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- Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totally stupid; fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
- In German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
- Adam is a young farmer. As a child, fleeing the bleak reality of his mother's life as a prostitute, he tumbled from a mountain and was mentally injured. Years later, his mother is dying, so Adam sells their only cow to pay for medicine. Rosa, a beautiful young maid, fleeing the sexual exploitation of a wealthy butcher, climbs up to join them on their remote farm and dares to become part of Adam's world. A cycle of life begins again, in a remote turn-of-the-century village tied to the land and its animals.
- Iska, Karolína, and Vendula are eighteen-year-old girls who have just graduated from high school. Not wanting to let go of their carefree student lives or their friendship, they plan to hitchhike to Holland, where they've arranged to work on a farm for three months. But Vojta, Iska's little brother and her father's right hand man, joins the trio against their will. He becomes a witness as well as a catalyst for the breakup of their friendship - for the girls recognize that time cannot be stopped. Dolls is a story about searching for love and finding oneself in the volatile time of late adolescence.
- Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilized way through the social mire of the times.
- A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.
- The effectively compiled experiences of a Greek boy who was forced to leave Greece in 1948 during the civil war and found a new home in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he was brought up by his Greek grandparents. As a mature man the hero of this story revisits the places of his childhood in order to take his grandparents' ashes back to their beloved Greece. His encounters with places he had known so intimately that somehow seem faraway and distant now, evoke brightly etched memories of his childhood, dominated by a wise and beautiful grandmother and a naively patriotic grandfather - and also his school, friends and first loves.
- Ivan Vojnár's latest project studies people who responded to an ad on Czech Television to participate in a casting call. Enriched with dramatic sequences, this freely interwoven portrait presents individuals who decided to confide on camera their traumas, phobias, and feelings of loneliness in today's society.
- Men in Rut draws its humor from the clash of small and big worlds as politicians in a remote burg - so remote, in fact, that the road ends there - try to realize their dream of a new highway connecting them to Europe.
- The life story of Heda Margolius-Kovaly, the woman who managed to outlive 2 of the biggest totalitarian dictators of Europe.