Tomáš Frkal

For Tomáš the mine is the centre of his life, along with soccer, his kids and the cosy after-work beer. The 44-year-old has worked as a miner for 21 years, until the mine was closed down for economic reasons. Tomáš then re-trains as a coder in the appropriately named educational programme “New Shift”. What he doesn’t know yet is that his new skills alone won’t get him out of the crisis. A film about a tug-of-war with fate and the employment market.

Three friends are sitting in the dining hall when Eliz comes in, the girl that all three are in love with. One by one they tell their stories of her, each one worse than the one before. Dark humour, beautiful pictures and terrible tales paint the legend of the dreaded Eliz.

After missing a train, Danny, a perpetual student, and his Spanish boyfriend must wait in an empty train station with two homophobic Czechs, who do not realise that Danny understands their every word.

Что если бы у вас была возможность построить новое общество с нуля, как бы это выглядело? Расположенный более чем в 200 км над полярным кругом, шведский шахтерский городок Кируна построен на крупнейшем в мире и самом современном тоннеле добычи железной руды, который принес значительный доход шведскому правительству.

26 April 1986: Chernobyl’s reactor number 4 explodes and provokes the biggest nuclear disaster in history. Pripyat, where the plant is located, becomes a ghost city. Guided by former inhabitants, Eliška Cílková takes us in her quest of the town’s memory. Gracefully shot, the film reminds us the power of music where less expected.

Dancing and parkour are dead. Elementary schools now offer YouTube classes. But why do the kids only have their parents and classmates as subscribers? Two best friends, Kate and Rachel, decide to make a groundbreaking video. As their favorite YouTuber says: Followers don’t come for free, and you have to be fearless if you want to be successful.

A pensioner Petr Černý runs an amateur internet TV and twice a week he broadcasts conspiracy and anti-immigration news. During seven years of his broadcasting he has become an important spokesperson of the part of the society. At the same time, Petr Černý is also a proponent of cosmic mysticism and last but not least a generous person with deep human solidarity. Is it possible to understand a person who cosmically stays on top of things but at the same time refuses the changes that are happening in the current world, and not to make a fool out of him?

In “white torture”, prisoners are locked in a cell in which everything is white: the walls, the floor, the ceiling, even the clothes and the food. This causes the prisoners to gradually lose their visual memory. WHITE ROOM is a half-fictional, half-documentary approach to the testimony of a former prisoner.

In “white torture”, prisoners are locked in a cell in which everything is white: the walls, the floor, the ceiling, even the clothes and the food. This causes the prisoners to gradually lose their visual memory. WHITE ROOM is a half-fictional, half-documentary approach to the testimony of a former prisoner.