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- Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Elder brother Lukás (Josef Láska) and his teenage sister Nela, (Andrea Danková) begin to feel something other than a sibling relationship to each other.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- She's fifteen. She's the best in everything. Most of all tennis. At least in the district. For now.
- 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.
- A vivid encounter with former three time Czech National Boxing Champion. Experience the rise and fall in the career of a female fighter.
- 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 story about destiny. Some young angels play a game of chess for the right to kill.
- 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.
- 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.
- In a twisted, labyrinthine metropolis, the machine that regulates the cycles of sunlight and darkness breaks down, forcing a dangerous intervention.
- In the forests of Moravia a small beetle slumbers within the trees but cohabitation is not an option in the minds of the Czech authorities.
- A story about unfaithfulness. A young bride stands between Heaven and Hell on her wedding day.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A man looks down at an outdoor pool in an urban area, always busy and bustling. At night though it is locked up and he takes his chance to slip down there unseen (paying off the odd bird if he needs to). Tonight though it seems he is not the only one to have this idea and he finds he has company in the form of a female companion with whom he makes an instant connection leading to a magical evening.
- There are as many stories in the world as there are people, and Vasek, a timid guard at a gallery who becomes a reluctant painting thief, hears plenty of them on his train trip to Rome. This multilevel comedy road movie (on a train) and quest for the meaning of life is director Tomasz Mielnik's feature debut.
- A father tries to connect with his young son through a series of meetings after a family breakup.
- Disabled Petr, living with an overprotective father, wants to prove his masculinity by meeting a girl from the internet.
- Danny, a Czech student, and his Spanish boyfriend go on a trip to the Czech countryside. At the railway station they meet a couple of locals who do not know Danny understands them, so they start to make sarcastic comments. It does not take long until this situation generates a conflict, the outcome of which is devastating for both couples.
- 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.
- 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 black comedy about death with a happy ending.
- A young couple is enjoying a wild ride in their cabriolet, but, while they're only interested in each other, they crash into another car. The man ends up in hospital, paralysed and in company of a nurse that tries her best to console him. The only thing he has left is the passion he experienced with the girl in the car.
- 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.
- 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.
- An eighteen-year-old delinquent was recently released from a juvenile detention center. He returns to his parent's old home with a clean criminal record and a new identity. However, local villagers sense an injustice in this lack of punishment; they remember what happened there just a few years earlier. Also an ambitious filmmaker has decided to follow and document this delinquent's return to a 'normal' life. With the backdrop of contemporary society, where "everything is meaningless and nothing is real", this story of maturity and guilt unfolds.
- 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.
- It's one bad day for Rudolf, a lonely 77-year old retired linguist, when he finds himself tailed by a dog he can't get rid of on his way to the post office. This encounter eventually leads to a complete and unexpected change in his life.
- An acting student with a broken heart must get his act together for a stage performance.
- Doctors Ondrej and Katerina look after their patients to the best of their ability, but they can't prevent their death. Nevertheless, the inevitability of the end isn't the hardest thing they have to face as heads of palliative care at Prague's General University Hospital. A pilot project has emerged at a time when countless options are available to prolong human life; death is a social taboo and everyone has to confront his own mortality. Aware that a classic profile of the hospital would fall short, Adéla Komrzý submits a profoundly humanistic meditation on the ethics of palliative care. Betraying her special brand of empathy, she documents intimate conversations between doctors and their patients which demonstrate that, while there's no good or bad way to die, there's always a means to improve patients' quality of life.