Apart
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic using techniques of both live-action and animated film. The narrators’ real experiences are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations in order to look into the thoughts of three young people prematurely exposed to death.
- Czech Republic
- 2018, 10 min
- Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
- Director of photography: Kryštof Melka
- Editor: Lukáš Janičík
- Screenplay: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Lukáš Janičík
- Music: Viera Marinová
- Cast: Petr Cuker, Ondřej Gabaš, Barbora Vildová
- Art Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
- Coproduction: Alkay Animation Prague s.r.o.
- Production: FAMU
Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Diana Cam Van Nguyen was born in 1993 in the Czech Republic. She took part in internships in Birmingham and Lyon and did a residency in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. She is a student of the Department of Animation at FAMU in Prague. Her bachelor film The Little One (2017) was screened at many festivals and has won several awards. Her short film Apart was named Best Czech Experimental Documentary Film at the 2018 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.