René / René

Annotation: The incredible story of a young man accompanied by a film camera from the age of eighteen, on his life's journey between prisons and short intermezzos outside; after another eighteen years, we leave him as a 36-year-old man, an unlikely writer, a seriously ill patient, and unfortunately still an inc... more

Ghetto jménem Balutty / The Ghetto Called Baluty

Annotation: A retrospective documentary film about the Jewish ghetto of Litzmanstadt. The place - in fact the working class and slum district Baluty in the industrial city of Lodz - differed from other concentration camps. Life in the ghetto was organized according to specific and very tough rules of survival t... more

Nejznámější Čech - Jan Nepomucký / The Greatest Czech - St. John Nepomucene

Annotation: A documentary film about St. John Nepomucene. According to estimates, there are approx. 30.000 monuments dedicated to John Nepomucene just across Europe, out of which one-fifth is located in the Czech Republic. One can find Nepomucene's traces in Central and South America, India, Philippines or Chin... more

Zpráva o Lodži / The Report on Lodž

Annotation: A former Jewish ghetto remained a ghetto - memories of witnesses, unique period photographs and the lives of today's inhabitants of the ghetto.... more

Oni, my a Skitskoj (dialog ve střižně) / Them, Us and Skitskoj (A Dialogue in the Cutting Room)

Annotation: The island Skitskoj in the north of Russia's European part, in an inaccessible forestland on Pizma River, in Pechora River basin. This is the home of the Oldbelievers community, hidden from civilization, from the surrounding world that is buzzing with change and from the Orthodox Church. The film tr... more

Mávnutí motýlích křídel / A Stroke of Butterfly Wings

Annotation: A Stroke of Butterfly Wings is a view into the family background of composer Václav Felix from the 1930s to 1980s. It shows the sequence of events and context in which Václav's procommunist attitude was formed. Václav's emotional relationship with his parents was extremely strong. He saw his father ... more

Poustevna, Das ist paradies / A Town Called Hermitage

Annotation: Rising above an entertaning mosaic of the lives of several inhabitants of the "uprooted" village of Dolni Poustevna on the Šluknov promotory - the Vietnamese girl Denisa, a group of retarded inmates from the local welfare institute or the German brothel-hunting tourist Volker - is the all-pervading ... more

Artivisté / Artivists

Annotation: A documentary film about contemporary Czech art activists - people with a critical attitude and thinking and about their way of reflecting global problems and problems of Czech society in their art work.... more

Oblaka / Clouds

Annotation: Slightly meteorological film about creating, behaving and blustering of clouds, about how the invisible (e.g. water in atmosphere) can become visible and in what way formating of ideas is similar to that of clouds. Also a painter and a physicist participate, to talk about elements (the first one) an... more

Běžný podezřelý / Common Suspect

Annotation: In the name of security measures,our privacy is eroded progressively. Film tries to map a part of "dangerous" space we live in. The fable undergoes various situations during shooting: he asks for archiving his e-mails and phone calls, he is confronted with security risks of his new chipped passport ... more

Crisis Tourism Office / Crisis Tourism Office

Annotation: Muhammad Abu Bakr Muller is an Austrian artist, performer and an example of something we call arterrorist. He was born as Bernhard Muller in 1952 in Austria. Twenty-eight years later, he was "reborn" in Turkey as Muhammad Abu Bakr. Accepting Islam is for him an integral part of searching for his art... more

Vládneme, nerušit! / Do Not Disturb, We Are Governing!

Annotation: The world of politics has a number of typical features: expansiveness, an effort to dictate the rules of the political game, to increase the powers of all players, to politicize significant social issues, to fill all important posts according to party affiliation, and to maintain power without any g... more

Durban Poison / Durban Poison

Annotation: The Stable Theatre was the first independent black theatre in South Africa, founded in the culturally mixed city of Durban. Its most famous product is Broadway playwright and pop star Mbongeni Ngema, a controversial figure tainted by scandal and accusations of racism. In an attempt to return to his ... more

Přesně tak / Exactly

Annotation: Can you do what others do, although you are disabled? You can eat, drink, work, live, love, fly.Can you do what zou want? Yes,exactly. Zou can make your choice. Be fine, unprejudiced! Your limitations will be just a few. You can yet have a good life with mental disabilities. You can do what you want... more

Klubáci a školáci / Film Schools and Societies

Annotation: A documentary film that examines the tradition of film schools and film societies in our country.... more

O co tančil Ondřej Nepela / For What Did Ondrej Nepela Dance?

