38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Non-Swimmers

Neplavci

Jakub Šmíd

Image Non-Swimmers
Czech Republic
2011 Fiction 23 min
Wendy, a 16-year-old girl being punished by her parents, finds herself spending the summer vacation in an abandoned holiday resort, where her Grandmother is the caretaker. In the village at the end of the world, nothing ever happens, just a clique of local teenagers drinking and killing time in the empty pool. Wendy experiences a bitter-sweet summer love affair while waiting for the moment when the pool will finally be filled with water.
With : Vendula Hlásková, Vojtěch Vondráček, Martin Hejný, Ester Povýšilová, Michael Vykus, Marie Ludvíková
Screenplay : Lucia Kajánková
Image : Vidu Gunaratna
Sound : Jiří Gráf
Editing : Tomáš Vrána
Production : Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Tereza Papalová
After training as an actor at the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno (Czech Republic), Jakub Šmid went into directing and joined the directing department of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts de Prague.
With the support of the Czech Film Center