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.
American writer Philip Roth based his book in part on his actual experience of the 1970s when he visited Prague after the Soviet occupation in 1968 to help banned Czechoslovak writers. Despite political oppression, social life in Prague was extremely exuberant, full of fun and open relationships. The greater the pressure imposed by the regime, […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
This original Czech-Slovak fairy-tale talks about love, greed and narrow-mindedness, but also about human courage and ingenuity. It is the story of the young watchmaker’s apprentice Urban who, thanks to his kind heart and watchmaker’s skill, overcomes many obstacles on the journey to the miraculous watch warning before Death and thus rescues his beloved Laura.