World premiere

The Bugaboo

Local title
Bubuu
Original title
Bubák
Director
Kateřina Karhánková, Tomáš Pavlíček
Country
Czechia, Slovakia
Year
2025
Festival
25th Youth and Children's Film Festival
Programme
Children's Competition Programme
Genre
Drama, Adventure, Children's film
Subject
familial relationships, sibling relationships, coming of age, humour, childhood

What do you do, when there’s a monster under your bed?

The story begins at the moment when the parents of twelve-year-old Nikca and six-year-old Tomas leave for the weekend, and the children have their apartment to themselves for the very first time. And without supervision! Nikca decides to put her little brother away in his room and invite her friend Gabča over, planning to order pizza, watch a horror movie on video, and just have fun. But watching a forbidden scary film is not meant for them. Instead, they experience a small horror encounter of their own. It begins when Ondra, a hungover high school senior, suddenly shows up. The peace is further disturbed by Tomas, who cannot stay in his room. After all, he has a Bugaboo under his bed, and it is just crawling out. The girls’ weekend is simply ruined, and it turns out that Tomas is not the only one who “has a monster under the bed”. Each of them is afraid of something. Even the Bugaboo himself.

Director
Kateřina Karhánková, Tomáš Pavlíček
Screenwriter
Stepanka Ansorge
Cast
Anna Vycitalova, Terezie Hola, Otto Dusek, Jana Plodkova, Lukas Latinak
Producer
Tomas Michalek, Jakub Mahler
Cinematographer
Denisa Buranova
Production Design
Mariana Hädler
Editing
Marek Kralovsky
Music
Ondrej Mikula (Aid Kid)
Sound
Jan Richtr
Production
MasterFilm
Distribution
CinemArt (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Runtime
Language
Czech
Subtitles
Estonian
Director
Kateřina Karhánková

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Screenings

6th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening050612 / Bubuu
SubtitlesEstonian
Q&A duration
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7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening100710 / Bubuu
SubtitlesEstonian
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1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening151110 / Bubuu
SubtitlesEstonian
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