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2 CZECH DOCuMENTARIEs 2018–2019

CZECH DOCUMENTARIES 2018–2019

Published by Czech Film Fund.

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January 2019 marks the start of the Czech Film Fund’s seventh year in existence.

I would contend that in the last six years the fund has become a stable state institution and a partner of equal standing to similar institutions abroad.

Through stabilized, compound financing, support for all kinds of genres and formats, independence and transparency in grant adjudication, and not least through the high level of funding provided to minority (and other) co-production films over the last three years, the fund has been able to help Czech producers collaborate on attractive European projects.

For the third year now, the Czech Film Fund has included the Czech Film Center, which cooperates with international festivals, consults programmers about current Czech films, and recommends films for potential inclusion in programs. Hence, the Czech Film Center works with films that the fund has financed from the outset, from the initial screenplay, to development, and through to production.

The Czech Republic may be a small country, but it is a great one. And it is a country of great film talents: Helena Třeštíková, Olga Sommerová, Miroslav Janek, Karel Vachek, Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská, Jan Gebert, as well as many others. We are the country with a cinematic tradition, and with prospects for the future.

Over the last seven years I have tried on a daily basis to keep the fund ready to support the incredible talent we are gifted with. Thanks in particular to the increased financial resources available since 2016, it has been possible to give bigger grants to many uniquely interesting projects that await distribution this year, which I believe will bear out my hopes for wonderful talent our country has to offer.

Helena Bezděk Fraňková director of the Czech Film Fund


INTRODUCTIONWith the beginning of the new year, we take a look back at the just finished year of 2018, presenting an overview of what’s been dished up, as well as what’s cooking, in Czech cinema.

IN THEATRES

In 2018, twenty-nine Czech documentary films were released in Czech cinemas. Among those, adventurous Wilder Than Wilderness by Marián Polák, produced by Radim Procházka was the biggest box office hit, drawing around 90 000 moviegoers.

INTERNATIONAl ACHIEvEMENTS

Czech documentaries continued to thrive last year. The painfully relevant documentary When the War Comes, from director Jan Gebert produced by Radovan Síbrt’s PINK, in cooperation with HBO Europe and the Croatian company Hulahop got a very good reception at the Berlinale, where it was presented in the Panorama section.

Two Czech documentaries were selected to be screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, as part of a new program called the Changing Face of Europe, initiated by European Film Promotion: The Russian Job, by Petr Horký, and The White World According to Daliborek, Vít Klusák’s stylized portrait of a Czech neo-Nazi.

The international competition of Visions du Réel hosted the world premiere of the Latvian-Czech coproduction documentary D Is for Division, directed by Dāvis Sīmanis, produced by Ego Media and Produkce Radim Procházka.

Putin’s Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky, shot as a coproduction between Latvia, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic (Hypermarket Film), premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF, winning the main prize in the Documentary Films Competition before going on to screenings at the Toronto IFF, IDFA, and other festivals.

Karlovy Vary IFF also premiered, as part of its Documentary Film Competition, Breaking News, by Tomáš Bojar, and Inside the War on ISIS (former title: Inside Mosul), the debut by courageous director Jana Andert.

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) invited documentary director Helena Třeštíková to be the guest of honor at the festival where seven of her most famous and important works were screened. In addition, Třeštíková presented her Top 10, the ten works that most influenced her as a filmmaker, introducing them to the IDFA audience.

CZECH PARTICIPATION IN COPRODUCTION MARkETS

Numerous Czech projects were presented in coproduction markets to favorable response.

The experimental documentary My Unknown Soldier, directed by Anna Kryvenko and produced by Michal Kráčmer (Analog Vision), was selected for the documentary work in progress section of the coproduction forum When East Meets West, Last Stop Trieste.

The documentary project Kiruna 2.0 (directed by Greta Stocklassa, produced by Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová) was presented in January at North Pitch—Below Zero, organized by the European Documentary Network, in collaboration with the Tromso IFF in Norway.

Another Czech documentary project was presented in the 2018 edition of the Hot Docs Forum: Wishing on a Star, directed by Peter Kerekes, produced by Videomante (Italy), Mischief Films (Austria), Artcam Films (Czech Republic), and Peter Kerekes (Slovak Republic).


IN THE WORkS: DOCUMENTARy PROjECTS

Last year saw a number of promising projects in the development and production stages that received support from the Czech Film Fund.

Documentary filmmaking is a genre that has been on the rise in the Czech Republic for decades and is now giving narrative filmmaking a run for its money in terms of acclaim and success abroad. And more promising projects are underway. Among those that received the highest levels of funding from the CFF for production were Every Single Minute, by director Erika Hníková (produced by Jiří Konečný – endorfilm), a portrait of a family raising their little boy through a parenting philosophy called Kameveda. The project received financing of € 76,923. Another project dealing with children and parenting is Vít Klusák’s Caught in the Net, which uses an original experiment to uncover the taboo topic of online child abuse (funding: € 57,692). Pongo Story, directed by Tomáš Kratochvíl and produced by Radim Procházka, follows a successful Roma family who left the Czech Republic for Britain 12 years ago, was supported with € 46,154.

Another four projects in development each received € 15,385: Happily for Ever, directed by Jana Počtová, looks at contemporary relationships; Woods, directed by Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská, produced by Pavla Janoušková Kubečková (nutprodukce), follows children involved in a forest adventure game; Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits, directed by Jan Šimánek and Petr Záruba, is the portrait of a rock climber; and Storyteller of the Jungle: Otto Placht, by director Alice Růžičková, features a painter inspired by the Shipibo Amazonian Indian tribe.

PROjECTS NEARINg COMPlETION

Noteworthy Czech films of all types have premieres approaching. Solo, one of the projects vying for festival and domestic audiences in the field of documentary film, is the portrait of a talented Argentine pianist recovering from addiction in a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, and marks the feature debut of Czech-based French director Artemio Benki. Living legend of Czech documentary filmmaking Helena Třeštíková is preparing a portrait of Miloš Forman titled Forman versus Forman. Director Eva Tomanová has made Another Chance, the story of a lopsided love affair between a successful, middle-aged woman and a young marriage impostor. And director Viera Čákanyová describes her upcoming documentary essay, FREM, as a requiem for Homo sapiens as a species on the decline.

INTERNATIONAl FUNDINg: EURIMAgES

One documentary film with Czech participation received grants from the Eurimages Fund in 2018: Fever, by Helen Simon (Germany/Czech Republic, € 160,000).

CZECH FIlM AWARDS – CZECH lIONS AND CZECH FIlM CRITICS’ AWARDS

The 8th edition of the Czech Film Critics’ Awards 2017 conferred the prize for Best Documentary Film to director Miro Remo and producer Jiří Konečný (endorfilm) for their portrait of one of the most popular Slovak singers of all times called Richard Müller: This Is Not Me. At the 25th Czech Lion Awards, the award for Best Documentary Feature went also to a portrait of a well-known artist, this time to Cervena following the life story of famous opera singer Soňa Červená. The film was directed by Olga Sommerová and produced by Pavel Berčík (Evolution Films).


CONTENTS 2018 RElEASED FIlMS

Ark of Lights and Shadows Archa světel a stínů Jan Svatoš 10Breaking News Mimořádná zpráva Tomáš Bojar 11Bruce Lee and the Outlaw Bruce Lee and the Outlaw Joost Vandebrug 12Central Bus Station Central Bus Station Tomáš Elšík 13Circus Rwanda Cirkus Rwanda Michal Varga 14D is for Division Neklidná hranice Dāvis Sīmanis 15Empire Builders Budovatelé říše Andran Abramjan 16Enclosed World Uzamčený svět Karel Žalud 17Feral Feral Jiří Holba 18God Forsaken Bohu žel Saša Dlouhý 19Good Death Dobrá smrt Tomáš Krupa 20Good Mr. Benda Dobrý život bratra Bendy Pavel Jurda 21Grygar Grygar Martin Petrásek 22Illusion Iluze Kateřina Turečková 23Inside the War on ISIS V Mosulu Jana Andert 24Jindrich Streit – Sudetenland my love Na tělo Libuše Rudinská 25King Skate King Skate Šimon Šafránek 26Little Moscow Malá Moskva Grímur Hákonarson 27March or Die Pochoduj nebo zemři Michael Kaboš 28My Unknown Soldier Můj neznámý vojín Anna Kryvenko 29Occupation 1968 Okupace 1968 Evdokia Moskvina, 30 Linda Dombrovszky,

Magdalena Szymkow, Marie Elisa Scheidt, Stefan Komandarev

Passengers Pasažéři Jana Boršková 31Putin‘s Witnesses Svědkové Putinovi Vitaly Mansky 32The Band Kapela Ladislav Kaboš 33Vienna Calling Vienna Calling Petr Šprincl 34Vote For Kibera Kibera: Příběh slumu Martin Páv 35Vratislav Effenberger Vratislav Effenberger David Jařab 36or Black Shark Hunting aneb Lov na černého žralokaWe Can Do Better Máme na víc Radim Procházka, Robin Kvapil 37When the War Comes Až přijde válka Jan Gebert 38

POSTPRODUCTION

A Five Hundred Plateaus Pět set plošin Andrea Slováková 40Another Chance Začít znovu Eva Tomanová 41Batastories Baťa, první globalista Peter Kerekes 42Blackandwhite Černobílá Zoe Aiano, Anna Benner 43Fathers of Ours Otcové naši Martin Mareček 44Forman versus Forman Forman versus Forman Helena Třeštíková 45FREM FREM Viera Čákanyová 46Jaroslav Kučera: A Portrait Jaroslav Kučera zblízka Jakub Felcman, Tomáš Michálek 47Jiří Trnka – A missing friend Jiří Trnka – Nalezený přítel Joël Farges 48Kiruna 2.0 Kiruna 2.0 Greta Stocklassa 49


Last days of Europe Poslední dnové Evropy Martin Kohout 50Libussa Unbound Setkání s Libuší Taťána Marková 51Moravia, O Fair Land III. Morava, krásná zem III. Petr Šprincl 52My Father, the Spy Můj otec, špión Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube 53Never Happened Skutek se nestal Barbora Berezňáková 54Nomad in the City Nomád ve městě Anji Sauvé Clubb 55Off Sides Letní hokej Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar 56Pepik the Czech goes to Poland Český Pepík jede do Polska Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda 57in a quest for love of God poznat lásku k BohuSolo Solo Artemio Benki 58The Heaven Nebe Tomáš Etzler 59The Sound is Innocent The sound is innocent Johana Ožvold 60The Vasulka Effect Efekt Vašulka Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir 61University and Freedom University a svoboda Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi 62Will You Dare? Chci tě, jestli to dokážeš Dagmar Smržová 63

PRODUCTION

All Men Become Brothers Všichni lidé budou bratři Robert Kirchhoff 66Beginnings Počátky 2 Linda Kallistová Jablonská 67Blood, Sweat and Tears Na krev Erik Knopp 68Brotherhood Ve jménu Alláha Francesco Montagner 69Caught in the Net V síti Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová 70Comfortable century Pohodlné století Jaroslav Kratochvíl 71Communism Komunismus Karel Vachek 72Diamond Czech Style Sluníčko jako čtvereček Rudolf Šmíd 73Dog‘s Love Psí láska Linda Kallistová Jablonská 74Dreams About Stray Cats Sny o toulavých kočkách David Sís 75Jan Jedlička: Colourful Jan Jedlička: barevné Petr Záruba 76Traces of a Landscape stopy krajinyJan Kapr‘s Codes Šifry Jana Kapra Lucie Králová 77Jiří Suchý Jiří Suchý Olga Sommerová 78Love Under The Hood Láska pod kapotou Miro Remo 79Lust for Life The Tap Tap – Postiženi muzikou Radovan Síbrt 80Mucha Mucha Roman Vávra 81Multiple Hope Roztroušená naděje Petr Jančárek 82My father Antonín Kratochvíl Můj otec Antonín Kratochvíl Andrea Sedláčková 83One More for the Road Do druhý nohy Bohdan Bláhovec, Jan Foukal 84Provincial Town of E Provinční městečko E. Dmitry Bogolubov 85Satanic Girls Satanic Girls: Ženy na cestě Bohdan Bláhovec 86Soviet Man Sovětský muž Ivo Briedis 87The Hijacking Únos Ivan Ostrochovský 88Those Who Dance in the Dark Ti, kteří tancují ve tmě Jana Ševčíková 89Turn on the Light So We Can See Rozsviť světlo, ať je vidět Václav Kučera 90VIVA VIDEO, VIDEO VIVA Viva video video viva Adéla Komrzý 9Wolves on the Borders! Vlci na hranicích MartinPáv 92


CONTENTS DEvElOPMENT

A Marriage Manželství Kateřina Hager, Asad Faruqi 94Adam Ondra: pushing the limits Adam Ondra: posunout hranice Jan Šimánek, Petr Záruba 95Amoosed! Amoosed! Hana Nováková 96Buddhist Assasin Buddhist Assasin Vít Janeček 97Dream-Heeders Naslouchači snů Lucie Králová 98Forgotten War Zapomenutá válka Zdeněk Chaloupka 99Happily for ever Šťastně až na věky Jana Počtová 100Human Beeing Human Beeing Kristýna Bartošová 101Identity Es Identita Es Alena Činčerová 102Jednotka intenzivního života Jednotka intenzivního života Adéla Komrzý 103Life in The Hell Život v pekle Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi 104My Private Mongolia Moje vlastní Mongolsko Artemio Benki 105Pongo story Pongo story Tomáš Kratochvíl 106Storyteller of the Jungle: Otto Placht Mluvčí džungle: Otto Placht Alice Růžičková 107tatabojs.doc tatabojs.doc Václav Kučera 108The Boxer Boxer Karolína Peroutková 109The Sperminators Sperminátoři Eva Tomanová 110The Wild of the Nineties Divoký devadesátky Radim Špaček 111

Contacts 112Facts and Figures 116Index of Directors 118Index of English Titles 119

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10 2018 RELEAsED FILMs

ARk OF lIgHTS AND SHADOWS ARCHA SvěTEl A STíNů

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | English, CzechDIRECTOR jAN SvATOš

PRODUCER Ivana ButtryPRODUCTION COMPANy Art FrancescoCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television

SCRIPT Jan Svatoš DOP Romi Straková EDITOR Katarina Geyerová SOUND Ladislav Krýsl MUSIC Karl Jenkins

They met on Friday, getting married secretly on Sunday. They had to run away from their parents’ wrath and rather spent their honeymoon among the cannibals in the South Seas, where they lost both their camera and their illusions. At the moment when many people would abandon filming, Martin and Osa Johnson risked their lives to bring the testimony of a diminishing wildlife. The film is an authentic footprint of the era when filming in Africa was more dangerous than lions or malaria. Although they were celebrities admired by Chaplin or British Royal Family, they are forgotten nowadays. This feature documentary discovers the work and legacy of these outstanding pioneer filmmakers in Africa for the first time in a new perspective.

