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32 Classified Pages

32 Classified Pages

A true story, almost unbelievable from today’s point of view. A story describing escape from the Polish Oświęcim in April 1944. A story two Slovak Jews, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, the first men to bring a message…
A Colourful Tail of a Flying Comet

A Colourful Tail of a Flying Comet

This feature-length documentary film tells the story of Filip Topol, the composer, lyricist, piano player and singer of the band Psí vojáci, whose work touched three generations.
A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head

The Holocaust as a scar on the body and soul of the European Roma and Sinti.
Aliens and Herons

Aliens and Herons

The documentary Aliens and Herons portraits the fate of the sculptures fromthe Communist so called normalization era in the Czech public space. The film describesthe atmosphere of the time and the relationship of the…
All Men Become Brothers

All Men Become Brothers

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
All My Children

All My Children

Marian Kuffa, a charismatic parish priest and a man of action, with “his children”– former convicts, the homeless and drug addicts, has embarked on his most difficult mission. He has decided to help the poorest Roma to…
Alone

Alone

Luba Skořepová has spent the past several years in solitude, struggling to stay an active theatre actress as long as she can. She invited the film crew into her home in order to shoot her daily life. Although the…
Always Together

Always Together

Petr was an urban man from a block of flats in Pilsen. He studied cybernetics at Charles University in Prague. His wife Simona grew up in a rich neighborhood in Prague and was studying Czech language and history at...
A Marriage

A Marriage

Love in the time of internet.
A Marriage Story

A Marriage Story

Ivana and Václav got married at the Prague Old Town Hall in 1981 and the film follows their marriage from the wedding day until today.
Angels of Sinjar

Angels of Sinjar

Surviors of the 21st century genocide, Hanifa and her 2 sisters' biggest challenge is to free their 3 sisters, remaining in ISIS captivity and to find strength in clawing their way back to life, despite their trauma.
Anny

Anny

Anny didn’t become a sex worker till she was 46, but since then, she’s kept returning to the streets of Prague, rain or shine, as cars pass by at a snail’s pace. Helena Třeštíková’s film crew also kept returning to Anny…
The Ark of Lights and Shadows

The Ark of Lights and Shadows

Forgotten story of Martin and Osa Johnsons , rebel pioneer filmmakers who made first films in Africa in times when filming itself was more dangerous than lions or malaria….
A Sarcofaghus for a Queen

A Sarcofaghus for a Queen

Documentary on the making of a seven-ton sarcophagus by Danish sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard commissioned by Denmark's royal court for a chapel at Roskilde Cathedral, manufactured together with Czech artist Zdeněk Lhotský.
Back Beat

Back Beat

Back Beat is a documentary series (13 x 30') about big rock stars and music personalities, who have been on the scene since the 60s or 70s and are still in business; personalities, whose great music we appreciate, who…
The Band

The Band

Unknown musicians from the Roma settlement dream of a big stage where they would show their talent. Their journey is an inspirational story of great desire and hope, but also a reflexion of difficult social situation.
Batalives

Batalives

A look at the people who live on the other sides of the world but in the same place. Five characters staying in five cities with same unique history.
Bata, the First Global Entrepreneur of the World

Bata, the First Global Entrepreneur of the World

The feature documentary film about the first Czechoslovak entrepreneur, the king of footwear – the founder of the world shoemaking empire, the mayor of Zlin (1923-1932). A reflection of his original methods of…
The Blood, Sweat and Tears

The Blood, Sweat and Tears

A time-lapse documentary following the fate of the famous Novak family through the ringmaster Rosťa and his brother Vítek, who courageously fight the unfavorable circumstances and unexpected restrictions.
Borders Our Way

Borders Our Way

Can we find in ourselves inner borders of our identity, if there is no visible border set anymore? How can we understand our society in the time of disappearing borders, both real and imaginary ones? How is this general…
Brotherhood

Brotherhood

What will be the future of the new generation of Balkan young Muslims?
Brother Karel

Brother Karel

Documentary capturing the dramatic fate of the most famous Czech bard, Karel Kryl. The film introduces many of his best-known songs, as well as the less well-known ones. Another important line of the film is the search…
The Bubenicek's

The Bubenicek's

Brothers Jiří and Otto Bubeníček's, one of the finest dancers of world ballet scene, celebrate in 2014 their 40th birthdays. Both announce end of the career. Both say goodbye to their home theatres. Jiří in Dresden…
Bye Bye Children's Home

Bye Bye Children's Home

Four young mostly Romany people without any family, money and home are leaving the orphanage and entering the unknown world of adults, which is full of strange rules – the rules of the recent modern society.
Bystander Effect

Bystander Effect

On 13 March, 1964, 28-year old Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death on the street in NYC. It was revealed later that 38 people in the neighbourhood in some way witnessed the crime that lasted 50 minutes. None of the…
Červená

