Jaroslav Fryš

An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the West but reviled in his own country, still combative despite his advanced age, loneliness and illness, offers his personal and political testament.

When the junior ice hockey team from the small town of Náchod, in the Czech Republic, sets off in a bus to Morocco to play the away game in an exchange programme, the players and their coach expect an easy victory and a cultural shock: “bring ear plugs”, the coach suggests them with a touch of undisguised condescendence, so as not to hear the call to prayer early in the morning. Both on and off the ice, Rozálie Kohoutová and Tomáš Bojar’s camera focuses on a few teenagers and their exchanges, simultaneously funny and cruel, in a clumsy English.

What happens behind the walls of our hospitals? How do doctors treat us? How can a healthy child become a lying wreck? All this was revealed by a hidden camera in the next episode of Infiltration ... (Česká televize)

Federación de Rusia, 31 de diciembre de 1999. Tras la inesperada dimisión del presidente Boris Yeltsin, el primer ministro Vladimir Putin se convierte en presidente interino del país. Desde ese día y durante un año, la cámara de Vitaly Mansky documentó el ascenso al poder de Putin. La historia de un testigo privilegiado. La dura explicación de por qué la política es el arte de la posibilidad de lograr lo mejor con el apoyo de muchos, pero también de dar lo peor a cambio.

An in-depth look at one of Africa's largest shanty towns and its residents' dedication to transforming their home amidst a tense election year.