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Apart (Spolu sami) (Year: 2018; Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen; Stars: Voiced by, Petr Cuker, Ondřej Gabaš, Barbora Vildová)
Animation telling the tale of three people who all lost a parent in adolescence.
The Best of Czech Animation 2015-2019
Bloody Fairy Tales (Krvavé pohádky) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Tereza Kovandová; Writer: Lukáš Hrdý, Tereza Kovandová)
Fairy tales become a morbid homage to the films of Lotte Reininger and Quentin Tarantino.
The Best of Czech Animation 2015-2019
The Fisherman (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Bára Anna Stejskalová)
A story about fisherman, who pulls a skeleton out of the frozen lake.
The Best of Czech Animation 2015-2019
Forman Vs Forman (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Helena Trestikova, Jakub Hejna)
Documentary about the director.
Fruits Of Clouds (Plody mraků) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2017; Director: Kateřina Karhánková; Writer: Kateřina Karhánková; Stars: Sebastian Husák, Teo Arichtev, Michaela Hoffová)
A forest creature attempts to overcome his fear of the unknown.
The Best of Czech Animation 2015-2019
Great Adventure Of The Lucky Four (Velké dobrodruzství Ctyrlístku) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Michal Zabka; Stars: Tereza Bebarová, Jan Maxián, Bohdan Tůma, Jiří Ployhar ml., Miroslav Táborský, Jiří Lábus)
The Lucky Four - Fifinka, Pinďa, Bobík and Myšpulín - recall their adventures round a campfire.
Jiří Suchý - Tackling Life with Ease (Jiří Suchý – Lehce s životem se prát) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Olga Sommerová)
Profile of Jiří Suchý. Theatre personality, musician, poet, writer, graphic artist, collector, citizen. One of the key figures of the domestic cultural scene over the last six decades and a tireless campaigner for the enrichment of the Czech language.
Karel, Me And You (Karel, já a ty) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2018; Director: Bohdan Karásek; Writer: Bohdan Karásek; Stars: Jenovéfa Boková, Miroslav Faderholz, Miloslav König)
Drama about a woman who leaves her husband and moves in with a friend.
Let There Be Light (Nech je svetlo) (Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Marko Škop; Writer: Frantisek Krähenbiel, Zuzana Liová, Marko Škop; Stars: Andreas Nickl, Dieter Fischer, Ingrid Timková, Csongor Kassai, Lubomír Paulovic, Zuzana Konecná, Daniel Fischer, Michal Kinik, Anikó Varga, Katarina Kormanakova, Milan Ondrík, Frantisek Beles, Jakub Kuka, Juliane Werner, Maximilian Dusanic)
A Slovakian man, who works in Germany, returns home for Christmas to discover some brutal truths about his eldest son.
Most! (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Jan Prusinovský; Writer: Petr Kolecko; Stars: Martin Hofmann, Erika Stárková, Frantisek Filip Cervenka, Michal Isteník, Zdenek Godla, Cyril Drozda, Vladimír Skultéty, Jitka Cvancarová, Jirí Schmitzer, Tatjana Medvecká, Jan Cina, Magdaléna Kozáková, Fred Müller, Leos Noha, Dominika Býmová)
TV mini-series about a pub bum who owes money to a mafia boss that became one of the most talked about shows in the Czech Republic this year.
The Nagano Tapes: Rewound, Replayed & Reviewed (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Ondrej Hudecek; Writer: Ondrej Hudecek, Jon Weinbach; Stars: Giancarlo Esposito, Pavel Bárta, Marc Crawford, John Davidson, Helene Elliott, Michael Farber, René Fasel, Theo Fleury, Roman Hamrlik, Dominik Hasek, Libena Hlinková, Brett Hull, Zdenek Janda, Jaromír Jágr, Jirí Kolis)
The inspiring story behind the Czech Republic’s historic gold medal victory at the Olympic Winter Games Nagano 1998.
Old-Timers (Staříci) (Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Martin Dušek)
Vlasta and Tonda don’t have much longer to live but they do have one more important task ahead of them – to find and kill the communist judge who sent them to prison in the 1950s. An unusual road movie about two former political prisoners who fight for justice despite every obstacle.
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