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.
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 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.
Amerika
Bára is the daughter of Czech immigrants in Canada. She has returned to the Czech Republic to get to know her parents’ country.
Auto*Mate
"A playful film essay about our automobile-automatic society. A film crossing the border of its media, turning into a social act.Martin Mareček: “I lived in downtown Prague, in the ""heart of Europe"". In Prague, ""the…
Better to Go Mad in the Wild
The life story about three generations of modern day hermits living an isolated life away from civilisation.
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.
Citizen Havel
In the course of 13 years the crew has filmed 45 hours of images and recorded 90 hours of sound material. This truly unique material offers new looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and…
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…
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…
Cooking History
A documentary film about army cooks. It shows how the everyday need of thousands armed stomachs affects the victories and defeats. About the field "kitchen" as a model of a world where food preparation becomes a fight…
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…
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…
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...
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 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.…
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…
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…
I Guess We'll Meet at the Eurocamp
A documentary about a village with no traditional Czech pub on the square, but a Eurocamp on the periphery instead. A film about opportunities and about the ironic reality of a Czech village in the European Union. What…
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,…
Jan Hus - A Mass for Three Dead Men
Jan Hus - A Mass for Three Dead Men tries to recover the legacy of the medieval reformist priest Jan Hus who was burnt to death by inquisition for his criticism and calling for reformation of the Catholic Church in 1415…
Katka
Helena Třeštíková's film is a remarkable documentary tracing fourteen years in the life of a young junkie and her futile battle with drug addiction. Why did she start taking drugs? She claims she wanted to be different.…
King Skate
The first feature-length documentary about the rise of skateboarding in Czechoslovakia presents a gripping tale of the search for freedom in a society stifled by the communist regime.
Lean a Ladder Against Heaven
The film was shot over a period of five years at the parish in a small village in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. The local priest Marian Kuffa takes care of nearly 250 people. With them he talks on daily basis and…
Left, Right, Forward!
In our documentary film, we follow members of two very different organizations: the young communists and the young conservatives. Through their lives and ideas, we will try to understand why these young people link…
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.
Marcela
The extraordinary life of an ordinary woman. The fifth part of a series entitled "Marriage Stories" featured Marcela, whose story started in 1980 at the Prague town hall. Still in black and white, the film follows…
Ms. President
Slovakia’s first female president Zuzana Čaputová is on a mission to challenge the world's coarseness with her kindness.
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.“
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…
Peculiarity of Fisherman's Soul
A nordic adventure with a Czech group of blokes from a pub
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.…
Planet Prague
Secret residents of a busy city reveal their faces. Nature always finds its way. Wildlife in Prague called the Mother of all Cities.
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…
The Prison of History
A shared past as a starting point to a shared future. The main character is an abandoned prison in Uherské Hradiště.
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…
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…
Short Long Journey
" About people, not only about Jews, about the evil in us, not only about the holocaust,about the present not only about the past" In April 1945 Vojtech Gál was murdered on the way from Sachsenhausen to Schwerin. In…
Tantra
Sex is our lifelong companion. Tantra reveals a way to utilise the potential of sexual energy for personal development, to cultivate sexuality and to use its energy in all spheres of life. Tantra can become a discovery…
Tomorrow Will Be Better
In January 2010, Libor Podmol arrived in the USA to buy a motorbike from one of the biggest names in freestyle motorcross. The battle for the freestyle motorcross world champion is on. This attractive sport full of…
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
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.…
Universum Brdečka
...a story of one man’s inner world
The film celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiří Brdečka.
Viva Video, Video Viva
A documentary exploration and reconstruction of Czech video art against a background of communist totalitarianism.
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…
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...
Welcome to North Korea!
In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a "journey into the unknown", a tour of North Korea. This trip was the second time since 1990 that a group of Czech tourists set foot in North Korea. The film follows…
Wilder Than Wilderness
On the road into the wilderness of European backyards. Wildlife travelogue about resilient power and variety of nature.
Year of Marihuana
Year of Marihuana follows a whole range of people dealing with cannabis, approaching its use from various perspectives. It introduces professor Hanuš, a scientist who dedicated his professional career to cannabis…