Manželské etudy po 20-ti letech / Marital Etudes 20 Years Later

Annotation: An episode from a cycle of documentary films tracing 25 years in the lives of six married couples. Normalization-era socialism, and then early capitalism as seen through the lives of several Czech families. They married in 1980, and until 1986 their lives were documented on film using time-lapse, re... more

Theodore / Theodore

Annotation: Every day, come rain or shine, Theodore used to bike the seven kilometres from his house to the village centre to sit and drink beer in the bus stop. For him, no doubt, this place was the centre of the Universe. With his death, the centre has moved elsewhere, and the bus stop is just a bus stop agai... more

My zdes / Here We Are

Annotation: After WW2, the Krnáč family moved from Central Slovakia to Sub-Carpathian Russia. Later, under the Khrushchev decrees, it was forcibly transferred to a village in the middle of the Kazakhstan steps. Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Krnáč sisters and their families decided to ret... more

Chačipe / Kha-Chee-Pae

Annotation: Miroslav Janek investigates life in a children's home through games. He invites the kids to become his filmmaking partners: he teaches them how to operate a film camera, and encourages them to film the environment in which they live. The director introduces the children to various filmmaking crafts,... more

Zdroj / Source

Annotation: Baku in Azerbaijan, the site of the world's first oil well, is once again becoming a focus for foreign investors eager to exploit the country's vast oil riches. Source traces the pipeline from our commuter highways back to this surreal and sinister landscape on which our way of life depends, where c... more

Knjiga rekorda Šutke / The Shutka Book of Records

Annotation: Shutka is the largest Roma settlement in the Balkans. At least according to the words of a young local fisherman, who is the main protagonist of this documentary film, shot in co-production with Czech Television. The film is a guide through the streets of Shutka, where in every person we can find at... more

Přes hranice / Across the Border

Annotation: Five directors from Central Europe contribute to making an international film reflecting a unique moment of forming of a new European community.... more

Aqua Fosilot Medica / Aqua Fosilot Medica

Annotation: An encyclopaedist from Sardinia, a 90-year old autodidact takes interest in current events only as long as they connect with the text of his book of books, i.e. the encyclopaedia that ensured his education and still determines his mindset. We never get to see the book though we are invited into his ... more

Český sen / Czech Dream

Annotation: Prague, Czech Republic, 31 May, 2003, a few minutes before 10a.m.; there are more than 3000 people jostling on a remote parking place. Many of them are clutching plastic bags in their hands; some of them are armed with trolley. Assistants are handing out plastic cups and the host on the lit stage ur... more

Bezesné noci / Dreamless Nights

Annotation: A documentary film by Radim Špaček about the Christmas revolt of the employees of the Czech TV, who organized a strike protest against the management.... more

Noční rozhovory / Night Talks

Annotation: The film tells the story of an exiled family whose members live in various parts of the world. The director attempts to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.... more

Profil: Jan Kaplický / Profile: Jan Kaplický

Annotation: The film is a dialogue between the film's director and architect Jan Kaplický, the founder of the London studio Future Systems, about the present, about green buildings, dreams that never came true, bad benches, as well as about freedom, beauty, sensuality, sexuality and creativity.... more

Pravidla hry / Rules of the Game

Annotation: The project entitled Rules of the Game developed into a series of institutional portraits. The first part Defining the Space takes place during the NATO Summit in Prague in 2002. It deals with the specificity of such a meeting, where every detail is planned and prepared well in advance, including th... more

Ženy pro měny / The Beauty Exchange

Annotation: The perfect female body is a big issue in today's world. This feature documentary is about the media constructing the ideal of female beauty, about women who create the ideal and those who submit to it.... more

Domov můj... / Home Within...