Červená

A documentary feature film about the opera singer Sona Červená, whose artistic career spans over hundred opera roles in four thousand performances on the stages of five continents.
Charlotta

Charlotta

A Story of the First Lady of the Czechoslovak Republic, who never became a First Lady. An hour docudrama on life of Ms. Charlotta Garrigue – Masaryk, wife of the 1st president of the Czechoslovak Republic
Chickens, Virus and Us

Chickens, Virus and Us

A delightful tale about one family's experiment during the coronavirus crisis. By casually exploring the adoption of chickens, this Czech family discovers the challenges inherent in the commercial egg industry.
Children of Stalinism

Children of Stalinism

The documentaries about the sons of political prisoners from the "Children of Stalinism" series reflect the destinies of the descendants of people imprisoned during the times of the Stalinist totalitarian regime in…
Children of Stalinism: Musical Chairs

Children of Stalinism: Musical Chairs

The film illustrates the confiscation of the land in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s on the case of František Brož and his sister. The style of the documentary resembles a road movie of a sort, as we watch an involuntary…
Children of Stalinism: Swiss Robinson

Children of Stalinism: Swiss Robinson

Jan Hlach doesn’t seem to differ much from his neighbours living in the outskirts of Fribourg in Switzerland. As well as the others, he mows the lawn, looks after the garden, says hello with a smile on the way to the…
Children On Death Row

Children On Death Row

Amnesty International says Iran is the only country that executes young people for crimes they committed when they were younger than 18 years old. The film is a story of Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei and his four…
Children Online

Children Online

Three stories from three young protagonists whose lives are deeply enmeshed with the thrilling but risk-prone world of the Internet.
Cinematherapy

Cinematherapy

Living in the age of reality TV, in a society hungry for sensation, it is easy to feed on the highly emotional stories of people whose futures are being shaped by dozens of professionals. "Cinematherapy" takes a…
Circus Rwanda

Circus Rwanda

Africa meets Europe on the stage of contemporary circus. What are the obstacles and benefits of such multi-cultural joint venture?
Citizen K.

Citizen K.

A group of twelve artists is not indifferent to the increasing control on the part of the state. By means of a simple trick with a photograph, each of them has a new ID made, allowing two people to prove their identity…
Climbing Higher

Climbing Higher

Climbing Higher tells a story of rugged determination and of overcoming human limits. Radek Jaroš is the first Czech and only the 15th person in the world to have completed the Crown of the Himalayas, the world’s...
Come Closer, Candy (Czech-South African Dreams)

Come Closer, Candy (Czech-South African Dreams)

For several years, ten Czech and South African artists have worked together in a unique theatre project. The theme of their performance deals with one of the most intimate area of their lives: their own dreams.…
Concrete Stories

Concrete Stories

Both a capitalist invention and a Soviet symbol, the concrete slab buildings link a whole destiny of people. A film about a shared reality. In Concrete Stories, people from different countries who live in concrete…
Confession of the Vanished

Confession of the Vanished

The film follows the staging process of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic life of its composer Josef Mysliveček, a friend and teacher of W. A. Mozart.
Country of Dreams

Country of Dreams

The Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic is now in a very difficult situation.The majority of economic immigrants come to the Czech Republic already withhuge debts for intermediation their journey and extreme…
Courage

Courage

The documentary by Pavel Štingl focuses on the upcoming realization of the equestrian statue of the margrave Jost of Luxembourg in the Moravian metropolis, Brno. The three-year-long dialogue in front of the camera…
Crooks

Crooks

Silvie Dymáková's raw documentary uncovers the manipulation and pressure that exist behind the closed doors of "product demonstration excursions for seniors" in the Czech Republic. The sad heroes of her film show us the…
Czech Greens

Czech Greens

This documentary sets out to uncover the inner developments of a political party as well as the director's own political activism. It also discusses a number of other issues: Why do people distrust politicians? What…
The Czech Land, Your Home!

The Czech Land, Your Home!

Is your life fun, boring, tragic or a roller coaster? Are you happy, sad or put off by things around you? Shoot a day in your life and participate in The Czech Land, Your Home!. Filmmaker Adolf Zika encouraged ordinary…
Czechs against Czechs

Czechs against Czechs

After being left by his wife, the author decides to move from the centre of Prague to supposedly the worst Gypsy ghetto in the Czech Republic. He is taken under the wing of a clan of property owners.
Dakar Sistaz

Dakar Sistaz

Teenage twins Aliyyah and Yasmeen Koloc are a famous established brand.They win car races and have hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. But what happens when the sisters' paths begin to diverge?
The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček

The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček

A young director sets out to visit an old professor to ask him for the recipes for the body and soul. What advice can a girl with family in Bosnia receive from a Serbian nationalist and a close friend of Ratko...
Daniel's World

