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- Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.
- Two middle-aged couples are linked by more than just a lifelong friendship. While relaxing on a Caribbean island, they get an unconventional idea to enrich and, as a result, complicate their sexual lives.
- A photographer and a taxidermist have a summer relationship.
- A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.
- A Prague weatherman gets a bad case of the seven-year itch.
- The descent from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the barrel can be swift. Sometimes just one sentence suffices to destroy everything you've built up like a house of cards. A respected doctor, beloved father, and husband (Ondrej Vetchý) faces very serious criminal charges. Overnight he exchanges his high-class address for a custodial-prison cell, a place from which proving his innocence proves difficult, especially when the opposition is being aided by a man who could be motivated by personal revenge. It's said that the truth always prevails over lies and hatred in the end, but that doesn't necessary guarantee victory.
- A story about the rise and fall of Zyga - a Polish kid in his early twenties, who wants to take charge of his life after the fall of communism, but in a time of chaos and moral anarchy, unwillingly becomes a gangster.
- Film about two friends who find out that you do not have to fly to sea to spend fantastic holidays.
- Gypsy tells the story of Adam, a boy who, after his father dies, tries to cross the boundary of his Roma shantytown and to improve the lives of his brothers and sisters. He encounters racial, social and cultural prejudices and comes into conflict with the unwritten laws of his own community. Circumstances turn against him and his situation drives him to commit a tragic act: murder.
- Helena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The tragic story of a girl named Katka who believes that joy and happiness can be applied through a hypodermic needle. All she is left with is despair. We first meet Katka at a rehab clinic in Nemcice, still full of optimism and faith in a drug-free future. The film tries to draw attention to the drug problem from a somewhat different point of view.
- Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is singled out to receive a "Memory of the Nation" medal, however, it transpires that this reputedly morally irreproachable dissident once collaborated with state security agencies, informing on a former friend of his wife, Borek, and ultimately being responsible for the latter's forced emigration. Josek's family and close friends try to come to terms with these new facts.
- A dark comedy about a "kid" of our times. The American Dream, Czech-style. Everybody would like to glide through life and come into money so easily. It's not always that simple, though. Czechmademan is one of the few unique peeks back at the past two decades of Czech freedom. The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but himself to rely on. During the totalitarian regime of the 80s, he ambles along his oddball path and then experiences the Velvet Revolution atypically, too - in an asylum amidst nut-cases. After the Revolution, he really gets rolling. To Germany and back. To prison and back. To China and back. The intriguing and endless opportunities afforded by the Internet eventually blossom into virtual prosperity. The hero has everything and is even planning a highly unorthodox family... A happy ending is nigh, until everything goes up in smoke, of course...
- A car thief (Michal Nemtuda) tries to change his lifestyle when he finds romance with a beautiful collegian (Kristína Svarinská).
- A tragicomic story of three siblings whose lives changed dramatically after losing their parents during the Communist regime. The oldest, Cyril (Miroslav Donutil), grew up to be a corrupt judge who lives for luxury and takes whatever he wants without remorse. His younger sister, the idealistic Aneta (Vanda Hybnerová), is an investigative journalist writing about political scandals. Thanks to her work, for which she sacrifices everything, her personal life falls apart. The middle sibling, Bruno (Miroslav Vladyka), has held on to a childish view of the world as he has avoided real life. Each one is totally different, yet they all try to stick together. That is, until they learn that Bruno is terminally ill and has very little time left. Cyril decides to redeem himself by organizing a week-long luxury trip to the High Tatras. As a gift to Bruno, he also brings along a young stripper named Tali (Tatiana Pauhofová).
- A brilliant character comedy about friendship set in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Thirty-year-old Libor (Igor Chmela) is the father of two children, a former teacher, now a senior bank executive whose company went bankrupt because fraud by the managers was uncovered. The investigators offer to plea bargain in exchange for Libor's cooperation, and also suggest what all they know about him. Apparently there is plenty for a prison sentence. Libor takes time to reflect and convinces his wife to go away for a few days. Is he fleeing from justice, or does he merely want to delay the moment of truth, when he tells his wife he will have to go to jail? Or is there something else going on entirely?
- A doc presenting portraits of four people unafraid to reveal their particular lifelong penchant for sadomasochistic practices: Altair, whose orientation links him to the world of horses, latex lover Fronéma, the provocative Lenka, and government employee Terezie.
- "I don't get how I can be forty-five next year, when I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up!" The story begins with Erica's (Ivana Chýlková) forty-fourth birthday where she fails to receive the biggest bouquet of flowers she can imagine, but she does get a nice good wish card from her ex-sister-in-law (Zuzana Bydzovská) , an embarrassing message in a radio show from her ex-husband, cream for wrinkles from her gay friend Richard (Ondrej Sokol) and a striptease artiste from her unfathomable mother (Zuzana Krónerová). She places the good wish card on show and, even if she curses herself for it, she is moved to tears, and the present in the shape of the striptease-artiste is immediately bagged by Richard. Thus appears the successful life of Erica Oskarová, the star of the program 'Before and After'. Erica has almost everything - her own TV program, a renowned hairdressing salon, a large flat with a terrace, and freedom. But with each year that goes past she yearns more and more for the one thing she does not have - a child. And that is how our film starts...