Annotation: In October 2002, the theatre company "Ježek a Čížek" run by homeless people went on a tour of the region of Southern Bohemia that was then hit by floods. A small film crew followed the tour.... more

Jerusalem My Love / Jerusalem My Love

Annotation: A Danish man has lost his faith. Previously religious, he has come to doubt and goes to Jerusalem to regain his faith. In Jerusalem, he meets modern-day prophets of three religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Through conversations with these men, dedicated to helping other people, he tries to ... more

Mise / Mission

Annotation: A documentary film exploring the reasons why Czech soldiers join international missions. A cow, humanism and duty are involved. ... more

Máme NATO? / NATO Inside Our Hearts

Annotation: Taking advantage of the NATO summit in Prague, the documentarists contemplate whether representatives of the socio-political elite perceive the values of Euro-American civilization in the same way as ordinary citiziens.... more

Ničeho nelituji / No Regrets

Annotation: The film consists of two independent stories, each showing seemingly commonplace family relationships that everyone can relate to. The situations that are played out against this familiar background are very uncommon, tragic and funny, leaving the viewer completely stunned.... more

Uberzwerg / Superdwarf

Annotation: A film essay on Czechs, Germans and dwarfs. Hundreds of German tourists-retirees, who lived there before the Second World War visit a small Czech village near the Polish border (former Sudetenland). How can old tragedies, fairy tales and mythology of the Czech and German nations be connected?... more

Hlava státu / The Head of State

Annotation: The documentary film is a contemplation about the problems and duties related to the office, about the actual face behind it and about the meaning it has among people today. Apart from presidential candidates, the film also features former President Václav Havel, an artist who designs presidential p... more

Teorie / Theory

Annotation: This documentary is, among other things, a portrait of a Moravian poet and artist who is, for the purpose of the film, dressed up as a butterfly. The film also introduces a woman whose husband left years ago to get some rolls but never came back.... more

Kristova léta, dámy / Women of Thirty Something

Annotation: A humourous documentary look through a half-opened door into the real world of women. It captures authentic interviews with the director's four highschool friends who are past 33. ... more

A.B.C.D.T.O.P.O.L. / A.B.C.D.T.O.P.O.L.

Annotation: A portrait of Jáchym Topol, a poet and a novelist.... more

Kolem republiky / Around the Czech Republic

Annotation: A memento of a train journey following the borders of the Czech Republic during the period of the national holiday from October 18 until November 17. A bumpy train ride becomes a thread joining the lives of different people from various distant regions depicting their relationship with their homelan... more

Sbohem, slunce / Farewell, Sun

Annotation: A deep interpretation of life and work of Czech painter Alén Diviš (1900 - 1956), the film is not a mere portrait or a profile. It is a subjective and abstract picture of his voyages across the world, it is a substance of creative moments. The artist's existence and experience is reflected in moment... more

Fester nebo fikce / Fester or Fiction

Annotation: This portrait of American chemist Steve Preisler, nicknamed Uncle Fester in the US, is something of an animated documentary thriller.... more

GEN: Jan Klusák / GEN: Jan Klusák

Annotation: A portrait of Czech composer Jan Klusák.... more

Jak je vám u nás doma aneb Čínská čtvrť / Home in Czech, or Chinatown

Annotation: How many closed national communities are there in Prague? Chinese, Jewish people, Americans...... more

Po stopách wampyrismu / In the Footsteps of the Vampires

Annotation: After portraying sculptor František Bílek, Josef Císařovský chose another distinctive character of the Czech cultural scene, maybe the largest individual. Josef Váchal inspired him by his mystical dimension: he sets the writer and artist into the theosophist and spiritual societies, carried away by ... more

Jiří Mucha - Ředitel zeměkoule / Jiří Mucha - The Boss of the Earth

Annotation: A portrait of writer Jiří Mucha - a son of Alfons Mucha, painter.... more

Smějící se bestie / Laughing Beasts

Annotation: What are Czechs like in contact with foreigners? Laughing beasts?... more

Úžera / Loan Shark

Annotation: Usury - a phenomenon which has spread through the Czech Roma community in the past few years.... more

Předčasná úmrtí - Evald Schorm / Premature Death - Evald Schorm

Annotation: A portrait of Evald Schorm.... more

Předčasná úmrtí - František Hrubín / Premature Death - František Hrubín

Annotation: A portrait of Czech poet František Hrubín.... more

Národ sobě aneb české moře v 18 přílivech / Situation of the Street, or the Czech Sea in Eighteen Tidal Waves

Annotation: A story of Prague's National Street captured in the here and now. National Street exceedes the presence of a street which, however, is not present - its essential film presence is, then, a negation of presence, a disappeared presence. It is the absolute presence of people and things transferred to a... more

