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A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement…
Wild Prague
Secret residents of a busy city reveal their faces. Nature always finds its way. Wildlife in Prague called the Mother of all Cities.
Pongo Story
A Romany love story from contemporary Europe.
Communism - and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy
A new, cheerful film essay by Karel Vachek is a collage composed of staged passages from literature, personal memories, and tableaux from world history.
The Vasulka Effect
The Vasulkas, international pioneers of video art and lifetime hackers, sometimes called the grandparents of the “YouTube” generation, are struggling with finances. They have been busy archiving their work at their…
D is for Division
Two worlds defined by a dividing line, two contradictory views of the past as well as the present. A film dealing with the tension existing on the borders between Europe and Russia.
We Can Do Better
As the personal advisor to presidential candidate Michal Horáček, documentary filmmaker Robin Kvapil recorded from behind the scenes of the campaign from autumn 2016. He filmed using anything he could get his hands on -…
Blind Gulliver
Film about a blurred vision of the world, corrections of vision and the distresses of life on the road.
My Name is Hungry Buffalo
Born to be blind! A documentary tragicomedy about a man who learnt to see with no eyes.
Wilder Than Wilderness
On the road into the wilderness of European backyards. Wildlife travelogue about resilient power and variety of nature.
Human, That Is Science
A five-part documentary series about what is behind normal human behavior.
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…
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…
Catenaccio à la Drnovice
Located near the South Moravian town of Vyškov, the small village of Drnovice boasts a football stadium for ten thousand fans. It is a pyramid of a long-lost football civilization that used to be ruled by famous names.…
Lise Forell – sem frontieras
The film explores borders in the life of a woman who broke away from her family's expectations in 1939 and set out to define her own ground with her own rules. Lise Forell, a Brazilian painter of Czech-German descent,…
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…
The Children of Our Parents
Tom Feierabend is a California-based filmmaker who spent his youth surfing in the Pacific Ocean. He is also the grandson of politician Ladislav Feierabend whose memoirs published in the 1990s belonged among bestselling…
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…
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…
Desk-based Assassination
Can Czech politicians acknowledge their own mistakes? Do they have a sense of humour? The answers are explored in a film account of the so-called Sarajevo assassination which was meant to unseat Václav Klaus as Prime…
Film Schools and Societies
A documentary film that examines the tradition of film schools and film societies in our country.The film covers the history of Czech film clubs dating back to the 1940s until today. Paralelly it follows the activity of…
Way to Power
Tissues of power inside political parties are covered by a veil of secrecy for non-party people. What decides that some members get to the top of the party hierarchy and others will always fail? What relationships, what…
Krejča Behind the Gate
This portrait of the actor and stage director emerged out of the cooperation of Otomar Krejča on the previous film by Radim Procházka Naše lípa (Our Linden). In it Krejča appears in the role of the director and the…