Annotation: Kamila Vondrová's documentary from the series "The Lives of Famous People" recounts the long career and short-lived happiness of the Czech Republic's most famous figure skater. Featuring H. Múdra, E. Pilarová, F. Pechar, K. Polák, J. Hromada, J. Jakubisko, J. Múdry, J. Žídek.... more

Georgiisus Josephus Camel / Georgiisus Josephus Camel

Annotation: A documentary film about Georg Kamel who was one of the founders of botany. Famous Swiss botanist Carl Linné even named one the most beautiful flowers of the Far East - Camellia Japonica - in his honour.... more

Občanská hnutí: Pražské jaro / Grassroots: Prague Spring

Annotation: In the late 1960s, Czechoslovaks trusted the communists and the Soviets. This is a documentary about a betrayal and its consequences which last to this day and split up the society.... more

Berkat a Maršo / Happiness And Freedom

Annotation: Two courageous Czech women decide to set up an organization called Berkat (Happiness) with the aim of helping war victins, especially children. Jana Hradilkova and Petra Prochazkova discover the Sputnik camp on the Chechen-Ingush border, the home of 9000 refugges, who live not only in fear and sadne... more

Jak se dělá člověk? / How A Man Sounds?

Annotation: Dog barks, naf, naf. The cat mewls miaow, miaow. And how does a man do? A story about a man, who wanted to resolve his difficult situation by jumping off the Nusle Bridge. A story about a filmmaker, who'd met the man there. A story about the both of them searchingfor an answer to one big Question.... more

Půjdu, kam chci / I Go Where I Want

Annotation: Singer Radůza has a unique place in the Czech folk music scene. The film shows Radůza as she is about to wrap up her existing style with a DVD and a concert, in order to begin a new chapter in her artistic and personal life. She was discovered by Zuzana Navarová, who offered the talented and free-th... more

It's Fun To Be Bohemian / It's Fun To Be Bohemian

Annotation: Video documentary about the former Bohemian neighborhood Pilsen in Chicago searches for the remains of the perished ohemian community and investigates the battle of historical layers, visual and soun motives and ways of thinking through the interviews with forgotten compatriots, with Latin American ... more

Anglické listy 2 pod vlivem Kunderovy Nesnesitelné lehkosti bytí / Letters from England 2 Under the Influence of Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Annotation: In the 1990s thousands of young Czechs began coming to England - some of them wanted to learn English, others to earn money or to gain experience. At that time director Marek Sklar visited some of them. He asked them about the motivation to leave their country of birth, about their wishes and ambiti... more

Život v peří / Life in Feathers

Annotation: A documentary film about the boundaries between life and theatre - circus art on the stage, on a trapeze, in a trailer or in a water canal... Several years in the life of the Contionuo theatre group from Malovice in South Bohemia.... more

Ztracená dovolená / Lost Holiday

Annotation: A documentary detective story. Lada, a Czech traveller, finds by chance a dirty suitcase in a Swedish waste bin. It contains only a very carefully packed plastic bag full of film rolls. Lada takes all of the 22 film rolls home to Prague and has them developed. There are 756 fascinating photos from a... more

Nízký let / Low-level Flight

Annotation: Low-level Flight is a story from the 1960s and 70s, following the relationship of Táňa and Václav, a fighter pilot in the Czechoslovak army. Táňa was captivated by Václav. He was an attractive, very determined and ambitious man. She accepted his career in the Czechoslovak army and often travelled wi... more

