Jakub After second world war the people from Ruthenia's Carpathian villages were promised a better life in Bohemia. Once settled down they felt like strangers at the new places, so memories and tales became very important reminding them of their old homes. One of these tales [...]

The Swings A new Czech film starring Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová and Zuzana Kronerová tells the story of two women who, despite their different personalities, unexpectedly hit it off and decide to take control of their lives once again. Jiřina, an energetic former school principal, and Zdena, [...]

Piemule The documentary follows an ethnographic portrait of a Czech minority that settled in Romania near Timisoara in 1822. The film captures the life of this isolated community throughout the four seasons. It shows how this enclave preserved its language, identity, and cultural heritage under the [...]

Old Believers The author filmed this black-and-white essay over a period of five years in the Danube Delta. Strongly bound to the faith, language, and customs of their ancestors, the descendants of the "Old Believers" live here, having been forced to leave Russia in the 17th [...]

Prophets and Poets A documentary study by Ivan Vojnár featuring people picked at random and famous personalities he has met in the Café Konvikt and other places in Prague. Not unlike figures from a Hrabal story, they represent a very broad range of types - from [...]

Ashes Driven by a passion for history and the weight of an absence, a professor and the relative of a deportee who disappeared during World War II begin an investigation across Europe to uncover his fate. From the Basque Country to Prague, what begins as a [...]

Operation Monaco The story has a dramatic plot: the year is 1948. In the border zone between Bratislava and Berg, Austria, border guards arrest a young man. He is accused of attempting to cross the state border illegally. During interrogation, it emerges that his father is [...]

Kinetopsia The young couple lives across the street from the shuttered Discoland Sylvia that became famous in the early 90s as a meeting place for the business, cultural and political elite and the criminal underworld. A building personified by its co-owner, the mythical Ivan Jonák. But [...]

The End of the World The End of the World is the original story of Grandpa, the son of Russian noblemen, and his nine-year-old grandson Tonda, set in the difficult times around 1968. It's a story full of contrasts, whether in the relationship between what encompasses [...]

I don´t Love You Anymore Thirteen years old Marek shoots videos with social themes, making him an outsider among his classmates. At home, his peaceful relationship with his mother is disrupted by his mother’s new acquaintance. In the most sensitive phase of his life, Tereza enters [...]