Velký vůz - (t)error.cz / (T)error.cz

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

Ptačí políbení - Josef / A Bird's Kiss - Joseph

Annotation: A semi-documentary portrait of offbeat Prague poet and artist Honza Volf "who can't play golf."... more

Sousto / A Bite

Annotation: An adaptation of a short story by A. Lustig deals with the war and hunger.... 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

Nový Hyperion aneb volnost, rovnost, bratrství / A New Hyperion, or Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Annotation: A real and unfinished story lived and performed by philosophers and heads of states and churches, artists and party secretariats, scientists and ministers of federal and republic governments, retirees and prisoners, unionists and officers, dissidents and gray zone, preachers and armed forces, both r... more

O zlém snu / A Story About a Bad Dream

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

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

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

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

Alternativní kultura: Zbití a blažení; Pražská symfonie 1. věta (W. A. Mozart) / Alternative Culture; The Prague Symphony

Annotation: A documentary film about the Beat Generation.... more

Amici, tanec s přáteli / Amici, Dancing with Friends

Annotation: Amici is a London-based dance theatre company integrating able-bodied and disabled artists and performers. Each member lives his or her own life, they meet once a week in order to enrich the lives of the others so that they come to know one another and share the joy of joint creativity. Amici, Danci... 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

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

Praha secesní / Art Nouveau Prague

Annotation: An untraditional look at Prague.... 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

Ave Braník / Ave Braník

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

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

Černé růže / Black Roses

Annotation: The Roma question vs. the skinhead movement.... 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 (The 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 Malý kapitalista (A Little Capitalist), a reflection on the social and spiritual pro... more

Carmen Story / Carmen Story

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

Betonový valčík / Concrete Waltz

Annotation: Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros - for some, it is the construction project of the century, for others, an anti-environmental monster damaging and spoiling the landscape for many decades to follow.... 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

Cuoc Song o Ubitovna / Cuoc Song o Dormitory

Annotation: This film follows the life experiences of Vietnamese people living in Czechoslovakia. They are divided into two main groups - those who try to get on with their lives as best they can, and then the more intellectual Vietnamese, perceptively following everything that is going on in our country and th... 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

Denně předstupuji před tvou tvář... / Daily I Appear Before Your Face

Annotation: After the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, a number of previously taboo subjects opened up to Czech documentary filmmaking. One of these was the theme of the post-war resettlement of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia. Director Drahomira Vihanova made a documentary portrait of "unresettled" German,... more

DAMUHAMUFAMU / DAMUHAMUFAMU

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

Úděl / Destiny

Annotation: A documentary farce set in a Czech village.... more

Sen / Dream

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

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

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

Spříznění volbou / Election

Annotation: March 1968. The film captures the two weeks prior to the election of a new president after A. Novotný had stepped down.... more

ELFilm / ELFilm

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

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

Praha mizerná - Slečna Braník / Faces of Prague - Miss Braník

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 - Smíchov / Faces of Prague - Smíchov

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 - Vítejte v Edenu / Faces of Prague - Welcome to Eden

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: Panelák je kamarád / Faces of Prague: A Prefab Building Is a Friend

Annotation: A poetic/philosophical essay about the life in highrise developments. A documentary film about people who search for their identity and freedom within the space of concrete highrisers.... more

Praha mizerná: Ostatní pocity (Holešovice) / Faces of Prague: Other Feelings

Annotation: This quarter, Holešovice... I consider it a suburb, I do. And I do mean it nicely: Because for me, a suburb isn't Jižní město and the like, I don't think that's really Prague. But these historic suburbs...from the end of the last century and so on...that remains.... more

Praha mizerná: Střípky z jedné republiky (Žižkov) / Faces of Prague: Shards from a Republic

Annotation: In the twenties, it was decided that a public bid would be announced for this monument. A number of important architects took part in the contest. Then, in 1950 it was decided that the monument would serve as a burial site for prominent representatives of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and fo... more

Tvář Žižkova / Faces of Žižkov

Annotation: A portrait of the city district of Žižkov in 1989.... 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

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

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

Houba / Fungus

Annotation: A film essay which tries to explain nature, science and civilization through the structure of fungus. At the beginning, there was the confirmation of a theory which said that all plants in a single ecosystem are connected to each other through microscopic mushroom fibers. The film also views the mus... more