Daniel's World

Daniel is 25 years old. He studies at Academy of Literature and writes books. His stories are about a man who loves little boys. Once his friends asked him: Are you the pedophile you are writing about? Daniel stayed…
Day and Night

Day and Night

Stromovka Park (originally the King's Royal Game Preserve) and its close environment may become a downsized model (microcosm) of the world at large in which we see Nature, Man and society generally mirrored. Over the…
Diaries and Novels by Pavel Kohout

Diaries and Novels by Pavel Kohout

Pavel Kohout precisely records anything that happens on any given day in his diaries; we can therefore recall the social and personal vicissitudes in the life of a Czech writer thanks to random readings from his diaries…
Doomed Beauty

Doomed Beauty

Lída Baarová: an actress whose beauty was her greatest gift as well as her curse. As a young, attractive girl she quickly became the leading Czechoslovak movie star and was able to captivate the most feared men of her…
Dreams About the Stray Cats

Dreams About the Stray Cats

The film maps the life of Peter Sis, an important figure of the contemporary world art and cultural scene, children's books author, illustrator, graphic artist, creator of animated films and winner of many prestigious…
Epidemic of Freedom

Epidemic of Freedom

if you are afraid of a change, you will never change anything.
Eugenic Minds

Eugenic Minds

Selective human breeding during a time of ideologies that promised to create a perfect world. Eugenics was once considered more groundbreaking than the invention of the wheel. It was supposed to save mankind from…
Excursions

Excursions

A film excursion to the places of Europe’s history and to ourselves. Cruiser Aurora, the symbol of Russia, is leaving for repairs the river, in which the history of the world flows.
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman is a biographical film that looks back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema. It looks into the kitchen of the film tricks pioneer.
The Film Spa

The Film Spa

A history of the fifty editions of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Although first held in 1946, the twists and turns of the 20th century meant that the festival has only been able to celebrate its...
First Steps

First Steps

The observational documentary introduces several young people who have left the children's home, trying to stand on their own feet. The film captures their encounters with their parents, crisis situations with their…
Forman vs. Forman

Forman vs. Forman

The ultimate documentary biography of Oscar winning Czech director Miloš Forman. From his youth in Czechoslovakia under Nazi burden and communist rule to his first successes abroad with the Czech New Wave, his exile in…
For My Dad

For My Dad

Documentary “For My Dad” is a story of a woman, whose father was in 1950’s sentenced for his political activities to 25 years of imprisonment. What is the life of a child growing up in a rotten society of communist…
Fragments of P. K.

Fragments of P. K.

An original portrait of Pavel Koutecký, one of the most outstanding Czech documentary filmmakers. Koutecký mainly focused on documentary filmmaking, but he also experimented with animation. His films received many…
Fruit Falling On Its Own

Fruit Falling On Its Own

Documentary film about a painter and a graphic artist Jiří John who is a significant representant of the Czech post-war art. He was born in 1923 in Třešť, in the central Bohemia, the local nature inspired many of his…
Ghosts

Ghosts

A film about various forms of heroism, which turn out to be different when faced with history. We set out on a journey against the time, among the ruins of an abandoned military base in Central Europe (Milovice,...
Girl Power

Girl Power

Girl Power is a documentary about women whose life mission in life is making graffiti and street art. The film will introduce female writers from fifteen cities around the world in their authentic environment. The…
God Forsaken

God Forsaken

Six refugee stories taking place in the center of Europe in the country that opposes refugees the most, without having any of its own. What is the cause? Hatred, ignorance, or fear? Or maybe a little of everything?
The Good Death

The Good Death

The story about the ultimate decision. The last journey of English old lady Janette, who is choosing voluntary death over life. Do we own our life or does it own us?
The Good Driver Smetana

The Good Driver Smetana

Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda’s feature-length documentary about Olomouc bus driver Roman Smetana, who took on injustice, corruption, and Czech politics’ bad taste armed with a permanent marker. On election posters,…
The Gospel According to Brabenec

The Gospel According to Brabenec

This documentary is based on the book The Gospel according to Brabenec. Everything written in this book can be useful for the film. Important things has been said, but the most important things haven't been said yet.…
Gottland

Gottland

Gottland provides an unconventional look at Czechoslovak 20th century history. This film consisting of short stories portrays peculiar fates – the Letná Plain with the largest statue of Stalin replaced by a huge…
The Greatest Wish

The Greatest Wish

The seemingly simple question, “What is your greatest wish?” provokes the respondents to formulate their value system. The heroes of this film are young people born towards the end of the communist regime or shortly…
Gustáv Husák Centre Stage

Gustáv Husák Centre Stage

Memories of eyewitnesses, a portrait of a left-wing intellectual viewed from different angles and illustrated with archive materials and a theatre mis-en-scene. A man who used power to promote the Communist Party policy…
Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler

