Prison inmates breeding carp reflect on freedom and missed Christmas dinners. Artful black and white film with anonymous protagonists in a dreary landscape.
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Slovakia
2020
10 minutes
Slovak
Subtitles: 
English
Standing in the water in fishing gear, catching fish and taking in the rugged winter landscape. What at first sounds like a dream for outdoor fans is part of the working routine of prison inmates in the East Slovakian town of Perín-Chym. Their job is to breed carp, which are primarily consumed at Christmas dinners. Marek Moučka anonymizes the prisoners by erasing their eyes in his artful black and white film. He talks to them about freedom and missed holidays.
A young woman re-reads the letters her father wrote her from prison fifteen years ago. The relationship between father and daughter as a fragmentary animation.
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Czech Republic,
Slovakia
2021
13 minutes
Czech
Subtitles: 
English
After a long time, a young woman once again holds letters in her hand that her father wrote her fifteen years ago when he was in prison. His words are full of love and affection: Never again were they to be that close, the daughter sums up today. What happened? This is what she tries to answer in a letter to him, writing down what couldn’t be said until now. The complex relationship between father and daughter in the form of a fragmentary animation.
Lina Dinkla
Credits
Director
Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Script
Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Lukáš Janičík
Cinematographer
Matěj Piňos, Kryštof Melka
Editor
Lukáš Janičík
Producer
Karolína Davidová
Co-Producer
Jakub Viktorín, Tomáš Šimon
Sound
Viera Marinová
Score
Viera Marinová
Animation
Vojtěch Domlátil, David Štumpf, Barbora Halířová, Diana Cam Van Nguyen
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Winner of:
Silver Dove (Competition for the Audience Award Short Film)