Kouzlo jedné flétny / Magic Flute Second Time

Annotation: When the Magic Flute victoriously roamed through European opera houses after the death of its creator, J.W. Goethe decided to write a libretto of the second part of the opera. Since he did not find any composer of Mozart`s greatness in his time, the libretto remained uncomposed. The situation change... more

Marcela / Marcela

Annotation: The extraordinary life of an ordinary woman. The fifth part of a series entitled "Marriage Stories" featured Marcela, whose story started in 1980 at the Prague town hall. Still in black and white, the film follows events over a period of six years. In 1999 we re-enter her life, but shooting has to b... more

Medela, latinsky pomoc / Medela, Latin for Help

Annotation: A charity project led by Czech women supports the building of a school in Guinea, university education of Peruvian Indians and an orphanage for HIV positive children in Cambodia.... more

New Czech Woodstock / New Czech Woodstock

Annotation: Oliver Morgenstern's film recounts the history of Trutnov music festival with new scenes. The title is a reference to the documentary about the 1969 Woodstock festival. Director's new cut shows devolving of Seifert Award upon Ivan Martin Jirous by Václav Havel in 2006.... more

Mír s tuleni / Peace with Seals

Annotation: Framed by two stories, this feature documentary fable Peace with Seals deals with the concept of "human nature". The first story is about a seal named Gaston who, according to the Prague Zoo director, became "the most famous animal on earth" after he managed to reach Germany during a devastating flo... more

Moře a prachy / Sea And Smackers

Annotation: Two businessmen are waiting in exotic land for big dough. One day a man appears, he seems to have it.... more

Sikora. Malý osobní marketingový epos. / Sikora. Little Personal Marketing Epos.

Annotation: Brought up in workers family in industrial north, employed in ironworks and after he entered sphere of art. In the beginning succesfully - while he won significant theater prize.Everything should be perfect. But how can you overcome your own social roots and entench yourself in a sphere which demand... more

Ten, který přecenil českou duši aneb útěky Josefa Brykse / The Man, Who Overestimated Czech Soul. Escapes of Joseph Bryks

Annotation: A life story of Czech R.A.F. pilot Josef Bryks, who had many times during the 2nd World War in the forces put his life great danger. Later in captiviti he was the sourse of everyone's hope, when he attempted to escape the camp seven times. The comunist back in the Czechoslovakia had rewarded him wit... more

Stopy po hvězdách / Traces of Stars

Annotation: A documentary film about how Czech children learn about the Holocaust and how, through various workshops, they approach a topic which was taboo for many decades, not only in Czech schools but in all of Czech society.... more

Ženy koní / Women of Horses

Annotation: The Women of Horses is dealing with the relationship between humans and their horses. Using stories of three selected women we try to come to the general metaphor of human destiny. ... more

Worldstar / Worldstar

Annotation: A film about an old man with no needs and a remarkable past, facing the hype as an artist against his will. For decades Miroslav Tichý lived like a hermit in a small town in Moravia in the Czech Republic, surrounded by just a few, loyal friends. Now, in his old age, he has to cope with unwelcome dis... more

Au! / Yipe!

Annotation: Beating, kicking, torture by pain, torture by hunger, mental torture. Guns, knives or fists. The perpetrators are close family members: husbands, partners, lovers... According to available statistics, almost one out of three women has experienced some form of domestic violence. According to availabl... more

4 věci / 4 Things

Annotation: A full-length film consisting of four short films by four directors: Test: Václav Švankmajer, fiction; Motocyklení: Markéta Válková, documentary; Věci: Marta Hrubá, documentary; Grandmother Němcová's Diary: Jan Gogola ml., documentary. Four Czech short films made their way to the screen. They share ... more

Krásnej život budu mít... / A Beautiful Life Will Have I...