The music documentary recalls the personal and professional course of Mahler's life career, his deep inner connection to the Czech-Moravian Highlands and the town of Jihlava. On the background of the seventeen years of…
The Gutter

The Gutter

Czech Republic has achieved the global top position in drug consumption. Exploring the backgrounds of the champion.
Half Past Three

Half Past Three

A documentary film about peculiar and unconventional people living in a peculiar and unconventional place. After several visits to the easternmost region of interwar Czechoslovakia, a director and a cinematographer…
Happy Together

Happy Together

A documentary portrait of the family of a sinologist, who sets out to live in a small Chinese town in order to fulfil his dreams and continue in the footsteps of Chinese-Czechoslovak relations begun in the 1950s. The…
H*ART ON

H*ART ON

How do you find meaning in everyday fear, love, sex and loneliness? H*ART ON dives off into the deep end of modern art. A film about the yearning to create, to mold everyday emotions into a meaningful life and, most of…
Havel Circus

Havel Circus

Vaclav Havel personally returns to the stage – half-year lasting social-stage project of the theatre called Husa na provazku, with the programme culminating in scenic filming of Vaclav Havel’s dramas from Garden party…
Helena's Law

Helena's Law

Documentary detective story, a portrait of an elite cop Helena Káhnova, who discovered and arrested in the 90's the most famous czech criminal organization-so called Bardych's gang.
Hotelier

Hotelier

Theatre play “Hourly Hotelier” was written by Pavel Landovský at the end of 60’s and under Evald Schorm’s direction starred Oldřich Nový and Miroslav Homola. The piece became legendary in the Činoherní klub theatre.…
Hot Men Cold Dictatorships

Hot Men Cold Dictatorships

7 protagonists’ life stories show what it meant to be a gay man before the political „transition” in Hungary. Personal experiences uncovered and secret service files excavated reinterpret the past 50 years.
I am in the Garden

I am in the Garden

CHILDREN OF STALINISM series. A reconstruction of the cycling tour made by Mrs. Vera she used to make when visiting her father in jail. Ghosts of the past headed by K. Gottwald, first Czechoslovak working class…
If Pigeons Turned to Gold

If Pigeons Turned to Gold

A balancing act between love and hate, care and destruction in film that seeks to discover if family saves our life or – on the contrary – destroys it.
I Love My Boring Life

I Love My Boring Life

The diary of a grandmother from the Prague neighbourhood of Zbraslav as a diary of eternity. Using informal language, for five years grandmother Alena Němcová from Zbraslav has been writing down weather forecasts,…
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

Libuše has been capturing her life full of twists and turns in thousands of pictures and autoportraits. Yet the sudden photographic success after 53 years of work has not helped her to see her real self in the mirror.
Infant Jesus of Prague

Infant Jesus of Prague

The film depicts the phenomenon of the Infant of Prague - one of the most famous sights in the capital of Czech Republic. It was very complicated to search through archives, but it happend to be quite the only way to…
In Spite of Fate

In Spite of Fate

The documentary depicts a life story of a man, whose fate was not much benign to him. It is a story of a man, who, in spite of inconceivable suffering and critical, seemingly irresoluble situations that life has brought…
The Investigator

The Investigator

Former Czech investigator of the Hague Tribunal returns to Balkans, to places where the war crimes were committed nearly 30 years ago. Can justice be brought from the outside?
It's Spring in Prague Every Year/It's the Prague Spring Every Year, Opus No. 1

It's Spring in Prague Every Year/It's the Prague Spring Every Year, Opus No. 1

Two clarinet players, one Czech and one Israeli, first sing to one another over the phone and then send each other emails with photographs of their concert gowns. Several days prior to their performance, they meet and…
Ivetka and the Mountain

Ivetka and the Mountain

One day in the summer of 1990, two ten-year-old girls were playing in a clearing on Mount Zvir near the East Slovak village of Litmanová. Suddenly they heard strange and frightening noises. Overcome by fear and anxiety,…
I Won’t Sell My Soul

I Won’t Sell My Soul

Childless couples frequently arrange and pay for surrogacy. Yet surrogacy can be a minefield of complex issues. Nikola, once a surrogate mother, filed a lawsuit to keep her child. After Renata had given birth to a baby…
Jan Balabán - In His Own Words

Jan Balabán - In His Own Words

A prominent Czech prose writer and winner of two Magnesia Litera awards, Jan Balabán died in his sleep at the age of almost 49. He left behind a family, several books and a whole range of image and sound recordings of…
Jaroslav Kučera A Portrait

Jaroslav Kučera A Portrait

A story of a man, who dreamed to become a painter, but could not resist the opportunity to take part in enormous social experiment.
Jenica & Perla

Jenica & Perla

Documentary about two teenage girl friends Jenica and Perla from excluded Roma communities - a slum in Eastern Slovakia and a suburb of Paris.
Jiri Kylian

