A few words from our curator on Fest Anča 2020’s themed focus
How should a focus titled The Day After be curated at a time when we’re all still anxiously awaiting “the day after”? Well unsurprisingly, none of my previous experience had prepared me to face this extraordinary and unprecedented challenge.
We never considered a festival programme grimly packed with nihilism, fear, and cynicism, not even back in autumn 2019 when we had selected Fest Anča 2020’s The Day After theme (little did we know then how prescient it would soon become). Instead, we opted to portray the confrontation of numerous global and personal apocalypses and losses, the meeting of new beginnings – through humour (often black), optimism (often misplaced), and mostly keeping calm and level headed. These personal traits stem either from a rich seam of valuable life experience or boundless naïveté: i.e. each person plays to their unique strengths.
–Eliška Děcká, Fest Anča 2020’s Focus Curator
A LIST OF FILMS THAT WILL BE SCREENED AS PART OF FOCUS: THE DAY AFTER
Apocalyptic Ends and New Beginnings |
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| Cabin Pressure | Matthew Lee | GBR | |
| Insatiable | Linda Retterová | ||
| Dinosaurs | Thuy Linh Dao Thi | CZE | |
| Dozing on Doomsday | Kaori Ryo | JPN | |
| Bubi | Jan Šrámek, Veronika Vlková | CZE | |
| Pretty Face | Soňa Jelínková | CZE | |
| Decorado | Alberto Vázquez | ES, FRA | |
| Oct-50 | Alžběta Göbelová | CZE | |
| World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | |
After-After-Party |
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| Birthday | Ivan Štrobl | CZE | |
| Woo-Hoo! | Dávid Štumpf | CZE | |
| Happy End | Jan Saska | CZE | |
| I Have No Idea How I Got Home Yesteday | Petr Mischinger | CZE | |
| Penelope | Heta Jaalinoja | FIN | |
| Tomato Confit | Mayuko Yamakita | JPN | |
| Gambler | Michaela Režová | CZE | |
| I Was a Winner | Jonas Odell | SWE | |
| Blackout | Sharron Mirsky | CAN | |
| Bob’s Birthday | Alison Snowden and David Fine | CAN, GBR | |
The Aftermath of a Loss |
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| Three Fitted Flies | María Álvarez and Elisa Morais | ES, LT | |
| S P A C E S | Nora Štrbová | CZE | |
| Dam | Klára Břicháčková | CZE | |
| Journey Birds | Daphna Awadish | ISR, IT | |
| Viliam | Veronika Obertová | SVK | |
| Crazy Little Thing | Ono Hana | JPN | |
| Caldeira | Julie Bousquet, Estelle Hocquet, Catherine Manesse | FRA | |
| Pineapple Calamari | Kasia Nalewajka | GBR | |
Natures’s Comeback |
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| Return to Adriaport | Adéla Babanová | CZE | |
| 5 Metres 80 | Nicolas Deveaux | FRA | |
| Peripheria | David Coquart-Dassault | FRA | |
| Garden Party | lorian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon, Lucas Navarro | FRA | |
| Forest | Daniela Hýbnerová | CZE | |
| Wildebeest | Nicolas Keppens & Matthias Phlips | BEL | |
| Why I don’t have homework | Michaela Mihalyi | CZE | |
| Pandas | Matúš Vizár | CZE, SVK | |
The Last Straw |
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| Luke and Lotta | Renata Gasiorowska | POL | |
| Enough | Anna Mantzaris | GBR | |
| Dogs Mind | Peter Millard | GBR | |
| Balcony | Dávid Dell’Edera | HU | |
| Klementhro | Ben Mitchell | GBR | |
| I wanna be your friend | Iku Ogawa | JAP | |
| Anyone for Tennis? | Monne Lindström | SWE | |
| Mr. Badger | Martin Máj, Karel Czech | CZE | |
Regroup, Recuperate, Restart |
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| Initials – Daniela Hýbnerová | Daniela Hýbnerová | CZE | |
| Initials – Daria Kashcheeva | Daria Kashcheeva | CZE | |
| The Oasis | Daria Kashcheeva | CZE | |
| Waves | Vojtěch Domlátil | CZE | |
| 200 000 Phantoms | Jean-Gabriel Périot | FRA | |
| Bear with Me | Daphna Awadish | NL | |
| Kyrielle | Boris Labbé | FRA | |
| A Very Large Increase in the Size, Amount, or Importance of Something Over a Very Short Period of Time | Max Hattler | DE, RUS, GBR | |
| In A Pig’s Eye | Atsushi Wada | JPN | |
| Get Yourself Together | Tereza Motýlová | CZE | |
| Mimoptera | Shizuka Miyazaki | JPN | |
| Woman’s Day | Evgeny Terpugov | CZE | |
| Cloudy | Filip Diviak, Zuzana Čupová | CZE |
Cover picture: Jan Saska – Happy End