Annotation: The director's last film before his premature and tragic death. Preparations for a theatre production in the Bělá pod Bezdězem refugee camp. People looking for a new home. Following the rehearsals, the author creates portraits of the refugees who have come here in search of a new home. For several m... more

Allegro / Allegro

Annotation: A cinematic accompaniment to the reminiscences of the student's grandfather, as he talks about the personal and historical events that shaped his life. Historical events are staged behind him in a space that, with the aid of candles on the ground, suggests a labyrinth. This is a symbol of human exis... more

Úmysl obohatit holý mechanistický svět / An Intent to Enrich the Bare Mechanistic World

Annotation: Prof. Petr Vopěnka is a worldwide famous Czech mathematician, author of many books concerning history of Math, geometry above all. He is an original thinker, connecting mathematics with philosophy. He has become recognized by the public for his invention of the largest number (the so-called Vopěnka'... more

Nesdělitelné / Beyond Words

Annotation: A documentary film about the history of the Jewish family camp in Auschwitz, about its annihilation and the worst mass murder in the history of Czechoslovakia.... more

Big Deal - Architekt a jeho pán / Big Deal

Annotation: Young Czech architects and their ways to the success.The film, having the same name as the exhibition, is to map the young architectural generation who are now in their thirties. They have become renown after completing several successful projects and have established offices with several employees.... more

Prapodivný svět / Bizarre World

Annotation: The Carpathian mountains are criss-crossed by hundreds of streams making their way down into the valleys. Vlčí potok, the Wolf Brook, is one of them. As it descends, it creates dozens of small pools. Although they seem empty and deserted, they have been full of life since primaeval times. Each of th... more

Hranice pachu / Borders of Smell

Annotation: A documentary on the effects of intense industrial smells on humans; the stench as a phenomenon that influences human lives and freedom. From specific problems (the smell from Setuza in Ústí nad Labem) we pass, via a comic book "Mom, why does it stink so much in Ústí?", the film tracks more general ... more

Hudební ghetto Brno? / Brno's Music Ghetto?

Annotation: A documentary film about music from the 1960's until today, which uncovers the city's music soul in its originality, frustration, exceptionality, intellectual potential and naive dottiness. ... more

Osada Bystrany / Bystrany

Annotation: The eastern Slovak village of Bystrany has 2,500 inhabitants, two thirds of them are the Roma whose ancestors settled here in the 14th century. Most of them live on social benefits. In 2004, the government cut the benefits dramatically, and life in Roma communities became unbearable. Hundreds of Rom... more

Call of Dudy / Call of Dudy

Annotation: Bagpipes ("dudy" in Czech) are generally associated with the Celtic fringe of Europe, but one of the richest and most ethnically diverse bagpipe traditions can also be found in Central Europe. In the Czech lands and in neighboring Bavaria, this tradition once became marginalized and almost disregard... more

Uhelná-Mlýnská / Coal Street-Mill Street

Annotation: Olomouc, its rich history and multiple cultural monuments have always attracted writers, artists and also filmmakers. The twenty-minute documentary by young filmmakers Petr Sojka and Jan Weinberg introduces the viewers to the archeological research in the location of Uhelná - Mlýnská in Olomouc, whi... more

Coming Soon / Coming Soon

Annotation: Equality for all? Or not really? And why not? And how about next year? "Coming soon" can be seen as a documentary about our civilization's eternal quest for "the perfect balance" between love, tolerance, morality, tradition, experimentation,etc. "Coming soon" can be seen as a fantastic adventure thr... more

Český fenomén: Taneční / Czech Phenomenon: Dancing Lessons

Annotation: With a humourous distance, Dancing Lessons examines a phenomenon unique to Czech national culture - dance courses. The director followed a Prague dance class for more than a year - from the signing up, the balls, through to the last class, capturing the transformation of insecure, self-conscious you... more

Tančící Kathmandu / Dancing Kathmandu

Annotation: Sangita was born in the Czech Republic, but until the age of 18, she lived in Nepal with her parents. Now she returns to Nepal to do research on Nepalese traditional dances. The Himalayan kingdom has undergone profound cultural changes. Her teacher of tantric dance has been out of work for ten years... more

Dračí setba / Devil's Harvest

Annotation: 15 years after the collapse of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), there has been a significant increase in voter preferences for the Communist party (KSCM). The Communist officer of a concentration camp who was personally responsible for crimes against humanity was put on t... more

