Section: THE FEMALE GAZE: New Czech films by female directors

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WEEDS

Pola Kazak
CZ, 2024, 14 Min

Surrounded by wild fields, there is a beautiful garden, carefully tended by its Gardener. But one day, wild winds bring seeds of weeds, and chaos begins to take over. 

Part of the short film programme THE FEMALE GAZE.

#short #coming of age
#drama #diversity

Performance

2024-11-06 | 16:00
Stadthalle
2024-11-10 | 18:00
Kammerbühne

Pola Kazak's short animation, using the unique technique of oil painting on glass, serves as a powerful allegory about our fear of the unknown and our tendency to preserve the world as we know it at any cost. The film was part of the La Cinef competition at Cannes this year.

Text: Lenka Tyrpakova

06.11.2024 | 16:00 | Stadthalle (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

10.11.2024 | 18:00 | Kammerbühne (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

Drehbuch
Pola Kazak
Kamera
Jakub Lojda
Ton
Mirek Šmilauer (Polka)
Schnitt
Alisa Sheli
Ausstattung
Art Design/Animation: Pola Kazak
Musik
Sergey Cheremisinov
Produzent
Mária Môťovská, Jiří P ecinovský, Martin Vandas (MAUR film)
Produktion
Marcela Vrátilová
Pola Kazak

Pola Kazak - POLA KAZAK* 1986, Kursk, Russia. Since 2004, she studied audiovisual production at the Moscow University of Arts and Culture, where she focused on documentary production and photography. In 2010, she moved to the Czech Republic and began studying at the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek, first majoring in documentary production, but after the first year she switched to the animation studio. During her studies, she focused on cartoon, 2D and multiplane animation. At the same time, she worked as a graphic artist and draftsman. She defended her bachelor‘s degree with the short film Toro!, basedon Pablo Picasso‘s line drawings illustrating bullfights. As an animator, she participated in several films where she applied her experience with multiplane – The Crossing (dir. Florence Miailhe, oil painting, 2018) or Kafka. In Love (dir. Zane Oborenko, sand animation, 2024).

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