Movies: Umprum

A short animated film dedicated to the boundlessness of children's imagination. What can a child think when he hears a neighbor drilling a wall? What wonderful pictures his imagination can draw....

An animated short film about a school where the students keep mysteriously disappearing. Rybnická elementary school has a new sensation - one pupil dies in teacher Zimová's class every year. Is it a morbid coincidence or are the students in the class...

This architecturally unique resort on the shores of Lake Orlík was a secret retreat for the communist establishment in the 1960s, but later, rampant capitalism handed it over to now infamous businessmen. Imbued with a mysterious atmosphere, this port...

The smell of borscht, which my grandmother cooked on a sunny day, takes me back to my childhood memories. Although they are vague, appearing and disappearing at lightning speed, they are filled with a certain nostalgia and tranquility. Moments of sum...

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Liebe. What begins as a trivial romantic etude about the lives of four young people who arrive on the island of Rügen to shoot a film about love gradually descends into a vortex of mutual suspicion, self-accusation, recriminations, and animalistic se...

What would happen if mum was always right? Do mums always tell their children the truth? If I squint, will I stay cross-eyed forever? And what about beer, can it be safely tasted? Or will it make me the shortest granddad in the old folk’s home? Will...

In the original fairy tale, Otesánek eats whatever he finds – he doesn't even shy away from cannibalism. But times are changing, and his appetite has grown considerably. After eating his mother and father, the puppet Otesánek sets out into the world ...

The kitchen of a forgetful granny comes to life when she’s not around. Saltshaker, Sugarbowl and the rest are set to fix what she's accidentally forgotten....

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Story of three friends who – for economic reasons – decided to walk and – uneconomically – stopped in a pub in Srbsko, a village near Prague....

Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the tran...

Hun Tun was an ancient emperor of chaos. He was both admirable and scary. Life with him was beautifully unbearable. In the Chinese myth, the world is born out of Hun Tun's dying body. Magdalena is an ordinary millennial. Her life is full of little tw...

A critical essay on the anthropocentric nature of space colonization....

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