3RD YEAR

Awarded movies

WINNERS OF THE 3RD A-FILMTEENSFEST

CATEGORIES UNDER 10 YEARS ACROSS GENRES (12 films in competition)

Jurors: Antonie Formanová, Tomáš Hanák

Best Film of the Category:

Teddy, Tell Us a Story – Czech Republic

Members of the ANIDĚTI group of children based in Prague

Special Recognition Awards in the category:

Hoover - Estonia

Children from the CREATIVE SPACE group in Tallinn

Magic School - Italy

A group of children led by Rafaella Traniello from Corti di Ponte in Padua

Mega Mega Mega Mega Party – Belgium

Camera-etc. workshops´ participants from Liége

FICTION FILMS (39 films in competition)

Jurors: Alena Müllerová, Antonie Formanová, Tomáš Hanák

11 - 14 years

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Big Two – Czech Republic

Directed by Helena Gabriela Ondráčková, Ema Janečková, Karolína Buťáková, Julie Ramšáková (ZUŠ Mikulov)

15 - 17 years

Award for 1st place in the category:

Beth – Great Britain

Directed by Ava Bounds

Award for 2nd place in the category:

Death by Handshake - USA

Directed by Hudson Flynn

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Escape from Orphanage – Czech Republic

Directed by teenagers from the Kašperské Hory Children's Home (under the direction of Barbara Chalupová and Maria Magdalena Kochová)

18 - 20 years

Award for 1st place in the category:

Distance and Longing - Denmark

Directed by Mikkel Warren

Award for 2nd place in the category:

Light Carousel- Austria

Directed by Alex Lazarov

Award for 3rd place in the category:

Valera - Ukraine

Directed by Olga Artushevska

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Bon Voyage – Czech Republic

Directed by Mariam Mansuryan

DOCUMENTARIES (23 films in competition)

Jurors: Alena Müllerová, František Svěrák

11 - 14 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Viktoria – Czech Republic

Members of the group ANIDĚTI from Prague

15 - 17 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

The Rock Pool Waltz - Australia

Directed by Marlon Denning

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Our Dreams- Czech Republic

directed by: teenagers from the Duchcov Children's Home under the direction of Veronika Korčáková and Karel Čtveráček

18 - 20 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Paint and Pain- Iran

Directed by Mohammad Sajad Aghajani

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Dad, the poet of life – Czech Republic

Directed by Antonín Korb

ANIMATIONS (49 films in competition)

Jurors: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Martin Stýblo

11 - 14 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Nameless Island - Belgium

Camera-etc. workshops´ participants from Liége

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Mosquito Fish - USA

Directed by Bryn Wright

15 - 17 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

System Error – Poland

Directed by Piotr Kaźmierczak

Special Recognition Award in the category:

The Oubliette - Ireland

Directed by Max Hendrickson

18 - 20 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Walking at Knight - USA

Directed by Faye Thomas

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Good Night – South Korea

Directed by Jung-seo Lee, Seo-bin Lee, Ji-yeon Yoon

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS (20 films in competition)

Jurors: František Svěrák, Jakub Šmíd

11 - 14 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Dada Poetry – Czech Republic

Twenty-one pupils from ZUŠ Ledeč and Sázavou

15 - 17 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

The Complete Man – Greece

Directed by Antonis Goumas

18 - 20 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Caterpillar Kisses - USA

Directed by Ella Fields

OTHER WORKS (18 films in competition)

Jurors: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Martin Stýblo

11 - 14 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Spring – Czech Republic

Seventeen pupils from ZUŠ Ledeč and Sázavou

Special Recognition Award in the category:

The Journey of the Book - Spain

Directed by Carlos Tafur

15 - 17 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Liam Butler And His Friends: New Kid On The Block- USA

Directed by Liam Butler

Special Recognition Award in the category:

World Views in One Song- Germany

Directed by Ole Kjartan Schreier

18 - 20 years

Award for Best Film in the category:

Smoking is a Bad Habit – Czech Republic

Directed by Ondřej Brýna

Special Recognition Award in the category:

Your Latest Crush - Flower Lover- Ukraine

Directed by Dmitriy Guk

SPECIAL AWARDS

Children (9-13 yrs) Jury Prize: Teddy, Tell Us a Story (members of the animation workshops Aniděti/Ani-children, Czech Republic)

Teen (14-18 yrs) Jury Prize: Over the Moon (directed by Ella Fields, USA)

Best Foreign Film: Fishing, directed by Andreas Dürr (Germany)

Best Czech Out-of-School Film: Robots (directed by Ondřej Brýna)

Best Czech School Film: Good Morning, Vera (directed by Matouš Kaleta, student from the Secondary Art School in Ostrava)

Best Films on Sustainability: Ragworld + Walking Through a 100-Year-Old Paradise Garden of Bobbin Lace and Needle Lace (directed by Marko Horáček, Czech Republic)

Audience Award: Pyromeownicat (directed by Klara Ljung, Sweden)

VOJTECH JASNY AWARD for long-term systematic and honest contribution in the field of audiovisual education in Czech Republic:

Markéta Rosenkrancová (the teacher + leader of film workshops in Elementary School in town Kolín; film selected for AFTF: Jean G. Deburau, the other films are on YouTube channel “Základní škola Mnichovická Kolín V”)

BEN BARENHOLTZ AWARD for outstanding and unconventional enrichment in the international field of animation works with children and youngsters:

Creative Space Studio, Estonia

(Films screened at AFTF 2023: Mermaid, Farm by Aleksander Krims and Landscape with church by Konrad Mägi, Cowboys and Astronauts, The Hoover, Winter Fairy Tale, Suur Tõll)

Congratulations to the creators of all these works!