For the Love of Prague / For the Love of Prague

Annotation: For his new love Zdenka left the American cartoon director Gene Deitch in 1958 his family in New York and relocated to Prague. What followed surpasses the most fantastic imagination of Hollywood filmmakers. Besides films as Tom and Jerry or Popeye, he made dozens of short cartoons with Czech animato... more

Magdalena / Magdalena

Annotation: A stylized portrait of opera singer Magdalena Kožená.... more

Exotický domov Praha / My Exotic Home Prague

Annotation: "In Paris Věra Linhartová once wrote an essay about the irresolvable nature of emigration. Once you're uprooted you can never take root again. That's true for me too. In recent years, something has been changing though. It's a different generation, people who didn't have to make tough decisions in 1... more

Suchá Hora na cestě do Evropy / Suchá Hora on the Way to Europe

Annotation: A stylized documentary film tracking the changes in the remotest Slovak village at the very edge of the Orava Region at the Slovak-Polish border. The film's subject can be traced through nearly all of Eastern Europe. It could be referred to as "images from the fringes of an integrated continent". Th... more

World Wide Walls - WWW / World Wide Walls

Annotation: In this era of the World Wide Web, we seem to be creating a web of walls all around us. Is technology, which is meant to bring us ever closer together, in fact reinforcing a basic insecurity that only bricks and concrete can overcome? World Wide Walls is a film about walls around the world and peopl... more

O četnících a humoreskách / About Policemen and Facetiae

Annotation: A documentary film - About Policemen and Facetiae.... more

Porodní plán / Birth Plan

Annotation: What does childbirth look like? How can it affect the baby's life? And how does it affect the life of the woman? What are the current conditions in this country under which we bring children into this world? In this film we explore a terrain that is somewhat dangerous at times; we maneuvre between t... more

Blackriders EU / Blackriders EU

Annotation: A documentary film in the tradition of pseudo-documentary movies with elements of fiction.The team Blackrider was working for years as a private investigation agency in the diplomatic services of the Czech Republic. In 2005, during the work on the case EU, they were suddenly dismissed and arrested i... more

Dušan Samo Jurkovič / Dušan Samo Jurkovič

Annotation: A documentary film about the life and work of solitary genius architect Dušan Jurkovič who, in the context of Czech architecture, had neither a predecessor nor a follower.... more

IVETKA, HORA, ATD. / IVETTE, MOUNTAIN, ETC.

Annotation: In the afternoon on August 5, 1990, three 10-year-old children - Ivetka, Katka and her brother Miťko - were playing in the clearing on Mount Zvir, in the Lubovnianske range in north-eastern Slovakia. Strange noises were coming closer from the surrounding forest. The children hid in a nearby hayloft ... more

Legie, moje proměna / Legio Patria Nostra - The Metamorphosis

Annotation: In February 2007, Czech Televion broadcast an annoucement in an effort to find men who served in the French Foreign Legion after 1989. Director Lucie Králová chose several men who were willing to share their experiences. The film explores their motivation and, based on personal accounts, uncovers th... more

Život byl vlídný, místy drsný / Life Was Friendly, Sometimes Rough

Annotation: A legend among Czech film directors remembered by his wife Alena, daughter Eliška, S. Zindulka, M. Dlouhý, J. P?eu?il, R. Holub and others. Ján Novák's documentary from the series "The Lives of Famous People".... more

Dovolená v Severní Koreji / North Korea Holiday

Annotation: A certain travel agency offers a package tour to North Korea. Trip includes: "Afternoon tour of the city visiting Kim Ir-sen square with monumental statue of the Supreme Leader, his modest house and Triumphal Arch; overnight accommodation in Pyongyang with dinner." A documentary about a group of Cz... more

Sesazený král / The Deposed King

Annotation: The life story of an actor who was called both the king of comedy and a traitor. Featuring O. Suchý, V. Just, S. Nálepková, Z. Kabátová, A. Hegerlíková, J. Adamová, K. Cáslavský, R. Lukavský and others. Petr Kotek's documentary film from the series "The Lives of Famous People".... more

Tři životy Jaroslavy Moserové / Three Lives of Jaroslava Moserová

Annotation: The life story of one woman - physician, translator, politician, presidential candidate - a woman with an incredible range of interests and skills. Ján Novák's documentary from the series "The Lives of Famous People".... more

Kočičky a kocourkové aneb Krásy placeného sexu / xxx

Annotation: A glimpse into the workings of prostitution as seen through the eyes of clients. What kind of people pay for these services, what is their motivation and what are they looking for? Hundreds of thousands spent for a brief diversion or an escape from reality. ... more

Solidarita / Solidarity

Annotation: Featuring real cases from the Czech Republic, France and other European countries, this documentary film presents the phenomenon of human solidarity, with a special focus on the spiritual roots of European culture. The film focuses primarily on the motivation rather than the expressions of solidarit... more

