SPECIAL PROGRAMME - Dancing Shadows
ARTIS SMALL HALL
Saturday, 23 August 2025
6:20 PM – 7:45 PM
85 minutes
Tickets available HERE!
What is creation if not our shadow reflected on the wall, dancing in the flickering light of a candle? A poem written in the obscurity of our obsessions, the raw material that takes life— while humanity remains a mystery.
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
Home
Director: Anastasia Skarko
Year: 2025
Length: 5 min 43 sek
Country: Czech Republic
Production: University of West Bohemia, MAUR film
An auteur film on the theme of inner feelings of home. What is home for each of us? Where is this place located? What is it connected to? Is home a specific place, or is home within us? A journey around the world in search of that “home” – the place where you feel you belong. Where you are safe and among your own.
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Kafka. In Love
Director: Zane Oborenko
Year: 2024
Length: 10 min 11 sec
Country: Czech Republic, Latvia
Production: Atom Art, Maur Film
Franz and Milena – between them a distance, her husband and loads of letters – it is love that fills Kafka’s life with light and hope and at the same time illuminates the fears and darkness in him. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s Letters to Milena Jesenská, “Kafka. In Love” explores the multidimensional experience of falling in love.
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-Oh
Director: Tata Managadze, Clara Trevisan, Juan Maria León and NanTung Lin
Year: 2024
Length: 1 min 30 sec
Country: Portugal
Production: Independent Collaborative Work
A hand moves gently, its presence shifts continuously.
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Radix
Director: Anne Breymann
Year: 2025
Length: 4 min 14 sec
Country: Germany
Production: Anne Breymann
Two creatures meet on a tree. Their encounter goes deep down to the roots and beyond.
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Receiving Happiness
Director: Raito Low
Year: 2023
Length: 6 min 4 sec
Country: Taiwan
Production: Raito's Art Studio
"Receiving Happiness" is a common handwritten greeting used at the beginning of letters, expressing longing, care, and blessings for the recipient. On Matsu Island, people record the lives, thoughts, and emotions of residents and servicemen through handwritten letters. This letter-writing culture holds not only historical significance but also adds to the island's unique charm.
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Silent Panorama
Director: Nicolas Piret
Year: 2024
Length: 5 min 9 sec
Country: Belgium
Production: Zorobabel
In this animated miniature a drawing gradually comes to life before our eyes, telling a story not only of a wild boar on the run, but also of the ways in which people occupy the places that used to belong to nature.
Based on memories of a walk in the Belgian Ardennes. This film was drawn and animated alone on a single sheet of paper as a performance.
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Stabat Mater
Director: Hadrien Maton, Quentin Wittevrongel, Arnaud Mege, Coline Thelliez and William Defrance
Year: 2023
Length: 13 min 9 sec
Country: France
Production: Pôle 3D
The sorrowful son was standing
beside the rope weeping,
while his creator was hanging.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/850728746
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Steel Feel
Director: Katerina Ku
Year: 2025
Length: 4 min 14 sec
Country: Czech Republic
Production: FAMU
This film is a meditation that journeys into the subconscious, exploring hidden emotions and fears. It delves into the challenges of self-control and acceptance, striving to make sense of inner struggles and anxieties in the search for understanding and peace.
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TWENTYTИƎWT
Director: Max Hattler
Year: 2023
Length: 7 min
Country: Hong Kong, Germany
Production: Relentless Melt
Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings - together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 during lockdown and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, TWENTYTИƎWT (“Twenty-Twenty”) attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of the year of the global pandemic.
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Weeds
Director: Pola Kazak
Year: 2024
Length: 13 min 42 sec
Country: Czech Republic
Production: MAUR film, The Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Pisek
Far, far away, endless fields overgrown with weeds stretch to infinity. A beautiful garden is hidden in the middle of them, and it is carefully looked after by the Gardener. Her endurance is put to the test when a severe storm breaks out and her garden is flooded with seeds of weeds. This innocent encounter slowly grows into a life-and-death struggle. The Gardener tries her best to defeat this elemental force, but her fear and her desire to resist the intruders at all costs puts her entire world at risk.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1024520135