We have documentaries from all over the world in the International Competition, domestic contributions to the popularisation of science in the Czech&Slovak Competition, and last but not least, the Short Film Competition, in which there are often subtle but all the more powerful surprises.
The selection is again truly varied and wide. You will learn more about the specific films and potential highlights of this year as the festival approaches, but we can already tell you that all competitions together have 57 films! The International Competition has 30 pieces competing against each other this year, the Czech&Slovak Competition has ten contenders for the best domestic popular science documentary, and the Short Film Competition has 17 diverse films.
Their complete list and the form of the individual competition sections can be found below. So let’s thank the excellent programming team, who, as every year, have immersed themselves in the waters of contemporary popular science film for several months and selected the best that is currently available in this sector for you. Come and see for yourself between 26 April and 1 May and take the opportunity to vote for the film you liked best. Because once again, the AFO Audience Award is in your hands and yours alone!
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AFO
Antarctica: The Frozen Time – Tuan Lam, Yves Simard, Germany, 86 min, 2021
Àpeiron – Sandro Bocci, Italy, 64 min, 2021
Into the Ice – Lars Ostenfeld, Denmark, 84 min, 2022
Eternity At Last – Stephan Bergmann, Austria / Germany, 92 min, 2021
Holgut – Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Belgium, 93 min, 2021
The Mushroom Speaks – Marion Neumann, Switzerland, 90 min, 2021
The Computer Accent – Riel Roch-Decter, Sebastian Pardo, USA, 90 min, 2022
A Glitch in the Matrix – Rodney Ascher, USA, 108 min, 2021
Vaccine – The Inside Story – Catherine Gale, Caleb Hellerman, Great Britain, 92 min, 2021
Cracking COVID – Sonya Pemberton, Australia, 75 min, 2021
How To Kill A Cloud – Tuija Halttunen, Finland, 77 min, 2021
The Lake at the Bottom of the World – Kathy Kasic, USA, 91 min, 2021
Like a Virgin – Feriel Ben Mahmoud, France, 53 min, 2020
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer – Vaccines – Duncan Singh, David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg, Alex Flaster, Molly Hermann, Tristan Quinn; Great Britain, 57 min, 2021
Oeconomia – Carmen Losmann, Germany, 89 min, 2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds – Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer; USA, 97 min, 2020
Fall of the Maya Kings – Leif Kaldor, Canada, 52 min, 2022
Baboons – A Really Wild Family – Oliver Goetzl, Germany, 53 min, 2021
The Brain – Jean-Stéphane Bron, France, 103 min, 2020
Pleistocene Park – Luke Griswold-Tergis, USA, 101 min, 2022
Fathom – Drew Xanthopoulos, USA, 86 min, 2021
Father of the Cyborgs – David Burke, Ireland, 76 min, 2021
Birds of America – Jacques Loeuille, France, 80 min, 2021
Wolverine – One Tough Mother – Alexander Sletten, Austria, 50 min, 2021
Sedentary – E. J. Rosen, USA, 30 min, 2021
Manufacturing Ignorance – Franck Cuveillier, Pascal Vasselin, France, 55 min, 2021
Carbon – An Unauthorised Biography – Daniella Ortega, Niobe Thompson, Australia, 86 min, 2021
All Light, Everywhere – Theo Anthony, USA, 105 min, 2021
Coextinction – Elena Jean, Gloria Pancrazi, Canada, 93 min, 2021
My Garden of a Thousand Bees – David Allen, Great Britain, 53 min, 2o21
CZECH&SLOVAK COMPETITION
Industria – Manufacturing war – Ivo Bystřičan, Czech Republic, 26 min, 2021
How to Use a Brain – Sarah Lomenová, Czech Republic, 25 min, 2022
Intensive Life Unit – Adéla Komrzý, Czech Republic, 76 min, 2021
Before They Disappear – Jakub Vágner, Jakub Vomáčka, Czech Republic, 52 min, 2021
Czechia Deforested – Mikoláš Arsenjev, Czech Republic, 14 min, 2020
Microbe Hunters – Bára Kopecká, Czech Republic, 52 min, 2021
My Identity – Vojtěch Petřina, Czech Republic, 17 min, 2022
Disappearing Soil – Martina Spurná, Czech Republic, 26 min, 2020
Masters of Ancient Crafts – Stone – Tomáš Kratochvíl, Czech Republic, 26 min, 2022
Out of Breath – Šárka Maixnerová, Czech Republic, 52 min, 2021
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Our Ark – Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton; Netherlands, USA; 13 min, 2021
Nuisance Bear – Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden, Canada, 14 min, 2021
DermaBread – Kaisu Koski, Great Britain, 2 min, 2021
Chemobrionics – Jitka Čejková, Czech Republic, 5 min, 2021
Monocellular – Nate Dorr, Farah Abdul-Rahman, USA, 5 min, 2021
Shattering Stars – Peter Galison, USA, 13 min, 2021
My Stellar Tale – Andrey Chonov Hristozov, Bulgaria, 15 min, 2021
VO – Nicolas Gourault, France, 19 min, 2021
Unsung Women – Ada Lovelace – Julie Gavras, Mathieu Decarli; France, 3 min, 2021
Planktonium – Jan van Ijken, Netherlands, 16 min, 2021
All At Sea – Kasia Nalewajka, Poland, 10 min, 2020
Listen to the Beat of Our Images – Audrey & Maxime Jean-Baptiste; French Guiana, France; 16 min, 2021
Shaba – Ami Vitale, USA, 12 min, 2021
Scarlet Medusa – Spencer MacDonald; USA, Japan; 18 min, 2020
In the Dark – Tom Garmeson, Great Britain, 17 min, 2021
In Nature – Marcel Barelli, Switzerland, 5 min, 2021
The Problem of the Hydra – Maija Tammi, Finland, 10 min, 2020