Tenkrát 3. Husákovo ticho / That Time 3. Husák's Silence

Annotation: The third installment in a loose trilogy. This episode focuses on the 1970s and 1980s, the period dubbed normalization (after the Soviets invaded in 1968 and socialism "returned to normal"). An engaging testament to the diversity of values.... more

Zlopověstné dítě / The Ill-Fated Child

Annotation: A monotonous job, an inconspicuous lifestyle, and a fascination with absolute evil come together in the character of a 20-year-old man. Michal explores the functioning of German concentration camps; he travels, hunts through archives, talks to eyewitnesses, and schizophrenically tries to understand ... more

Klíč k určování trpaslíků / The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver

Annotation: This film essay is a visual collage based on the journals of director Pavel Juráček.... more

Svěcení jara / The Rite of Spring

Annotation: This film came into being on a farm in the village of Hakushu, Min Tanaka's home. Min Tanaka is a very distinctive personality of Japanese alternative theatre in which the mind questions the tongue and so the body becomes the tongue. Min Tanaka's dance is able to speak even to those who know nothing... more

Druhý život Lidic / The Second Life of Lidice

Annotation: The documentary strives for a new approach to the bequest of the 1942 tragedy. It is a follow-up to the remarkable documentary "A Silent Village", made by British director Humphrey Jennings.... more

Obec B. / Village B.

Annotation: A documentary film about Blšany - the world's smallest village with a premiere league soccer team, located in Central Bohemia - consists of two different views. One of them is the view of the filmmakers, the other one is the view of Mr. Tříska, an amateur film producer. Mr. Tříska also becomes our g... more

Z města cesta / Way Out

Annotation: In this poetic documentary, Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Petr Čtvrtníček and other stars of Vorel's feature film Out of the City - take a real trip to the countryside.... more

Jakou řečí mluví Pán Bůh?? / What Language Does God Speak??

Annotation: The documentary portrait presents a mountain farmer from Velká Úpa who was shot. The story of Friedrich Kneifel's family mirrors the collective fates of the Sudeten Germans from eastern Krkonoše.... more

Kdo bude hlídat hlídače? Dalibor aneb Klíč k Chaloupce strýčka Toma / Who Will Watch the Watchmen? Dalibor or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Annotation: The fourth and final part of the documentary tetralogy Little Capitalist that mirrors the ups and downs of post-revolution Czech society. Stage director J.A. Pitínský leads rehearsals of Bedřich Smetana's opera Dalibor at the National Theatre. A parallel staging of Dalibor is simultaneously carried ... more

Ženy na přelomu tisíciletí - Jsem žena orientovaná na ženy / Women on the Brink of the New Millennium - I'm a Woman and I Like Women

Annotation: Helena Třeštíková is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. I'm a Woman and I Like Women deals with lesbian women.... more

Ženy na přelomu tisíciletí - Sestřičky / Women on the Brink of the New Millennium - Nurses

Annotation: Helena Třeštíková is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. Nurses follows ordinary lives of ordinary women. It took Helena Třeštíková 13 years to finish this film. It records ... more

Velký vůz - (t)error.cz / (T)error.cz

Annotation: Terrorism and Islam - an attempt to explore deeper causes and connections.... more

Kapka z poháru nesmrtelnosti / A Drop from the Cup of Immortality

Annotation: Maha Kumbh Mela, or the great Kumbh Mela, is the largest religious festivity in the world, with up to a hundred million people participating in the event. It takes place in India, at the confluence of the Jammuna and Ganges rivers, and although primarily Hinduistic, people of various creeds gather h... more

Touha tančit / A Will to Dance

Annotation: A documentary film capturing the love story between a young Jewish girl and a German soldier who lived in Czechoslovakia. After so many years, will she reveal her secret..?... more

Jako kouř marihuany jsou verše básníků / As Smoke of Marihuana Are Poet's Lines

Annotation: The producer was inspired by confessional retrospective poems of Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986), a Nobel prize winner, including poems from a collection called Halley's Comet to his last collection Being a Poet, and created this ambitious project. He chose a couple of poems and accompanied them with a... more

Střet světů i věků / Conflict of Worlds and Ages

Annotation: Conflict of Worlds and Ages is a floating and riding documentary about south and southeast China. The movie confronts the poor horizontal countryside with the vertical cities, the world of inherited values with the new Chinese economy that is an idiosyncratic mixture of traditions, Marxism and the W... more

