Dagmar Smržová

Czech Republic

Dagmar Smržová

director, script writer

The Body in My Head

The Body in My Head

Starting at a young age, they have faced criticism, insults and humiliation because of how they look. Now a group of men and women meet in a TV studio to talk about their experiences of body shaming and ways to confront…
I Want You If You Dare

I Want You If You Dare

A film about disabled women and their desires. The story is spiced by the extrovert nature of the heroines and the controversial situations they are captured in. The main character, Jana, 27, has DMO and can’t move.…
Love Me If You Can

Love Me If You Can

A tragicomic documentary about three heroes and their intractable journey in search of physical love.
The Story of Mr. Love

The Story of Mr. Love

Director Dagmar Smrzova's new documentary looks into the every-day life of an ordinary man who suffers from schizophrenia. Thirty-year-old Jiri Laska (his last name means 'love'), who lives in a village under the…
Sex Education in Bohemia

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…
Saving Edwards

Saving Edwards

For the purposes of this film, Edwards is a child; a long-awaited child of a loving couple, a child struck by a terrible and fatal mistake at conception. Edwards had an extra chromosome, one more than the exact number…
The Hardest of Choices

The Hardest of Choices

A documentary looking at the lives of four women and their partners who have refused abortions after discovering they are expecting handicapped children. The author captures their reactions on learning of their babies'…
War in the Memory of Women

War in the Memory of Women

The film focuses on six women whose lives were affected and changed by the Second World War. The documentary presnts six unique stories of five Czech and one German women who experienced the tragedies of World War II.…