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- A unique insight into the creative genius of Czech photographer Josef Koudelka. Director Baram follows Koudelka on his journey through Israel and Palestine as he searches for the elusive moment in which a photograph emerges.
- A dog's funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and motorbike show.
- 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?
- Pioneers of video art, The Vasulkas are lifetime hackers and grandparents of the "YouTube" generation. They are struggling in their retirement years to archive their body of work. By a fluke they are rediscovered by the art world that had forgotten them. People and institutions are all of a sudden fighting over who will represent them when they are gone.
- In 1913, the world is about to be radically transformed. Soon, millions of men will march, singing, into the trenches. At this moment of feverish anticipation, Peter from Latvia - who always claims his name is Hans - is roaming around Europe. He starts out as a simple doorman in Riga, but becomes embroiled in the revolutionary plans of communists, anarchists, proto-fascists and nationalists. His odyssey through Europe leads him to the 'Lebensreform' community at Monte Verità in Switzerland, and to imperial Vienna. He is shot at and forced to commit murder, has a romance with the spy Mata Hari and is psychoanalysed by Sigmund Freud.
- Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.
- Near us, in the former mines, on mountain tops, on housing estates and at railway stations nature takes back what man stole. Wildlife film-essay about the resilient power and variety of Czech nature. Within the environment of open cast brown coalmines and spoil tips which is a reminder of a lunar landscape, one finds paradoxically a true tale of an impregnable wild countryside. For most people it is a symbol of an ecological catastrophe, same as the abandoned industrial complexes, former army training ranges or dense woods gobbled up by the bark beetle. But for nature they are untamed spots which bring with them a process of recuperation and self-preservation. Just beyond our backyard we see everyday dramas of animals and plants taking place which tend to fascinate us in films that come from the far reaches of our planet.
- 33-year-old Roman is one of twelve people who decide to undergo group therapy in an isolated community in order to tackle their drug addition. Like the others, he also brings with him a murky past which he tries to come to terms with - perhaps it will help him find a new life for himself. But in this thickening atmosphere of suspicion and lies, who can still be trusted?
- As the personal advisor to presidential candidate Michal Horácek, documentary filmmaker Robin Kvapil recorded from behind the scenes of the campaign from autumn 2016. He filmed using anything he could get his hands on - camera, mobile phone, notebook computer. The film, co-directed by Radim Procházka, was an attempt to capture an authentic portrait of Horácek's election campaign, presenting his team's tactics, interactions with both supporters and opponents, with journalists, and with opposing candidates. With an awareness that they had most likely lost the election, but that there was still a long path ahead of them, Kvapil presented a reflection of their teamwork, commenting on their individual steps.
- Film crew on the road: Director (Jaroslav Plesl), his Producer (Simona Babcáková), and their Director of Photography (Jirí Vyorálek) and Sound Arist (Johana Ozvold). Starving artists who already have a number of films to their names, Czech Lion award-winning films, excellent reviews and have been screened at numerous festivals, but they don't have audiences. Their next collaborative effort - the Director's lifetime dream - is quickly becoming oblivion because he failed to win a grant, which means it won't be made. And so the frustrated Director and his colleagues await their chance among record-holders of curious disciplines such as crawling with a squash racket or collecting four-leaf clovers. How will the collision of these two worlds end? What will the Director's next film be about?
- The story of Buffalo, a man born unable to see and whose hearing is deteriorating, mainly takes place on a Native American reservation in New Mexico. Buffalo leaves Moravia, Czech Republic, to visit a Navajo medicine man and undergo a healing ritual. His journey is full of archetypal meetings. Thanks to a hidden camera, viewers are drawn into Buffalo's world, and they almost physically experience his journey to climb the Shiprock formation. In terms of genre, the film moves between comedy and a meditative observation of a hero who is eager to live.
- Director Zuzana Piussi explores the sources of contemporary Slovaks' national pride. Where they lack great historical power in the past, people define themselves in opposition to surrounding nations and try to find heroes in the distant past. The need to base one's self-confidence on membership in a particular nation is easily abused for political aims.
- Two brothers, the elder married, the younger with a lover and a young child meet up at their parents' country place after their father has a stroke.
- Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein (1905-1989) was head of the Jewish Council of the artificial ghetto of Terezín (Theresienstadt in German). The Nazis made him representative of the community destined for extermination. Victim of a tragic contradiction, after the Liberation he was tried and absolved from the accusation of collaborating with the Nazis; he moved to Rome, where he was ostracized by the Jewish community until he died. His son Wolf devoted his life to redeem his image, trying to paint a more complex picture of the role his father played in Terezín. The film reconstructs through the conversation between Wolf and the psychoanalyst David Meghnagi a son's relationship with the memory of his father, between the acceptance, the denial, and the thematization of a common and familiar tragedy.
- Lise Forell, a Brazilian painter of Czech-German descent, lives a happy life marked by constant challenges. At age of 85, she is able to assess her remarkable life story without being sentimental, with distance and creative energy.
- The remarkable rise of the Drnovice village club among the soccer elite and the advance of local soccer boss Jan Gottvald into the entrepreneurial first league gave director Procházka a chance to investigate the criminal methods used by similar "entrepreneurs" of the time to attain power and money.
- The most recent film-novel by the Czech classic film-maker, Karel Vachek, is on the subject of alien civilizations, who do not just live in the cosmos but on planet Earth itself.
- Even amongst Christmas decorations, a spark of fancy may appear. What to do though when merciless Fate has placed our beloved to the other side of the tree? No use crying when a decoration wants to achieve something it must unhook itself.