FAMU student Kashcheeva triumphs in Toronto with new film Electra

A short animated film by Daria Kashcheeva, a student of Prague’s Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), has won the Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. Her film Electra, which doubles as her master’s thesis project, explores the ramifications of a father's absence with regard to his young daughter's psychological, emotional, and sexual development.

Kashcheeva previously won a student Oscar in 2019 for her short animated film Daughter, which was also nominated for Best Animated Short at the American Academy Awards and was shown in Short Cuts at the Toronto International Film Festival in the same year.