Jiri Kylian

Jiri Kylian is one of the most significant personalities in choreography. Even after fleeing his homeland for The Netherlands in 1968, he did not lose contact with Czech culture - the “Sinfonietta” by Leos Janacek…
Jiří Suchý - Tackling Life with Ease

Jiří Suchý - Tackling Life with Ease

A portrait of the legendary and iconic personality of Czech culture, actor, musician, poet, composer, writer, filmmaker, graphic designer, theatre director and collector, Jiří Suchý. With his versatile genius talent, he…
Karel Malich - Visionary in the Age of Reason

Karel Malich - Visionary in the Age of Reason

The film will be created in the atelier or Mr. Malich where he himself will be our guide. We will get a chance to visit Malich's exposition in Koblenz, presenting his retrospective, including more than 150 pieces of art…
Karel Reisz, This Filming Life

Karel Reisz, This Filming Life

Karel Reisz was the founder of the Free Cinema movement in Great Britain. He was born before the beginning of WWI in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. At the age of 13 he managed to escape a Jewish pogrom thanks to the famous…
Karel Schwarzenberg: History of Mumbling

Karel Schwarzenberg: History of Mumbling

A portrait of Karel Schwarzenberg, introduced by an animated passage in which the Czech politician recapitulates the history of his aristocratic family. The current foreign minister (born 1937) describes his life,…
Koudelka Shooting Holy Land

Koudelka Shooting Holy Land

Czech photographer ​Josef Koudelka g​rew up behind the Iron Curtain and always wanted to know “what was on the other side”. Forty years after capturing the iconic images of the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, the…
Landscape – Mirror of the Soul

Landscape – Mirror of the Soul

The first documentary film in 3D. A film about wandering through the countryside that brings us to the doorstep of our soul. Do we really believe that it is possible to stay healthy in the midst of broken families and a…
Life with Jester

Life with Jester

For 23 years, Helena Třeštíková followed the story of actor and stage director Jakub Špalek. The first piece of footage was shot in Autumn 1989 when Jakub, then a theatre academy student, was actively involved in the…
The Limits of Work

The Limits of Work

Portrait of the czech journalist Saša Uhlová, who tries to work as unqualified employee for a half of year and brings her own personal stories from the worst paid places in the Czech republic.
Lost 45

Lost 45

An eminent Czech painter and writer Josef Čapek allegedly died in April 1945 during a typhoid outbreak in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Some credible witnesses claimed, however, that they saw him after the end…
Lost Holiday

Lost Holiday

A documentary detective story. Lada, a Czech traveller, finds by chance a dirty suitcase in a Swedish waste bin. It contains only a very carefully packed plastic bag full of film rolls. Lada takes all of the 22 film…
The Magic Voice of a Rebel

The Magic Voice of a Rebel

For 20 years, Marta Kubišová endured with dignity in opposition to the communist regime. The tree-time winner of the Golden Nightingale Awards (1966, 1968 and 1969) was shot down at the height of her professional career…
Mallory

Mallory

Life hasn’t been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street.
Mánes under Water

Mánes under Water

The building of the art fellowship Manes as a witnes to the cultural and social changes in the stream of time. The film documentary Mánes under Water sketches the history of the eponymous structure from its erection…
March or Die

March or Die

Many Czechs a Slovaks were fighting and dying in terrible conditions in the war in Indochina and Vietnam. We tell their forgotten stories.
Martin Luther: Swipe with Faith

Martin Luther: Swipe with Faith

Life of a Catholic priest, professor and reformer, Martin Luther, and celebrating the five-year anniversary of the beginning of the European Reformation.
Mills of God

Mills of God

During 1945-1955 the cultural landscape of Böhmerwald changed into a death zone. The film is a reconstruction of the "Iron Curtain" creation, a documentation of persons murdered by the Border guard and an analysis of so…
Mom from Jail

Mom from Jail

“If a child can’t change a person, nothing ever will.”
My Father Antonín Kratochvíl

My Father Antonín Kratochvíl

“I was still a boy when I picked up the phone and on the other end was my father… the father they’d all told me was dead.“
My Home

My Home

A story of an unusual family in Kiev fighting the real estate injustice. Natasha, the head of the family, is trying to preserve the family farm, which is now surrounded by modern living quarters. In addition to that,…
The Mystery of Sklep Theater - A Guide to Saving the World

The Mystery of Sklep Theater - A Guide to Saving the World

Our film tells the secrets of Sklep Theater, its past and present, as well as the principles behind its admirably long existence and persistence.
The Mystery of Tantra

The Mystery of Tantra

A feature-length documentary about secret Asian art.
Mythmaking

Mythmaking

Kateřina Šedá, a figure of international renown, enters with her social and art projects the life of her native Brno-Líšeň and the neighbouring Bedřichovice village. A montage of two parallel and mutually intertwined…
The Navel of the Sky

