©2025 | CZ – SK | 76 min. | documentary | creative documentary | essay

AMOOSED: a moose odyssey

Director
Hana Nováková
Producer
Kateřina Traburová
Co-producer
Peter Kerekes
Story
Hana Nováková
Screenplay
Hana Nováková
DoP
Františka Chlumská
Editor
Soňa Jelínková, Marek Bihuň
Music
Jonatan Pastirčák (Pjoni)
Synopsis

Does something like a totem animal exist? And if so, can its call send even a European on a journey following its tracks? In this moose odyssey, the director follows moose-obsessed people (“amoosed”) across the planet — from the hidden moose of former Czechoslovakia, through a Russian domestication station, to Swedish moose safaris, where people live with moose directly i their households, all the way to Nova Scotia in Canada. In the end, it turns out that she was led to distant Canada because the Indigenous Mi’kmaq nation, who consider moose sacred animals and their spirit totem, have an important message for the contemporary world.

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Director
Hana Nováková
Producer
Kateřina Traburová
Co-producer
Peter Kerekes
Story
Hana Nováková
Screenplay
Hana Nováková
DoP
Františka Chlumská
Editor
Soňa Jelínková, Marek Bihuň
Music
Jonatan Pastirčák (Pjoni)
Sound
Marek Buranovský
With
Alexander Minaev, Karel Strych, Leffe Lindh, Cheryl Maloney, Clifford Paulá
Production
LaDamplinque (CZ)
Co-production
Peter Kerekes (SK), Česká televize (CZ), GURU films (CZ), FAMU (CZ)
Budget
215 000 €
Support
Audiovizuálny fond, Státní fond kinematografie
Co-production forums
Ex Oriente 2017, East Doc Platform - Golden Funnel Award
World premiere
MFDF Ji.hlava 2025
Release
SK: 12/2025, FILMTOPIA
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