Country: Czech Republic

Direction Jirí Mádl

Cast Vojtech Vodochodský · Tatiana Pauhofová · Stanislav Majer · Ondřej Stupka

Synopsis Set in the tumultuous late 1960s within Czechoslovak Radio. The story focuses on a group of journalists who risk everything to provide independent news amidst state censorship and harassment by...

Direction Tomás Vorel

Cast Eva Holubová · Boleslav Polívka · Anna Marhoulová · Tomás Vorel

Synopsis A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a...

Direction Aurel Klimt · Vlasta Pospísilová

Synopsis Czech puppet animated adult film based in some stories by Czech actor and writer Jan Werich.The film is a collection of 5 short tales: When the Leaves Fall from the...

Direction Petr Zelenka

Cast Jaromír Nohavica · Karel Plíhal · Jan Prent · Karel Holas

Synopsis Jan Holman, a Dutch documentary maker, runs in a Czech alcohol clinic into Jaromír Nohavica, an ultrafamous singer/songwriter. Holman gets interested in Jaromír and follows him during his comeback. To...

Direction Jan Sverák

Cast Szedenk Sverák · Andrej Chalimon · Irina Livanova · Ondrej Vetchý

Synopsis Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Ludvík Sváb · Bedrich Glaser · Jan Kraus · Pavel Marek

Synopsis This short film is divided into three sections: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Veronika Zilková · Jan Hartl · Jaroslava Kretschmerová · Pavel Nový

Synopsis Karel Horak and his wife Bozhena are depressed at being childless. When he digs up the root of a tree in the garden, he brings it to her, taken by...

Direction Jan Hrebejk

Cast Boleslav Polívka · Csongor Kassai · Jaroslav Dusek · Anna Sisková

Synopsis When the Second World War breaks out, three Czech friends find themselves divided: David as a Jew is transported to the Thereseinstadt (Terezín) ghetto, a transfer station on the way...

Direction Matt Sarnecki

Synopsis In Slovakia, a young investigative journalist is brutally murdered. When the police files of the murder investigation are leaked to the reporter's colleagues, they uncover vast corruption reaching the highest...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Pavel Liska · Jan Tríska · Anna Geislerová · Jaroslav Dusek

Synopsis Jean Berlot, a disturbed young man befriend a Marquis whose house is the site of a number of disturbing events and then willingly enteres a mutinous asylum to try and...

Direction Vít Klusák · Filip Remunda

Cast Varhan Orchestrovich Bauer · Jaromír Kalina · Martin Prikryl · Eva Williams

Synopsis Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however...

Direction F.A. Brabec

Cast Martina Bezousková · Sylvie Kraslová · Sára Vorisková · Anna Bezousková

Synopsis Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Petr Meissel · Gabriela Wilhelmová · Barbora Hrzánová · Anna Wetlinská

Synopsis Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a...

Direction Václav Svankmajer

Synopsis The film follows the passage of an austere and silent figure in Greco-Roman armour through a castle resembling one of Piranesi's imaginary prisons, and inhabited by female statues who come...

Direction Alice Nellis · Ivan Zachariás

Cast Zuzana Stivínová · Jaroslav Dusek · Eliska Krenková · Jan Cina

Synopsis In a remote village where everyone know each other, girl goes missing under suspicious circumstances.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Václav Helsus · Klára Issová · Zuzana Krónerová · Daniela Bakerova

Synopsis Middle-aged man Eugene (Václav Helsus) is married to a woman his own age but tormented by dreams of a pretty young woman named Eva (Klára Issova). Eventually he realises that...

Direction Robert Hloz

Cast Heejin Jung · Woogun Park

Synopsis Strolling the street looking for help, Nick meets a girl with the same problem. They know nothing about each other and seem to know everything about everyone else. But sometimes...

Direction Jan Hrebejk

Cast Michael Beran · Miroslav Donutil · Simona Stasová · Kristýna Nováková

Synopsis Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are...

Direction Klára Tasovská

Cast Libuse Jarcovjakova

Synopsis Czechoslovakian photographer seeks freedom after 1968 Prague Spring suppression. Undertakes long journey to break from repressive regime's constraints.

Direction Petr Zelenka

Cast Martin Mysicka · Michaela Badinková · Igor Chmela · Radek Holub

Synopsis A theatre company from Prague arrives in Cracow to present a stage adaptation of Dostoevskij's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" at the city's alternative drama festival; the production is to be...