Pavel Horáček graduated in Film History and Audiovisual Culture from Masaryk University in Brno, devoting his thesis to means of expression and specific animation techniques, namely in Czech animated films. For three years, he worked as programme director at the AniFest, International Festival of Animated Films in Teplice. Since 2013, Pavel has been the programme director of Anifilm, the International Festival of Animated Films, founded in Třeboň and now based in Liberec. He is a co-founder and curator of aniont.com, presenting authorial works of animation online. He prepares programmes of animated films for institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad. Pavel writes about film and animation and served as a jury member of various international festivals.
Pavel Horáček
Pavel Horáček participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Pavel Horáček’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hand Ruka | Jiří Trnka | Czechoslovakia | 1965 | 18’ | ||
| Hedgehog in the Fog Ёжик в тумане | Yuri Norstein | Soviet Union | 1975 | 11’ | ||
| Dimensions of Dialogue Možnosti dialogu | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia | 1983 | 12’ | ||
And basically any short film by him... |
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| Laokoon | Václav Mergl | Czechoslovakia | 1970 | 12’ | ||
| Begone Dull Care | Evelyn Lambart , Norman McLaren | Canada | 1949 | 8’ | ||
| Oh Willy... | Emma De Swaef , Marc James Roels | Belgium | 2011 | 17’ | ||
| Visit Prague Navštivte Prahu | Pavel Koutský | Czechoslovakia | 1983 | 6’ | ||
| The Hat Le Chapeau | Michèle Cournoyer | Canada | 1999 | 6’ | ||
| Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic | Paul Bush | Denmark, United Kingdom | 2020 | 7’ | ||
| The Burden Min börda | Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Sweden | 2017 | 15’ | ||