Closer to the Stars
When natural elements turn the Christmas vacation into an involuntary prison in a mountain hut and the children decide to take their parents’ fate into their own hands, a romantic comedy can get under way.
On Your Marks!
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 […]
Architect of Brutal Poetry
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 […]
The Last of the Noblewomen
This comedy about family, roots, and about how one can win seemingly hopeless battles without difficulties and with the right people takes us back to the 1990s, when the changes in both our countries ushered in big personal challenges and absurd relations and situations.
Alchemical Furnace
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 […]
Pardon
Story of the parents of an accursed solider told from the perspective of their 17-year old grandson Janek. “Odrowąż” dies in 1946, the Department of Security digs up his body four times to make sure that this enemy of the state is well and truly dead. The mother can’t bear the humiliation, she steals the […]
The Sound Is Innocent
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 […]
Communism and the Net or The End of Representative Democracy
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 […]
The Golden Betrayal
In 1938, young Czechoslovaks learn to play basketball from American Mormons at YMCA camp. When the war starts, their coach is arrested and executed and the team is taken over by young lawyer Franta. After the liberation, Franta visits the prison where their coach died, picks up a handful of soil, puts it in a […]