Lenka Vychodilová

With his father's memory waning, a struggling forester must confront the troubling reality about his livelihood and his family's future.

All the parents suddenly fall asleep, and children have to survive in the world. A thrilling adventure showing what can happen when chaos reigns and children are forced to face the pitfalls of the world on their own.

체코를 대표하는 사진작가 ‘얀 사우덱’의 작품세계와 그 이면에 숨겨졌던 그의 충격적인 이야기를 스크린에 옮긴 작품. 유태인이라는 이유로 나치 점령 하에서는 아버지와함께 큰 고난을 겪으며 성장한 얀 사우덱. 유태인 수용소에 수감되어 자신의 눈 앞에서 가족들이 죽어 가는 모습을 목격해야 했다. 나치 패망 후 가까스로 고등학교를 졸업한 그는 인쇄소 사진사의 조수로 취직하게 되면서 사진의 세계에 빠져들게 된다. 그 후 모델을 구할 돈이 없자 타고난 입담으로 직업모델이 아닌 주변 사람들을 설득해 무보수로 카메라 앞에 세운 그는 도발적이고 전위적인 누드사진을 연이어 발표하면서 보수적인 체코인들에게 ‘포토그래퍼’가 아닌 ‘포르노그래퍼’로 불리기도 하였다. 영화는 그의 기인과도 같은 기이한 행적들을 따라가며, 놀라운 작품세계와 숨겨졌던 충격적인 일화들을 소개한다.

Johanka and Matyáš have an unusual home. The two live among the animals and plants of an enchanted botanical garden in the middle of the city, but this idyll is under threat. To the children’s horror, the mayor wants to build a theme park on the same spot. The Blue Tiger, an animal with magic powers, comes to their aid. Only he can protect the garden, but Johanka and Matyáš must now stop the mayor from capturing their newfound friend. MODRY TYGR is a colourful, atmospheric and imaginatively told animated fairytale that inspires the viewer to reflect on natural resources and habitats.

The Czech romantic comedy hit “Love is Love” tells the story of Maruska, a blind girl and student at the Conservatory of Music who dreams of love and having a family despite her blindness. Her dream guy has curly blonde hair and blue eyes but she ends up falling in love with the dark eyed, swarthy Marek. Maruska lives with her overly protective grandfather whom is preocupied with his long-lost love. Maruska’s neighbor and best friend is constantly struggling with his headstrong mother as she refuses to accept that her son is gay. She blames everyone else - even her husband - for her son's "deviation." The fate of all main characters is unexpectedly intertwined and told through humorous and touching situations laced with subtle irony and hyperbole. Just as in life, with its funny situations and difficult tests, unexpected revelations and surprising twists, all characters will experience times when they behave blindly and forget to listen to their hearts.

Jakub, a young, small time drug dealer, wakes up to find the police storming the apartment building while his parents are both away on holiday. After flushing all of his "secret stashes" in the toilet, he finds out they are actually there to investigate the death of the girl upstairs, a close childhood friend of his and the family. He slowly retraces the past week that she has been lying dead in her flat and remembers that he asked her to "receive a package" unbeknownst to her from his drug dealer, Pexeso.

Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.

"A musical film of the totalitarian era" is the the second title of the film. The film is based on a legendary school film of Tomáš Vorel, called INg (1985).The story line stays the same - a young engineer finds a new job and wants to work, this proves to be impossible in the last days of the communist era.