Films
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Women’s Revenge
Three older ladies meet at Dr Wágner’s group psychotherapy. Although they are of different professions and characters, they have one issue in common, which they are trying to solve in psychotherapy. The common denominator for their depression and anguish is infidelity of their husbands, to whom…
Wonderful Years That Sucked
This nostalgic comedy was based on the book by Czech popular writer Michal Viewegh. The story autobiographically recounts family life FROM the beginning of the sixties to the end of the eighties. The protagonist father (Ondřej Vetchý) is a man trying to survive the depths of Communist Normalization…
World Between Us
We follow a five-year phase in the personal and professional lives of Marie and Thomas, partners in work and life, their passion and obsession for art, their fearlessness to make their vision a reality, and the boundless effort that requires. The film thus becomes a testimony to the moments that…
World of Walls
Year
2026
Duration
85
Genre
Documentary
To evoke and imagine the near future, World of Walls is set in an environment of extreme social divisions and escalating climate crisis. The story takes place in an unspecified country that is being destroyed by on-going environmental disasters, located in today’s South Africa. The rich are living…
World´s End at the Heart of Europe
The filmmakers traveled to a dozen Czech villages to document the many types of inhabitants in all their complex simplicity, to witness their transformation, and to partake of the local atmosphere. Set against the classic time frame of a single year, the film follows the rhythm of life in the…
Writing Home
A small bark beetle girl lives peacefully in a forest in a tree. However, a fire, caused by irresponsible humans, burns the forest down to ashes. Her hand gets burned to charcoal and she gets separated from her family. Lost in a human town, she has to face the dangerous world of giants on her own.
Wrong Side Up
A black comedy based on director Petr Zelenka’s successful stage play. It treats a simple theme: Jana has left Petr, a boy ‘who’s not doing very well at the moment,’ and he wants her back. In a film in which love seems like madness (and vice versa) many bizarre things rise to the surface. Petr’s…
Year of Marihuana
Year of marihuana follows a whole range of people dealing with cannabis, approaching its use from various perspectives. first of all it introduces professor Hanuš, a scientist who dedicated his professional career to cannabis research. There is also Dušan Dvořák, an activist and founder of the …
Year of the Devil
In Year of the Devil a Czech folk star, a band of funeral musicians, and a Dutch filmmaker stumble towards enlightenment on a remarkable musical tour. Writer/director Petr Zelenka fuses fact and fiction in a music-filled, magical adventure that has ghosts and guardian angels helping people hear the…
Year of the Widow
After her husband´s fatal health collapse, Petra overnight becomes a widow. As she soon finds out, her grief and loneliness are not the only challenges she has to face. Unexpectedly demanding are also countless practical and administrative tasks that a person’s death brings in the 21st century. The…
Year Without Magor
The film portraits the eventful life of Ivan Martin Jirous, called Magor, a Czech poet, journalist and art critic. Magor was known for working with the indie rock band Plastic People of the Universe. During so called normalization in Czechoslovakia he was imprisoned five times for his political…
You Are My Light
The protagonist gives birth but the supposedly happiest time of her life is soon engulfed by dark postpartum depression. Mind-numbing routine, stifling isolation and eternal fatigue turn her into a shadow of her former self. How to find a way out? And how to better understand a postpartum sufferer?