Reportáž o nenarozeném dítěti / Story of an Unborn Child

Annotation: "I am an unborn child. I wasn't born to my parents."... more

Dobře placená procházka / A Walk Worthwhile

Annotation: At the beginning of 2007, Jiří Šlitr's jazz opera based on the libretto by Jiří Suchý opened at the National Theatre. Conducted by Libor Pešek and directed by Miloš Forman, the opera was a creative meeting of three great personalities who were able to work together after many long years. The documen... more

Sněžka (Anežka) / Agnes on the Mountain

Annotation: Several years ago, dry rot destroyed the house on top of the Czech Republic's highest mountain. This gave rise to heated debates over the future plans for the location. Should it remain bare or should there be a new building? The result of these debates is surprising: Mrs. Skrbková, a former post of... more

AUTO*MAT / AUTO*MAT

Annotation: I live in the centre of Prague, in the "heart of Europe". This used to be a quiet district. Today we can hardly open the windows due to the roaring noise of engines. On the intersection facing our house, there are always colour stains and broken glass from crashed cars. The cars that park here have ... more

Příhody indiánského náčelníka v Česku / Czech Stories of an Indian Chief

Annotation: The visit of an Amazon Indian in the Czech Republic as seen also through "his" camera.... more

Dračí setba / Devil's Harvest

Annotation: The film maps the period of the Czech Republic's transformation after the Velvet Revolution and at the same time maps the crimes of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The film talks to both sides, including many victims. It took 13 years to make this film.... more

Zastřelili Drina / Drin Was Killed

Annotation: 50 years of Hornacke slavnosti, a unique folklore festival, through rehearsals and staging of an amateur theatre production. People and their life roles.... more

East Side Story - Romeo a Julie 3. tisíciletí / East Side Story - Romeo and Juliet in the 3rd Millennium

Annotation: Sam, a thirty-year old Egyptian diver, and Allison, a British office worker in her early thirties, want to start a better life together; however, their plans and hopes are influenced by religious conflict, and the global issue of dramatic clash of the two civilizations as well. What shall be the end... more

OCP Praha 2007 / IO Prague 2007

Annotation: This film about an immigration police office might disappoint several audience groups: migrants - because of its lack of sympathy, policemen and bureaucrats - because of its bias; sociologists - due to the absence of any thorough analysis; journalists - because of its insufficient investigation. Thi... more

Kali čercheň / Kali Cerchen - The Black Star

Annotation: A documentary legend-tale about Roma kids seeking the mystical "Black star". What does "Kali cerchen" represent? Is it the talent? Is it a song? Is it the heart? Is it the destiny?... more

Logika tance / Logic of the Dance

Annotation: A documentary essay about dance, an ancient human need. Through her own attitude to dancing, the director attempts to find an answer to personal existential questions. The film also offers a glimpse of Czech contemporary dance. Featuring Kristýna Lhotáková, Lenka Flori, Nanohach, Lea Čapková, Jaro V... more

Vraždy v přímém přenosu / Murders in Live Transmission

Annotation: On 13 March, 1964, 28-year old Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death on the street in NYC. It was revealed later that 38 people in the neighbourhood in some way witnessed the crime that lasted 50 minutes. None of the witnesses called the police. The film explores the phenomenon of the so-called "bysta... more

Pražské volání / Prague Legacy

Annotation: Prague Legacy, currently in production, explores the political history of Czechoslovakia through the story of Ladislav Feierabend and his family. Written and directed by Tom Feierabend, Ladislav's grandson, the film will offer an original and particularly intimate view of major events in recent Czec... more

Růže pro Řím / Roses for Rome

Annotation: A remarkable story about an existential endeavour to survive in severe mountain conditions and the roses cared for by a lonely old man with a secret.... more

Studie Studu / Shame Study

Annotation: prijde emailem.... more

Promiňte, jsem blondýna / Sorry, I'm a Blonde

Annotation: A documentary about the discrimination of blondes in Czech society.... more

Dvě hodiny ticha / Two Hours of Silence

Annotation: Personal and social connections of the attitudes of orthodox priest Halík who, for four years, has been standing every day for two hours in front of the maternity hospital in Brno to demand abortion ban.... more

Sázky na život / Venture of Life

Annotation: Personal and social connections of betting and gambling.... more

Prezident zkázy / xxx

Annotation: The film follows the tragic life story of President E. Hácha.... more

Černí a černější / xxx

Annotation: A unique documentary revealing the activities of the Communist secret police hidden among Czech clergy.... more

Rozpomínání na Zrcadlení / xxx

Annotation: This documentary film brings together Evald Schorm and Ivan Vojnár. Schorm's film Zrcadlení inspired Vojnár's film poll that refers back to the search for lost ideals and the personal and social fight against fear. Is physical pain and disease a metaphor for a more general affliction? Schorm's Zrcad... more

Zlomvaz 2007 / xxx

Annotation: The festival of theatre academies from Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia organized in the mountains for the first time. The film is an account of the painstaking preparations for the festival.... more