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- Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
- 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.
- The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Scenes of Soul and Body is a minimalistic adventure of a first intimate contact. Max goes on a date with someone he barely knows and gets to experience sensations that are out of this world. Is he going to leave the same he was before?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When you slowly stop believing that he will ever appear and even exist. Santa Claus? Maybe. Eva with her children and her new boyfriend spending Christmas, when there suddenly Eve's secret past comes to visit. Children are looking forward to him because they have stopped believing that He will ever appear again. But what about adults?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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...
- An acting student with a broken heart must get his act together for a stage performance.
- 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?
- Simon's mom is screaming every day to make some money. Dad gives his children private German lessons after work. But little Simon needs something completely different than his tired mother's earned money when his dad isn't home either.
- 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.
- A black comedy about death with a happy ending.
- 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.
- 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.
- A vivid encounter with former three time Czech National Boxing Champion. Experience the rise and fall in the career of a female fighter.
- 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.
- The Colour of Morning follows the last hours of a couple breaking up. With palpable tension between the couple and a hint of a toxic pattern, the end of Amalia and Pasha's relationship is inevitable. Having been together for 3 years, the film showcases the sour ending of a beautiful relationship.
- A mentally handicapped young man decides to leave the security of his family in order to search the purpose of his existence; whether it is freedom, sexual experience or death.
- Jan Wiener is a young Czech Jew struggling to survive at the outset of Nazi occupation during World War II.
- This film is a reflection of my own life. It is about growing up as a stranger in Czechia. It reflects feelings of generation of young Vietnamese having lived in there since childhood and who speak Czech better than Vietnamese.
- On the glades surrounded by dark woods, Furry together with a group of friends, live in the burrows. They feed themselves only by seeds which became glowing fruit after touching the ground. However, these appear only rarely. The animals' fear of the wood does not allow them to leave the glade and head off to look for the food somewhere else. Instead, they resignedly wait until it falls from the sky. Furry does not want only to wait. The wood awakens curiosity in him. He wants to know, what is hiding in there.
- A nurse lives in a secret relationship with a married doctor. Samanta is a young Gypsy from a settlement, pregnant with her husband Milan, who is unfaithful to her. Both girls meet at a gynecological clinic. Gypises dance from joy but also from sadness. In this the dance it symbolizes the desire to learn how to live and not to be afraid. A piece of coal on a white cloth. That's what the nurse sees when Samanta, a young pregnant Gypsy from a nearby settlement, is standing in her health centre. The nurse is tangled in an unpromising relationship with a married doctor, which Samanta helps her to get out of. The road movie takes us into the corners of a wild settlement in eastern Slovakia, where the nurse sees herself through Samantha. A sad fairy-tale story reveals that only a woman who suffers, can really love.