A feature-length lyrical movie by Vladimír Morávek on the theme of the famous play A Ballad for a Bandit. A burned-out group of intellectuals decides to travel to Kolochava in Ukraine to perform the play there; however, everything goes wrong. They arrive late, the Ukrainians expect something else and the South Bohemian Philharmonic gets lost […]
This romantic comedy maps out the lives of former classmates who, despite their high school days being long past, still regularly meet up. Their stories and lives are different, packed with diverse joys, woes and secrets – secrets that often lead to agitated or humorous moments. Even though each of our characters will soon celebrate […]
Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives. Faded footage of family lives, celluloid echoes of celebrations and everyday moments. Šikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. These unique images long remained unseen – until 2021, when historical memory awoke from a long […]
A social film experiment, in which those who prey on the innocence of children fall into their own traps. After a discussion with lawyers and psychologists, we cast three girls older than eighteen but looking very young and acting as if they were twelve. We created their profiles on Facebook and local community chat servers. […]
A film about combating mining companies in the small medieval town of Kremnica that was never conquered in history. Over the course of a seven-year time-lapse project, we watch the local citizens battle both local and international mining companies that want to join forces in mining for gold and minerals in mountain ridges just a […]
A stylised chamber drama, characterised by the old concept of the unities of action, place and time, offers a purely contemporary polemic about the basic values of democratic Europe in a suggestive atmosphere of a stylised meeting of characters from history.
The slow pace of life in the small seaside town of N is suddenly disturbed by a local scandal surrounding a man who has recently passed away. Only his wife and his friend know where he was buried, and they refuse to tell the others, seemingly in compliance with his last will. Each character seeks […]
The film tells the story of the inhabitants of a forgotten village close to the Austrian border after the events of the 1930s to 1950s come into their lives. Previously, all that was needed was to till the fields, survive the winter and raise children, but now the villagers must choose who is to be […]
A story of two friends who run a flourishing drone rental service. For the former classmates, drones are a ticket to many areas of human activity. A presidential candidate as well as artists organising happenings are among their clients. The drones in the film monitor power plants, they carry luxury handbags at a fashion show […]