The Navel of the Sky

"I don’t want to be navel of the Earth. Earth has navels galore, it doesn’t need me. I want to be the sky’s navel. An air pocket, a black hole’s the role for me. There is more freedom and more liberty there." Viktar…
Non Parents

Non Parents

Me and my friends are over thirty, the vast majority do not have children and those who do, the situation is more difficult than we have ever realized. And we have begun to solve it, each in our own way.
No Regrets

No Regrets

The film consists of two independent stories, each showing seemingly commonplace family relationships that everyone can relate to. The situations that are played out against this familiar background are very uncommon,…
Normal Autistic Film

Normal Autistic Film

What is it to be normal? Instead of looking at autism as a diagnosis, the film shows it as a magic and mysterious way of thinking
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys

Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys

Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit…
The  Old Man And The World

The Old Man And The World

If there was a man who could remember all the things that have happened in the last hundred years! If there was a person who could remember it! Just imagine a man who’s been writing his diary every day for 88 years!…
Olga

Olga

Olga Havlová was the closest and most trustworthy companion of Václav Havel, a friend who was never a spoilsport – on the contrary, she initiated the fun herself – a generous host, passionate games-player and mushroom…
On Decency

On Decency

Mr. K., a sturdy miner in his fifties, sits in the living room of his spacious apartment in a block of flats. He is exhausted and can hardly control his emotions. He is on the verge of crying. "I hate them. The only…
Passengers

Passengers

How does it feel to take a backseat to your own life?
Patty Cake, Patty Cake

Patty Cake, Patty Cake

Baby or career? Is running back to work with a new born baby in the house careerist? Is becoming a full-time mother anti-feminist? Can fathers substitute mothers as infant caretakers? Shot in the Czech Republic, where…
Pavel Wonka Commits to Cooperate

Pavel Wonka Commits to Cooperate

Pavel Wonka was a political prisoner of the communist régime in Czechoslovakia. In 1992, the Lidove Noviny dailies published a story, including a testimony by a former communist secret police collaborator, who described…
Peace to Their Souls

Peace to Their Souls

Shot as a historical documentary, this feature-length film almost exclusively casts non-actors. It takes the viewer through nearly a century of life in Paseky nad Jizerou, a village situated in the foothills of Northern…
Peace with Seals

Peace with Seals

Framed by two stories, this feature documentary fable Peace with Seals deals with the concept of "human nature". The first story is about a seal named Gaston who, according to the Prague Zoo director, became "the most…
Peasant Common Sense

Peasant Common Sense

Originally, this film – which made waves in Czech society – was supposed to be about Czech agriculture and about the factors that have the greatest impact on it. But one of the most important factors turned out to be…
Peculiarity of Fisherman's Soul

Peculiarity of Fisherman's Soul

A nordic adventure with a Czech group of blokes from a pub
Pepik the Czech Goes to Poland In a Quest for Love of God

Pepik the Czech Goes to Poland In a Quest for Love of God

What happens when a representative of the most atheist nation in Europe is sent to the most religious country in EU, Poland? A performative documentary about neighbors with very different view of religion.
Phantom of Liberty II

Phantom of Liberty II

In the so-called global age, man is caught in the trap of time he has set for himself and then got stuck in it along with his freedom. A film about time, which consists of several fragmentary documentary sequences. Each…
The Plan

The Plan

Documentary film Plan maps the process of the development of the new zoning plan of Prague since the year 2009. The word „zoning plan“ becomes a metaphor of the society‘s evolution and its movement in the 21st century.…
Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory

A documentary feature film by Swiss director Richard Dindo about the Prague Conservatory. An intimate insight into the world of students and teachers of music.
Prague Outskirts Images

Prague Outskirts Images

On Prague outskirts´ magnetism that inspired several generations of Czech modern art.
President Wanted

President Wanted

In the year 2013 we experienced an unique moment in our modern history: for the first time ever, Czechs were choosing their president through direct elections. Throughout the land people were expectantly awaiting a…
Private Century - A Stroke of Butterfly Wings

Private Century - A Stroke of Butterfly Wings

A Stroke of Butterfly Wings is a view into the family background of composer Václav Felix from the 1930s to 1980s. It shows the sequence of events and context in which Václav's procommunist attitude was formed. Václav's…
Private Century - See you in Denver

Private Century - See you in Denver

The life story of each of us is unique and unrepeatable. The „Private Century" shows history as intimate human stories. The fate of two generations of Hvanhara family depicted through 1920 - 1970 is an apt reflection of…
Private Century - With Kisses from Your Love

Private Century - With Kisses from Your Love

With Kisses from Your Love. History is a mosaic of unrepeatable human destinies. Another part of the series Private Century deals with 1940s and 1950s. This film is based on the private film archives of the Šlechtl…
Private Universe