- An intimate portrait of a man on the edge of society, filmed over the course of twenty years.
- Rony (Filip Blazek), the owner of a travel agency specializing in extreme sports, receives an interesting request - a trip down the dangerous Black River. The client who initiated the expedition has, it seems, a very serious reason for wanting to go to this remote area, where a Czech water sport enthusiast once died under mysterious circumstances. For Sasa (Jirí Langmajer), the mystery of the distant family tragedy is almost forgotten. Now the chance to learn the truth has come. But the other members of the expedition have no inkling of the real aim of the trip. In the days that follow, they will have to not only reach to the very depths of their physical strength, but also to discover what words such as courage, fair play, friendship, and love mean to them, and to come to terms with the truth, no matter what it is.
- Trestikova led a 20 year survey of 6 couples from the time they were newlyweds. The filmmaker makes a fifth segment.
- Documentary film about the Large Hadron Collider in the world (LHC), which is located under the French - Swiss border.
- Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city, Prague, from their small home town. The euphoric dreams each had for themselves have not materialized and they are all starting to feel trapped in different ways. They all seem to know one thing: what they don't want in life. At a party back in their home town they reminisce over one of their early dreams: to buy a farm, live together and, most importantly, have fun with their lives. In the weeks that follow, each of them is faced with a crisis that brings this old dream into sharper, more sober focus. Can they make it a working reality? Do they really want to?
- About young people from ex-Yugoslavia who live and work in Prague--"center of emigrant crosses." The story follows young film director Gina, who is about to shoot her first feature film, but hasn't the script or the money. The only thing she is certain of is that it must be about love--true love. Before consciously finding the right story to tell, she begins to make a movie about her life and the lives of her closest friends. The involvement of a Mafia spy, a President Bush doll, a transvestite flatmate, an ex-boyfriend, a sclerotic grandmother and a Mafia boss not only causes a lot of surprises, danger, and broken hearts, but also emotional struggles and unexpected comical situations.
- Lovey Chambers (Meritt Latimore) is a passionate but incompetent woman who, after undergoing hypnosis, finds herself deep in a resistential crisis. Not only are objects confounding her, but her boyfriend has vanished and been replaced by a duplicate who doesn't seem to recognise her. Desperate to find love and restore order to her chaotic life, Lovey must uncover the source of the objects' anger. It's an affectionate pastiche of psychedelia and lo-fi sci-fi via Blaxploitation, all wrapped up in a black-and-white Super 8 aesthetic.
- Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
- A film about the state of the world at the turn of the millennium. Three friends once attempted to escape totalitarian Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. But the attempt to emigrate ended in fiasco. For one it meant prison. For the other two it meant lifelong frustration. The three meet again in scenic modern Prague... The film is a reconstruction of the two biggest robberies in Czech history. During the first robbery the thieves managed to steal 28 million crowns from a Prague post office. In the course of second robbery an armored car transporting money was liberated of 150 million crowns. How are they enjoying their money today? But even more importantly, how to put it into circulation without anyone catching on to them? Our three find out that it is much more difficult than they thought.
- Kitty is attacked and sexually abused in front of 38 witnesses for over half an hour. No one does anything to defend her. The event is on the news the next day. Gabriel, a journalist, becomes obsessed with the case and decides to confront witnesses and opens his own investigation. He reconstructs the events and introduces himself into the life of the fatal victim; his purpose is to understand why no one helped her and what the murderer motive was. The outcome turns out to be much more ruthless than he could imagine.
- Project of Prague FAMU students, seven episodes, seven different stories that unfold in seven different parts of Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral, Royal palace, Stromovka Liben or Prague Castle is an attractive background for the movie fate of heroes.
- Framed by two stories, this feature documentary fable PEACE WITH SEALS deals with the concept of "human nature". The first story is about a seal named Gaston who, according to the Prague Zoo director, became "the most famous animal on earth" after he managed to reach Germany during a devastating flood. At the height of his fame, Gaston was adopted by the former Prime Minister Gross; after Gaston's death, the Prague Zoo erected a statue in his memory. The second story took place 50 years earlier and tells the life story of a seal named Ulysses, caught in Sardinia by a Milan photojournalist who, in front of the cameras, tossed the animal into the famous Di Trevi fountain. Patellani - a friend of Federico Fellini's and a specialist on film stars - was fined for his action. The reason, however, was not the killing of a baby seal but the pollution of water in the fountain. Fellini took inspiration from the story for "La Dolce Vita"; referring to photojournalists such as Patellani, he coined the term "paparazzi", i.e. those who create the "nature" of contemporary man. What changes mark our relationship with animals? Today there are urban nature reserves, aquariums instead of oceans, and seal hunting can be booked with a travel agent. In the time of Homer, seals were the most widespread inhabitant of Europe's largest biotope, the Mediterranean Sea. Today, with sun tanning being so fashionable, people have replaced the seals on the beaches. Seals have become one of the most endangered mammals in Europe. Where will we be able to encounter wild animals in the future? How are animals being domesticated? And what is the domestication of people?
