Section: Children's Film

Tonda, Slavka und das magische Licht

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

Filip Pošivač
Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, 2023, 82 Min
#animation #fantasy

A magical tenement with equally magical inhabitants. Eleven-year-old Tony lights up. His neighbour Shelly has a torch that makes fantastic worlds visible. And then there is this strange dark creature that seems to feed on unkindness and bad temper. Can the children uncover its secret?

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Because Tony is special, his parents want to protect him and do not allow him to leave the old gloomy apartment building. But he wants nothing more than a real friendship. Then the same-aged girl Shelly moves in. They quickly become friends and explore the house and its secrets. They discover small black tufts running through the house, which appear as soon as there are negative vibrations such as frustration, anger or quarrels and resentment among the residents. Thus, without knowing it, they let grow an invisible dark entity that soon becomes a threat.

"We have continued a tradition that today is considered our national treasure and has also been recognized by its inclusion in the Unesco list [of intangible cultural heritage]: Puppetry. I think there is pure magic in the stop-motion technique." (Filip Pošivač)

Text: Anke Donnerstag

Drehbuch
Jana Šrámková
Kamera
Denisa Buranová
Ton
Péter Benjámin Lukács
Schnitt
Marek Kráľovský
Musik
Ádám Balázs
Produzent
Jakub Viktorín, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
Produktion
nutprodukce, nutprodukcia
Co-Produktion
Filmfabriq / Hungary, Česká televize, Kouzelná animace / Czech republic, RTVS - Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska / Slovakia
Filip Pošivač

Filip Pošivač - graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the field of animation. In 2015 he finished a short film Deep In Moss, which was screened at many festivals -HAFF, Ottawa IAF, Chicago Intl. Children's Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, Animateka/Anifilm. In 2016 a webseries called Live from the Moss followed up on the film. This year he finished a short film Overboard!, which  premiered at Cinekid.

Movies
(2015) Deep in Moss
(2016) Live from the Moss
(2019) Overboard!
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