The film is the story of a Czech woman who falls in love with an Afghan man, without any realisation about the life and family she will be joining in Afghanistan during the post-Taliban era.

My Sunny Maad had its world premiere in competition at the 2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2021, winning the Jury Award. Pavlátová had begun work on the film in 2018 and received a Eurimages grant of 340,000 EUR in 2019. The film was produced by Kateřina Černá and Petr Oukropec for the Czech company Negativ. It was coproduced by studio Alkay Animation Prague s.r.o., Sacrebleu Productions, BFilm.cz, Innervision, Gao Shan and Slovakia’s Plutoon. It was supported by the Czech Film Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Centre.

Estonian minority coproduction Compartment No 6 got a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language category. Read more HERE.