25 from the 1960s or the Czechoslovak New Wave
The two-part documentary feature represents a complex view of the phenomenon of the Czech and Slovak new wave cinema in the cultural, social and political context of the 1960s. The twenty five key films with…
Abandoned Space
Smrt představuje cosi, na co je moderní společnost alergická – to, co se nedá kontrolovat, nad čím nemůžeme racionálně zvítězit. To, co je větší než my, co staví náš veškerý um, naše vědomosti a schopnosti mimo provoz.…
A Town Called Hermitage
Rising above an entertaning mosaic of the lives of several inhabitants of the "uprooted" village of Dolni Poustevna on the Šluknov promotory - the Vietnamese girl Denisa, a group of retarded inmates from the local…
From Cherries to Cherries
The director made the documentary film From Cherries to Cherries about her mother after the death of her father. Against the backdrop of one year in the garden, which the father used to take care of, mother and daughter…
God's Stone Quarry (One Year In North Bohemia)
"For someone, it's Gott, for another, it's Satan. I put sugar in my coffee. Each has his own truths, even the crystalline rock in the Krušné Hory mountains. The buzzard snatched the young hare and the spider lies in…
Granny
55 years old Tamara is fed up with men of her own generation, whom she perceivesas constant bitter wiseacres deprived of all ideals in life. She posts an online ad:"Mature, slightly kinky female is searching for boys…
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…
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…
Let Misik Sing!
Documentary feature about legendary Czech rocker Vladimir Misik.
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…
Miloš Forman: What Doesn’t Kill You…
Though a number of documentaries about Miloš Forman have been made in recent years, it is a subject that will never cease to inspire other filmmakers. Over the last fifteen years, Forman's life has taken some unexpected…
Nazareth - Until We Drop
Šmídmajer's documentary film is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous bands in rock history. In the 1970s, Nazareth ranked in the music charts along with such prominent names as the Rolling Stones, Sweet,…
Sex Education in Bohemia
A documentary comedy with elements of dark humour focusing on how Czech people learn about sexuality and how they teach it to their children. The film is the very first probe into a wider social debate: how to deal with…
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…
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?
Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting
Feature lenght documentary portrait with acted segments