’s wartime past. Please builds a portrait of people longing for closeness, acceptance and love through a series of tender and absurd encounters. And in The World Should Perish, a mother and daughter spend one night waiting for men who never return.

Total duration is 78 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

In Holy Moly!, three friends mark their last evening together by stealing a cross. Meanwhile, an Indian filmmaker at Prague Zoo asks over the phone, Amma, Do Giraffes Cry? The line between personal freedom and sacrifice for others is explored in Our Walls. In Unleaded 95, relationships fall apart under the pressure of jealousy, desire and fear of loss. And in A Sparrow’s Song, music brings hope back to a widowed woman during the war.

Total duration is 90 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

In Balconada, a young flutist brings neighbours together on their balconies through music. After a breakup, a thirty-something woman turns into a Hag with snakes for hair. The Day I Licked a Pebble sends three siblings on a mysterious journey through the forest to the bakery. In Please Hold, a young couple orders someone to assemble their baby’s cot, only for the worker to refuse to leave afterwards. Breaking Walls follows journalist Hoi Yi as he fights censorship while hiding his queer identity from his family. And in Intersecting Memory, Shayma’ returns to memories of her childhood during the Second Intifada.

Total duration is 97 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

What If We Run Out of Stones? asks filmmaker Nora Štrbová, turning her attention in an unexpected direction. Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe! follows little Yios, whose uncontrollable shine makes it hard for him to fit in among the other children of the gods. Meanwhile, at Hotel Oblique, a budgie surrounded by perfect wellness begins longing for its own cage. Taxi Tales looks for remarkable lives behind the wheels of Berlin taxis. In “Vaterland” or A Bule Named Yanto, a young German-Indonesian man searches for his place between two cultures. And in To Bloom Again, a persistent raven accompanies a woman on her journey towards accepting loss.

Total duration is 84 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

In If You Don’t Like It, Look Away, a group of Marseille retirees spend their days on the beach, openly talking about sex and ageing. The erotically charged Cosmonauts set off on an intergalactic singles cruise in search of intimacy. Heaven Will Wait follows a group of young women openly discussing their bodies and boundaries. And in Dream Up the Title, we wander with Małgorzata through a city without rivers, feeling as though everything is slipping through our fingers.

Total duration is 82 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the authors. The discussion will be held in English.

Online presale ends 15 minutes before the start of the screening. Unless the event is marked as sold out, tickets can be purchased on site.

Mira and her loyal dog Baxus live a peaceful and isolated life in the countryside, until one night they witness a shocking event. After intervening in a sexual assault in the woods near their house, they are forced to face the aftermath. Mira embarks on a transformative journey through the complexities of the justice system until the lines between humanity and nature blur irrevocably.

The mini BOO programme featured short films from across Europe for our youngest viewers. They all have one thing in common: they’re short, but they’re brimming with imagination and ideas. And take note! These films weren’t seen by just anyone – they were screened for a jury of young but discerning judges, who used their expert eye to decide who wins the mini BOO award. Their verdict was final, their taste unwavering, and their perspective on film, as always, surprising. And now you can see them too!

Total duration is 61 minutes.

Which films will win awards this year? In this screening, we will present the winning films from the Czech-German BOO, European BOO, 12+BOO, 15+BOO, miniBOO, and BOO for older and wiser categories.

Short films and poetry come together. A few films, a few poets and one evening during which images and words will at times complement one another, at times pass each other by, and occasionally perhaps understand one another perfectly.

We’ll reveal more info soon.