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Chronicle
Glimpses of everyday histories preserving a portrait of contemporary reality.
Chronicle of a Happy Childhood: How to Grow Up Happily
How to give birth, raise and educate a child so that he is happy and satisfied? A question that is asked by current parents, but also faced by their parents and grandparents. Join us on an excursion into the history of…
Chronicle of a Happy Childhood: How to Raise a Happy Child
How to give birth, raise and educate a child so that he is happy and satisfied? A question that is asked by current parents, but also faced by their parents and grandparents. Join us on an excursion into the history of…
Chronicle of Nowhere
At the end of the 1970s, the Taiwanese coastline was dotted by several futuristic, elliptical buildings that became known as “UFO Houses”, to serve as apartments rented to US soldiers. However, this project soon failed…
Chronicle of Oldřich S.
Mr Sedláček was writing one-sentence entries in his chronicle from 1981 to 2005. The chronicle includes everyday stories of his and his family's life (Today our Gypsy neighbour Gina broke my hand. I was taken to…
Chronicles of Revolution that Didn't Happen
This film about how ordinary people turn consciously people.
Chthonian City
When laying the foundations of Odessa in 1794, the builders begun to cut stone right from beneath the ground to obtain building material. The excavations went on until the 1960s, with no scheduling and coordination,…
Chuck Norris vs. Communism
Communist Romania, 1980s, culturally isolated, ideologically censored; all images of life outside the Iron Curtain are cut off and TV is reduced to a couple of hours of propaganda each day.
The Church Will Arrive in the Evening
In the ice-free months of the year, Father Gennady captains a barge transformed into a floating Orthodox Church on a mission trip along the Volga-Don Canal to the remote Russian villages. At each port, Father Gennady…
Cigarettes and Songs
In an evangelical church in Eastern Slovakia, something extraordinary is happening. A group of Roma gypsies and Slovaks have come together to make music and are recording a CD of ancient Roma songs in new compositions.…