Together with the international premiere of his final feature film The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street which world-premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary IFF last year, the program features Jan Němec's entire body work from the 1960s safe for a few musical films, with screenings from archival 35mm prints of the masterful Diamonds of the Night and The Party and the Guests; a sampling of films he made in exile for various TV stations along with the rarely seen The Czech Connection and a documentary on the Munich Agreement Peace in Our Time? he co-directed on commission of the British Channel 4. Presenting all of Němec’s feature films from the post-1989 era, including the international premiere of Heart Beat 3D, the festival will also screen a wide selection of Němec’s documentaries subtitled and for the first time presented to an international audience. Finally, the festival will also present a documentary portrait of the director made for the illuminating series Golden Sixties. You can learn more about the retrospective here.

CFC and the festival will publish a booklet for the program with translated excerpts from Němec’s book of quasi-autobiographical stories Don’t Shake Hands with the Waiter (published by Torst), the excellent monograph on Němec by Jan Bernard (published by NAMU) and writings of important critics and the filmmaker’s friends, together with an introduction to the retrospective by its curators Evgeny Gusyatinskiy and Irena Kovarova.

The Czech Centre Rotterdam will organize an exhibition of original posters from 1960s presented by Terryho ponožky and Pavel Rajčan.

Furthermore, Tereza Nvotová, the student of Prague's FAMU, will present her feature fiction debut Filthy in the Bright Future section. The film tells a coming-of-age story about sensitive seventeen-year-old Lena whose enchanted teenage world is shattered by a horrific event of being raped. 

"I feel the need to tell the story of Lena and Róza, as my first feature fiction film not just because it's inspired by the experiences, which strongly formed me. The period in between childhood and adulthood fascinates me, because it's the first time when you have to fight hard for your truth even nobody listens, first time you have to admit that the world is not acting as you wish and therefore you are changing fast. When this age is distracted with such trauma as rape, the world turns upside down. This topic is in our country still a taboo, and nobody wants to speak up honestly with all the rage of cruelty and insight. But we do," - said Tereza Nvotová during the making of the film.

The film is a Czech-Slovak co-production produced by Miloš Lochman (moloko film) and Peter Badač (BFILM). 

In the Limelight section will be screened also Olivier Assayas' latest film Personal Shopper, which was produced with the Czech participation and was partly shot in Prague. The film was premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2016, where it won the Best Director Award.