GEN: Ester Krumbachová / GEN: Ester Krumbachová

Annotation: A portrait of Ester Krumbachová.... more

GEN: Jan Klusák / GEN: Jan Klusák

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

Slaměná vdova / Grass Widow

Annotation: A winter landscape, a field with three tall trees. A young woman in an old-time dress stands under the trees, holding a faded photograph of a soldier, and performs a strange witchcraft ritual that eventually brings her sweetheart back from the war. ... more

Pozdrav ze země, kde včera znamenalo zítra / Greetings from the Land Where Yesterday Meant Tomorrow

Annotation: The film describes the conditions in the streets of Moscow.... more

Hamsa, já jsem / Hamsa

Annotation: Director Miroslav Janek, author of the internationally acclaimed documentary film "Unseen", shows the meaning of music for blind youths who study at the Jan Deyl music academy and piano tuning school. The film is an intimate dialogue with several students who reveal more about the value of music in ... more

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam / Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

Annotation: A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Several months elapse before the interview, so the crew searches for anyone who'll talk about the young woman. Two people have a lot to say to the ... 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

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

Holky z gymplu / Highschool Girls

Annotation: A portrait of a singer whose popularity at the beginning of the 1980s reached astronomic heights. Yet the end of the 1990s fills him with disappointment which he drowns in alcohol.... more

Hitler, Stalin a já / Hitler, Stalin and Me

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

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

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

Homo Sapiens 2000 / Homo Sapiens 2000

Annotation: Four Prague characters (a transvestite, a news vendor, a travelling violinist and a man earning his living as an art model at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts) at the beginning of the new millennium.... more

Jak bych vám mohl nevěřit... / How Could I Not Believe You...

Annotation: A narrative short; a surprise for a phony healer.... 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

V centru filmu (v teple domova) / In the Center of Film

Annotation: An unconventional look at the 1997 edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.... 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

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

Vnitřní pnutí / Inner Tension

Annotation: A film about a musical instrument maker.... more

Do života / Into Life

Annotation: The Koutecký - Slušný team cordially invite you into an environment that you would perhaps not have the courage to visit alone - a world full of joy and pain, anxiety and relief. The film follows the activities at a top clinic of the Regional Hospital in Prague, which specializes in childbirth and t... more

Jakub / Jakub

Annotation: A documentary film about Ruthenians living in Romania and in the Czech republic.... 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

Kašpar / Jester

Annotation: Applying the method of long-term observation, the director follows the young theater director and actor Jakub Špalek and his newly-formed theatre company.... 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

Karlovarské promenády / Karlovy Vary Boulevards

Annotation: An unconventional look at Karlovy Vary.... 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

L'Amour Fou Ludvík Šváb (Šílená láska) / L'Amour Fou Ludvík Šváb

Annotation: A portrait of Ludvík Šváb.... more

Smějící se bestie / Laughing Beasts

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

Život na hřbitově / Life at the Cemetery

Annotation: What is it like to be an undertaker?... more

Úžera / Loan Shark

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

Ať žije smrt / Long Live Death

Annotation: Different perspectives on death.... more

Made in Valmez / Made in Valmez

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

Javor 98 / Maple 98

Annotation: A young extra from the National Theatre plans to encircle Prague with trees that he plants every year. The edge of dreams, the borders of fiction, the boundaries of theatre and the city limits.... more

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

Mise / Mission

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

Moravská Hellas / Moravian Hellas

Annotation: This film starts with mischief-making, it goes to criticism, a type of criticism approached in a typically mischievous way... The film points out the causes of folklore profanation, discusses fake folklore, partial industrialization of folklore, etc.... more

Previanti / Musicians

Annotation: Documentary episodes from the life of amateur musicians living in the Czech countryside.... 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

Nové možnosti (pokračování) / New Possibilities (continued)

Annotation: A dynamic portrait of M. Petříček, PhD. - philosopher, translator and author who teaches at Charles University in Prague. ... 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

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

NonStop / NonStop

Annotation: People chosen at random along the Prague-Brno highway contemplate the infinity and the begginning of the universe... A cook and other random travellers agree that nothing is ever lost, everything simply goes through transformations, and the world flows by "nonstop".... more

Ó, to byl boj / Oh, What a Struggle It Was

Annotation: All the human hustle and bustle during the period after the 1989 revolution.... more

Ropáci / Oilgobblers

Annotation: A Czechoslovak expedition into the region of North Bohemia snatched the secret of the coal field. The film brings the very first genuine footage of the oilgobblers.... more