Nachové plachty / Crimson Sails

Annotation: A poetic documentary film about a dream and a sea takes its inspiration from the play of the same name - staged by Divadlo bratří Formanů and Cabaret Theatre Dromesko - and from the works of Russian writer Alexander Grim. ... more

DAMUHAMUFAMU / DAMUHAMUFAMU

Annotation: Former and current students discuss life at the three most prestigious Czech art academies.... more

Sen / Dream

Annotation: An open look at the development of a love relationship.... more

Hry prachu / Dust Games

Annotation: This documentary presents both sides of the conflict around the meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in September 2000, and the media game played out in the tiny Czech playground. We witness both the actions and attitudes of the Prague Municipality and the police, and of the pr... more

Exprmntl KBH / Exprmntl KBH

Annotation: This documentary film by Alice Růžičková and Martin Čihák is a portrait of three expatriates who left Czechoslovakia and settled in Copenhagen where they fully enjoy the benefits of Danish welfare system. Martin Klapper, a globe-trotter, is author of experimental films with powerful visual imagery, ... more

Pátečníci / Friday Club

Annotation: A circle of friends formed by four old people: an artist, a sculptor and a pair of doctors.... more

Od Dana k DAMA / From Dan to Dama

Annotation: A documentary film about people who can make almost anything into a musical instrument.... more

Dědictví barokní Čechie / Heritage of Baroque Bohemia

Annotation: The baroque is a remarkable period in Czech history. In the past it was looked down on as a time of darkness and at the same time admired for the art produced by Czech artists.... more

Hitler, Stalin a já / Hitler, Stalin and Me

Annotation: Heda Margoliová-Kovalyová's lifestory.... more

Domov bezdomov / Home, No Home

Annotation: What does the word "home" mean to each of us? Answers given by, among others, homeless people, old residents of a senior home or refugees.... more

Uprostřed běhu - Vladimír Merta / In the Middle of a Run - Vladimír Merta

Annotation: An unconventional portrait of songwriter, screenwriter, director, architect and versatile musician Vladimír Merta.... more

Ať žije smrt / Long Live Death

Annotation: Different perspectives on death.... more

Naše třída / Our Class

Annotation: My schoolmates from the elementary school after ten years...... more

Panenka proti zbytku světa / Panenka Against the Rest of the World

Annotation: An interesting film which is neither a documentary nor pure fiction. It focuses on the renowned footballer of the 1970s and 1980s, Antonin Panenka, and the philosopher of nonsense and happenings, Eugen Brikcius. Appearing alongside the narrator/sports commentator Brikcius and actor/football Panenka ... more

Změna programu / Programme Change

Annotation: Different views on the media - their good and bad sides.... more

Zpráva o Králi Šumavy / Report on the Šumava King

Annotation: Journalist and director Kristina Vlachová revisits the story of the so-called "King of Šumava", Josef Hasil that was first introduced in Karel Kachyňa's ideologized feature film.... more

Hledači pevného bodu / Seekers of a Fixed Point

Annotation: This documentary is a provisional culmination of a long-term project that aims to capture recent Czech history (1990-2001) by following the lives of four people who were active in the events of 1989.... more

Sibiř - Duše v muzeu / Siberia - Soul at a Museum

Annotation: The film is about the national revival in small Siberian ethnic communities that are threatened by extinction or assimilation. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Communist ideology, members of these communities attempt to revive their half-forgotten traditions, which at times leads to rather... more

Strana mlčící většiny / Silent Majority

Annotation: A look at minorities based on: nationality, ethnicity, ecology, mental disabilities, even the minority of subsidized literary magazines.... more

Začít spolu / Starting Together

Annotation: A documentary film that follows the life of the Rokycany Roma over a period of five years.... more

Školáci nového tisíciletí / Students of the New Millennium

Annotation: Different forms of school education, from the International School to homeschool.... more

Komedie / The Comedy

Annotation: Divadlo Husa na provázku and its tour of the Czech Republic with its commedia dell'arte programme.... more

Starověrci / The Old Believers

Annotation: This film, made over a period of five years, documents the life of strongly religious people living in the Danube Delta region of Romania. We learn the story of their journey from Russia in 17th century, bringing their religion and language with them. It is amazing that it took five years to complet... more

