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

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Fishermen poster
NR

A 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

The Fishermen poster
NR

A 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

9 Million Colors poster
NR

The 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

9 Million Colors poster
NR

The 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

FAMU v kině 02 poster
NR

A 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

Love Is Just a Death Away poster
5.5

Sometimes 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

Love Is Just a Death Away poster
5.5

Sometimes 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

FAMU 80 – Best of poster
NR

This 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