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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Burning Bush

    Prague student Jan Palach shocked the world in 1969 by setting fire to himself in protest against the Soviet occupation. This compelling HBO mini-seri
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  • My Dog Killer

    Marek has no real friends except his guard dog and hangs out with skinheads. When his dispirited mother reappears in his life, Marek faces a…
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  • Ziva Postec. La monteuse derrière le film Shoah

    Shoah, the monumental Holocaust documentary by Claude Lanzmann, was edited by Ziva Postec. In this documentary, she emerges from the director’s
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  • Apart

    Three young voices candidly share their experience of the sudden loss of a parent in this honest, dreamy animation.
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  • Skid

    The Iron Curtain closes in on a man suffering from amnesia after a terrible accident when the West German intelligence service sends him back to…
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  • Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy

    A comparison of two popular uprisings, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, by film essay giant Karel Vachek.
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  • Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace

    A journey through the life and work of Jan Švankmajer, last remaining hero of surrealism, who occupies a unique place in the history of cinema.
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  • Cook, F**k, Kill

    Layered, absurdist family drama about the vicious circle of domestic violence in central Europe, with as anti-hero the dorky ambulance driver Jaroslav
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  • The Vasulka Effect

    The pioneers of video art, Steina and Woody Vasulka look back on their eventful lives and innovative work.
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  • To Be a Romany

    A special documentary about the life of Jarmila Balazova, a young Czech reporter of Roma origins, made over a period of five years.
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