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Children of Anton Kalina
In 2012 Anton Kalina received the title “Righteous Among the Nations” in Israel and last year he was posthumously decorated by the Czech President. Anton Kalina spent the war mainly in the Buchenwald concentration camp,…
Children of Iceland
Many children from the Czech Republic labelled as "unplaceable" are leaving their homeland for Iceland, which is one of the few countries in the world that accept them with love. The Czechs have no interest in adoption…
The Children of Our Parents
Tom Feierabend is a California-based filmmaker who spent his youth surfing in the Pacific Ocean. He is also the grandson of politician Ladislav Feierabend whose memoirs published in the 1990s belonged among bestselling…
Children of the State
A great wave of criticism was aroused in 2011, when the Norwegian Child Welfare Services, Barnevernet, took away both of the Micháleks’ sons. The documentary director, who has two children of her own, set out to Norway…
The Circle of Rebirth
Tibet, the home of an old nation with a unique culture, surviving under extremely harsh conditions between the mountain ridges. Tibetans are raised with a humble understanding of the meaning of human existence,…
Citizen Havel Goes on Vacation
This 80-minute documentary recreates a trip across Czechoslovakia. Václav Havel took the trip in 1985 when he was still the country's most prominent dissident. In the course of one week, he was twice thrown into jail…
Coal in the Soul
A documentary portrait of two women playing a very personal game with the fate of Horni Jiretin, a town endangered by the coal-mining industry. With their typical mixture of a sensitive approach and irony, the…
Collection of MR. Hudecek and MR. Rein
Mr. Hudeček is a worthy murderer. Mr. Rein works at junkyard and concentrates on intellectual issues. At the age of sixty they are friends who share no lust for life. This film focuses on collecting thoughts and…
The Confession of Kateryna K.
Miroslav Janek's documentary provides an intimate statement on the life of singer Kateryna Kolcová-Tlustá. The blind Ukraine native lives, studies and performs in the Czech Republic. She has become one of the most…
The Count Zinzendorf - The Strength of Conviction
Next year, 250 years will have passed since the death of a man whose name is familiar to Christians in most parts of the world. Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf had both the talent and skills to be able to stand the…