Private Universe

Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years…
Prize Jindrich Chalupecky

Prize Jindrich Chalupecky

The documentary introduces the original personality of the greatest Czech art theorist of the 20th century Jindřich Chalupecký as well as the history of the Jindřich Chalupecký Association founded in 1990 after his…
Red Cowboy

Red Cowboy

Clyde Lee Conrad was an officer in the U.S. Army in West Germany, where he was tasked with protecting the top secret documents related to the military plans in case of a war with the Soviet bloc. He was recruited in…
Remembering

Remembering

Are Czechs happy? What do they strive for? Are Czechs impassive or do they desire personal and social changes? What is the feeling of a contemporary citizen of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic? In March…
René

René

This raw authentic documentary film tells the story of René whose life was being captured on camera since he was seventeen. The camera followed his hopeless journey between prison and brief periods outside the prison…
Resort

Resort

At the beginning of the 1960s a secret summer getaway for the communist establishment was developed on the banks of Orlík reservoir.
Return of Agnieszka H.

Return of Agnieszka H.

Return of Agnieszka H. is a multi-layered story of Agnieszka Holland's youth; her time spent studying at FAMU in Prague, her fascination with Czech culture, which she still keeps today. We can almost feel the atmosphere…
Revolution Girls

Revolution Girls

Revolution Girls is the story of one generation of Czech women who took part in the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Though their lives took different directions after the student strike in 1989, they still share some of the…
Richard Müller: This Is Not Me

Richard Müller: This Is Not Me

An intimate portrait of a legendary csechoslovak singer Richard Müller on a tour with his band Fragile.
RINO - The Spy Story

RINO - The Spy Story

A full-length docudrama as a spy detective story. The story of Czechoslovak agents Karel and Hana Köcher planted in the USA in 1965 and arrested by the FBI in 1984.
Searching for the Light

Searching for the Light

A full-length documentary dedicated to life and work of Antonin Kratochvil. B&W feature film captures inner worlds of this world-famous photographer and all periods of his life in an in-depth, yet attractive form.…
The Second Life of Jitka K

The Second Life of Jitka K

The film is a personal story of a young woman Jitka, concerning a recent period of her life in which she was sick with leukaemia.
Shitcredit

Shitcredit

You take out a loan and then have to pay several times over the loaned sum or you lose your house for a few thousand or you find yourself in debt for the rest of your life. Chang the rapper talks about "Shitcredit".…
Show!

Show!

A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of the singers, over the course of five years the girl band 5Angels had…
Solo for One Hand

Solo for One Hand

"It's like dancing on one leg!" – The genesis adventure of the top Janacek's composition for one arm and its first performer Otakar Hollmann.
Sonderaktion Prag

Sonderaktion Prag

In the Czech history, October 17 is largely connected to the year 1989 while the events of 1939 tend to slip from our attention. It was then, however, when the event "Sonderaktion Prag vom 17 November 1939" took place,…
Steam on the River

Steam on the River

La vie de bohème the documentary way and a story of three extraordinary jazzmen. They are members of the same generation, influenced by the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Sugar Blues

Sugar Blues

The director, who is currently suffering from pregnancy diabetes, is suddenly forced to give up refined sugar. Suffering from the withdrawal symptoms, she realises how difficult it really is.
Tears of Steel: Vladimír Stehlík Meets Lubomír Krystlík

Tears of Steel: Vladimír Stehlík Meets Lubomír Krystlík

A documentary comedy about an era of high hopes and even greater disillusions, about the wild Czech journey to capitalism, about a steep rise and deep fall. Also, a film about the art of aging and the ways of dealing…
Theatre Svoboda

Theatre Svoboda

Theatre Svoboda portraits the life and work of the director’s grandfather, world-famous stage designer Josef Svoboda (1920–2002), who tried to juggle creative freedom, family life and political allegiances during the…
Theatre Svoboda (TV version)

Theatre Svoboda (TV version)

Theatre Svoboda portraits the life and work of the director’s grandfather, world-famous stage designer Josef Svoboda (1920–2002), who tried to juggle creative freedom, family life and political allegiances during the…
The Ticking Man

The Ticking Man

The Ticking Man project depicts the past, present and future of the hip hop band WWW; one of the most interesting art groups of the present and the near future. WWW is a unique phenomenon on the Czech music and cultural…
Trabant – From Australia to Bangkok

Trabant – From Australia to Bangkok

Two Trabants, one Polish Fiat and an two motorcycles set out on a journey from Australia to Bangkok. In addition to multiple dangers lurking in the unknown environments, the team faces a new challenge of having…
Trabant Vs. South America

Trabant Vs. South America

The first Czech doc-reality film and series: eight people with three cars and one motorbike cross six countries in frour months. 20 406 km across the most beautiful and the toughest terrain South America has to offer.…
Trafačka - Temple of Freedom

