Daria Kashcheeva (MAUR film, FAMU, Papy3D Productions, ARTICHOKE)

2023, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, 26'33''

Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies. Is our memory just fiction? Or a myth?

Electra podoživlja svoj deseti rojstni dan in meša spomine s sanjami ter prikritimi fantazijami. So naši spomini zgolj izmišljotina? Ali mit?

Recommended for children under 14: no
Techniques: Pixilation, Live-action

Written and directed: Daria Kashcheeva
Animation: Marek Jasaň, Vojtěch Kiss
Set: Marek Špitálský
Castings: Zuzana Částková, Marie Verner, Zuzana Stivínová, Robert Jašków
Image: Tomáš Frkal
Special effects: Peter Košťál
Film editor: Alexander Kashcheev
Sound editor: Miroslav Chaloupka
Mix: Miroslav Chaloupka
Soundtrack: Lucas Verreman
Producers: Zuzana Krivkova, Martin Vandas (MAUR film s.r.o.), Tomáš Šimon (FAMU - Academy of Performing Arts in Prague), Richard Van Den Boom (Papy3D Productions), Juraj Krasnohorsky (ARTICHOKE s.r.o.)

Daria Kashcheeva

is an independent film director based in Prague, a fresh FAMU graduate. Her student films featured at many international festivals. Daria’s original To Accept won the Nespresso Talents 2017 film competition in Cannes. Her Bachelor’s puppet animation Daughter had a premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival and got Cristal for the best Student film. Daughter has won the Student Academy Award in the category Animation (International Film Schools) and was nominated to the 92nd Oscar Academy Award. In her master degree film Electra, she experiments with a combination of live action and animation techniques. Working with actors and human sized puppets, exploring a topic of domestic violence, sexuality and body perception, Daria aims to extend the limits of animation film genre. // Filmography: Electra (2023), Daughter/ Dcera (2019), Oasis/ Oáza (2017), In a Dumpster / V popelnici (2017), To Accept (2017), Prague. A foreigners' perspective / Praha očima cizinců (2017).