Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Made In Prague >> 2016 >> Film Line-up
In addition to the feature film programme, there will be two short film showcases - The Long Night Of Czech Shorts and A Country In Motion: Films From Burma. Films in those showcases are indicated in itallics.
The Seven Ravens and The Snake Brothers
Always Together (Stále spolu)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Eva Tomanová; Writer: Eva Tomanová)
A family struggle with their patriarch's idea of an alternative lifestyle.
Borderlines
(Year: 2015; Director: Hana Novakova)
Two people struggle to share their space.
The Long Night of Czech Shorts
A Buffalo Boy
(Country: Myanmar; Year: 2015; Director: Mai Ah Nway (Ta’ang Chitthu))
A Country In Motion: Films From Burma
Story of how a boy becomes a 'buffalo boy'.
Doomed Beauty (Zkáza krásou)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková; Writer: Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestíková; Stars: Lída Baarová, Vladimír Borský, Frantisek Cáp, Gustav Fröhlich, Joseph Goebbels, Natasa Gollová, Adolf Hitler, Emil Hácha, Zorka Janu, Václav Krska, Carl Lamac, Adina Mandlová, Jaroslav Marvan, Oldrich Nový, Frantisek Paul)
Documentary about actress Lída Baarová.
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.
Leshy and We Are Never Alone
Eva Nová
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2015; Director: Marko Skop; Writer: Marko Skop; Stars: Emília Vásáryová, Juliana Olhová, Dusan Jamrich, Zofia Martisová, Michaela Melisová, Gabriela Dolná, Milan Ondrík, Anikó Varga, Gabriela Dzuríková, Michaela Cillikova, Lubo Gregor, Alexander Lukac, Jaroslava Sisakova, Valeria Furjesova)
A glimpse into an ageing woman’s oppressive world where alcohol is quickening the process of decline.
Family Film (Rodinny Film)
(Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, France; Year: 2015; Director: Olmo Omerzu; Writer: Olmo Omerzu, Nebojsa Pop Tasic; Stars: Karel Roden, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Pechlát)
A family starts to disintegrate after the mother and father leave the children home alone.
The Greedy Tiffany (Nenasytná Tiffany)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Andy Fehu; Writer: Andy Fehu; Stars: Petr Ctvrtnícek, Leos Noha, Jirí Panzner, Pjeer van Eck)
A rube named Pepa robs cottages for cash but the discovery of a strange video recording points him to a place where he’ll find a treasure of immense value... little realising there is a plan for those who turn up looking for it.
Happy End
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jan Saska; Writer: Jan Saska)
A black comedy animation about death with a happy ending.
The Long Night of Czech Shorts
Home Care (Domácí péce)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Slávek Horák; Writer: Slávek Horák; Stars: Zuzana Krónerová, Alena Mihulová, Bolek Polívka, Tatiana Vilhelmová)
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta is forced to react.
The Noonday Witch and The Greedy Tiffany
I, Olga Hepnarová (Já, Olga Hepnarová)
(Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb; Writer: Roman Cílek, Tomás Weinreb, Petr Kazda; Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká, Juraj Nvota, Martin Finger, Marta Mazurek, Ondrej Malý, Petra Nesvacilová, Ivan Palúch, Gabriela Mícová, Zuzana Stavná, Jan Novotny, Viktor Vrabec, Malwina Turek)
Period drama about a real-life murderer.
Opening night
I Wanna Go To School
(Country: Myanmar; Year: 2015; Director: Nyan Kyal Say)
A Country In Motion: Films From Burma
Animation about a brother and a sister who dream of going to school together.
Jesus Krisztina
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Hana Merkova; Writer: Andrea Jarosová, Hana Merkova; Stars: Judit Bárdos, Éva Bandor, Jan Bárta)
The Long Night of Czech Shorts
Tragedy about a woman with an unhappy childhood.
Leshy (Lesapan)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Pavel Soukup; Writer: Petr Koubek; Stars: Vladimíra Havlícková, Miroslav Karel, Jakub Koudela, Marek Pospíchal, Josef Rarach)
A gamekeeper tracks a mysterious beast that has been awoken by poachers.
