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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Somewhere Better

    An intimate documentary about the vicissitudes of a Czech Roma family that is waiting for the result of their asylum request in the United Kingdom.
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  • Mariaheim

    Diary of a sculptor as a stream of (un-) consciousness. Everyday life as an artwork. The living sound of the maker himself.
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  • Ester Krumbachová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec

    The muse and co-creator of the best works from the Czechoslovak New Wave, credited for giving the Wave its distinct look, is portrayed here by…
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  • The Ferrari Dino Girl

    While documenting the Prague Spring of 1968, Němec and his crew watched and filmed in horror the Soviet tanks invading his country. The resulting
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  • Golden Sixties: Jan Němec

    In a documentary from a series of 26 portraits of the Czechoslovak New Wave filmmakers, director Martin Šulík interviews Jan Němec 
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  • Heart Above the Castle

    At the end of his presidency, Václav Havel hosted a NATO summit in Prague. His distant cousin Jan Němec gets behind the scenes to shoot ‘a
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  • The Life of Singer Marta Kubišová Through the Eyes of Jan Němec

    Portrait of the poster child of the Prague Spring, who was a major pop star before the Soviet tanks rolled in, only to see her…
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  • Arnošt Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Němec

    A visionary portrait of Arnošt Lustig, survivor of the Holocaust and prominent Czech writer, whose works deeply influenced Jan N
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  • Filthy

    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.…
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  • The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

    For the final film of his career, Němec adapted his recent book of quasi-autobiographical stories; based on his life, but not without mystif
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