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Made In Prague 2022
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107 Mothers (Cenzorka) (Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine; Year: 2021; Director: Péter Kerekes; Writer: Péter Kerekes, Ivan Ostrochovský, Ivan Ostrochovský; Stars: Maryna Klimova, Iryna Kiryazeva, Lyubov Vasylyna, Maryna Klimova, Iryna Kiryazeva, Lyubov Vasylyna)
Docufiction considering the lives of mothers in Odessa women's prison.
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Bethlehem Light (Betlémské svetlo) (Country: Czech Republic, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jan Sverák; Writer: Jan Sverák, Zdenek Sverák, Zdenek Sverák; Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová, Vojtech Kotek, Tereza Ramba, Vladimír Javorský, Jitka Cvancarová, Martin Polisenský, Ondrej Vetchý, Patricia Schumann, Alena Doláková, Petr Reidinger, Miroslav Táborský, Jan Budar, Jirí Machácek, Václav Kopta)
A well-known, ageing writer, faces writer‘s block. He has a head full of unfinished stories whose fictional characters start to appear in real life lobbying for their stories to be finally completed.
Bird Atlas (Atlas Ptáku) (Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia; Year: 2021; Director: Olmo Omerzu; Writer: Olmo Omerzu, Petr Pýcha; Stars: Miroslav Donutil, Alena Mihulová, Martin Pechlát, Eliska Krenková, Voytek Kotek)
An ageing proprietor of a technology company has dedicated his whole life to his work, so it comes as a big blow when he discovers that payments to suppliers have been held up for months. But what can he do when the firm’s accountant is nowhere to be seen?
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The Devil's Trap (Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1961; Director: František Vláčil,; Stars: Vítězslav Vejražka, Miroslav Macháček, Vít Olmer, Čestmír Řanda, Karla Chadimová)
In early-18th century Bohemia, an innocent miller finds himself under investigation by the Inquisition after daring to question the local landowner’s decision to build on unstable land.
Dimensions Of Dialogue (Možnosti Dialogu) (Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1982; Director: Jan Švankmajer)
Švankmajer, without requiring a single word, uses three examples to demonstrate that communication is governed by aggression, the battle for dominance, selfishness, unwillingness and an inability to listen to others.
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The Last Race The Last Race
The Last Race and Erotikon
Erotikon (Seduction) (Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1929; Director: Gustav Machatý; Writer: Gustav Machatý, Gustav Machatý, Vítezslav Nezval; Stars: Karel Schleichert, Ita Rina, Olaf Fjord, Theodor Pistek, Charlotte Susa, Luigi Serventi, Ladislav H. Struna, Milka Balek-Brodská, Bohumil Kovár, Bedrich Saxl, Vladimír Slavínský, Bronislava Livia, Václav Zichovský, Jirí Hron, Willy Rösner)
A woman is seduced and abandoned by a Prague playboy and, on discovering she is pregnant, decides to leave home for a new life.
Historia Naturae (Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1967; Director: Jan Svankmajer; Writer: Jan Svankmajer)
An eight-part animated portrait of various species using medieval prints and live creatures to illustrate animal evolution.
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Kuntskamera (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2021; Director: Jan Švankmajer)
A tantalising view of the Czech surrealist and filmmaker Jan Švankmajer’s private collection of artefacts and objects.
The Last Race (Poslední závod) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Tomás Hodan; Writer: Tomás Hodan; Stars: Krystof Hádek, Judit Bárdos, Simon Kirschner, Claudia Vaseková, Pavla Beretová, Jan Nedbal, Oldrich Kaiser, Marek Adamczyk, Jan Hájek, Bastian Beyer, Vladimír Javorský, Cyril Dobrý, Jan Hofman, Vladimír Pokorný)
The Giant Mountains, 1913. At the start of a skiing competition Bohumil Hanč, the greatest Czech cross-country skier of his day, encounters the talented all-rounder Emmerich Rath, whose German origins have brought him problems his whole life.
Leaving To Remain (Country: UK, Slovakia, Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Mira Erdevički)
Three Roma living in Britain but tied to central Europe film themselves over a critical period as their lives are transformed by the combination of Brexit and Covid.
Occupation (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2021; Director: Michal Nohejl; Writer: Pan Koza, Vojtech Masek, Michal Nohejl; Stars: Otakar Brousek, Cyril Dobrý, Alisher Fakhrijev, Antonie Formanová, Aleksey Gorbunov, Tomás Jerábek, Stepan Nauhaev, Pavel Neskudla, Martin Pechlát, Lucie Roznetínská, Anton Tataru, Vlastimil Venclík, Tomás Vykopal, Barbora Wochnerová, Julie Zácková)
After a premiere, the theatre group is celebrating in a bar when an uninvited guest crashes the party. A drunken Russian officer has come to sell a can of petrol, but soon the business transaction turns into a vodka drinking race.
The Shop On The High Street (Obchod na korze, The Shop On Main Street) (Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1965; Director: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos; Writer: Ladislav Grosman, Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos; Stars: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Adam Matejka, Frantisek Zvarík, Mikulás Ladizinský, Martin Gregor, Alojz Kramar, Gita Misurová, Frantisek Papp, Helena Zvaríková, Tibor Vadas, Eugen Senaj, Luise Grossová)
Second World War drama about an 'Aryan controller' of a Jewish woman's sewing shop... but she believes him to simply be an assistant.
Somewhere Over The Chemtrails (Kdyby radsi horelo) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Adam Koloman Rybanský; Writer: Adam Koloman Rybanský; Stars: Michal Isteník, Miroslav Krobot, Anna Polívková, Vladimír Škultéty)
The friendship of two volunteer firefighters who more often quench their thirst than put out fires, is put to the test when, during Easter celebrations, a van crashes into the village fountain and the driver is nowhere to be found.
The Websters Movie (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Katarína Kerekesová)
Animated tale of a spider family.
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