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THE KITE

ŠARKAN

By Martin SMATANA

BFILM - as PROD

Children's - Completed 2019

The Kite deals with the issue of death, but it does so in a simple metaphorical and symbolic way. It tries to explain that none of us are here forever and that all living creatures must die, but also to show that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

Festivals
& Awards

Mar Del Plata IFF 2019
Mar de chicos
Berlinale 2019
annecy 2019
Young Audience Award
International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2019, Stuttgart, Germany 2019
Award for the best short film for children
27th Anima Mundi Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo, Brazil 2019
Best Children's Short Film
Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2019, Žilina, Slovakia 2019
Anča Slovak Award
58th Zlín Film Festival for Children and Youth, Zlín, Czech Republic 2019
54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2019, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic 2019
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Children's, Family, Animation
    • Countries
    • CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, POLAND
    • Languages
    • No dialog
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 14 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Martin SMATANA
    • Writer(s)
    • Martin SMATANA
    • Producer(s)
    • Peter BADAČ (BFILM), Peter BADAČ (BFILM.cz), Ondřej ŠEJNOHA (FAMU - FILM AND TV SCHOOL OF THE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS)
    • Synopsis
    • The Kite deals with the issue of death, but it does so in a simple metaphorical and symbolic way on the relationship between the little boy and his grandpa. It explains that none of us are here forever and that all living creatures must die, but also to show that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

      A little boy visits his old grandfather in the countryside and they fly a kite together. They are both made out of layers, which symbolize their age. The boy has many of these layers. He is perspective, because he has all his life before him. But grandfather, on the other hand, has already lost most of his layers and he has only few left. As he gets older, he also gets thinner, and at the end of his life, he is as thin as a sheet of paper. One day, the wind just softly blows him away and takes him up to the sky...
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