CONTACTArt Francesco – Zuzana Sekorová[email protected]+420 777 651 905

1ST FIlM

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bREAkINg NEWS MIMOřáDNá ZPRávA

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR TOMáš bOjAR

PRODUCER Tomáš BojarPRODUCTION COMPANy Cinema ArsenalCO-PRODUCTION Bystrouška, Sounderground, i/o post

SCRIPT Tomáš Bojar DOP Jiří Chod EDITOR Šimon Špidla SOUND Václav Flegl MUSIC Maurice Ravel

The Czech president is expected to announce his decision whether he is going to run for the office again. The newsrooms in the Czech Television and Hospodářské noviny daily have been closely monitoring the event since early morning. This gives us opportunity to get a close look at two different teams of reporters and editors as they put together their “breaking news”, both covering the same event. However, the way these two newsrooms go about their business is not quite the same. The resulting film offers a very fresh and authentic inside look into the practices of journalists working for the traditional media, within the context of our hectic times characterised by information overload.

CONTACTCinema Arsenal – Tomáš Bojar [email protected]+420 604 472 934


bRUCE lEE AND THE OUTlAW

UNITED kINgDOM, NETHERlANDS, CZECH REPUblIC | 86 MIN | RomanianDIRECTOR jOOST vANDEbRUg

PRODUCER Andrea CornwellPRODUCTION COMPANy Grain MediaCO-PRODUCTION Revolver Amsterdam, PINK

SCRIPT Joost Vandebrug DOP Joost Vandebrug EDITOR Katie Briyer SOUND Ranko Paukovic MUSIC Daniel Gadd

Nicu, a young homeless boy, is adopted by Bruce Lee, the notorious „King of the Underworld“ and goes to live with him in the tunnels underneath Bucharest. As Nicu grows up, he starts to realise that perhaps the King of the Underworld is not the perfect father and has to make a choice between staying in Bruce‘s gang and living a ‚normal‘ life above ground. Filmed over six years, the film is a modern-day Oliver Twist story under the streets of Bucharest.

CONTACTPINK – Alžběta Karásková[email protected]+420 776 061 060

1ST FIlM MINORITy CO-PRODUCTION


CENTRAl bUS STATION

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | English, Hebrew DIRECTOR TOMáš Elšík

PRODUCER Jitka KotrlováPRODUCTION COMPANy Frame FilmsCO-PRODUCTION R.U.R., FAMU, Bystrouška

SCRIPT Kristina Nedvědová, Tomáš Elšík DOP Ondřej Belica, Tomáš Elšík EDITOR Mariana Kozáková, Tomáš Elšík SOUND Dominik Dolejší MUSIC Dominik Dolejší, Simeon Hudec

Central Bus Station is one of the biggest and at the same time, one of the most pathetic stations in the world. Its architect‘s visionary plans for a building that will engulf its visitors turned into an endless maze of corridors. The gift for Tel Aviv’s citizens now serves as a haven for refugees from all over the world. Yonatan has been guiding people through for 17 years already, showing them the dark side of the station. He discovers communities in places that were supposed to stay hidden. These communities are overseeing their traditions and values and they want to defend their new home. This way, the building reflects a world outside its walls.

CONTACTFrame Films – Jitka Kotrlová [email protected]+420 774 131 613

1ST FIlM


CIRCUS RWANDA CIRkUS RWANDA

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 80 MIN | Czech, English, kinyarwandaDIRECTOR MICHAl vARgA

PRODUCER Marek NovákPRODUCTION COMPANy Xova FilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Nutprodukcia, Radio and Television Slovakia

SCRIPT Michal Varga DOP Jakub Jelen, Matěj Piňos EDITOR Alexandra Jonášová SOUND Luka Šuto

Rosťa Novák, the principal of Cirk La Putyka ensemble, artistic workaholic and perfectionist, agrees to make a joint project with a group of acrobats from Rwanda. First time in his life, Rosťa travels to Africa, to create a circus show about clash of different cultures. How will he cope with the hit of his expectations and Rwandese reality?

CONTACTXova Film – Marek Nová[email protected]+420 607 240 966

1ST FIlM


D IS FOR DIvISION NEklIDNá HRANICE

lATvIA, CZECH REPUblIC | 88 MIN | latvian, Russian, belarusian, English DIRECTOR DāvIS SīMANIS

PRODUCER Guntis TrekterisPRODUCTION COMPANy Ego MediaCO-PRODUCTION Produkce Radim Procházka

SCRIPT Dāvis Sīmanis DOP Aigars Sērmukšs EDITOR Anna Johnson Ryndová SOUND Václav Flegl MUSIC Michal Rataj

On an archival black and white photograph, a Latvian woman – Hermine Purina, the first victim of the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 – is trying to save her son Voldemärs by covering him with her own body. This photograph became an inspiration for contemplating over film’s boundaries – geographical as well as metaphorical. Russians and Latvians sense the import of historical realities, captured by the photograph, in completely different ways. One side associates it with the liberation and the beginning of the victorious war, for the other it means the loss of freedom and the presence of invaders. One side celebrates, while the other grieves. An explosive testament about the tension on the eastern borders of the EU.

CONTACTProdukce Radim Procházka – Radim Prochá[email protected]+420 603 862 161

MINORITy CO-PRODUCTION


EMPIRE bUIlDERS bUDOvATElé říšE

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR ANDRAN AbRAMjAN

PRODUCER Ondřej ŠejnohaPRODUCTION COMPANy FAMUCO-PRODUCTION Frame Films

SCRIPT Andran Abramjan DOP Matěj Piňos EDITOR Michal Böhm SOUND Radim Lapčík

The docu-fiction essay portrays self-taught but ambitious right-wing populists who long to play a high-stakes game and act as fictional characters, grey eminences or manly heroes. Through the character of a propagandist cinematographer and movie freak, the film follows the builders of a Czech local movement agitating against Islam and immigration in a country which refuses to accept refugees and where no refugees come. The cinematographer engages his friend in the movement: a sociologist who takes books about the clash of civilizations seriously. They both relate to living a great story in which big history meets small history, the dominating meets the dominated, sense meets absurdity, reality meets fiction, while everything is pervaded by ideology which both builds and destroys.

CONTACTFrame Films – Hana Šilarová [email protected]+420 602 792 856

1ST FIlM


ENClOSED WORlD UZAMčENý SvěT

CZECH REPUblIC | 230 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR kAREl ŽAlUD

PRODUCER Petr KubicaPRODUCTION COMPANy Czech Television

SCRIPT Karel Žalud DOP Tomáš Nováček, Matěj Cibulka EDITOR Petr Smělík SOUND Michal Míček, Matěj Němec, Petr Provazník MUSIC Jiří Hradil

This four-hour documentary – a compilation of Czech Television’s eponymous series – systematically charts life in prison and the associated societal circumstances through looking at human fates on both sides of the bars. Using the powerful stories of several individuals who are at different stages of their incarceration, the film presents not only a cross-sectional view of the current correctional system but also contemplations about guilt, punishment, justice, and whether an individual caught in the gears of a repressive system can actually remedy their behaviour and change.

CONTACTCzech Television – Jitka Procházková[email protected]+420 736 531 568


FERAl

CZECH REPUblIC | 72 MIN | Czech, English DIRECTOR jIří HOlbA

PRODUCER Jiří HolbaPRODUCTION COMPANy Jiří HolbaCO-PRODUCTION Wet Cat Pictures

SCRIPT Jiří Holba DOP Jiří Holba EDITOR Jiří Holba SOUND Martin Večeřa

The legendary Czech underground songwriter Charlie Soukup, imprisoned during Communism and forced into exile for his political dissent, has made his home wandering in the Australian bush. Even here, because of his unique way of life and nonconformity, he is pushed down into the depths of the bush, where he builds secret camps – asylums between which he treks on the timeworn paths of the local wild cows.

CONTACTJiří [email protected]+420 725 430 340

1ST FIlM


gOD FORSAkENbOHU ŽEl

CZECH REPUblIC | 83 MIN | Czech, English, Arabic, georgian, RussianDIRECTOR SAšA DlOUHý

PRODUCER Saša DlouhýPRODUCTION COMPANy freeSaMCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television

SCRIPT Saša Dlouhý DOP Saša Dlouhý EDITOR Jakub Voves SOUND Václav Flegl MUSIC Ondřej Skala

Six refugee stories taking place in the centre of Europe, in the country that opposes refugees the most, without having any of its own. What is the cause? Hatred, ignorance, or fear? Or maybe a little of each?

CONTACTfreeSaM – Saša Dlouhý [email protected]+420 603 457 890


gOOD DEATH DObRá SMRT

SlOvAkIA, CZECH REPUblIC, AUSTRIA, FRANCE | 80 MIN | English DIRECTOR TOMáš kRUPA

PRODUCER Tomáš KrupaPRODUCTION COMPANy HailstoneCO-PRODUCTION MasterFilm, Golden Girls Film, ARTE, Czech Television, Radio and Television Slovakia

SCRIPT Tomáš Krupa DOP Ondřej Szollos EDITOR Peter Kudlička SOUND Lukáš Kasprzyk

Janette is terminally ill and she would like to die a dignified death. However, this is not possible in her home in the United Kingdom. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Determined to see her decision through, Janette opts for physician-assisted suicide. Janette must plan her final departure from the UK before her illness prevents her from doing so. Janette‘s daughter, Bridget, and son, Simon, travel with her to Basel in Switzerland. Simon has also inherited his mother‘s illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than Bridget. Nevertheless, both children try to convince Janette that she still has enough time to make a decision.

INTERNATIONAl SAlESFirst Hand Films – Gitte Hansen [email protected]+41 44 312 2060

CONTACTMasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková[email protected]+420 733 579 107

2ND FIlM MINORITy CO-PRODUCTION


gOOD MR. bENDA DObRý ŽIvOT SOkOlA bENDy

CZECH REPUblIC | 76 MIN | Czech, japaneseDIRECTOR PAvEl jURDA

PRODUCER Jiří KonečnýPRODUCTION COMPANy endorfilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television

SCRIPT Pavel Jurda, Roman Franc DOP Jan Horáček, Jiří Strnad, Petr Vejslík EDITOR Pavel Kolaja SOUND Jiří Kubík MUSIC Tomáš Vtípil

A sensitive portrait of Mirek Benda, a tried and true Sokol sport organisation member and an ordinary man with extraordinary vigour and ideals, revealing a story of human resilience and optimism through nostalgia and situational comedy. We’re drawn into the microcosm of the village of Křenovice near Austerlitz by two Japanese women who decide to visit Benda, thanks to his long friendship with a university professor from Tokyo. Together with Benda, we travel to the only Japanese gas station in Europe, to a ball in Paris, and to New York – to visit American Sokol members.

CONTACTendorfilm – Jiří Konečný [email protected]+420 602 358 373

2ND FIlM


gRygAR

CZECH REPUblIC | 84 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR MARTIN PETRáSEk

PRODUCER Martin PetrásekPRODUCTION COMPANy Silesian University in Opava

SCRIPT Leoš Kyša DOP Vít Kanyza, Martin Šindelář, Martin Petrásek, Jaromír Vašek, Tomáš Nikel, Ondřej Smékal EDITOR Jitka Chocholatá SOUND Tomáš Bauer, Jaroslav Menšík

A feature-length documentary, made in cooperation with the students of the Silesian University in Opava, portrays Jiří Grygar, one of the most famous Czech scientists: the astrophysicist and, in particular, the popularisator of science. The students not only attended Grygar’s public lectures during his long journeys across the Czech Republic, but also gained exclusive access to Argentine Pierre Auger Observatory, where the Czech scientist participates in fascinating cosmic radiation research. In addition to scientific activities, the film focuses on Grygar’s life story. Finally, he is asked the most difficult question: How is it possible that as a scientist he believes in God?

CONTACTSilesian University in Opava – Martin Petrá[email protected]+420 553 684 279


IllUSION IlUZE

CZECH REPUblIC | 53 MIN | Hungarian, EnglishDIRECTOR kATEřINA TUREčkOvá

PRODUCER Ondřej ŠejnohaPRODUCTION COMPANy FAMU

SCRIPT Kateřina Turečková DOP Ludvík Otevřel EDITOR Kateřina Turečková, Lucie Navrátilová SOUND Šimon Herrmann

In her original concept of a film as a computer game, the author presents her personal report from Budapest where she spent a year as a student. The viewers take part in a game, going through several levels that put them into everyday situations related to the issues of the contemporary Hungarian society.

