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- Lena is seventeen years old and is on the threshold of entering adult life, but her growing up is brutally interrupted by a horrific event. Devastated, she goes into her shell and is scared to share her experience with others.
- Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
- Jabir, Usama and Useir are three young Bosnian brothers, born into a family of shepherds. They grew up in the shadow of their father, Ibrahim, a strict, radical Islamist preacher. When Ibrahim gets sentenced to two years in prison, for war participation and terrorism, the three brothers are suddenly left on their own.
- Elder brother Lukás (Josef Láska) and his teenage sister Nela, (Andrea Danková) begin to feel something other than a sibling relationship to each other.
- Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however does not exist and is not meant to. The advertising campaign includes radio and television ads, posters, flyers with photos of fake Czech Dream products, a promotional song, an internet site, and ads in newspapers and magazines. Will people believe in it and show up for the grand opening?
- On New Years Day, two innocent 12-year-old boys in a small town buys vodka for a young female teacher, Katerina's (Natálie Rehorová) and two other men (David (Martin Pechlát), her boyfriend, and his friend Stepanand (Jirí Cerný). They are invited to the house. Here they experience their first encounter with sexuality. The children lose track of time. They were expected home long ago. They drink, throw up and are intoxicated by love and "the shameless, unbridled and licentious" world in which David, Katerina and Stepán live.
- Under the burning sun, a solitary bull awaits tireless, whilst a man jumps deep into the darkest waters of his persona, in their common attempt to defeat death.
- The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.
- Zawana is confronted with several paths that open out defiantly before him, and he has to choose which one to take as the next step on his life's journey. The youth enters a small village monastery somewhere in Burma, led by its superior U Dahma. Zawana and the other novices are, as befits their age, playful and disobedient, and they find it hard to abide by the laws of the monastic robe. However, when U Dahma, who hasn't been running the monastery with a particularly firm hand, falls ill, the young man realizes that perhaps it's time to step out resolutely onto one of the paths and surrender to the school of life - and not only because his superior's death could mean the closure of the monastery.
- What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world? On the backdrop of a moving city, the citizens of the New Kiruna are fighting their own battles. We follow the teacher Timo, a local activist against the moving, the teenage Sami girl Maja who is discovering her family roots and cultural heritage as well as Abdalrahman, a teenage boy from Yemen, who came to the town as a refugee and slowly realizes that it takes more than just a paper to become a Swede. The seemingly very different characters are facing the same questions as the city is looking for its place. They are starting their personal search for identity, values and a greater future. Kiruna - A Brand New World is a portrait of a utopian and dystopian town as well as a hard-hitting reflection of today's society.
- An acting student with a broken heart must get his act together for a stage performance.
- Temperatures are rising and crowds of people are spending their time at lakes like thirsty animals. Summer hits blasting from the speakers are silenced by an announcement that two boys went missing. We can witness a tragedy or lay down into the shadows with a feeling that it's not our problem.
- A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family's break-up but also trying to understand.
- When boarding a train Boy meets a Girl. He is immediately fascinated by her and watches her during the whole ride, thus becoming a witness to a burdensome moment in which the Girl is sexually harassed by two incoming strangers. The Boy would love to help her but gets overwhelmed by fear and doesn't step in. What follows is the development of an elusive yet vivid relationship. A game with a dark side of domestic violence at which end the Boy comes to a point in which he finally faces his fears.
- Colleagues, friends, and other close acquaintances all give their account of the man who led strife-torn Yugoslavia from German occupation in World War II and walked her down a political tightrope for 40 years, begrudgingly gaining the respect and admiration of both the Soviet and Western superpowers.
- She's fifteen. She's the best in everything. Most of all tennis. At least in the district. For now.
- When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Brona is immediately convinced that it is an attack perpetrated by an "Arab". His colleague Standa sees things differently. A laconic film that explores the causes of racism.
- The caretaker exhausted of everything. His frustrated wife. Totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to some absurd events, because sh_t happens all the time.
- It's April the 1st and Sylvia has made a fatal error. Abandoned by her boyfriend she sets out to the streets of Prague to win his love back.
- Like many others, Daniil has decided to leave his native Georgia and move to Prague in search of better pay. Originally a teacher, he finds a job with Ukrainian laborers controlled by a Russian boss and thus becomes a cog in the machinery that takes advantage of the work of illegal immigrants.
- YALLAH! follows today's most important and progressive underground artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel through years of rapid change from 2009 to 2014.
- Nazi occupation of Czech Republic during the WW II: The phantom avenger with spring-heeled shoes jumps above the streets of Prague and fights the occupiers. He has to stop the Nazis from waking up the Golem - a dreadful artificial being from The Old Jewish Town.
- Czechia demands Poland close a coal mine "Turow" because of its harmful impact on the environment. Thousands of Poles are afraid of losing their jobs. One of them - Teresa - decides to fight with the Czechs - In the potato salad contest.
