Sandbox

A film by Kateřina Čupová

A little boy plays with wooden toys in the sandbox. One toy is broken, and that toy suddenly pulls the boy into the world under the sandbox. Here all toys come alive and go somewhere in procession. The boy follows them through a strange mist to a glowing workshop. An old man here makes magic toys. The boy is fascinated and plays here. But the old man sees that the boy doesn’t fit here, so he leads him to the hole that leads back to the upside word. The man gives something to the boy to make farewell easy, and the boy jumps through the hole and appears up in the sunny sandbox with all his toys. The boy looks at the gift in his hand, and it is his broken toy, now fixed as new.
He is happy and runs home, through the workshop similar to an underground one, through the hall with pictures of him and the old man, his grandpa, who looks very similar to the old man who fixed his toy.

Producer – Paulína Pokryvková – Pirogy Studios (CZ)