Helios
One of the best ways to study the Sun and its corona is through the solar eclipse. Few years ago scientists believed that they can't learn anything new from the solar eclipse. But Prof. Druckmüller discovered how to capture images of the corona that were groundbreaking and never seen before, even from the Space. After devoting eight years of hard work, Prof. Druckmüller finally succeeded. His work might have remained a hobby if there was not an avalanche of coincidences started over a stolen photograph. Almost a detective story of an international scale has then unfold. We join Prof. Druckmüller on his journey including the 2017 full eclipse expedition in the USA and learn about the Sun through images which renewed international scientific interest in the study of the Sun’s corona.
Portrait of Water
Czech composer Hanz Sedlář leaves the certainty of his studio with a clear goal: to compose a cycle of symphonic poems inspired by water. To do so, he must experience it directly — not as metaphor, but as glacier, forest, farmland, river, and city.
Across four seasons, Hanz travels through Central European landscapes shaped by water and increasingly marked by its instability. Guided by experts, he climbs to melting alpine glaciers, rises in a hot-air balloon above their river sources, walks through rain-soaked forests in the Czech Republic, crosses overheated agricultural land, and kayaks through a Slovak metropolis. Scientific insight gradually reframes what he sees: water is not only beauty and rhythm, but a sensitive system under pressure from climate change, land use, and urbanization.
As composition progresses, detachment becomes impossible. What began as artistic research evolves into a personal confrontation with responsibility. In the final movement, Hanz performs the completed symphonic poems with his orchestra for the experts who guided him — reversing roles and transforming knowledge into shared reflection.
Portrait of Water is a film about translation — from science into sensation, from landscape into music — and about the quiet but urgent question that emerges when observation is no longer enough.
Across four seasons, Hanz travels through Central European landscapes shaped by water and increasingly marked by its instability. Guided by experts, he climbs to melting alpine glaciers, rises in a hot-air balloon above their river sources, walks through rain-soaked forests in the Czech Republic, crosses overheated agricultural land, and kayaks through a Slovak metropolis. Scientific insight gradually reframes what he sees: water is not only beauty and rhythm, but a sensitive system under pressure from climate change, land use, and urbanization.
As composition progresses, detachment becomes impossible. What began as artistic research evolves into a personal confrontation with responsibility. In the final movement, Hanz performs the completed symphonic poems with his orchestra for the experts who guided him — reversing roles and transforming knowledge into shared reflection.
Portrait of Water is a film about translation — from science into sensation, from landscape into music — and about the quiet but urgent question that emerges when observation is no longer enough.