- In a twisted, labyrinthine metropolis, the machine that regulates the cycles of sunlight and darkness breaks down, forcing a dangerous intervention.
- A story of desire, which turns into obsession, based on European folk tales. The village dance has begun and Róza hasn't been invited to dance. Suddenly, an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes.
- Like every year, a group of friends arrives at a remote and secluded place to "celebrate their friendship". This is the 36th time now, but this year is going to be different. Stana has lost his battle with cancer and for the first time ever there are only five friends. Spring is blooming, they kill a lamb with their own hands and drink to Stana's memory. However, one of them, Dalibor, has a secret he does not want to share.
- The memories of a Nazi soldier's romance unfold fifteen years after the end of WWII. The mystery of the consequence of an unbearable outrage to be revealed as syphilis turns into the nurse's payback: a 'sweet medicine' that carries the same mercilessness of her rape's perpetrators.
- Constance, a gifted Carmelite novice, must make a choice: to pursue her vocation and obey, or to defy the lost hopes of all the other Sisters regarding her dying Superior.
- A scout troop of 'Beavers' gets lost in the woods during a storm and has to spend the night in a brothel. In the mysterious and strangely appealing world of adults, Scout values are tested by fire.
- Documentary film about the Large Hadron Collider in the world (LHC), which is located under the French - Swiss border.
- Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city, Prague, from their small home town. The euphoric dreams each had for themselves have not materialized and they are all starting to feel trapped in different ways. They all seem to know one thing: what they don't want in life. At a party back in their home town they reminisce over one of their early dreams: to buy a farm, live together and, most importantly, have fun with their lives. In the weeks that follow, each of them is faced with a crisis that brings this old dream into sharper, more sober focus. Can they make it a working reality? Do they really want to?
- A boy with a cleft lip has one afternoon to pass the initiation ritual to a street gang.
- The movie tells a drama of three people. Marek (Vojtech Stepánek) lives out in the mountains with his half-disabled father (Jan Novotný), separated from anyone else. He survives by poaching animals. His father then trades the animals in the nearest village for the things they need to survive in the wilderness. Marek needs to stay in hiding since it is a war and, if found, he would risk being recruited in the army. His father wouldn't survive on his own. But then one day, an unexpected catch awaits Marek in one of his traps...
- Thursday morning. Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague. Five people. Getting up. Going to work. In five cities-hives, like bees. Looking for the sweeter life then the one they are living now.
- Natural landscapes and folklore bring along fairy-tale magic and beauty, but also harsh reality. A young woman lives her life in harmony with the cycles of the mountain countryside. Will she have the courage to face her destiny? When it comes to fatal love, time becomes a relative quantity and the boundaries between reality and dream disappear.
- Tereza is a sculptor and her husband Adam is a film director. She is suffocating in the relationship, she has no space and cannot concentrate on her work. The stagnant waters of this vicious situation only move when Adam's brother Majky shows up.
- A black comedy about death with a happy ending.
- Slavek is an elderly caretaker of a public lavatory in the center of Prague. He falls in love with a woman toilet caretaker who is working across the street.
- The architects' plans for Central Bus Station to swallow visitors has turned into an endless maze of corridors. Once a gift to the citizens of Tel Aviv now serves to the immigrants. Yonathan has been a guide there for 17 years and is able to show the other side of the station's significance to those who walk with him. Yonathan knows that the purpose of going down to the building is to find not only himself, but also a society that harbours its values, protects its original traditions and wants to defend its home.
- Happy newlyweds Ida and Jura are expecting a child. Ida suddenly finds out that the child will be special. She is unsure of how Jura will react when he learns the news, or what life with an extraordinary child will bring.
- This bittersweet film was Roman Vávra's feature debut. The film consists of three independent stories, all connected through the motif of a field of grain. In 'Awn' a young couple takes a summer stroll in the country, in 'The Haystack' a gang of boys have an adventure with an older girl, and 'The Journey' recounts the tragicomic homecoming of a pair of aging newlyweds. For only the second time in the nineties Czech star Iva Janzurová appeared on the silver screen.
- Radioactive Pripyat pianos are telling the story of Chernobyl disaster in their own unique way. Due to the high radiation level in former city of Pripyat, abandoned pianos became the only inhabitants who can maintain its sounds even if the surrounding walls collapse. Also, a piano is too heavy to be stolen, so no one can take them away from the city. The Chernobyl tragedy weighs heavily on the minds of the locals who were forced to leave their homes. To overcome it, they have created their own songs, poems and lyrics that deal with the event. Now they are coming back to Pripyat to sing and play them again. Looking at the overgrown objects in Pripyat and listening to the sounds of nature and radioactive pianos, they witness the tremendous power of nature to not only conquer but also adapt.