CONTACTFAMU – Alexandra Hroncová [email protected]+420 724 753 713


INSIDE THE WAR ON ISIS v MOSUlU

CZECH REPUblIC | 72 MIN | English, Arabic DIRECTOR jANA ANDERT

PRODUCER Jan MacolaPRODUCTION COMPANy Mimesis FilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television

SCRIPT Jana Andert DOP Jana Andert EDITOR Antonie Janková MUSIC Daniel Němec

Czech documentarist Jana Andert left for Iraq in autumn 2016. For eight months she lived and filmed there at the front line of the battle of Mosul with Golden Division, an elite Iraq Army squad. She arrived there at her own expense, without support of any big TV stations she usually works for. Thanks to that she could be completely independent and didn’t have to respect any security measures usually imposed by those stations. She just wanted to be at the front line.

INTERNATIONAl SAlESFirst Hand Films – Gitte [email protected]+41 44 312 2060

CONTACTMimesis Film – Jan Macola [email protected]+420 724 938 883

1ST FIlM


jINDRICH STREIT – SUDETENlAND My lOvE NA TělO

CZECH REPUblIC | 78 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR lIbUšE RUDINSká

PRODUCER Libuše RudinskáPRODUCTION COMPANy Rudinskafilm

SCRIPT Libuše Rudinská DOP Braňo Pažitka, David Cysař, Jan Chajewski, Jiří Krejčík, Jiří Zykmund, Libuše Rudinská EDITOR Miloš Málek, Tomáš Vrána SOUND Jan Našinec, Jiří Mach, Lukáš Guderna, Michal Janoušek, Petr Šoltys

A portrait of the outstanding and internationally acknowledged Czech photographer Jindřich Štreit, within the context of the Sudetenland, where he has been living for all his life. The film maps his work, which is slowly coming to a close, thus capturing his impact on the perception of the society. The Sudetenland has been the topic of his work for fifty years. His concentration and absorption by the topic, the understanding of the environment, compassion as well as the deep knowledge of the mood of the country are strongly present in his work.

CONTACTRudinskafilm – Libuše Rudinská [email protected]+420 725 044 891


kINg SkATE

CZECH REPUblIC | 82 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR šIMON šAFRáNEk

PRODUCER Kateřina ČernáPRODUCTION COMPANy NegativCO-PRODUCTION Magiclab, Czech Television

SCRIPT Šimon Šafránek DOP Jiří Chod EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Martin Roškaňuk

The story of development of skateboarding in Czechoslovakia during 1975–1989. The skateboarding is for the director a starting point in looking for signs of freedom outside the mainstream society controlled by the communist regime. This new western sport became quite attractive and contagious kind of entertainment for young people in otherwise greyish environment of socialist Czechoslovakia. Using some old found footage never shown before, the audience will have a chance to learn more about the beginnings of this sport in the region and about the unique community.

CONTACTNegativ – Daniel Vadocký [email protected]+420 777 697 543

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lITTlE MOSCOW MAlá MOSkvA

ICElAND, CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 85 MIN | IcelandicDIRECTOR gRíMUR HákONARSON

PRODUCER Grímur HákonarsonPRODUCTION COMPANy Hark FilmsCO-PRODUCTION Netop Films, školfilm, Punkchart films

SCRIPT Grímur Hákonarson DOP Tómas Orri Tómasson EDITOR Janus Bragi Jakobsson SOUND Huldar Freyr Arnarson MUSIC Hallvarður Ásgeirsson

For over half a century the little town of Neskaupstadur in eastern Iceland was nicknamed “Little Moscow” due to its communist rule. But the unassuming town has been going through a period of drastic transformation, with capitalist politics now taking hold. The town’s main companies have been privatized, oil extractions are being discussed and a tunnel that will open up the previously isolated town is being drilled. The viewer is introduced to some interesting characters from the city, each with their own views and attitudes towards the past and future of their town. Through them 20th century socialism is analyzed, as well as the changes capitalist politics bring to a small town like Neskaupstadur.

FESTIvAlSKaleidoscope – Katarina Tomková[email protected]+421 908 281 407

CONTACTškolfilm – Martin Š[email protected]+420 775 966 653



MARCH OR DIE POCHODUj NEbO ZEMřI

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 52 MIN | Czech, French, Slovak DIRECTOR MICHAEl kAbOš

PRODUCER Michael KabošPRODUCTION COMPANy KABOS Film & MediaCO-PRODUCTION MEDIA FILM, Czech Television, Radio and Television Slovakia

SCRIPT Ladislav Kudrna, Luděk Navara, Michael Kaboš DOP Michael Kaboš, Aleš Němec EDITOR Matylda Štancelová, Erik Schilla SOUND Andrej Sinkević MUSIC Martin Dohnal, Vladimír Martinka ANIMATOR Milan Ondruch

Hundreds of young Czechs and Slovaks fought in Indochina in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, others as soldiers of US Army in Vietnam War. Deployment of Czechs and Slovaks in the French army was the biggest since the Second World War. Their stories were forgotten for many years; the French and the Americans lost the war in Indochina and the communism in Czechoslovakia didn‘t win either.

CONTACTKABOS Film & Media – Michael Kaboš [email protected]+420 775 243 743

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My UNkNOWN SOlDIER Můj NEZNáMý vOjíN

CZECH REPUblIC, lATvIA, SlOvAkIA | 79 MIN | Czech, Russian, SlovakDIRECTOR ANNA kRyvENkO

PRODUCER Michal KráčmerPRODUCTION COMPANy Analog VisionCO-PRODUCTION Baltic Pine Films, Czech Television, Wandal ProductionSUPPORT Eurimages

SCRIPT Anna Kryvenko DOP Radka Šisuláková EDITOR Anna Kryvenko, Daria Chernyak SOUND Viktor Krivosudský MUSIC Andris Dzenitis, Yair Elazar Glotman, David Střeleček SET DESIgNER Jurģis Krāsons

How does it feel like to become an invader without your consent? How can big politics destroy lives of ordinary people? With known, as well as never published archival materials from the whole Europe and Russia we tell a family story of the director Anna Kryvenko who found out a couple of years ago that her grand-uncle was one of the Soviet soldiers to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968. The film touches very topical problems, like fragmentation of personal and national memory, inherited guilt, interpretation of history, media manipulation, relationship towards nowadays Russia, but also the attitudes of Czechs and Slovaks towards foreigners.

CONTACTAnalog Vision – Michal Kráčmer [email protected]+420 602 838 388

1ST FIlM


OCCUPATION 1968 OkUPACE 1968

SlOvAkIA, CZECH REPUblIC, POlAND, bUlgARIA, HUNgARy | 131 MIN | Slovak, Czech, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, bulgarian, german, English DIRECTORS EvDOkIA MOSkvINA, lINDA DOMbROvSZky, MAgDAlENA SZyMkOW, MARIE ElISA SCHEIDT, STEFAN kOMANDAREv

PRODUCER Peter KerekesPRODUCTION COMPANy Peter Kerekes FilmCO-PRODUCTION Hypermarket Film, Silver Frame, Agitprop, ELF Pictures, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech TelevisionSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA

SCRIPT Evdokia Moskvina, Linda Dombrovszky, Magdalena Szymkow, Marie Elisa Scheidt, Stefan Komandarev DOP Jakub Halousek, Moritz Tessendorf, Vesselin Hristov, Zuzanna Kernbach, Ákos Nyoszoli EDITOR Denize Galiao, Izabela Pająk, Levente Pap, Matej Beneš, Nina Altaparmakova SOUND Aleksandar Simeonov, Clemens Becker, Jan Čeněk, Lajos Érsek, Lorenz Kainz, Marcin Lenarczyk, Michal Gábor, Tamás Beke, Richard Müller

Five countries of the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Fifty years later, five directors from the same five countries are filming their short films about the events of 1968 from the perspective of the occupants.

INTERNATIONAl SAlESSlingshot Films – Manuela [email protected]+39 347 62 73 390

CONTACTPeter Kerekes Film – Peter Kerekes [email protected]+421 905 255 698



PASSENgERS PASAŽéřI

CZECH REPUblIC | 77 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR jANA bORškOvá

PRODUCER Jarmila PolákováPRODUCTION COMPANy Film & SociologieCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Adam Rakovský

SCRIPT Jana Boršková DOP David Šachl, Jana Boršková EDITOR Blanka Kulová, Jiří Brožek SOUND Vladimír Chrastil

Raw and authentic film about coming of age of four young men who were forced to be separated from their families at a tender age and grow up in children’s home. Deprived of affection, protection, and communication, they long for love, struggling to escape their fates and make something out of their lives. Yet, assuming responsibility for themselves and their families does not come easy. Can they escape the inevitable and break the vicious circle?

CONTACTFilm & Sociologie – Eva Rybková [email protected]+420 778 492 769

1ST FIlM


PUTIN‘S WITNESSESSvěDkOvé PUTINOvI

lATvIA, SWITZERlAND, CZECH REPUblIC | 106 MIN | Russian DIRECTOR vITAly MANSky

PRODUCER Natalia ManskayaPRODUCTION COMPANy Studio VertovCO-PRODUCTION GoldenEgg Production, Hypermarket Film, Current Time TV, Latvijas Televīzija, SRG SSR, ZDF / ARTE, Czech Television

SCRIPT Vitaly Mansky DOP Alexandr Dolgin, Pavel Suhov, Sergey Miroshnichenko, Vitaly Mansky, Vladimir Bashta, Vyacheslav Sachkov, Yuriy Ermolin EDITOR Gunta Ikere SOUND Anrijs Krenbergs MUSIC Kãrlis Auzãns

The events of the film begin on 31 December, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new President. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country. The protagonists of the film are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian nation, as always being a silent witness of its own destiny.

INTERNATIONAl SAlESDeckert Distribution – Ina [email protected]+49 341 2156 638

CONTACTHypermarket Film – Filip [email protected]+420 603 180 312



THE bAND kAPElA

SlOvAkIA, CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Slovak, Romany DIRECTOR lADISlAv kAbOš

PRODUCERS Svatava Maria Kabošová, Michael KabošPRODUCTION COMPANy MEDIA FILMCO-PRODUCTION KABOS Film & Media, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television

SCRIPT Ladislav Kaboš, Svatava Maria Kabošová DOP Ivo Miko EDITOR Michal Kondrla SOUND Martin Králik

This creative, cinematographic story chronicles the birth of the Gypsy Band Lomnické Čháve in difficult social circumstances of a Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia. We tell the tender story of a group of outsiders, who have a great dream: to play their music on a big stage and show the “white gadjos” that they too have talent. They want to make it in the society at large, get out of the ghetto village, grime, poverty and begin living life with dignity. Their dream journey to find success is a powerful, inspirational story of hope and desire, full of emotions, electrifying Roma music and kind humour.

CONTACTKABOS Film & Media – Michael Kaboš [email protected]+420 775 243 743



vIENNA CAllINg

CZECH REPUblIC | 67 MIN | Czech, Slovak, germanDIRECTOR PETR šPRINCl

PRODUCER Marek NovákPRODUCTION COMPANy Xova Film

SCRIPT Matyáš Dlab DOP Jiří Havlíček EDITOR Michal Böhm SOUND Ladislav Mirvald, Pavel Matyáš MUSIC Jakub Adamec, Pavel Pernický

Ondrej Jajcaj has been obsessed with death since childhood. Starting as a tomb raider, he became self-proclaimed scientist/philosopher, focused on the dental remnants of the dead. Jajcaj’s goal is to liberate society from fear of death. To accomplish this, he and his few followers set on a journey with his mobile caravan of death, moving from village to village and confronting people with the phenomenon of death. The journey eventually turns to Vienna, where Jajcaj returns the dental remnants of Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms, which he took from their graves himself. Majorettes juggle with femur bones and Jajcaj’s caravan moves to another village. The journey doesn’t end, but loops into infinity.

CONTACTXova Film – Marek Novák [email protected]+420 607 240 966

1ST FIlM


vOTE FOR kIbERA kIbERA: PříběH SlUMU

CZECH REPUblIC | 96 MIN | English, Svahili DIRECTOR MARTIN Páv

PRODUCERS Zuzana Kučerová, Jitka KotrlováPRODUCTION COMPANy Frame FilmsCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television

SCRIPT Martin Páv DOP Petr Racek EDITOR Matěj Beran SOUND Adam Bláha MUSIC Ondřej Mataj

Kibera, located in the centre of Nairobi, Kenya, is the largest slum in Africa. We are following people who have transformed their hard experiences into meaningful activities as well as people who represent the ordinary life in the slum. They have one thing in common – they are trying to transform their home into a better place to live. Our characters are connected by Don – a young photographer who is trying to depict Kibera in another form. The main part of the film takes place against the background of the 2017 Kenyan General Elections. We had the chance to follow our characters within this period and see how their lives were affected by events preceding the elections, elections itself and the post election violence.

CONTACTFrame Films – Zuzana Kučerová [email protected]+420 776 600 278

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vRATISlAv EFFENbERgER OR blACk SHARk HUNTINg vRATISlAv EFFENbERgER ANEb lOv NA čERNéHO ŽRAlOkA

CZECH REPUblIC | 84 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR DAvID jAřAb

PRODUCER Viktor SchwarczPRODUCTION COMPANy Cineart TV PragueCO-PRODUCTION Czech Television

SCRIPT David Jařab, František Dryje DOP Jakub Halousek EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Richard Müller MUSIC Jakub Kudláč

Documentary about Vratislav Effenberger (1923–1986), a prominent figure of Czechoslovak post-war surrealism, whose work reflects his peculiar approach towards everyday reality of socialist Czechoslovakia as well as uncompromising attitude towards the whole western society. Due to the range of his work and activities in 1970’s, Effenberger was also considered a member of Czech dissent. Thirty years since his death make it finally possible to look back at his career and see it in the new contexts. In addition to the access to his personal archives, many of his close friends and colleagues are still here to provide valuable insight to the life of unjustly overlooked artist and theoretician.

CONTACTCineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz [email protected]+420 777 220 364


WE CAN DO bETTER MáME NA víC

CZECH REPUblIC | 74 MIN | Czech DIRECTORS RADIM PROCHáZkA, RObIN kvAPIl

PRODUCERS Radim Procházka, Robin KvapilPRODUCTION COMPANy Produkce Radim Procházka

SCRIPT Radim Procházka, Robin Kvapil DOP Petr Racek, Petr Salaba, Robin Kvapil EDITOR Dimitris Polyzos SOUND Marek Musil MUSIC Miroslav Tóth, Vojtěch Procházka

As the personal advisor to presidential candidate Michal Horáček, documentary filmmaker Robin Kvapil recorded from behind the scenes the campaign from autumn 2016, using anything he could get his hands on – camera, mobile phone, notebook computer. The film, co-directed by Radim Procházka, was an attempt to capture an authentic picture of Horáček’s election campaign, presenting his team’s tactics, interactions with both supporters and opponents, with journalists, and opposing candidates. With awareness that they had most likely lost the election, but that there was still a long path ahead of them, Kvapil presented a reflection of their teamwork.

CONTACTProdukce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka [email protected]+420 603 862 161


WHEN THE WAR COMES AŽ PřIjDE válkA

CZECH REPUblIC, CROATIA | 78 MIN | Slovak DIRECTOR jAN gEbERT

PRODUCERS Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta KaráskováPRODUCTION COMPANy PINKCO-PRODUCTION Hulahop, HBO Europe

SCRIPT Jan Gebert DOP Lukáš Milota EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Dominik Dolejší MUSIC Pavel Jan

Peter lives a seemingly happy life. He drives a new white SUV, has a pretty girlfriend and recently enrolled at university. However, his real life is elsewhere – as the head of a paramilitary called “Slovenskí branci” that recruits hundreds of Slovak teenagers with the silent approval of the authorities. The group’s goal is simple – to create a model totalitarian community based on military drill, obedience and fear. Peter dreams that one day he will convince the entire society – as a big shot politician.

INTERNATIONAl SAlESCat & Docs – Maëlle Guenegues [email protected]+33 6 81 77 65 05

CONTACTPINK – Radovan Síbrt [email protected]+420 777 161 552

1ST FIlM

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A FIvE HUNDRED PlATEAUS PěT SET PlOšIN

CZECH REPUblIC | 7 MIN | No DialogueDIRECTOR ANDREA SlOvákOvá

PRODUCER Vít JanečekPRODUCTION COMPANy D1filmCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Andrea Slováková DOP Lukáš Hyksa, Radek Škudrna EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Viktor Tverdokhlibov MUSIC Viktor Tverdokhlibov

Conceptual experimental film, loosely inspired by selected parts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophical masterpiece A Thousand Plateaus, focuses on audio-visual articulation of a notion as a fundament of thinking, through the medium of film. By using formal means, it thoughtfully actualizes certain philosophical concepts – such as “deterritorialization” through the usage of unsettled camera shooting, or “embedding” by using a camera effect vertigo (combination of zoom and camera movement in opposite directions).

CONTACTD1film – Vít Janeček [email protected]+420 603 164 232

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ANOTHER CHANCE ZAčíT ZNOvU

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR EvA TOMANOvá

PRODUCER Jiří KonečnýPRODUCTION COMPANy endorfilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Eva Tomanová DOP Petr Koblovský EDITOR Marek Šulík SOUND Petr Kapeller

Another Chance, a sensitive psychological portrait of a woman, her partner and other family members, tells the story of an unequal relationship between Monika, a successful middle-aged woman, and a young marriage fraudster, Mirek. The story of a woman who has fatally complicated her own life is the second feature by filmmaker Eva Tomanová whose previous documentary Always Together was nominated for the 2014 IDFA First Appearance Award.

CONTACTendorfilm – Jiří Konečný [email protected]+420 602 358 373

2ND FIlM

42 POsTPRODuCTION

bATASTORIES bAťA, PRvNí glObAlISTA

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA, FRANCE | 76 MIN | Czech, English, Portuguese, French, Swahili, ghanaia Pidgin English, bengali, MarathiDIRECTOR PETER kEREkES

PRODUCER Kateřina ČernáPRODUCTION COMPANy NegativCO-PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes Film, Seppia, ARTE, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Peter Kerekes DOP Martin Kollár EDITOR Marek Šulík SOUND Martin Sadoux MUSIC David Solař

The feature documentary about the first Czechoslovak entrepreneur, the king of footwear – the founder of the world shoemaking empire, the mayor of Zlín (1923–1932). A reflection of his original methods of production and trade and the system of staff motivation. The main message of the film is to present Bata as the first global entrepreneur of the world.

CONTACTNegativ – Daniel Vadocký [email protected]+420 777 697 543

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blACkANDWHITE čERNObílá

CZECH REPUblIC, gERMANy | 15 MIN | Czech DIRECTORS ZOE ElUNED AIANO, ANNA bENNER

PRODUCER Linda DědkováPRODUCTION COMPANy Punk Film CO-PRODUCTION ZLA filmsCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Zoe Eluned Aiano DOP Klára Belicová EDITOR Zoe Eluned Aiano SOUND Vojtěch Knot

Blackandwhite uses a local urban legend of a nurse from the WWII to examine our perception of the female role in war time, heroism and revenge on the background of Czech-German relations. We recreate the story based on several sources and word of mouth. The words of people are in dialogue with visual materials from film scenes, archives, experimental animation and footage of their daily life. Combining all these elements, the film constructs a visualisation of this woman and her story based on the collective imagination of people living in Třeboň in the present day.

CONTACTPunk Film – Linda Dědková [email protected]+420 777 952 066

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FATHERS OF OURS OTCOvé NAšI

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech, Russian, UkrainianDIRECTOR MARTIN MAREčEk

PRODUCER Petr OukropecPRODUCTION COMPANy NegativCO-PRODUCTION HBO EuropeCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Martin Mareček, Tomáš Bojar, Marek Šindelka DOP Jiří Málek EDITOR Josef Krajbich SOUND Viktor Ekrt

Vít became a father very early, perhaps too early. Surprisingly enough, he fell happily and with determination into the parenthood. He adapted everything to the effort of provision of the family. He became a financial advisor – some kind of modern mercenary warrior operating in the jungle of finances. He soon becomes successful. When he learned to use his natural charisma in work, a huge career perspective opens before him. The success, however, is possible only for the price of moral compromise. The issue of fatherhood shows here in a different light. An urgent question arises; to what extent it is possible for a man to be a good father, whilst still seeking father himself. Vít is a man on his journey to maturity in relationships as well as in the jungle called the world.

CONTACTNegativ – Daniel Vadocký[email protected]+420 777 697 543

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FORMAN vERSUS FORMAN

CZECH REPUblIC, FRANCE | 75 MIN | Czech, English, French DIRECTOR HElENA TřEšTíkOvá

PRODUCER Kateřina ČernáPRODUCTION COMPANy NegativCO-PRODUCTION Alegria, Czech Television, ARTESUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Helena Třeštíková DOP David Cysař EDITOR Jakub Hejna SOUND Richard Müller

The ultimate documentary biography of Oscar winning Czech director Miloš Forman. From his youth in Czechoslovakia under Nazi burden and communist rule to his first successes abroad with the Czech New Wave, his exile in New York after the Prague Spring to his international fame. The intimate portrait of an outcast with exclusive access to family archive directed by award winning Czech documentary director Helena Třeštíková.

CONTACTNegativ – Daniel Vadocký[email protected]+420 777 697 543

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FREM

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 80 MIN | English DIRECTOR vIERA čákANyOvá

PRODUCERS Nina NumankadićPRODUCTION COMPANy Hypermarket FilmCO-PRODUCTION Punkchart films, Czech TelevisionSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, EurimagesCOMPlETION DATE February 2019

SCRIPT Viera Čákanyová DOP Tomáš Klein EDITOR Marek Šulík

A documentary essay, a requiem for the vanishing species of Homo sapiens. Through the stories of three protagonists, the film maps the situation before the turning point, the last period when we are still human – in the old, nostalgic sense of the word. What are the attributes that characterize us and what are the motivations of people who want to change them and take them to the next level?

CONTACTHypermarket Film – Nina Numankadić[email protected]+420 724 516 755

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jAROSlAv kUčERA: A PORTRAIT jAROSlAv kUčERA ZblíZkA

CZECH REPUblIC | 62 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTORS jAkUb FElCMAN, TOMáš MICHálEk

PRODUCER Tomáš MichálekPRODUCTION COMPANy MasterFilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Jakub Felcman DOP Jaroslav Kučera, Peter Zeitlinger EDITOR Jiří Brožek SOUND Sandra Klouzová MUSIC Aid Kid SET DESIgNER Anna Hanáková

By means of commented filmography, the film portrays one of the most gifted 20th century filmmakers coming from Eastern Europe. Cinematographer of Diamonds of the Night by Jan Němec and Daisies by Věra Chytilová among others, Kučera had a crucial impact on the creation and fame of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a movement that helped to revolutionize cinema in the 1960‘s.

CONTACTMasterFilm – Tomáš Michálek [email protected]+420 602 630 466

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jIří TRNkA – A MISSINg FRIEND jIří TRNkA – NAlEZENý PříTEl

CZECH REPUblIC, FRANCE | 75 MIN | French, Czech DIRECTOR jOël FARgES

PRODUCER Vladimír LhotákPRODUCTION COMPANy HausbootCO-PRODUCTION Kolam, Czech TelevisionSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPlETION DATE May 2019

SCRIPT Tereza Brdečková DOP Jiří Maxa EDITOR Adéla Špaljová MUSIC Václav Trojan

Joël Farges, a French filmmaker in his 60s is looking for a destiny of his favourite film from his childhood. It was a Prince Bayaya by Jiří Trnka. Trnka’s films were once known and popular in France. Trnka’s career peaked when the Cold War raged between the East and West blocks. His films were presented as an artistic counterweight to commercial production of Disney. Leftist western intellectuals were amazed; Trnka‘s films were narrated by Jean Cocteau and Richard Burton, winning prizes in Cannes and Venice and became a valuable export article for the totalitarian regime. Trnka found that he had become a puppet himself of a political system. His disillusion led him to revolt. He left us a body of work celebrating a unique experience, the freedom associated with eternal youth.

CONTACTHausboot – Vladimír Lhoták [email protected]+420 777 080 353

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kIRUNA 2.0

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Arabic, SwedishDIRECTOR gRETA STOCklASSA

PRODUCERS Veronika Kührová, Michal KráčmerPRODUCTION COMPANy Analog VisionCO-PRODUCTION FAMUCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Greta Stocklassa DOP Stanislav Adam EDITOR Hana Dvořáčková, Greta Stocklassa SOUND Pavel Jan

The Swedish polar city of Kiruna is balancing on the edge between progress and destruction. Under the threat of sinking due to the iron ore mining, it is going to be relocated three kilometres to the East. A new Kiruna will be built – even better, more modern, more integrated one. Is the future of Kiruna as clear as the politicians and the LKAB mining company say? Smaller and bigger ordinary life dramas happen in the background of the city’s relocation. A teenage refugee Abdalrahman is waiting for his asylum interview for months, a young girl Maja is going back to her Saami roots, and the typical Swedish Hägg family is leaving its home after 20 years.

CONTACTAnalog Vision – Veronika Kührová [email protected]+420 724 148 114

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lAST DAyS OF EUROPE POSlEDNí DNOvé EvROPy

CZECH REPUblIC | 100 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR MARTIN kOHOUT

PRODUCER Jakub WagnerPRODUCTION COMPANy GPO PlatformCOMPlETION DATE October 2019

SCRIPT Martin Kohout DOP Jakub Wagner, Jan Šípek, Martin Řezníček EDITOR Jakub Wagner, Martin Kohout SOUND Jakub Jurásek

Analytic essay about today‘s value of thinking. The documentary about the Czech society principles within Eastern Europe. Each one of us has his own opinions as to where and how we might improve things. Each one of us is talking about these changes. Political parties, daily life, demonstrations, cries of migration, celebration of the “old Europe” values. Probably last days of Europe? Inspired by Karl Kraus‘s novel Last Days of Human Being.

CONTACTGPO Platform – Jakub Wagner [email protected]+420 776 329 183

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lIbUSSA UNbOUND SETkáNí S lIbUší

CZECH REPUblIC | 70 MIN | Czech, English, germanDIRECTOR TAťáNA MARkOvá

PRODUCER Jarmila PolákováPRODUCTION COMPANy Film & SociologieCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE March 2019

SCRIPT Taťána Marková DOP Dalibor Fencl, Nataša Dudinski, Petr Vejslík EDITOR Šárka Sklenářová SOUND Vojtěch Knot ANIMATOR Alžběta Beránková, Jaroslav Polenský

Libussa, the mythical prophetess who foresaw the glory of Prague, lives a new life in the digital age. We can meet Libussa as the founder of school of witchcraft and wizardry in Poland or as a mascot of Czech bronies – fans of My Little Pony series. Why is this prophetess visionary still attracting fantasy of lovers, feminists and neopagans?

CONTACTFilm & Sociologie – Jarmila Poláková [email protected]+420 774 442 435

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MORAvIA, O FAIR lAND III. MORAvA, kRáSNá ZEM III.

CZECH REPUblIC | 70 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR PETR šPRINCl

PRODUCER Marek NovákPRODUCTION COMPANy Xova FilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Petr Šprincl, Lukáš Jiřička DOP Petr Šprincl, Michal Böhm, Marie Hájková, Matěj Piňos EDITOR Marie Hájková SOUND Ladislav Mirvald MUSIC Mojmír Měchura, Tomáš Procházka, Bojané, Ex Argema, Root

Ivana Slabáková, the guru of Moravian brass music, announces a historical discovery – The Mikulčice Script, revealing historical importance of the Great Moravia. Slabáková puts together Moravian patriots, brass band, clero fascist Jan Uprka and Jiří Valtr, a satanist from Brno. A drama will be staged. Senior club from the village Rohatec rehearses the Great-Moravian drama, which reanimates the dead from ancient Slavic grave fields. Zombie apocalypse ensues and Moravia is cleansed of Christian scum. After this epic clash of cultures, the life in Moravia goes back to normal. Brass music plays, zombies work in the vineyard and hope for even better crops next year.