EURIZONS 2006 / EURIZONS 2006

Annotation: Documentary about Eurizons 2006 - campaign of 50 young people hitch-hiking across Europe with the intention to refer to involvement of Europe in the solving of situation in the "third world".On their way to European Parlament, they have informend in 8 cities about developing objectives of Millenium... more

První mezi rovnými / First Among Equals

Annotation: People constantly talk about the advantages that politicians have compared to the common citizen. Parliamentary immunity, cheap prices at the Parliament diner or transport privileges are among the issues most commonly brought up in the debate. Though these may be features that make political life mo... more

Zapomenutý velikán / Forgotten Great Personage

Annotation: The life of Jan Eskymo Welzl was incredibly rich and colourful; he travelled across remote regions following the Trans-Siberian Railway far to the east, managed to reach the remote northern regions and found his way to Alaska where he witnessed the Gold Rush. ... more

Hledání dobré smrti / Good Death

Annotation: Everybody is going to die one day, but we can choose how and where we want to die. Does a "good death" exist?... more

Půl čtvrté / Half Past Three

Annotation: A documentary film about peculiar and unconventional people living in a peculiar and unconventional place. After several visits to the easternmost region of interwar Czechoslovakia, a director and a cinematographer decided to revisit the place; this time with a film camera, to bring back a message a... more

Jindřich ze Sovince / Henry from Sovinec

Annotation: A portrait of leading Czech photographer Jindřich Štreit was made in the year of his 60th birthday; this film presents Štreit as a significant figure who has helped to advance documentary photography from a mere description of situations to a distinctive art form.... more

Ahoj Babu / Hi Babu

Annotation: This documentary is the first report on videotherapy, a new and unexplored branch of psychology in Bohemia. The director has lent a camera to a psychiatric hospital pacient to let him record the images of his own world.... more

Dovolená / Holidays

Annotation: Maternity leave (aka maternity holidays in Czech) or the things you will or will not miss once your children grow up. Nothing pretty, only for hardened audiences.... more

Jak se jim s námi žije? / How Do They Find Living with Us?

Annotation: Animals and people living wild in the city. An educational documentary about nature and the environment, a sequel to "A Year at the Animal Rescue Station in Plzeň." It takes the viewer through the habitats of animals living in the wild. The film was shot from an aeroplane, tall buildings, a canoe, t... more

Hon na svatého Maura / Hunt for Saint Maur

Annotation: An extensive social documentary film about an unparalleled criminal-espionage case from the 1980s.... more

Šéfdirigenti České filharmonie / Chief Conductors of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Annotation: A music documentary about outstanding chief conductors, whose names are linked with the history of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Personalities like Václav Talich, Rafael Kubelík, Karel Aneerl, Václav Neuman, Jiří Bělohlávek, Vladimír Aschkenázy and Zdeněk Mácal, together with a long list of gues... more

Musím ti to říct / I've Got to Tell You

Annotation: In reaction to the police assault on CzechTek in August 2005, the organizers of the Trutnov music festival called Czech Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek on his mobile phone directly from the stage. Former dissident, goat farmer, and a Green Party candidate Stanislav Penc asked Paroubek whether he had an... more

Industriální elegie / Industrial Elegy

Annotation: A visually poetic documentary about people living in the mining colonies in Ostrava that are gradually being shut down. As this world slowly disappears, we also lose the local traditional values, unique experiences and important memories of remarkable people who live very tough lives.... more

Inside Passage / Inside Passage

Annotation: The final, fourth part of the series "With My Brother in Alaska". The last journey of two Czech boys and their father, a biologist, to see their grandfather in Alaska. They meet Ivan, a professional photographer, who gives them valuable advice. The boys and their grandfather look for Alaskan garnets... more

Krejča za branou / Krejča Behind the Gate

Annotation: This portrait of the actor and stage director emerged out of the cooperation of Otomar Krejča on the previous film by Radim Procházka Naše lípa (Our Linden). In it Krejča appears in the role of the director and the character of the Miller in Jirásek's Lantern and the time spent together was transfor... more