Trafačka - Temple of Freedom

Made since 2006 by means of the observational method, the documentary captures the development of a former transformer repair plant in Prague's Vysočany quarter, starting from the moment when a group of artists…
Treating History

Treating History

An anarchist, a Jesuit, a female senator and a bank expert, allies in civic courage. František Kriegel was one of the most courageous men in the modern history of Czechoslovakia, and was the only one of the country's…
Under Surveillance

Under Surveillance

For decades StB (State Security) surveillance served for power interests and were often the cause of many years of prison sentences, disgusting form of bullying, invasions of privacy, psychological blackmail. StB…
Under the Sun

Under the Sun

Based on unprecedented access, this film shows life in North Korea more extensively than ever. Director Vitaly Mansky received an official permission for this first Russian-North Korean documentary collaboration. The…
University and Freedom

University and Freedom

The University – Idea and its lives in the times when education becomes commodity.
Universum Brdečka

Universum Brdečka

...a story of one man’s inner world The film celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiří Brdečka.
Váňa - The Biggest Race Is Life Itself

Váňa - The Biggest Race Is Life Itself

A portrait of the legendary jockey Josef Váňa gradually reveals his inner world. Using a very civil approach, the filmmakers spent one year with the jockey. The film closely follows Váňa and, at the same time, offers an…
Velvet Divorce

Velvet Divorce

Twenty one years after Velvet Divorce A few months after jettisoning Communism in 1989, the path was open to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. This was completed at the turn of 1992 and 1993, when two new states…
Věra Čáslavská - 68

Věra Čáslavská - 68

The film about Věra Čáslavská is an evaluation of her life. With seven gold and four silver Olympic medals, she is the most successful Czechoslovak female athelte as well as the fourth most successful Olympic female…
Vierka, Or the Mystery of Family B's Disappearance

Vierka, Or the Mystery of Family B's Disappearance

This documentary started out as a portrait of a young talented Roma singer but turned into a drama about two different views of "the truth". Coincidence is instrumental at the beginning of the film and the end is…
Viva Video, Video Viva

Viva Video, Video Viva

A documentary exploration and reconstruction of Czech video art against a background of communist totalitarianism.
Vojta Lavička - Ups and Downs

Vojta Lavička - Ups and Downs

Longitudinal documentary film was shot for past 16 years and the main protagonist is Roman musician and activist Vojta Lavička. Vojta is a master in violin play, who focuses not only on music but also deals with…
Vote for Kibera

Vote for Kibera

Documentary from the the biggest African slum where several characters try to change their and the other’s future. How will the presidential elections influence their lives?
Wave vs. Shore

Wave vs. Shore

Wave vs. Shore is a documentary about the extraordinary generation of Slovak photographers, who got together at FAMU in Prague at the beginning of the 1980s and enriched the fine art photography by unconventional...
The White World According to Daliborek

The White World According to Daliborek

The White World According to Daliborek is a portrait of authentic Czech neo- Nazi from Prostejov, who was filmed for two years by the film crew of Vit Klusak.
Whose is my child

Whose is my child

For several years, men in developed societies can verify whether they are real fathers of their children. Genetic paternity tests give them the confidence they never had. Why does the question of biological paternity…
Wilder Than Wilderness

Wilder Than Wilderness

On the road into the wilderness of European backyards. Wildlife travelogue about resilient power and variety of nature.
Wild Works

Wild Works

A visual essay about the wilderness and its (in)dispensability. Old wildernesses are long lost. There are deeds, however, which are trying to bring them back. Can we live alongside with wolves, bears, or bisons? The…
Wolf

Wolf

A cinematic psychoanalysis of a filial trauma incurred as a result of war-related events that took place seventy years ago. Benjamin Murmelstein served as a rabbi in Terezín and he was assigned to write down a list of…
Wolves at the Borders

Wolves at the Borders

Wolves are back: a blessing or a curse? They have returned. They steal and kill. They bring fear to some and hope to others. They divide our society. Wolves are back!
Žalman In Seven Scenes

Žalman In Seven Scenes

The documentary is dedicated to the leading Czech songwriter, folk legend Pavel Žalman Lohonka (born 1946). In 2018 he will celebrate 50 years on the Czech music scene, where he still pays for the icon of the original…
Zatopek

Zatopek

Determination, will and talent. The quest for success of the Czechoslovak cross-country legend in a documentary by David Ondříček
Zuzana Michnová: Regarding Fame I Can´t Complain

Zuzana Michnová: Regarding Fame I Can´t Complain

A feature-length documentary film about the singer-songwriter Zuzana Michnová. Best known for her long-time collaboration with the folk band Marsyas, 63-year-old Michnová still tours the Czech Republic to perform to…
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