Five other movies with Czech co-coproduction participation will be introduced at the European Film Market 2017: I Love You Heavenly (director Miroslav Šmídmajer, CZ 2017),  Tiger Theory (director Radek Bajgar, CZ, SK 2016),  The Chronicles of Melanie (director Viestur Kairish, LV, CZ, FI 2016), The Constitution (director Rajko Grlić, HR, CZ, SI 2016) and The Man (director Charlotte Sieling, DK, CZ, NO 2017).

Discover more about Czech films in Berlin at EFM at Central European Cinema stand no. 137 at Martin-Gropius-Bau:
Marketa Santrochova - Head of CFC / marketa@filmcenter.cz / 9 - 18 Feb
​Barbora Ligasova - Festivals Relations - Feature Films / barbora@filmcenter.cz, +420 778 487 863 / 8 - 17 Feb
Martin Cerny - Festival Relations - Documentary & Short Films / martin@filmcenter.cz, +420 778 487 864 / 10 - 16 Feb

A PROMINENT PATIENT
by Julius Ševčík / CZ, SK 2016 114 min.
A true story devoted to life and fortunes of Jan Masaryk, a diplomat and later Czechoslovak foreign minister, takes us back to the run-up to World War II.

Berlinale screenings:
FEB 11 / 15:30 / CinemaxX 10 / EFM – BUYERS ONLY
FEB 12 / 11:00 / Cinestar 4 / EFM – BUYERS ONLY
FEB 15 / 21:30 / CinemaxX 9 / PRESS
FEB 17 / 20:00 / Kino International / PREMIERE
FEB 18 / 18:00 / Cubix 8 

SPOOR
by Agnieszka Holland, PL, DE, CZ, SE, SK 2017, 128min.
The film is based on the best-selling novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. Holland co-wrote the screenplay with Tokarczuk and Czech screenwriter Štěpán Hulík. The rest of the Czech contingent consisted of the production company nutprodukce, Czech Television, UPP Studios, editor Pavel Hrdlička, and, in one of the starring roles, actor Miroslav Krobot.

Berlinale screenings:
FEB 12 / 9:00 / Berlinale Palast / PRESS
FEB 12 / 16:00 / Berlinale Palast / PREMIERE
FEB 13 / 9:30 / Friedrichstadt-Palast
FEB 13 / 12:00 / Haus der Berliner Festspiele
FEB 13 / 15:30 / CinemaxX 10 / EFM
FEB 14 / 12:15 / Zoo Palast 1
FEB 19 / 21:30 / Haus der Berliner Festspiele
 

LITTLE HARBOUR
by Iveta Grófová, SK, CZ 2017, 85 min.
The second feature by Slovak director Iveta Grófová, tells the true, unsettling story of an 11-year-old girl.
It celebrates its world premiere as part of Berlinale’s Generation Kplus.

Berlinale screenings:
FEB 11 / 16:15 / CinemaxX 12 / EFM
FEB 12 / 10:00 / HKW / PREMIERE
FEB 13 / 15:30 / Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
FEB 13 / 18:30 / CinemaxX 12 / EFM
FEB 17 / 15:30 / Zoo Palast 1

IKARIE XB1
by Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1963, 88 min. 
It is the second half of the 22nd century and a spaceship called Ikarie XB 1 is on its way to Alfa Centauri to search for extraterrestrial forms of life. Its crew, made up primarily of scientists from various fields, being far from our solar system, is exposed to unknown and unimaginable dangers. 

Berlinale screenings:
FEB 12 / 19:00 / CinemaxX 8
FEB 19 / 14:30 / Zeughauskino

Czech Films at EUROPEAN FILM MARKET 2017 :
THE CONSTITUTION / Rajko Grlić, HR, CZ, SI 2016
10. 2. / 18:30 / CinemaxX 16

I LOVE YOU HEAVENLY / Miloslav Šmídmajer , CZ 2017
10. 2. / 9:45 / CinemaxX 18 

THE CHRONICLES OF MELANIE / Viestur Kairish, LV, CZ, FI 2016
13. 2. / 13:00 / CinemaxX 16 

TIGER THEORY / Radek Bajgar, CZ, SK 2016
10. 2. / 13:30 / dffb Cinema 

THE MAN / Charlotte Sieling, DK, CZ, NO 2017
11. 2. / 10:45 / Arsenal Cinema 2