Prague, July 2018. Fifteen thousand women and men of all generations gather together in one place to give a mass gymnastic performance. They all belong to Sokol, an apolitical movement established in the 19th century to foster self-development within a democratic community. We follow the participants in this huge endeavour with all their failures and […]
What is the price of freedom? Paul Johnson sailed the world all his life. He loved, drank and lived recklessly, never truly living on land. Now he is turning eighty. Both he and his boat are unfit to sail. He drinks a litre of vodka a day and contemplates his life, his death. What lies […]
An old man fails to recognise his own face in the mirror. He suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Little by little, his memories get washed away. One day he decides to tell the story of his life to his reflection in the mirror. The man is Hans Broos – a famous Brazilian architect, Carpathian German by […]
Documentary opera exploring the nature of memory, music, and narration through imprints of controversial and progressive composer Jan Kapr, awarded by Stalin and later completely banned in communist Czechoslovakia, but performed abroad by prestigious musical bodies. Kapr Code transfers Kapr’s strong and ambivalent life story into opera music composition. The storyline follows the “documentary libretto” […]
Alchemical Furnace is a unique portrait of one of the most original and, at the same time, internationally acclaimed figures of Czecho-Slovak cinema – the director and artist Jan Švankmajer, made by the young directors Adam Oľha and Jan Daňhel. They were granted the unique opportunity to enter the “alchemical workshop” of the film production […]
The Sound Is Innocent is a playful and poetic journey through the history and the present of electronic sound. The music is a game, a playground. And for creating electronic music the main tool and toy is an instrument, a device, a machine… Our guide in this musical playground is Johana, music composer and director […]
The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The collage of personal memories, staged scenes and archives of collective memory compares the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution and reveals the exposure, conflict, crisis, and catharsis of the post-communist society. Democracy can be […]
Concert commemorating the 70th birthday of Dežo Ursiny, one of the founders of Slovak modern rock music.
A film about one of the most important personalities of Slovak acting – the actor Ivan Palúch. In 1969, Ivan Palúch starred in as many as three feature films screened at the Cannes Film Festival, in just a single edition of this highly prestigious film festival. Two of them were in the main feature film […]