CONTACTXova Film – Marek Novák [email protected]+420 607 240 966

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My FATHER, THE SPy Můj OTEC, šPIóN

lATvIA, gERMANy, CZECH REPUblIC, ESTONIA | 85 MIN | English, latvian, Russian DIRECTORS jAAk kIlMI, gINTS gRūbE

PRODUCER Julietta SichelPRODUCTION COMPANy Mistrus Media CO-PRODUCTION Kick Film, 8Heads Productions, PIMIKSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIACOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Gints Grūbe, Jaak Kilmi DOP Aigars Sērmukšs EDITOR Armands Začs SOUND Lukáš Ujčík MUSIC Janek Murd, Jan Trojan

A story of a young woman caught in the middle of spy games in which she had to make a choice, a choice that would sever her from her former life for good. She is our principal narrator and protagonist and we will join her on her journey as she searches for the truth about her father and the investigation of a Cold War in which she herself, unwittingly, took part.

CONTACT8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel [email protected]+420 602 292 971


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NEvER HAPPENED SkUTEk SE NESTAl

SlOvAkIA, CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Slovak, CzechDIRECTOR bARbORA bEREZňákOvá

PRODUCER Dávid ČorbaPRODUCTION COMPANy Leon ProductionsCO-PRODUCTION Frame FilmsCOMPlETION DATE March 2019

SCRIPT Barbora Berezňáková DOP Ivo Miko EDITOR Matěj Šámal

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Slovakia was ruled by charismatic and autocratic Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar. In 1995, the president’s son, Michal Kováč Junior, was abducted; it soon became clear that the abduction was probably ordered by the highest government circles. Oskar Fegyveres, who worked for the Slovak Information Service back then and who participated in the abduction by order of his superiors, testified to the police about the role of the secret service in the case. Since he did not feel safe, he fled abroad. He communicated with his family through his friend Robo Remiáš. Less than a year after the abduction, Robo died under unclear circumstances in a car explosion...

CONTACTFrame Films – Hana Šilarová [email protected]+420 602 792 856

1ST FIlM MINORITy CO-PRODUCTION

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NOMAD IN THE CITy NOMáD vE MěSTě

CZECH REPUblIC, UNITED STATES, MONgOlIA | 90 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR ANjI SAUvé ClUbb

PRODUCER Alice TaberyPRODUCTION COMPANy CinepointCO-PRODUCTION Anji Sauvé Clubb, i/o post, Suzanna SumkhuuCOMPlETION DATE March 2019

SCRIPT Anji Sauvé Clubb DOP Dulguun Bayasgalan EDITOR Šimon Špidla SOUND Vladimír Chrastil MUSIC Dulguun Bayasgalan

Tradition and modernity juxtapose in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar where white yurts dot the urban landscape, illustrating a spectacular societal change: the transition from nomadism to urbanism. Instead of overlooking endless steppe and blue sky, the nomad now lives on a grid. Tumurbaatar is a garbage truck driver in Ulaanbaatar striving for his daughter‘s education. Torn between life in the city and his home in the countryside, he struggles with his dreams and identity. He heads home for a visit, only to find the romantic image of home no longer fits with his current reality. Nonetheless, he clings fast to his dreams for his children to lead lives he cannot.

CONTACTCinepoint – Alice Tabery [email protected]+420 732 883 260

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56 POsTPRODuCTION

OFF SIDES lETNí HOkEj

CZECH REPUblIC | 76 MIN | Czech, Arabic, EnglishDIRECTORS ROZálIE kOHOUTOvá, TOMáš bOjAR

PRODUCER Tomáš BojarPRODUCTION COMPANy Cinema ArsenalCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar DOP Šimon Dvořáček, Rozálie Kohoutová EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Adam Levý

In August 2017, a group of teenage ice hockey players from the Czech town of Náchod set off to Morocco onto what was to become the most interesting training camp of their careers. They came here not only to play ice hockey, but also to get to know the locals and their way of life. Several months later, the boys from the Moroccan town of Salé headed to Czech Republic to experience the same thing vice versa. Two teams, two cultures, one mutual interaction. A walk on thin ice full of liberating humour.

CONTACTCinema Arsenal – Tomáš [email protected]+420 604 472 934

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PEPIk THE CZECH gOES TO POlAND IN A QUEST FOR lOvE OF gODčESký PEPík jEDE DO POlSkA POZNAT láSkU k bOHU

CZECH REPUblIC, POlAND, SlOvAkIA | 90 MIN | Czech, Polish DIRECTORS víT klUSák, FIlIP REMUNDA

PRODUCERS Jana Brožková, Zdeněk HolýPRODUCTION COMPANy VernesCO-PRODUCTION Hypermarket Film, Czech Television, Plesnar & Krauss Films, Peter Kerekes FilmSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIACOMPlETION DATE July 2019

SCRIPT Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda DOP Martin Tokár, Martin Matiášek, Vít Klusák EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Mariusz Bielecki, Michal Gábor

In the middle of Europe, two nations coexist side by side, close to one another in many ways and yet worlds apart. The Czechs are dedicated atheists, while the Poles are born as baptized Catholics. Czechs shake their heads in disbelief at Polish piety, while Poles hold Czechs in contempt for living without God. A Czech documentary crew sets out on a summertime pilgrimage across Poland in order to investigate through the camera the concrete situation regarding the notion of “Czech atheism vs. Polish religion”.

CONTACTVernes – Jana Brožková[email protected]+420 776 650 778

58 POsTPRODuCTION

SOlO SólO

CZECH REPUblIC, AUSTRIA, FRANCE, ARgENTINA | 90 MIN | SpanishDIRECTOR ARTEMIO bENkI

PRODUCERS Artemio Benki, Petra OplatkováPRODUCTION COMPANy Artcam FilmsCO-PRODUCTION Golden Girls Filmproduktion, Petit à Petit Productions, Buen Destino, Lomo CineSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, EurimagesCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Artemio Benki DOP Diego Mendizabal EDITOR Valeria Racioppi, Jeanne Oberson SOUND Olivier Do-huu MUSIC Martin Perrino

Martin P. is a young Argentinean piano virtuoso and composer, who has been since his breakdown four years ago a patient of El Borda, the largest and the most notable but also controversial psychiatric hospital in Latin America. The child prodigy and the most promising talent of his generation is now trying to find a way how to overcome his mental disease and come back to life outside the walls of the asylum and on the concert stages, while working on his new composition Enfermaria. Solo tells unique, yet universal story about the obsession with perfection and creation, narrating the evolution of a human being who draws his strength from his own fragility.

CONTACTArtcam Films – Petra Oplatková[email protected]+420 221 411 619

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THE HEAvENNEbE

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Mandarin Chinese DIRECTOR TOMáš ETZlER

PRODUCER Jan MacolaPRODUCTION COMPANy Mimesis FilmCOMPlETION DATE March 2019

SCRIPT Tomáš Etzler EDITOR Adéla Špaljová

The Heaven is a story of love, an unconditional love the caring (and unpaid) nuns give to unfortunate children. It’s a story about selfless sacrifice in a communist and fiercely materialistic society. The surge in numbers of abandoned handicapped babies started in 1979 when the “one child policy” was introduced in China. Being forced to have only one child, many parents who had a handicapped newborn simply killed or abandoned it and tried to have a healthy one, as children are expected to take care of their parents when they grow old.

CONTACTMimesis Film – Jan Macola [email protected]+420 724 938 883

2ND FIlM

60 POsTPRODuCTION

THE SOUND IS INNOCENT

CZECH REPUblIC, FRANCE, SlOvAkIA | 65 MIN | English, French, CzechDIRECTOR jOHANA OŽvOlD

PRODUCER Kristýna Michálek KvětováPRODUCTION COMPANy Cinémotif FilmsCO-PRODUCTION Films de Force Majeure, Punkchart Films, Czech Television, UPP, SoundSquare, Radio and Television SlovakiaCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Johana Švarcová, Lukáš Csiscely DOP Šimon Dvořáček EDITOR Zuzana Walter SOUND Adam Voneš MUSIC Martin Ožvold SET DESIgNER Antonín Šilar

Playful and poetic journey through the history of the electronic sound. Music is a game. And for creating the electronic music the main tool and toy is an instrument. Our guide in this musical playground is Johana, music composer and director of the film. Johana escapes into the dreamlike space beyond time, the world of imagination – to a recording studio; an almost mythical space where we visit contemporary representatives of different music movements and approaches towards a musical instrument.

CONTACTCinémotif Films – Kristýna Michálek Květová [email protected]+420 731 203 715

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POsTPRODuCTION 61

THE vASUlkA EFFECTEFEkT vAšUlkA

ICElAND, CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | English DIRECTOR HRAFNHIlDUR gUNNARSDóTTIR

PRODUCER Margrét JónasdóttirPRODUCTION COMPANy SagafilmCO-PRODUCTION Produkce Radim Procházka, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE January 2019

SCRIPT Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir

The Vasulkas, international pioneers of video art and lifetime hackers, sometimes called the grandparents of the “YouTube” generation, are struggling with finances. They have been busy archiving their work at their home in New Mexico as they worry about their legacy and how to preserve the sensitive video medium for future generations. Without a retirement plan things are looking grim but by an unexpected chain of events the Vasulkas are rediscovered by the art world and in a span of three years’ time, archives, galleries and museums are fighting over who should represent them when they are gone.



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UNIvERSITy AND FREEDOM UNIvERSITy A SvObODA

CZECH REPUblIC | 77 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTORS víT jANEčEk, ZUZANA PIUSSI

PRODUCER Vít JanečekPRODUCTION COMPANy D1filmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE November 2018

SCRIPT Vít Janeček DOP Zuzana Piussi EDITORS Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi

The topic of higher education is getting more and more attention in the recent decades. Many young graduates have difficulties to find a job, but there are also pressures from market structures to form higher education in a different way, including the financing of schools. The pressures on reforms and introduction of school fees led to massive protests and debate on the quality of higher education and its role in society. The feature-length documentary explores idea of the university as a special entity within western civilization and culture, which has always been one of relevant frameworks for reproduction and spreading of common social values and knowledge in society.

CONTACTD1film – Vít Janeček [email protected]+420 603 164 232

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WIll yOU DARE?CHCI Tě, jESTlI TO DOkáŽEš

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR DAgMAR SMRŽOvá

PRODUCER Miloš LochmanPRODUCTION COMPANy moloko filmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE November 2019

SCRIPT Dagmar Smržová DOP Adam Kruliš EDITOR Adéla Špajlová SOUND Petr Neubauer

A film about disabled women and their desires. The story is spiced by the extrovert nature of the heroines and the controversial situations they are captured in. The main character, Jana, 27, has DMO and can’t move. She’s been searching for intimate assistants on the Internet for a long time, wanting to experience love making and have at least a sense of normal life. Her mother, instead of stepping out of a vicious circle of unsuccessful relationships and addictions, seeks help for herself, Jana and her second daughter, blind Katherine, in dark powers and tarot cards.

CONTACTmoloko film – Miloš [email protected]+420 603 477 707

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All MEN bECOME bROTHERS všICHNI lIDé bUDOU bRATřI

SlOvAkIA, CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Slovak, CzechDIRECTOR RObERT kIRCHHOFF

PRODUCERS Robert Kirchhoff, Jiří KonečnýPRODUCTION COMPANy atelier.docCO-PRODUCTION endorfilm, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech TelevisionSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPlETION DATE November 2019

SCRIPT Robert Kirchhoff DOP Juraj Chlpík EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Václav Flegl

A film on the phenomenon of Czechoslovak politician Alexander Dubček, one of the most prominent personalities of The Prague Spring of 1968, the author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”. The film shows internal, political and social conflict of the time in a new light and in an age when most of the protagonists of this story no longer need to hide any secrets. Even if they do, we will seek to uncover them. Therefore, we won’t shy away from staged situations, confrontations or investigative filming methods.

CONTACTendorfilm – Jiří Konečný[email protected]+420 602 358 373


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bEgINNINgSPOčáTky 2

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR lINDA kAllISTOvá jAblONSká

PRODUCER Jana BrožkováPRODUCTION COMPANy Vernes CO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE September 2021

SCRIPT Linda Kallistová Jablonská DOP David Cysař SOUND Petr Šoltys

The film follows the fates of three girls who spent their youth in Počátky Youth Custody Centre, picking up on the shooting from 2011, when they reached the age of 18, finished secondary school, left the institution and tried to stand up on their own feet. Continuation of the three stories, in which each of the three girls try to fulfil their dreams – find a job, get higher education, have a home, a boyfriend, start a family.

CONTACTVernes – Jana Brožková[email protected]+420 776 650 778

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blOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS NA kREv

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTOR ERIk kNOPP

PRODUCER Dagmar SedláčkováPRODUCTION COMPANy MasterFilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2019

SCRIPT Erik Knopp DOP Patrik Balónek EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Adam Levý

The film traces the eighth generation of the family of puppeteers, Kopecký, through brothers Rosťa and Vítek Novák, in critical moments of their lives, starting with the year 2014 when they acquired their own theatre space – Jatka 78 – sparking the idea for their ambitious project with new circus ensemble Cirk La Putyka. The new circus is not merely a glittery show chock-full of spectacular artistry and acrobatics. Cirk La Putyka is not only an ensemble of free-thinking artists riding a wave of popularity among Prague’s intellectual elite. It is a dream come true – and not only for ringleader Rosťa Novák, but also his ancestors; it was namely his self-destructive resolve which, after eight generations of travelling artists, finally brought them what they always wanted – own theatre.

CONTACTMasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková[email protected]+420 733 579 107

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bROTHERHOODvE jMéNU AlláHA

CZECH REPUblIC, ITAly | 70 MIN | bosnian DIRECTOR FRANCESCO MONTAgNER

PRODUCER Pavla Janoušková KubečkováPRODUCTION COMPANy nutprodukce CO-PRODUCTION Nefertiti Film, FAMUCOMPlETION DATE September 2020

SCRIPT Francesco Montagner DOP Prokop Souček SOUND Adam Levý

In a small bucolic village in the middle of Bosnian mountains, a humble shepherd Ibrahim Delić‘s preaching reaches beyond the walls of the local mosque, instigating Balkan and European Muslims to join the ISIS ranks. In the rural areas all around Bosnia young people are embracing the Jihadism, leaving their houses to become foreign fighters. The film is a portrait of contemporary Bosnia, showing everyday life of several families, amongst them Ibrahim Delić and his radicalized children. Through their conversations and encounters within the intimate setting of their homes, we perceive the ambiguities and complexities of a Bosnia struck by economic impoverishment and religious extremism.

CONTACTnutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková [email protected]+420 605 256 190

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70 PRODuCTION

CAUgHT IN THE NET v SíTI

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 90 MIN | CzechDIRECTORS víT klUSák, bARbORA CHAlUPOvá

PRODUCERS Vít Klusák, Filip RemundaPRODUCTION COMPANy Hypermarket Film CO-PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes Film, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2019

SCRIPT Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová DOP Adam Kruliš EDITOR Zuzana Walter SOUND Adam Bláha MUSIC Vladimír Godár SET DESIgNER Jan Vlček

The film opens the hitherto taboo topic of online child abuse. Statistics show that the problem is becoming bigger with each passing day. Unfortunately, awareness remains very low. The main narrative line of the film follows a radical psychosocial experiment, through which we show what the children aged 10–14 years face in the virtual space. The experiment comes out of reality and several months of research.

CONTACTHypermarket Film – Vít Klusák [email protected]+420 608 889 484

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COMFORTAblE CENTURyPOHODlNé STOlETí

CZECH REPUblIC | 70 MIN | Czech, English, german DIRECTOR jAROSlAv kRATOCHvíl

PRODUCER Petr PolákPRODUCTION COMPANy Studio Petrohrad COMPlETION DATE December 2019

SCRIPT Vít Poláček DOP Jan Balcar EDITOR Tereza Šimerová SOUND Studio Needles ANIMATOR Michaela Hoffová, Petr Polák

Presenting history of the 20th century, Comfortable Century is a narrative from the point of view of a unique set of Pilsner interiors. Designed by Adolf Loos, these flats witnessed both ordinary episodes from their residents‘ private lives and significant milestones of our modern history, having had impact on Adolf Loos himself as well as on global architecture development. The film uses current language inspired by the documentary tradition, connecting it with visual art procedures to create a compact aggregate of our history. Using video mapping technique, freshly recalled memories from temporary shots are getting back to their original places, installing in the flats and openings here and there.

CONTACTStudio Petrohrad – Petr Polá[email protected]+420 605 156 051

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COMMUNISM kOMUNISMUS

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 300 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR kAREl vACHEk

PRODUCERS Mikuláš Novotný, Radim ProcházkaPRODUCTION COMPANy Background Films CO-PRODUCTION atelier.doc, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE December 2019

SCRIPT Karel Vachek DOP Karel Slach EDITOR Renata Pařezová

A new film essay by Karel Vachek is a collage composed of staged passages of utopian and contemporary literature, his own memories as well as tableaux of world events. Apart from Vachek, actors also present texts and become opponents, partners, an ancient chorus and a modern voice band reciting amongst the hundreds of books in libraries. And to boot, music plays and jollity is the order of the day. According to Vachek the next revolution will take place on the internet and bureaucrats will only carry out tasks which have been approved by citizens in referendums. And it will be no idyllic stroll. Even the French Revolution was horrific. But nonetheless – thanks to it we became citizens.

CONTACTBackground Films – Mikuláš Novotný [email protected]+420 777 910 290

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DIAMOND CZECH STylESlUNíčkO jAkO čTvEREčEk

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR RUDOlF šMíD

PRODUCER Jarmila PolákováPRODUCTION COMPANy Film & SociologieCOMPlETION DATE December 2019

SCRIPT Rudolf Šmíd DOP Ferdinand Mazúrek EDITOR Lucie Haladová SOUND Vitězslav Jíra ANIMATOR David Filcík

A documentary about a uniquely Czech depiction of the female crotch as a diamond with a vertical line in the middle. The original vulgarity painted on walls and in public toilets with its recorded history reaching to the 17th century became a phenomenon that entered the highest levels of Czech art in the 20th century – be it drama, literature (Milan Kundera), visual art (Jindřich Štyrský) or film. At the same time, it left its humorous mark on the Czech population by giving it its “diamond perspective”. Paradoxically, the Czech diamond thus has become, though officially overlooked, an actual part of the Czech cultural heritage. The author will take a historical, cultural, anthropological and sociological perspective on this graphic symbol.

CONTACTFilm & Sociologie – Jarmila Poláková [email protected]+420 774 442 435

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74 PRODuCTION

DOg‘S lOvE PSí láSkA

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR lINDA kAllISTOvá jAblONSká

PRODUCER Pavel BerčíkPRODUCTION COMPANy Evolution FilmsCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE September 2019

SCRIPT Linda Kallistová Jablonská DOP David Cysař SOUND Petr Šoltys, Jan Paul

The documentary focuses on the sport, which isn‘t very typical for the Czech environment – mushing. Surprisingly, this sport has many Czech representatives and it turns out that Czech musher is considered a favourite in worldwide competition. Each of our characters is doing mushing on a different level. Jana Henychová is a professional, she‘s regularly training in Sweden and participates in important foreign races. Tomáš Toman is considered a new talent and he had just recently included a new puppy in his pack. Pavel Kučera is organizing the biggest domestic race in Orlic Mountains. His 13-year-old son, nicknamed Maugli, is planning on participating in this race for the first time in 2019.

CONTACTEvolution Films – Pavel Berčí[email protected]+420 777 932 957

PRODuCTION 75

DREAMS AbOUT THE STRAy CATSSNy O TOUlAvýCH kOčkáCH

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | Czech, English DIRECTOR DAvID SíS

PRODUCER Vít BělohradskýPRODUCTION COMPANy Frmol ProductionCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE 2019

SCRIPT David Sís DOP Vít Bělohradský EDITOR David Votava SOUND David Titěra MUSIC Dominik Renč ANIMATOR Michal Žabka

The film maps the life of Peter Sís, an important figure of the contemporary world art and cultural scene, children‘s books author, illustrator, graphic artist, creator of animated films and winner of many prestigious awards. Director of the film, David Sís, sensitively and extensively maps his older brother‘s inner world and his creative principles, using high-quality documentary material filmed in New York, Prague and Brno, combined with the extensive family archives and unique animations. Testimonies by people who supported Peter Sís on his journey through life, including M. Forman, M. Allbright and M. Hausman are a part of the film.

CONTACTFrmol Production – Vít Bělohradský [email protected]+420 739 086 548

76 PRODuCTION

jAN jEDlIčkA: COlOURFUl TRACES OF A lANDSCAPE jAN jEDlIčkA: bAREvNé STOPy kRAjINy

CZECH REPUblIC, SWITZERlAND, ITAly | 75 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR PETR ZáRUbA

PRODUCER Alice TaberyPRODUCTION COMPANy Cinepoint CO-PRODUCTION Box Productions, Mammut Film, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE December 2019

SCRIPT Petr Záruba DOP Miroslav Janek EDITOR Pavel Kolaja SOUND Vladimír Chrastil

Czech painter Jan Jedlička lost the landscape of his youth. The political situation after 1968 forced him to emigrate. He settled down in Switzerland and found his artistic home in Maremma area in Tuscany. The film maps the 40-year-long journey of this solitary artist, during which he has searched for the best way to pronounce a landscape, to express its essence. A characteristic feature of Jedlička’s works is earthiness. In his paintings, he uses pigments produced from colourful rocks he collects. The pictured landscape thus, becomes also the means (the pigments) of its image.

CONTACTCinepoint – Alice [email protected]+420 732 883 260

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PRODuCTION 77

jAN kAPR‘S CODESšIFRy jANA kAPRA

CZECH REPUblIC, gERMANy, SlOvAkIA | 70 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR lUCIE kRálOvá

PRODUCERS Martin Řezníček, Andrea ShafferPRODUCTION COMPANIES DOCUfilm Praha, Mindset PicturesCO-PRODUCTION Cisar Film, atelier.doc, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE 2020

SCRIPT Lucie Králová DOP Adam Ol‘ha EDITOR Adam Brothánek SOUND Richard Müller

The film discovers almost unknown genius, music composer, innovator and experimenter Jan Kapr (1914–1988). In the 1950s, he became so famous that he was awarded directly by Stalin. After the Russian invasion to Czechoslovakia in 1968, he returned the Stalin Prize and wrote an open letter to his friend Shostakovich, expressing disappointment from the Soviet Union, which was followed by an immediate lifelong ban on composing music. Kapr had been shooting scenes of his life on 8mm films. These never-published materials come to life in a fascinating reconstruction of life after death, where the memory of the film and the time of Kapr‘s music, intertwines with a story of mythological proportions. The narrative is framed with the birth of the world premiere of Kapr‘s composition from 1968.

CONTACTDOCUfilm Praha – Martin Řezníček [email protected]+420 608 874 722

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jIří SUCHý

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR OlgA SOMMEROvá

PRODUCER Viktor SchwarczPRODUCTION COMPANy Cineart TV PragueCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2019

SCRIPT Olga Sommerová DOP Olga Špátová EDITOR Jakub Hejna SOUND Richard Müller MUSIC Jiří Šlitr, Jiří Suchý

A portrait of the legendary and iconic personality of Czech culture, actor, musician, poet, composer, writer, filmmaker, graphic designer, theatre director and collector, Jiří Suchý. With his versatile genius talent, he has influenced several generations. Over the course of sixty years, Jiří Suchý introduced 97 theatre plays, wrote lyrics to 1,400 songs, and music to 500 songs.

CONTACTCineart TV Prague – Viktor [email protected]+420 777 220 364

PRODuCTION 79

lOvE UNDER THE HOODláSkA POD kAPOTOU

SlOvAkIA, CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR MIRO REMO

PRODUCER Miro RemoPRODUCTION COMPANy Arsy Versy CO-PRODUCTION D1filmCOMPlETION DATE October 2019

SCRIPT Juraj Šlauka

Slovak Jitka and Czech Jaroslav, a couple in their 50s, are the protagonists of our documentary. Jitka is the oldest autocross rider and Jaroslav, her former classmate from elementary school, takes care of her car. Both are members of the DRAKKAR motorcycle association and the story follows their attempt to defend the title of the Carpathian Autocross Cup. But even more important is their relationship, which is actually a renewal of their childhood love, they have come back to from their lives trapped in dead ends and series of wrong decisions. With a desire to live, they fight today in a team, both on autocross tracks and beyond it. Change and courage can make difference and “correct” the life.

CONTACTD1film – Vít Janeč[email protected]+420 603 164 232


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lUST FOR lIFE THE TAP TAP – POSTIŽENI MUZIkOU

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR RADOvAN SíbRT

PRODUCERS Karel Poupě, Alžběta KaráskováPRODUCTION COMPANy PINK CO-PRODUCTION HBO EuropeCOMPlETION DATE June 2019

SCRIPT Radovan Síbrt, Jan Gebert DOP Lukáš Milota, Radovan Síbrt EDITOR Tomáš Elšík MUSIC The Tap Tap

What would you do with your life, if you knew that you have a limited time ahead of you? Much shorter than an average life? Members of The Tap Tap – a music band made up of physically disabled – or rather crippled as they would call themselves – students of Jedlička Institute in Prague have a pretty clear idea. They want to live and enjoy every single minute of it. The Tap Tap orchestra shows how to confront difficulties and obstacles. And above all, how to have fun in your life. The members of the band are strong personalities with a direct attitude to life. They drink, smoke, curse, love, as long as they enjoy it. The film explores the spirit of survival and the wild lust for life against all the odds.

CONTACTPINK – Karel Poupě [email protected]+420 734 762 886

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MUCHA

CZECH REPUblIC, gERMANy, FRANCE | 90 MIN | Czech, English DIRECTOR ROMAN vávRA

PRODUCERS Ondřej Beránek, Dušan MulíčekPRODUCTION COMPANy Punk FilmCO-PRODUCTION Maxim Films, ARTE, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2020

SCRIPT Markéta Sára Valnohová DOP Martin Štěpánek EDITOR Katerina Geyer Buchanan SET DESIgNER Milan Popelka

The fate of Alphonse Mucha, a genius graphic artist and self-made man, whose glory was born almost overnight thanks to collaboration with the actor star of Paris, Sarah Bernhardt. His posters, applied art and paintings have become world-renowned. Still, he did not hesitate to leave Paris at the height of his success to realize his artistic dream – to create a monumental work for his nation. Mucha’s life tells us that something new and unique can only be born if you are prepared to hold to your vision and risk your whole future. We present a new view of Alphonse Mucha‘s life based on exclusive and unpublished correspondence, diaries and autobiographical writings.

CONTACTPunk Film – Ondřej Berá[email protected]+420 777 952 066

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MUlTIPlE HOPE ROZTROUšENá NADějE

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTOR PETR jANčáREk

PRODUCER Petra KlausováPRODUCTION COMPANy Nadace Jakuba Voráčka COMPlETION DATE June 2020

SCRIPT Petr Jančárek DOP Petr Jančárek EDITOR Jan Turek, Viktor Schwarz SOUND Lumír Hrma

Jakub Voráček is a young athlete. His 13-year-old sister, Petra, takes care of him and occasionally takes him to hockey training. Within a few years he has become an excellent hockey player. As a 16-year-old he plays in the Czech Extra League, then goes to Canada and is drawn to the NHL‘s best hockey competition. After three years in Ohio, Jakub eventually sets up in Philadelphia Flyers. In 2015 Petra is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Finding a way to help others gives Petra a new sense of life. Petra and Jakub establish a foundation supporting people with a similar disability.

