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04826 Jirous
Filmmaker Monika Elšíková started making this documentary film about Czech poet Ivan Martin Jirous while Jirous was still alive. The last piece of footage capturing the poet was shot at a private event celebrating…
1968: Betrayal
Betrayal - the second part of the series devoted to the Prague Spring - charts the fundamental events which took place from 1968 to 1969. After the leaders of the Czechoslovak Communist Party returned from Moscow, the…
1968: Hope
The first part of a documentary series returns to the Prague Spring of 1968 - to the period of so-called socialism with a human face in which there was a glimmer of hope that society as a whole would fully recover. The…
66 Seasons
A film about the Košice swimming pool, the place where, according to the filmmaker's slogan, "history came to swim." Set between 1936 and 2002, the story reflects historical events that took place in Central and Eastern…
A Czech Phenomenon: Dance Lessons
With a humourous distance, Dancing Lessons examines a phenomenon unique to Czech national culture - dance courses. The director followed a Prague dance class for more than a year - from the signing up, the balls,…
A Drop from the Goblet of Immortality
Maha Kumbh Mela, or the great Kumbh Mela, is the largest religious festivity in the world, with up to a hundred million people participating in the event. It takes place in India, at the confluence of the Jammuna and…
Africa Obscura
The AFRICA OBSCURA is a documentary that concerns contemporary Africa as a photographic phenomenon. But this time, the record is made through the medium of old analogue photographic and motion-picture cameras, which…
Agnes of Bohemia
800 years have passed since the birth of Agnes of Bohemia. The documentary "Agnes of Bohemia" will present the personality of a royal daughter who decided to devote her life, possessions and all her efforts to help the…
All Future Chernobyl
On April 26, 2011, a quarter of a century has passed since the explosion of the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Memories of the disaster are still alive. The recovery of Fukushima is supposed to last nine months;…
All the Prodigies
A documentary film about young Mozart pianists who, though very young, express strong and self-confident individualities. In 1767, an eleven-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performed with his sister at a concert in…