Adam Levý

Even after more than 25 years since the dreadful war crimes had been taking place in former Yugoslavia, this tragic history is far from over – be it for the victims’ families, conflicting nations or for a Czech investigator who comes back to the region to carry on in his work after so many years. The documentary return voyage follows not only the paths of fleeing war criminals, but is driven by an effort to capture a part of the ethic mission of the then newly formed International Criminal Court in The Hague along, in its double nature: based on an independent investigation of war crimes, to strive for reconciliation in cases of multifarious ethnic, national and other conflicts.

Jabir, Usama and Uzeir are three young brothers in a Sunni family of shepherds. Since childhood, their father Ibrahim has rigidly trained them in the principles of the Quran and has filled their minds with stories of the Bosnian War.

Ярослав — красивый и, казалось бы, добродушный сын, отец и порядочный муж. Но на самом деле он патологически ревнив и очень боится, что его жена Бьянка уйдет от него, забрав с собой троих детей. Ярослав и другие члены семьи без колебаний применяют насилие и террор против других, что в конечном итоге приводит к семейной трагедии.

Огромное расстояние. 2852 км между Брно и Дивеево, между Востоком и Западом, между отцом и сыном. Так далеко, так близко. В конце лета Вит и его сын Гриша отправились в дальнее путешествие по России. Как только они садятся в машину, сын надевает наушники, а отец погружается в воспоминания. И все же эти двое не могут убежать друг от друга. Есть одна вещь, которая может сблизить их еще раз — совместный поиск. Но что же они на самом деле ищут?

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.

This Czech documentary presents a visit to the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (a.k.a. Trans-Dniestr) as a trip to a museum of communist totalitarianism. The country, whose independence has been recognized by only a few other states, remains an isolated multi-ethnic enclave held together by an authoritarian regime. In a country where you are only allowed to film out the window of a train, the locals are afraid of being denounced but are glad to live in a comfortable refuge from the hectic modern world, and songs on television celebrate the president.