Everything Has Its Own Time
How to come to terms with loss, to treat the remains, to understand the meaning of memories? When we enter a picture, we leave the frame. We meet ideas of images. And through this encounter we gain an image of the future
Republic of Jagr
Why Czechs have chosen Jaromi Jagr, a nation wide heroe and our the best ice-hockey player, as thier God?
Dromoracing
This short hybrid essay based on French philosopher Paul Virilio's theory of “dromology” follows a racecar driver named Irina, who enjoys life in the fast lane more than anything else, and a French expert who explains…
how much is it uncomfortable for dogs to step out on a highway?
The primary motif of the documentary is the journey. A metaphorical journey, a spiritual journey, a tangible journey, a forest path, a road, a sidewalk, a drug trip, or a journey abroad. The director pastes together a…
Humans
On the one hand, the multi-layered film functions as an autobiographical portrait of a non-binary person, but at the same time it presents the wide range of difficulties and joys that trans and non-binary people in the…
Lycaeon
This combined film melds together not only different techniques but also different thematic topics. The titular mythical figure is just one of the actors in this dreamworld speaking to a contemporary audience in codes…
Passportless Mess
An idiot for some, a genius for others. Zoran is an urban legend of a Serbian block of flats who allegedly travelled the whole world without a single ID on him. After that, he went nuts due to politics, war and MDMA. “I…
Serpentis
A meditative film revealing urban and natural recesses crossed by endless nooks of industrial piping intertwining its surroundings like a Uroboros serpent. The pipes guide the camera eye across large fields and blocks…
Beautiful Solution
Do we need pesticides, if we have flower strips?
White Room
Did you think nothing could erase your memories?
Botanical
The plants from the botanical garden decide to go on a trip to Mount Olympus. The top of the mountain is so stunning and calm that they decide to root themselves right there and never return to the botanical garden.
We are epicenters of the earthquake
The earth is scorched; trees are dying; species are becoming extinct; rivers are drying up. Human interventions have thrown the ecosystem off balance. The irreversible changes will have a devastating impact. A trip of a…
Apparatgeist
The concept of Apparatgeist expresses how mankind’s relationship with technology evolves and how it transforms our social contacts. In a similar fashion to the authors of this theory, James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus, the…
Daily Manure
Do areálu zemědělského pozemku každý týden přijíždí kamiony a vysypou na zem tuny přebytkové zeleniny a pečiva. Filmová báseň zachycuje zemědělský cyklus a dění na bioplynové stanici v rámci 4 ročních období.
Exhausted Sun
A mysterious cinematic poem about remembering a long-lost summer afternoon. Disturbing abstract details of natural elements permeate the metaphor of a children's game, passing in a contemplative vision of the spiritual…
Nekyia: Inner portrait of the poet Hradecky
Poet Daniel Hradecký is the main actor of of this inter-genre film about a journey into the depths of his own consciousness. The black and white documentary parable looks into the human soul with interplay of sounds and…
OK2PAY
A black and white portrait of cameraman and amateur radio operator Ladislav Prajsner who uses the popular OK2PAY American term on the airwaves. In this field, he is one of the best since he has managed to gradually…
The Call of the Wild
Everybody knows that a fence means a border around our property. Stop! Only thieves and small boys don’t respect these borders. Ok, let´s go with them.
Why Do I Feel Like A Boy?
In a small village in the southern Czech Highlands, the director meets with sixteen-year-old Ben to examine the issue of defining his identity in person: Ben is living in a girl’s body, but feels like a boy. With his…
Empire Builders
Do they control ideology or does ideology control them?
This Kind of Spring Has Never Been Yet
This personal essay relates the perception of space to the mental universe of screenwriter and director Pavel Juráček who found his “truly ideal place” in the town of Příbram. The sensitive combination of journal…
An Absence of Reciprocity in Vulnerability, Losses and Risks
A documentary study of the eye and its functions. A compilation of images from various places gives the function of the eye new meanings. It is a tool for instilling fear, the soldier uses it to find his target, and…
Kalado
“There are many teachings in the world – karate, aikido, tai chi, yoga. But none teach you purification. Only kalado,” says the film’s protagonist, the performance artist Sai Kijima. As the viewer listens to his…
llllllIIIIl
The film’s title can be seen as an anti-captcha, a text that is easily machine-read but difficult for people to understand. Working in the style of a documentary essay, the film considers the problem of the autocracy of…
Woman Rose Song Bone
Zúčastněné pozorování menstruačního cyklu skrze portréty různých žen.
Traces, Fragments, Roots
A personal film poem about the blending of the past and the present.
A Man Can Get by on His Own, or Rather not
A diary of a theatre director, where everything is a "play for real". A detective tragicomical staging of his own life and death on stage and off stage. Petr Lébl... Tel Aviv, mon amour...
Hi, I'm Doing Fine
The director Johana Švarcová after years went to a treatment facility for children where she spent few months in her childhood. Observational film tells very sensitively a subtle story of young patients, whose world…