Kupředu levá, kupředu pravá / Left, Right, Forward

Annotation: In our documentary film, we follow members of two very different organizations: the young communists and the young conservatives. Through their lives and ideas, we will try to understand why these young people link themselves with politics and how that influences their lives. In the end we will prob... more

Leopoldov / Leopoldov

Annotation: The Leopoldov prison is in Slovakia. In the 1950's, the "most dangerous political criminals" were imprisoned there. From 1990 onwards, political prisoners who have survived, gather here every year to commemorate their dead friends...... more

Vlasatci / Long-haired Rebels

Annotation: In the summer of 1966, the state organs of Czechoslovakia launched a large-scale campaign against men with long hair.... more

Láska včera, dnes a zítra / Love Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Annotation: A documentary love story. A mother and daughter's view of the relationships between eight couples from various generations over the course of a year. A search for what most connects people, and at the same time divides them. The daughter mostly looks at young couples who are still choosing their lif... 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

Manželství Gábiny a Roberta / Marriage of Gabina and Robert

Annotation: A married couple. He is rich and works to be able to afford expensive cars. She works in the internet erotic industry to improve her body image. He is obsessed with luxury and himself, she likes small things.... more

Zločin jménem Katyň / Name of the Crime - Katyň

Annotation: New facts and connections surrounding the horrendous events that to this day determine the relations between Poland and Russia - mass execution of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940. The film is framed by a current search for the identity of a skull from one of the mass grave... more

Nikdy nebylo líp / Never Been Better

Annotation: People know very little about present-day situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina even though it has almost all model examples for various social and political problems. Never Been Better is a satirical and personal insight into a suffering country whose destiny has deeply influenced the lives of its ci... more

Nightwalk

Annotation: Based on the early avantgarde film "Bezúčelná procházka"(Aimless Walk) by the Czech filmmaker Alexandr Hackenschmid, the film describes a circle walk around the city of Prague at night time. The images of the paths through the outskirts of Prague are confronted with sound pieces of the commercial li... more

Na cestě - Na Acapulcu / On the Road - Acapulco

Annotation: After WWII, Acapulco was a little known small village on the Pacific shore until... In the 1950's Hollywood stars who came here to seek rest and romantic surroundings fell in love with the wonderful beachy view from the cliffs. At the same time the town became a sought-after location for the filmmak... more

Paralely tvořivosti - Energie / Parallels Of Creativity - Energy

Annotation: Series Parallels of creativity is focused on relationship between art and science. Is "scientific creativity" different than artistic? Can artist inspire scientist? Painter, astronomer, psychiatrist and gallerist work with energy and meet in experimental film.... more

Poustevna / Poustevna - A New Europe

Annotation: The film about a small border town Pousteva, located between the Czech Republic and former East Germany. Five profiles - a teenage girl born in Vietnam, an old lady of German origin who spent her whole life around Czechs, a divorced and unemployed German man who discovered a paradise in Poustevna, ... more

Rozpomínání / Reminiscences

Annotation: Are Czechs happy? What do they strive for? Are Czechs impassive or do they desire personal and social changes? What is the feeling of a contemporary citizen of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic? In March 2006 Ivan Vojnár's documentary searched for answers to some of these questions focu... more

Cesta k moci / Rise to Power

Annotation: Tissues of power inside political parties are covered by a veil of secrecy for non-party people. What decides that some members get to the top of the party hierarchy and others will always fail? What relationships, what written and unwritten rules dominate in closed microworlds of political parties?... more

Chvíle posvátná / Sacred Moment

Annotation: This documentary film by the director Michal Huvar captures the unique rendering of the poetry of Prague poet and painter Petr Pichl. In the surroundings of magical Vyšehrad, the printed version of his work was also adapted as a sound project, featuring Miroslav Moravec, a classic among Czech stage ... more

