She Came at Night
2023 I Feature film I 85 min
Jirka and Aneta are a young couple who enjoy the routine of their quiet relationship and are in no hurry to make big decisions in life. One night in their inherited flat, the doorbell rings and standing at the door is Jirka’s mother Valerie. An initially brief call turns into a never-ending visit from an intense and caustic diva whose presence fundamentally disrupts the couple’s privacy. Certainties are shaken, boundaries broken. Although the film’s directorial duo works with a familiar premise, they subvert any dark humor with a sense of tension more commonly found in horror movies, all of it wrapped in the penetrating question: Is the mother’s unbearable smothering legitimate or are mothers sometimes the biggest monsters of all?
Written and Directed I Jan Vejnar, Tommáš Pavlíček
Produced by I Pavel Vácha, Eva Pavlíčková, Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar a Šimon Dvořáček
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Sound Designer I Michaela Patríková
Music I Aid Kid
Editor I Jakub Vansa
Costume Designer I Zuzana Mazáčová
Production Design I Zuzana Mazáčová
Coproduction | PFX, Soundsquare, Česká televize, Artcam Films, Drive Film Factory
Cast I Simona Peková, Annette Nesvadbová, Jiří Rendl
Festivals
World Premiere - KVIFF Special Screenings 2023
YUNG MICHAL
2022 I short film I 17 min
On Instagram Michal presents himself as a rapper who is one step away from stardom. In reality, he is a fast-food worker in a place from where no-one ever made the big time. What he doesn't yet know is that his dream will come true this afternoon.
Director | Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
Screenplay | Jan Vejnar, Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
Dir. of Photography | Šimon Dvořáček
Music | Aid Kid, NobodyListen
Editor | Šimon Hájek
Art Director | Antonín Šilar
Producer | Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál
Production | Bionaut
Cast | Mikuláš Vedral, Jiří Huzlík, Michal Slaný, Alena Doláková, Jan Jankovský, Alice Bendová
Contact | Bionaut
Festivals
World Premiere - Pragueshorts at KVIFF
BFI London
FIGURANT
2019 I short film I 14 min
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed
in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to fall behind
the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events.
Written and Directed I Jan Vejnar
Produced by I Kamila Dohnalová – Silk Films, Emilie Dubois, Olivier Berlemont – OriGine Films
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Sound Designer I Rémi Durel, Julie Tribout, Michaela Patríková
Music I Jan Vysocký
Editor I Jakub Vansa
Costume Designer I Helena Tavelová
Production Design I Pavel Svoboda
Cast I Denis Lavant, Michal Kern, Jiří Kocman, Michael Drahoš, Filip Chlud, Andrej Polák, Marek Pospíchal, Petr Vršek, Petr Jeništa, Eva Vrbková, Viktorie Čermáková, Tomáš Legierski, Vladimír Pešek
Awards and nominations:
Award / Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Editor - The Jordan International Film Festival
Award / Best Narrative Short Cinematography - The Loudoun Arts Film Festival - Figurant
Festivals
World Premiere - Asiana International Short Film Festival 2019
U.S. Premiere - SXSW 2020
Czech Premiere - Prague Shorts 2020