CONTACTNadace Jakuba Voráčka – Lenka Dominiková[email protected]+420 608 304 126

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My FATHER ANTONíN kRATOCHvílMůj OTEC ANTONíN kRATOCHvíl

CZECH REPUblIC | 85 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR ANDREA SEDláčkOvá

PRODUCERS Martin Hůlovec, Věra KrincvajováPRODUCTION COMPANy Punk FilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE March 2020

SCRIPT Andrea Sedláčková DOP Jan Střítežský, David Cysař EDITOR Boris Machytka

Three generations of photographers marked by totalitarian regimes. Through the youngest Michael, we follow the fates of the Kratochvíl clan, focusing particularly on the most famous of them – Antonín. At 18, Antonín emigrated from Czechoslovakia, where his father Jaroslav spent a life marked by the communist terror. Antonín left a newborn son behind. In America, he tasted fame and became a sought-out war photographer. He met his son for the first time after 20 years. Antonín wants to make up for the guilt of abandoning a small child, Michael attempts to process reuniting with father.

CONTACTPunk Film – Martin Hůlovec [email protected]+420 608 977 930

84 PRODuCTION

ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD DO DRUHý NOHy

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | CzechDIRECTORS bOHDAN bláHOvEC, jAN FOUkAl

PRODUCER Jakub DrocárPRODUCTION COMPANy Punk FilmCO-PRODUCTION HBO EuropeCOMPlETION DATE October 2019

SCRIPT Bohdan Bláhovec, Jan Foukal DOP Prokop Souček SOUND Adam Levý

A staged documentary and a film meditation aiming to initiate a broader social debate about the topic of alcohol consumption through an open testimony of one particular alcohol struggle, via the point of view of an individual living in the country which is considered a European “alcohol paradise”; where beer is cheaper than water. Drinking is “normal”. Non-drinking is ostracising, strange, “abnormal”.An ideal environment to develop a fatal disease – an alcohol dependency. It is a painless and therefore not an easily observable process of a person becoming an alcoholic.

CONTACTPunk Film – Jakub Drocár [email protected]+420 605 533 335

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PRODuCTION 85

PROvINCIAl TOWN OF EPROvINčNí MěSTEčkO E

RUSSIA, gERMANy, CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | Russian DIRECTOR DMITRy bOgOlUbOv

PRODUCER Vlad KetkovichPRODUCTION COMPANy EthnofundCO-PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment, Hypermarket Film, Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2019

SCRIPT Anna Shishova-Bogolubova DOP Dmitry Bogolubov

Filmed over the course of three years, this film introduces the prototypical small provincial Russian town of Yelnya where people admire Vladimir Putin for making Russia great again. Yelnya has remained economically marginalized ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. But people have regained pride. They believe that president Putin is bringing back glory and power to the Russian nation. Not many object to the constant propaganda claims that fascism is threatening once again from the US and Europe, and that Russia must stand ready to defend itself. With few exceptions, Yelnyans raise their children to become good patriots. They don’t mind the eerie, all-encompassing militarization of society.

INTERNATIONAl SAlES & FESTIvAlSFirst Hand Films – Gitte [email protected]+41 44 312 2060

CONTACTHypermarket Film – Filip [email protected]+420 603 180 312


86 PRODuCTION

SATANIC gIRlS

CZECH REPUblIC, SWEDEN | 78 MIN | 52 MIN | Czech, SwedishDIRECTOR bOHDAN bláHOvEC

PRODUCER Anna Herza TydlitátováPRODUCTION COMPANy Telekinetic CO-PRODUCTION Dixit InternationalCOMPlETION DATE February 2020

SCRIPT Bohdan Bláhovec DOP Šimon Dvořáček

Shortly after the Russian invasion in 1968, band members of the 1st Czechoslovak girl band decided to give it a dare and go for their dream of freedom and fame. Under the provocative title “Satanic Girls” they emigrated to the mecca of Western pop and liberalism – Sweden. Here, their career took a new direction – they met their manager Roland Ferneborg, who promised them fame and glory under one condition: that they marry 6 volunteering Swedes, gain access to international passports and record an album in Latin America first...

CONTACTTelekinetic – Anna Herza Tydlitátová[email protected]+420 734 386 367

2ND FIlM

PRODuCTION 87

SOvIET MANSOvěTSký MUŽ

lATvIA, CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | lithuanian, Russian, latvian, Estonian, English DIRECTOR IvO bRIEDIS

PRODUCER Elīna Gediņa – DucenaPRODUCTION COMPANy Mistrus MediaCO-PRODUCTION Frame FilmsSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPlETION DATE October 2019

SCRIPT Rita Ruduša DOP Mārtiņš Jurevics EDITOR Tomáš Elšík SOUND Oskars Ostrovskis

In January 1991, the dying days of the USSR, the Central Television in Moscow brought together youngsters from the 15 Soviet Republics to ask how they see their future in the “glorious stronghold of people’s friendship”, as the Soviet anthem called it. Some of the participants had enough courage to openly call for the dismantling of “the awful USSR”, wanting to leave totalitarianism behind. After more than 25 years the same young people, now matured, hear Vladimir Putin calling the breakup of the USSR “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century” and see not only the regalia and rhetoric of the totalitarian era making a comeback, but also some ugly traits of Homo Sovieticus in people’s minds and attitudes.

CONTACTFrame Films – Hana Šilarová[email protected]+420 602 792 856


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THE HIjACkINg ÚNOS

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 75 MIN | Czech, Slovak, german, English, Hebrew, RussianDIRECTOR IvAN OSTROCHOvSký

PRODUCER Albert MalinovskýPRODUCTION COMPANy školfilmCO-PRODUCTION partizanfilmCOMPlETION DATE March 2021

SCRIPT Martin Šmok DOP Pavol Pekarčík

On 28 September, 1973, two men claiming to be members of the Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution organization hijacked a passenger train on the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. There were Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union on the train, who were taken hostage. This was a unique kind of a Palestinian commando attack, for it was planned to take place behind the Iron Curtain. The main political target was the Soviet Union, generally perceived as the biggest supporter of the anti-Zionist cause. The perpetrators clearly stated their intentions and goals, yet the public image of their action was to be shaped by others. This story of the manipulation of reality lies at the core of the film.

FESTIvAlSKaleidoscope – Katarina Tomková[email protected]+421 908 281 407

CONTACTškolfilm – Albert Malinovský[email protected]+420 775 966 653

PRODuCTION 89

THOSE WHO DANCE IN THE DARkTI, kTEří TANCUjí vE TMě

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR jANA šEvčíkOvá

PRODUCER Jana ŠevčíkováPRODUCTION COMPANy Jana ŠevčíkováCO-PRODUCTION i/o post, Studio VirtualCOMPlETION DATE 2020

SCRIPT Jana Ševčíková DOP Jaromír Kačer EDITOR Lucie Haladová SOUND Michal Míček

Life without being able to see from birth, loss of “eyes“ when about to reach adulthood, coming to terms or the very opposite. Mutuality or contrast of stories of the young blind is the crucial link within the plot of this documentary. Even though one could call this topic “heavy”, these boys and girls are able to view themselves from a variety of angles, they are able to take the mickey out of themselves and their sarcasm sometimes gives one the shivers.

CONTACTJana Ševčíková [email protected]+420 604 605 349

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TURN ON THE lIgHT SO WE CAN SEE ROZSvIť SvěTlO, Ať jE vIDěT

CZECH REPUblIC | 86 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR váClAv kUčERA

PRODUCER Romek HanzlíkPRODUCTION COMPANy AMP CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPlETION DATE April 2020

SCRIPT Václav Kučera, Romek Hanzlík DOP Vilém Šrail EDITOR Vilém Šrail SOUND Stanislav Miller MUSIC Miroslav Wanek

A portrait of two friends, Miroslav Wanek, the leader of the band Už jsme doma and the artist Martin Velíšek reflects more than a quarter century of the alternative music and art scenes in the Czech Republic. It also gives us emotions and a diverse and unadorned depiction of the friendship and cooperation between the two artists, full of humour, mishaps, creative energy and teamwork in the creation of a dense musical work of art.

CONTACTAMP – Romek Hanzlík [email protected]+420 602 319 505

PRODuCTION 91

vIvA vIDEO, vIDEO vIvA

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR ADélA kOMRZý

PRODUCER Vít KomrzýPRODUCTION COMPANy UPPCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2019

SCRIPT Adéla Komrzý DOP Jakub Halousek EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Jakub Jurásek MUSIC Ondřej Anděra

The film happens to be directed by the granddaughter of Radek Pilař, well known creator of beloved Czech children animated series such as Rumcajs and somewhat less known as a pioneer of video art in Czechoslovakia. The documentary brushes the dust off of those old VHS tapes to get a glimpse of early electronic images in our country and uncover the yet unmapped history of pre-revolution Czech video art. Decades later they all “videists” still share their enthusiasm, obsessive curiosity, and futuristic visions about the use of new technologies for artistic expression.

CONTACTUPP – Vít Komrzý [email protected]+420 602 231 942

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92 PRODuCTION

WOlvES ON THE bORDERS! vlCI NA HRANICíCH!

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR MARTIN Páv

PRODUCER Zuzana KučerováPRODUCTION COMPANy Frame Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE June 2020

SCRIPT Martin Páv, Adéla Kabelková DOP Petr Racek EDITOR Matěj Beran SOUND Adam Bláha

It has been more than one hundred years since the last wolf was killed in the area of the Czech Republic. Nowadays wolves are coming back. However, they are not always welcomed. The whole story takes place in the Broumov region which is known for its beautiful environment, but also for the highest concentration of sheep farmers in the Czech Republic. Film follows a conflict which is escalating between two groups of inhabitants: On one side there are farmers who become more and more radical and try to find the way to expel wolves back. On the other side there are people who welcome the wolves and try to protect them.

CONTACTFrame Films – Zuzana Kučerová [email protected] +420 776 600 278

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A MARRIAgE MANŽElSTví

CZECH REPUblIC, PAkISTAN | 70 MIN | Czech, Urdu, EnglishDIRECTORS kATEřINA HAgER, ASAD FARUQI

PRODUCER Kateřina Hager PRODUCTION COMPANy Bohemian ProductionsCO-PRODUCTION Revolutionary FilmsCOMPlETION DATE December 2019

SCRIPT Kateřina Hager DOP Aleš Hart, Asad Faruqi EDITOR Šárka Sklenářová SOUND Ivan Horák

Several years after their official marriage, wheel-chair bound Zdenka from the Czech Republic and her Pakistani husband Tabish, still communicate only over the internet and Skype. Czech authorities repeatedly deny Tabish a visa to enter the country, convinced they are protecting Zdenka and the Czech state from an economic migrant seeking entry into Europe. Shot in both the Czech Republic and Pakistan, the film unfolds as a mystery discovering the nature of this digital relationship. Will the final reunion in the small Czech town mean a victory or yet a bigger challenge for the couple?

CONTACTBohemian Productions – Kateřina Hager [email protected]+420 604 216 830

DEVELOPMENT 95

ADAM ONDRA: PUSHINg THE lIMITSADAM ONDRA: POSUNOUT HRANICE

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech DIRECTORS jAN šIMáNEk, PETR ZáRUbA

PRODUCER Alice TaberyPRODUCTION COMPANy CinepointCOMPlETION DATE October 2020

SCRIPT Jan Šimánek, Petr Záruba DOP Jan Šimánek, Petr Záruba EDITOR Pavel Kolaja SOUND Martin Stýblo, Martin Klusák

Several times during his carrier, the Czech climber Adam Ondra has rewritten the limits of what is possible. A multiple world champion, he defined a new, so far unbeaten climbing grade 9c in 2017. In the next two years he plans to devote himself to the preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan where the climbing will be an Olympic sport for the first time. Already today, Adam is seen as one of the favourites of the competition. The documentary maps the life journey and the inner world of a man who has been fulfilling his dream by facing new challenges, which he does in an obstinate, extraordinary demanding, consistent, and primarily joy-bringing way.

CONTACTCinepoint – Alice Tabery [email protected]+420 732 883 260

1ST FIlM

96 DEVELOPMENT

AMOOSED!

CZECH REPUblIC | 70 MIN | Czech, Norwegian, English, Swedish, Russian, PolishDIRECTOR HANA NOvákOvá

PRODUCER Kateřina TraburováPRODUCTION COMPANy GURU FILMCO-PRODUCTION FAMUCOMPlETION DATE 2020

SCRIPT Hana Nováková DOP Františka Chlumská EDITORS Soňa Jelínková, Mariana Kozáková SOUND Sandra Klouzová

The film takes us on a journey of the author and her diary. Something strange is happening in her life. A Moose is always appearing. Is it trying to tell her something? She has to follow. The story starts in Czechia and the Czech stories and protagonists lead us further, across the borders – the same way the Moose goes. Only here the real Moose odyssey starts. We are led through Europe and at the end to Canada, where the Moose message is finally fulfilled. On the way, in different places, she meets protagonists who all have something in common: they have participated in various humans‘ attempts to deal with moose, to control it. While the moose stayed the same specific indomesticable creature, people, after these encounters, ended up changed completely.