Sejdeme se v Denveru / See You in Denver

Annotation: See you in Denver. The life story of each of us is unique and unrepeatable. Private Century shows history as intimate human stories. The fate of two generations of the Čvančara family depicted through 1920 - 1970 is an apt reflection of the fate of Czechoslovakia of the 20th century. František was b... more

Zatřást kostmi / Shaking the Bones

Annotation: The film focuses on the way of a human being towards his dream. It shows a unique performance of a multiple world champion in riding the historic high bike, Josef Zimovčák. Last year he covered the track of the Tour de France. After a fall, he successfully finished the race with a broken rib, cracke... more

Něco z mého života / Something from My Life

Annotation: It does not matter who you are, how much money you earn, what your hair colour is, what car you drive, whether you are fat or slim, Catholic or Muslim. Believe me, these things are not really important. Only one thing matters - to have a girfriend and to be happy with her.... more

Pot a slzy Pražského jara (Opus 2) / Sweat and Tears of the Prague Spring (Vol. 2)

Annotation: This documentary film is the second in the trilogy Prague Spring Comes Every Year, which disrupts the stereotype in which the world of classical music is presented by the media. The film is made up of four storylines. The story of conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, as he rehearses Janáček's Taras Bulb... more

Události Pavla Štechy / The Events of Pavel Štecha

Annotation: Pavel Štecha is one of the leading Czech photographers and documentarists. His black-and-white photos from 1968-89 are well-known, but his photographs of ordinary life from the period are also of crucial importance - cottage-goers, shops, streets and the clothing of the time... In his art, he often ... more

Krajina révového listu / The Land of the Vine Leaf / Pays de Feuille de Vigne

Annotation: This poetic film is a distinctive celebration of the region and the people who live under Mount Pálava. At the same time, the film is also an allegory about the relationship between people and landscape anywhere in the world. It was made in the course of a single year; during a blooming spring, brig... more

Pravdě podobný příběh Vladimíra Hučína / The Likely Case of Vladimír Hučín

Annotation: For several years, the director followed the story of the persecution of Vladimír Hučín, a former anti-communist fighter, and sought the experiences of those involved. Post-revolution judges, policemen and guards, public prosecutors, parliamentarians monitoring the security service, the police chief... more

Cesta krátká dlouhá je / The Long Road Is Short

Annotation: I came here excited by this basic idea of stasis. There's this Mexican animal called the axolotl, a very curious animal. This salamander can remain in its larval stage all its life, choose not to grow into the higher state of its species - this animal, unmoving, only watching, without changing, with... more

Hříšný člověk Jiří Sequens - Zpověď filmového režiséra / The Sinful Man Jiří Sequens - The Confessions of a Film Director

Annotation: This stylised documentary portrays the path of a film director whose work still attracts the interest of many people. On the one hand, The Assassination (Atentát), a film recognised both locally and internationally, and his series about the police detective Vacátko and, on the other hand, a saga abo... more

Houslový rytíř / The Violin Knight

Annotation: "The eyes of the white man see different things than I do, than we Roma people do," said Marek Balog when the filmmakers started shooting the Violin Knight. Since that moment, this brilliant violin player wanted to have absolute control over the documentary about his life. During filming, he patient... 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

Oko bez světla se nepotěší / There Is No Delight Without the Light

Annotation: Documentary about sacred architecture in Moravia, Czech Republic.... more

Setkat se s filmem / To Meet the Film

Annotation: A documentary film about the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, co-directed by the citizens of Jihlava - jury members of the Czech Joy competition 2000 - 2006 and five Czech directors. Creative meetings of the Jihlava grammar school teacher Zdeněk Krásenský with Jiří Krejčík, dispatche... more

Potížistky / Troublemakers

Annotation: Věra Chytilová's documentary film that presents a diverse group of women who comment on various social and political issues. ... more

Under Underground / Under Underground

Annotation: A documentary about the relationship between the life underground and "above ground", about the significance and metamorphoses of the concept of underground. A film from underground. There are still numerous Communist-era civil defence facilities under the city, maintained for a case of emergency. T... more