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.
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…
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…
Breaking the Circle
Short documentary film about a MSF (Doctors without Borders) mission in Guatemala. The mission deals with sexual violence in the capital.
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…
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…
The Day after a Long Night
Libuše Audrlická, a Czech, Barbara Müller, a Pole, and Inna Klimenko, an Ukrainian, were three women out of a total of 13 million people who were employed as forced labourers under the Third Reich during the Second…
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…
Home
This is a personal exploration of the physical and mental repercussions of emigration. In 1969 a pregnant 18-year old girl flees her country with her married lover as the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague.…
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,…
Journey - Portrait of Vera Chytilova
A documentary about the current life and of Czech New Wave legend Věra Chytilová. Although the 74-year-old director is respected as a seminal director in the history of Czech film, she is yet to attain true happiness.…
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.
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…
Night Talks
The film tells the story of an exiled family whose members live in various parts of the world. The director attempts to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.
Over the Hills
AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY TO THE FAR EAST AS WELL AS INTO ONE’S OWN PAST.
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.…
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 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…
Rules of the Game - Delimitation of Space
The project entitled Rules of the Game developed into a series of institutional portraits. The first part Defining the Space takes place during the NATO Summit in Prague in 2002. It deals with the specificity of such a…
Situation of the Street, or the Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves
A story of Prague's National Street captured in the here and now. National Street exceedes the presence of a street which, however, is not present - its essential film presence is, then, a negation of presence, a…
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…
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…
Who Will Guard the Guard? Dalibor or The Key to Uncle Tom's Cottage
The fourth and final part of the documentary tetralogy Little Capitalist that mirrors the ups and downs of post-revolution Czech society. Stage director J.A. Pitínský leads rehearsals of Bedřich Smetana's opera Dalibor…