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Vaterland – A Hunting Logbook
A group of kids from an aristocratic background are staying in an expensive mansion, where a bizarre hunt is started. This first surrealist thriller fPublished on: -
Expulsion from Paradise
Committed film-maker fights many quarrels and setbacks while filming on a nudist beach. The most naked film of the festival.Published on: -
Parallel Worlds
The reality of Prague thirty-somethings in an everyday existential crisis. The relationship between translator Teresa and architect Krystof is gettingPublished on: -
Wild Bees
A bitter-sweet observation in the Czech tradition of a small rural community. Well observed, sometimes grotesque, sometimes touching, often ironic, itPublished on: -
At zije republika
Grand, epic and visually-impressive film with fantastic scope photography which deserves to be much better known than it is. Long Live the Republic is a…Published on: -
Four Suns
Since his debut Wild Bees (Tiger Award 2002), Sláma has become the figurehead of Czech cinema. Once again, his powers of observation are combined withPublished on: -
Katya
Moving short film about a teenage girl who is alone in the world. She has no help from either of her parents. Fortunately she does…Published on: -
Je vis dans le rêve de ma mère
The film is the dream of the real mother of the maker, about a young dark filmmaker who travels through many European and Asian countries…Published on: -
Lemonade Joe
This 1960s cult film from Czechoslovakia is a musical parody on the American Western, spiced up with tricks by the father of Czech animator Jiri…Published on: -
Surviving Life
Surrealist Jan Svankmajer deals with one of the biggest obsessions in his life: dreams. The main protagonist Evzen is having obscure dreams and desperPublished on: