Directing
Bára Anna Stejskalová
Born
1992-01-01 (34)
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Bára Anna Stejskalová is director, art director, animator, and script writer of animated films, with a specialization on stop-motion. Beginning her studies at University of Arts at Bournemouth, she transferred to Prague's FAMU. In 2018 she participated in Erasmus internship in the Production Design department at IADT in Dublin. Her bachelor's film "The Fishermen" (2017) was nominated for BAFTA Shortlist. She is a co-author of project HEARDT, which received Burning Man Honorarium Grant and was show-cased at the festival. Her graduation movie "Love Is Just a Death Away" (2020) has toured world-wide festivals. She is currently working at Art Director on VR project Darkening directed by Ondřej M…
Known for
NRA story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry - the main themes of this film.
The Fishermen
2019
NRThe ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Nothing escapes her deadly pincers. For the blind fish Milva, it's a daily struggle for survival.Fran finds her magnificent and wishes she could see the ocean that way too. Will they be able to overcome their differences ?
9 Million Colors
2025
NRA series of short family films created by FAMU students that have shone at international festivals: 659, Fear Nothing, The Basics of Art, We Are Closer to Death, Asylum, Red Shoes, and Sing.
FAMU v kině 02
2021
5.5Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
Love Is Just a Death Away
2021
NRThis series of short films offers a representative cross-section of the work produced at this famous Prague film school over the course of its 80-year history.
FAMU 80 – Best of
2026
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRA story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry - the main themes of this film.
The Fishermen
2019
NRA story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry - the main themes of this film.
The Fishermen
2019
NRThe ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Nothing escapes her deadly pincers. For the blind fish Milva, it's a daily struggle for survival.Fran finds her magnificent and wishes she could see the ocean that way too. Will they be able to overcome their differences ?
9 Million Colors
2025
NRThe ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Nothing escapes her deadly pincers. For the blind fish Milva, it's a daily struggle for survival.Fran finds her magnificent and wishes she could see the ocean that way too. Will they be able to overcome their differences ?
9 Million Colors
2025
NRA series of short family films created by FAMU students that have shone at international festivals: 659, Fear Nothing, The Basics of Art, We Are Closer to Death, Asylum, Red Shoes, and Sing.
FAMU v kině 02
2021
5.5Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
Love Is Just a Death Away
2021
5.5Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.
Love Is Just a Death Away
2021
NRThis series of short films offers a representative cross-section of the work produced at this famous Prague film school over the course of its 80-year history.
FAMU 80 – Best of
2026