Nejstarší národ v Čechách / The Oldest Nation in the Czech Republic

Annotation: About Czech Jewry.... more

The Plastic People Of The Universe / The Plastic People Of The Universe

Annotation: The documentary film traces different stages in the band's history that spans over more than 30 years and is tightly connected with the political developments in our country. The film is a chronological look at the history of the band, featuring unique archive footage, photographs, musical excerpts,... more

Být Romem / To Be a Roma

Annotation: The lifestory of Vojta Lavička - musician and Roma activist.... more

Být Romkou / To Be a Roma

Annotation: Following the life of a young Roma intellectual, Jarmila Balážová.... more

Ženy na přelomu tisíciletí - V pasti - Katka / Women on the Brink of the New Millennium - Trapped: Katka

Annotation: Helena Třeštíková is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The tragic story of a girl named Katka who believes that joy and happiness can be applied through a hypodermic needl... more

O zlém snu / A Story About a Bad Dream

Annotation: A documentary film based on the memoirs of Eva Erbenová.... more

O babičce / About Grandma

Annotation: A documentary film combining period material with interviews from a 92-year old lady and animated episodes capturing one person's life. ... more

Bitva o život / Battle for Life

Annotation: A fascinating look at the colourful life of a community which in defiance of difficult circumstances lives life to the fullest. The village of Bystré is situated in a former textile region which is currently in deep crisis - unemployment in certain places has reached over 20% and young people are m... more

Bohemia Docta aneb Labyrint světa a lusthauz srdce (Božská komedie) / Bohemia Docta, or The Labyrinth of the World and the Lusthaus of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)

Annotation: The portrait of Czech "national character and soul" is based on major works from Czech and world culture as well as the large cycle "Slavic Epopee" by Alphonse Mucha. It is the third part of Karel Vachek's tetralogy Little Capitalist, a reflection on the social and spiritual processes taking place i... more

Mrtví a zapomenutí / Dead and Forgotten

Annotation: A critical documentary film from the cycle entitled Intolerance?; it deals with the "disgrace to the Czech judicial system", the trial of three former secret police investigators from Uherské Hradiště that has been going on for several years and has not yet been closed.... more

Fišer alias Bondy I, II / Fišer Alias Bondy I, II

Annotation: A portrait of Egon Bondy.... more

Čtyři kroky dvojpůlka / Four Steps Quarter Turn

Annotation: A 15-year-old girl lives in a small village in Moravia. She wants to leave this place. What are her chances for escape? ... more

Islandská paměť / Icelandic Memory

Annotation: The impetus for making this travelogue was Jan Burian's description of his travels in The Journey to Iceland saga. Icelandic Memory tries to identify features that constitute a community.... more

Made in Valmez / Made in Valmez

Annotation: A portrait of the Czech band Mňága a Žďorp.... more

Obrázky ze ztraceného ráje / Pictures from a Lost Paradise

Annotation: The renovation of an old estate of Mr Hrabánek.... more

Stop komunismu v právním státě / Stop Communism

Annotation: A demonstration at the Wenceslaus Square under the statue of St. Wenceslaus, August 21, 2000 - on the anniversary of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces.... more

Stav obležení / Under Seige

Annotation: An ironic mosaic of Karlstein businessmen and capitalists - a total sale of all values in a plain village in the region of Central Bohemia.... more

Kde je pravda? / Where Is the Truth?

Annotation: The life stories of Hans Stein and Milan Platovský.... more

Řezbář křesťanského nebe / Woodcarver of Heaven

Annotation: The renovation of an old estate of Mr Hrabánek.... more

Carmen Story / Carmen Story

Annotation: A documentary film about the making of the theatre play Carmen.... more

Metody vejce / Egg Methods

Annotation: An informative stylized "walkmovie". Adam, the film's protagonist, visits different environments in order to explore a seemingly trivial and exhausted issue, i.e., the opportunities and methods of dating. Instead of formal courting rituals, there is a rise in a large number of rather dubious new pra... more

ELFilm / ELFilm

Annotation: An unconventional love story narrated with lightness and humour.... more

Praha mizerná - Bílá hora a Ruzyně / Faces of Prague - Bílá Hora and Ruzyně

Annotation: The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.... more

Praha mizerná - Ostrovy / Faces of Prague - Islands

Annotation: The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.... more