Premieres in Czech cinemas

Bára - Diary of a Rockstar
Bára - Diary of a Rockstar

Release date
17.09.2026

Director
Helena Třeštíková

Helena Třeštíková’s new time-lapse documentary offers an intimate portrait of Czech rock icon Bára Basiková, one of the most distinctive voices of her generation. Spanning five decades, the film follows not only her artistic journey from rock beginnings through musical theatre to chart success, but above all her personal path as a singer, woman and mother balancing fame with private struggles. Behind the powerful voice and spotlight glamour stands a woman openly speaking about depression, loneliness, and the longing for love and acceptance. A compelling portrait of a woman who never stopped being herself.

Call
Call

Release date
17.09.2026

Director
Matěj Balcar

Adam has it all – a successful career, a beautiful wife, two children, and a stylish apartment in the city centre. But one afternoon, left alone at home, he logs into what seems like an anonymous sex call. An innocent game? A fleeting lapse? Or a trap? On the other end sits someone who knows far more than they should.
CALL is an intimate psychological thriller unfolding in real time, over the course of a single conversation that gradually reveals far more than just the body. A film about desire, guilt, and the kind of awkwardness that cuts deeper than pain. Tense, provocative, and ultimately chilling. Because sometimes, one click is all it takes to change everything.

Gerta Schnirch
Gerta Schnirch

Release date
09.09.2026

Director
Tomáš Mašín

A historical story from a period of war, occupation, and subsequent expulsion, but its message is supremely relevant today, based on bestseller novel by Kateřina Tučková: The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch.
The fate of a girl who, after the end of World War II, faces the forced expulsion of Germans from Brno and carries the ‘stigma of being German’ for the rest of her life.
Two women- daughter and mother divided by a secret so dark that they never dared to speak openly about it. Its nature is deeply intimate, familial, yet fundamentally influenced by the "great" events of the 20th century.
By exploring the past of one of them, we unravel a life heavily tainted by two totalitarian regimes, ethnic hatred, old grievances, and the desire for revenge and forgiveness.

33 Steps
33 Steps

Release date
03.09.2026

Director
Anna Domček, Šimon Domček

This film is based on the true story of its protagonist. It follows Milan, a Roma man who was brutally attacked by neo-Nazis at the age of eighteen. Milan falls into a coma and experiences clinical death. During this near-death experience, he is visited by visions in which the Devil tempts him, while Jesus urges him never to seek revenge.

Today, Milan lives in the same town with his wife and two sons, working as a security guard. When he learns that Erik, one of his former attackers, is about to be released from prison, the trauma he has long carried resurfaces.

Introducing

Costume designer Katarína Hollá (*1963) studied set design at DAMU in Prague and has “dressed” characters in fifty films, including the Oscar-winning Kolya. She has collaborated regularly with filmmakers such as Martin Šulík, Alice Nellis, Jan Hřebejk, and Ivan Ostrochovský. Hollá is also credited in Ostrochovský’s new film Only Beautiful Things to Look At, in which Anna Geislerová plays Ingrid, a gynecologist who performs sterilizations on Romani women in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. In addition to her work in film, Hollá has designed costumes for more than 250 theater productions.

by Vojtěch Rynda for CZECH FILM / Fall 2026

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