- In 2006, Milan and Tomas electrified a school campus and a hospital in a detached Zambian village. After four years, they return for the last time to find out about their system's failures, repair it and hand it over at last.
- For the purposes of this film, Edwards is a child; a long-awaited child of a loving couple, a child struck with a terrible and fatal mistake at conception. Edwards had an extra chromosome, one more than the exact number required for the development of a healthy baby. This flaw causes severe developmental disorders that cannot support life. The condition was first described by American medical scientist John Alexander Edwards, hence the name Edwards Syndrome. Considering modern prenatal diagnostics, it is very uncommon for such children to be born. In the majority of cases, the pregnancy is terminated. The parents of this child decided otherwise. The film follows the struggle of the parents to save a child who was buried by many long before being born.
- The story takes place over three rainy and tepid days. Transcending time and national borders, this tale could happen just about anywhere, any time. We meet the lovers, Sophie (Catherine Flemming) and Vincent (Karel Roden), just as they arrive at a deserted house where she wanted to meet. It could be quite a normal date. Their curiosity leads them to the bathroom, and somebody locks them in. They have no idea who has locked the door or why. Watching them through a peephole in the wall is an eye, an eye that foretells nothing good...
- Story of the car accident told from different perspectives. Everyone has his part of responsibility but some have taken a bigger piece.
- The night is full of mysteries. Something comes into being, something ceases to be; memories merge with dreams and time flows more slowly. Before the sun has risen a human soul must leave this world.
- As a psychiatrist, Frantisek (Josef Polásek) should have his private life under perfect control, except that he's too fond of women. In addition to his wife Eliska (Ela Lehotská), he's in several other relationships, a problem which one day gets out of hand. Now aged forty with an established, lucrative practice and a new dream house, he suddenly doesn't know where to turn and what to save first. When his secret life as a skirt-chaser comes out into the open, he sees all too well how suddenly, unexpectedly and completely his "perfect" life, envied by everyone around him, can grind to a halt: in one day, he loses his psychiatrist's license, the roof over his head and his wife, too.
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1972 - After the Russian invasion, space for individualism and open speech is tight. A young couple feels, that their only chance is by escaping to the west. Massive doubts about the dangers and chances still lurk in Katka's mind. Despite all worries Honza manages to get her onto a train heading towards the Yugoslav-Austrian border. On their journey the couple constantly feels the presence of the repressive regime. Faith turns as they slowly start realizing that the system already occupies their heads. It reveals when during the chaotic escape in the forest Katka accidentally gets hit. Honza has to make an impossible choice, leave her or stay?
- The comedy Revival tells the story of four musicians whose rock band SMOKE broke up under uncertain circumstances in 1972 and who, each for their own reasons, decide to attempt a spectacular comeback. The reasons vary - money, longing for lost fame, the desire to help a friend and also fear of powerlessness, illness and death. But whatever their original motivation was, these aging men resume playing together and as they start enjoying the music, their friendship and life onstage and behind the scenes, their plans and ambitions change as well.. And they themselves also ultimately change. And one great secret is finally revealed - why the band actually broke up in 1972.
- Oskar (Krystof Hádek) loves computers and spends most of his time either in front of a monitor or with his friend Filip. When Oskar is rejected by a girl who then turns around and begins dating their rich classmate, Oskar decides to radically change his life in order to get the girl of his dreams. He spends the last of his allowance on changing his appearance and finds work with a computer company. He gets his first few breaks and soon has plenty of work to keep him occupied while transforming into a smartly dressed businessman. Everything was on the right path until a little accident happened that Oskar would really like to forget. Instead, he is forced to prove himself as an expert in quite a different field than he is used to. He ends up in a whirlwind of bizarre situations and events from which he sees no exit. He has little time for his friend Filip, school, or even work as a programmer. He's at his wit's end, but his troubles have just begun...
- An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea's Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had no intention of selling their plots of land... Not until many of them faced pressure from their neighbors who had accepted approx. EUR 4000 in compensation and not until they received death threats. Using nine protagonists, the film paints a portrait of a village changed beyond recognition. A humorous yet compelling film about a field that yields cars.
- The trials and tribulations of Sliceman in the dark and frightening land of the murderchain.
- Stalin grasps a pencil in his hand as he prepares to draw a line on a map of the Soviet Union. Where the graphite touches paper, some 80,000 people - almost all of them gulag inmates - will build a railroad in the grueling conditions of the polar taiga.