The Long Night of Czech Shorts
The Little Finger
(Country: Myanmar; Year: 2016; Director: Shune Lei Thar, Kaung Myat Thu Kyaw, Saw Reagan)
A Country In Motion: Films From Burma
Shot during the 2015 election, a portrait of a female Parliamentary candidate.
Borderlines and Schmitke
The More I Know
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Marek Naprstek)
The Long Night of Czech Shorts
Animation, an old man wants to share the story of his life before he dies.
The Noonday Witch (Polednice)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Jiří Sádek; Writer: Karel Jaromír Erben, Michal Samir; Stars: Anna Geislerová, Karolína Lipowská, Zdenek Mucha, Daniela Kolárová, Jirí Strébl, Marie Ludvíková, Mikulás Prosek, Halka Tresnáková, Marek Pospíchal, Tomás Bambusek, Petr Kocourek, Zdenek Palusga, Pavel Moravec, Petr Klimes)
Eliška moves back with her daughter Karolínka to her husband’s native village. But something strange is going on and, as the temperature rises, Eliška becomes increasingly jittery. Fear is all-pervading and spectres move freely between dream and reality.
A Peaceful Land
(Country: Myanmar; Year: 2016; Director: Sai Kong Kham, Lamin Oo)
A Country In Motion: Films From Burma
In 2005, Myanmar government started a nation-wide campaign to plant Physic Nut – a toxic bush-like tree – for biodiesel production. Four farmers stood up for their rights and their land.
Peacock
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2015; Director: Ondrej Hudecek; Writer: Kamila Dohnalova, Ondrej Hudecek, Jan Smutny; Stars: Julius Feldmeier, Tereza Vítu, Lukás Príkazský, Stanislav Majer, Pavel Simcík, Filip Chlud, Eduard Tomecek, Tomas Pivoda, Marie Poulová, Mikulas Linhart, Jakub Strba, Vojtech Linhart, Marek Adamczyk, Bara Cisarovska, Lukás Hlavica)
The Long Night of Czech Shorts
A gay romance in Bohemia.
Schmitke
(Country: Germany, Czech Republic; Year: 2014; Director: Stepan Altrichter; Writer: Stepan Altrichter, Jan Fusek, Tomás Koncinský; Stars: Peter Kurth, Johann Jürgens, Helena Dvoráková, Jakub Zácek, Petr Vrsek, Lana Cooper, Stephan Grossmann, Johanka Schmidtmajerová, Irena Lamberková, Vladimír Skultéty)
A level-headed engineer arrives to repair a creaking old wind turbine. Out there in the misty woods he also goes in search of something else deep inside him.
Eva Nová and Family Film
The Seven Ravens (Sedmero)
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2015; Director: Alice Nellis; Writer: Alice Nellis, Bozena Nemcová; Stars: Martha Issová, Sabina Remundová, Lukás Príkazský, Václav Neuzil, Zuzana Bydzovská, Erika Stárková, Jana Olhová, Tatjana Medvecká, Marián Geisberg, Svatopluk Skopal, Juraj Hrcka, Miro Noga, Petr Pospíchal, Csongor Kassai, Vladimír Javorský)
A young girl must save her brothers from a curse.
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.
The Snake Brothers (Kobry a Uzovky)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2015; Director: Jan Prusinovský; Writer: Jaroslav Zvácek; Stars: Krystof Hádek, Matej Hádek, Martin Bonhard, Jiri Cermak, Pavel Dusak, Adrian Gabaj, Jan Hájek, Vera Kubánková, Ivana Lokajová, David Máj, Ondrej Nosálek, Lucie Polisenská, Veronika Reháková, Tobias Rimsky, Jana Sulcová)
Two brothers feel unable to build a life they are happy with.
We Are Never Alone (Nikdy nejsme sami)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Petr Václav; Writer: Petr Václav; Stars: Klaudia Dudová, Zdenek Godla, Miroslav Hanus, Karel Roden, Lenka Vlasáková)
Bleak lives intersect in a small town in the Czech Republic.
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