CONTACTGURU FILM – Kateřina Traburová[email protected]+420 731 712 686

1ST FIlM

DEVELOPMENT 97

bUDDHIST ASSASIN

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA, MyANMAR | 90 MIN | English, burmese DIRECTOR víT jANEčEk

PRODUCER Vít JanečekPRODUCTION COMPANy D1filmCO-PRODUCTION Ultrafilm, Third Floor Film ProductionsCOMPlETION DATE December 2019

SCRIPT Vít Janeček DOP Thaiddhi, Zuzana Piussi, Vít Janeček SOUND Jan Richtr

The film follows one of the most prominent prisoners of the Military regime in Burma returning to his homeland after 20 years. Presenting journey to the people on both sides of for years divided society gives a different perspective of the possibilities of coexistence, forgiveness and looking at your own life and society. Banyarr wants to know before the 2020 election, whether it‘s possible to live back in the country. The same simple question is asked by hundreds of millions people, who have fled their countries suffering from harsh regimes or even wars. He wants to know, whether democratic and open development of society is possible, despite of rising contradictions on many levels.


98 DEVELOPMENT

DREAM-HEEDERS NASlOUCHAčI SNů

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 90 MIN | Czech, English, Russian, germanDIRECTOR lUCIE kRálOvá

PRODUCERS Martin Řezníček, Andrea ShafferPRODUCTION COMPANIES DOCUfilm Praha, Mindset PicturesCO-PRODUCTION UltrafilmCOMPlETION DATE 2022

SCRIPT Lucie Králová DOP Tomáš Stanek, Adam Ol‘ha EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Richard Müller

The collective unconscious is a layer of the human psyche whose collective mental contents go beyond the individual, to the whole human community or race. The film examines the current state of the world and its direction as shared in our collective unconscious, via dreams. Through the accounts of people impacted by life-altering trans-personal dreams, and with the latest findings of dream research, the film explores the collective nature of dreams as documentary testimonial of our times and the world we live in.

CONTACTMindset Pictures – Andrea [email protected]+420 602 343 717

DEVELOPMENT 99

FORgOTTEN WARZAPOMENUTá válkA

CZECH REPUblIC | 70 MIN | Russian, Ukrainian DIRECTOR ZDENěk CHAlOUPkA

PRODUCERS Zuzana Tichá, Radovan SíbrtPRODUCTION COMPANy PINKCOMPlETION DATE October 2019

SCRIPT Zdeněk Chaloupka DOP Jan Balcar

A testimony about a conflict raging in the eastern Ukraine for almost four years now. Nazar, as a guide, trying to find objective causes of the war, leads the viewer through the Donbass area, its complicated history and the pride of the local miners. Apart from the historic context, he focuses on the everyday reality in the so-called grey zone, the strip of land directly touching the frontlines. The documentary permits us to view the military conflict from the perspective of the locals and witness the everyday situations experienced by the locals in the unstable region.

CONTACTPINK – Radovan Sí[email protected]+420 777 161 552

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100 DEVELOPMENT

HAPPIly FOR EvER šťASTNě AŽ NA věky

CZECH REPUblIC | 85 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR jANA POčTOvá

PRODUCER Martin HůlovecPRODUCTION COMPANy Punk FilmCOMPlETION DATE March 2022

SCRIPT Jana Počtová

The closing film of the director’s trilogy about partnerships of today. Introducing a mosaic of six different stories, which in some way deviate from the classic, experienced model of a relationship. Emphasis is placed on the intimacy and fragility of individual human destinies. The partial time-lapse method documents the relationships of the protagonists, their development, the difficulties, the compromises and the challenges.

CONTACTPunk Film – Martin Hů[email protected]+420 608 977 930

DEVELOPMENT 101

HUMAN bEEINg

CZECH REPUblIC | 78 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR kRISTýNA bARTOšOvá

PRODUCER Hana ŠilarováPRODUCTION COMPANy Frame FilmsCOMPlETION DATE February 2021

SCRIPT Kristýna Bartošová DOP Tomáš Lipský SOUND Luka Šuto

The relationship between people and bees is one of the best mapped phenomena in human history. In most cultures, the honey bee was considered a sacred animal and enjoyed great respect. Today, due to our irresponsible interventions in nature, it is facing extinction. Together with Honeymen, two amateur beekeepers from Brno, we set out to search for an answer to how to save the bees. However, it soon becomes clear that it is not only the bees that are dying; it is also something in us. Human Beeing is a reflection upon modern humans losing their relationship both to nature and to themselves.

CONTACTFrame Films – Hana Šilarová[email protected]+420 602 792 856

2ND FIlM

102 DEVELOPMENT

IDENTITy ES IDENTITA ES

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 100 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTOR AlENA čINčEROvá

PRODUCER Viktor SchwarczPRODUCTION COMPANy Cineart TV PragueCO-PRODUCTION ARINACOMPlETION DATE December 2020

SCRIPT Alena Činčerová DOP David Ployhar EDITOR Jan Skalský SOUND Michal Janoušek

The story of Professor Emil Skamene, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (C), F.A.C.P., F.R.S.C., O.Q., one of the world’s most acclaimed immunologists and geneticists, physician, teacher and researcher, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize. His contribution to genetics has had a significant impact on the world‘s history. However, he had not known his own identity for decades. The story of his life is full of incredible situations that are too absurd to actually happen, yet has taken place in real life.

CONTACTCineart TV Prague – Viktor [email protected]+420 777 220 364

DEVELOPMENT 103

jEDNOTkA INTENZIvNíHO ŽIvOTA

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR ADélA kOMRZý

PRODUCER Pavla Janoušková KubečkováPRODUCTION COMPANy nutprodukceCOMPlETION DATE October 2022

SCRIPT Adéla Komrzý DOP Prokop Souček

Drama with elements of absurdity about how doctors and patients in our technologically advanced civilization relearn how to communicate about something as basic as death – that was long ago crowded out.

CONTACTnutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková[email protected]+420 605 256 190

104 DEVELOPMENT

lIFE IN THE HEll ŽIvOT v PEklE

CZECH REPUblIC, SlOvAkIA | 80 MIN | Slovak, CzechDIRECTORS víT jANEčEk, ZUZANA PIUSSI

PRODUCER Vít JanečekPRODUCTION COMPANy D1filmCO-PRODUCTION UltrafilmCOMPlETION DATE April 2020

SCRIPT Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi

A documentary-scenic film analyzing bullying in institutions and businesses in an interconnected sequence of stories that are compiled into a whole. A large STEM / MARK research from 2013 states that bullying affects 23 percent of employees. Surprisingly, a large percentage of registered cases concerns people working in the public sector or in the state administration, while the reasons for bullying at the workplace differ. In our film we focus on people who went through a long-term traumatic experience of bullying.


DEVELOPMENT 105

My PRIvATE MONgOlIAMOjE vlASTNí MONgOlSkO

CZECH REPUblIC, lATvIA, RUSSIA | 90 MIN | Russian DIRECTOR ARTEMIO bENkI

PRODUCERS Petra Oplatková, Artemio BenkiPRODUCTION COMPANy Artcam FilmsCO-PRODUCTION Mistrus Media, Metra FilmsSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIACOMPlETION DATE August 2020

SCRIPT Artemio Benki

Anna, a Latvian non-citizen born in Riga in 1991, the year of the collapse of the USSR and formation of independent Latvia, is going through the process of naturalization, while at the same time trying to discover her personal identity and her place in society. My Private Mongolia is an intimate story that follows its protagonist very closely, observing the transformation of a stateless person, and addresses the question of what it really means to belong.


2ND FIlM

106 DEVELOPMENT

PONgO STORy

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTOR TOMáš kRATOCHvíl

PRODUCER Radim ProcházkaPRODUCTION COMPANy Produkce Radim ProcházkaCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE November 2021

SCRIPT Tomáš Kratochvíl

The story of a successful Roma family which had left the Czech Republic for Britain 12 years ago as a result of discrimination. The children have become educated Brits building new careers. But the personal ambitions of the loved offspring are threatening to upset the unity of a traditional Roma family.


DEVELOPMENT 107

STORyTEllER OF THE jUNglE: OTTO PlACHTMlUvčí DŽUNglE: OTTO PlACHT

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | Czech, Spanish DIRECTOR AlICE RůŽIčkOvá

PRODUCER Barbora KinkalováPRODUCTION COMPANy Happy FilmCO-PRODUCTION Czech TelevisionCOMPlETION DATE September 2020

SCRIPT Alice Růžicková DOP Jan Šípek EDITOR Jiří Procházka SOUND Dominik Dolejší, Adam Levý

Twenty years ago, Alice Růžičková made a documentary about the Czech painter Otto Placht, portraying his life with his native family in Peru, on the borders of the Amazon rainforest. In addition to everyday struggles for survival, Otto devoted himself to painting – the jungle became his lifelong central theme. The documentary confronts Otto Placht with the transformations over the preceding 20 years both in his personal and professional lives, as well as his views on the transformation of the Amazon habitat. The central narrative rests in the painter’s return to the Amazon with his son Pino.

CONTACTHappy Film – Barbora Kinkalová[email protected]+420 776 123 969

108 DEVELOPMENT

TATAbOjS.DOC

CZECH REPUblIC | 80 MIN | CzechDIRECTOR váClAv kUčERA

PRODUCER Petr KozaPRODUCTION COMPANy Bio Art ProductionCOMPlETION DATE March 2020

SCRIPT Václav Kučera, Milan Cais, Marek Huňát DOP Diviš Marek EDITOR Vilém Šrail SOUND Ondřej Ježek MUSIC Milan Cais, Marek Huňát

A feature-length documentary about the legendary band‘s life for many years, a period of recapitulation of the life of the band and its members, a look back into the past. Instead of usual biographical portrait, we want to look not only in archival material but also in the future to bring a unique insight into the making process here and now, to associate the film language and find out about what and how their music originates. What does the successful band charge and where it draws inspiration for fresh lyrics.

CONTACTBio Art Production – Petr [email protected]+420 737 520 099

DEVELOPMENT 109

THE bOXERbOXER

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR kAROlíNA PEROUTkOvá

PRODUCER Martin JůzaPRODUCTION COMPANy KrutartCOMPlETION DATE September 2021

SCRIPT Karolína Peroutková DOP Ludvík Otevřel SOUND Matěj Chrudina

Mníšek pod Brdy is a picturesque small town near Prague. And everybody here fears Michal. He‘s a 14-year-old brat who describes himself as a psychopath. “I just need to punch someone to let off steam” he claims. On the other hand he is a brave and sensitive boy who lives in chains of his unorthodox family. He is being trained by a boxer master Jan Balog who aims to teach him how to control his anger and fight an honourable fight. Will Michal manage to fit in or will he end up in jail as everybody thinks?

CONTACTKrutart – Martin Jů[email protected]+420 732 341 149

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110 DEVELOPMENT

THE SPERMINATORS SPERMINáTOřI

CZECH REPUblIC | 75 MIN | Czech, EnglishDIRECTOR EvA TOMANOvá

PRODUCERS Petra Oplatková, Artemio BenkiPRODUCTION COMPANy Artcam FilmsSUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIACOMPlETION DATE November 2020

SCRIPT Eva Tomanová

Two men, Jiří (CZ) and Mitch (UK), on a procreation mission. The Sperminators are using their exceptional virility to help women in need, but is it the right way how to save humanity?


DEVELOPMENT 111

THE WIlD OF THE NINETIESDIvOký DEvADESáTky

CZECH REPUblIC | 90 MIN | Czech DIRECTOR RADIM šPAčEk

PRODUCER Petr KozaPRODUCTION COMPANy Bio Art ProductionCOMPlETION DATE October 2019

SCRIPT Ondřej Štindl, Lukáš Csicsely DOP Martin Štrba, Diviš Marek EDITORS Jan Daňhel, Vilém Šrail SOUND Radim Hladík, Jiří Klenka MUSIC David Koller, Jan Sahara Hedl

Feature docu-fiction about the 1990‘s Czech music scene. Atmosphere of cold period around 2020 and the story of a young man Peter, who gets to the nineties by flashbacks documentaries, and meets the culture of the time, celebrities and the puzzle of his personal story as well.

CONTACTBio Art Production – Petr [email protected]+420 737 520 099


CONTACTSINSTITUTIONS

Creative Europe – MEDIA Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 210 e-mail: [email protected] www.mediadeskcz.eu

Czech Film Fund Dukelských hrdinů 47170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 301 278e-mail: [email protected] www.fondkinematografie.cz

Czech Film Fund – Czech Film CenterNárodní 28110 00 Praha 1tel.: +420 221 105 398e-mail: [email protected]

Czech Film Fund – Czech Film CommissionNárodní 28110 00 Praha 1tel.: +420 221 105 254e-mail: [email protected]

Ministry of Culture Czech Republic – Media and Audiovision DepartmentMilady Horákové 139 160 41 Praha 6 Director: Artuš Rejent – [email protected] www.mkcr.cz

Ministry of Culture Czech Republic – Eurimages Maltézské náměstí 1 118 00 Praha 1 National Coordinator: Elena Kotová – [email protected]

National Film Archive Malešická 12 130 00 Praha 3 www.nfa.cz

ORgANIZATIONS

Actors‘ Association Senovážné náměstí 23 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 142 672 e-mail: [email protected]

APA – Czech Producers‘ AssociationNárodní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 310e-mail: [email protected] www.asociaceproducentu.cz

ASAF – Association of Czech Animation Film Heřmanova 3170 00 Praha 7 e-mail: [email protected] www.asaf.cz

Association of Czech CinematographersSenovážné náměstí 23 112 82 Praha 1 www.ceskam.cz

Association of Directors and Screenwriters Karlovo náměstí 19 120 00 Praha 2 e-mail: [email protected] www.aras.cz

Cinema Exhibitors Association Politických vězňů 445 266 01 Beroun tel.: +420 311 625 307 e-mail: [email protected]

Czech Film and Television Academy Karlovo náměstí 19 120 00 Praha 2 e-mail: [email protected] www.filmovaakademie.cz

FITES – Czech Film and Television Union Korunovační 8170 00 Praha 7 e-mail: [email protected] www.fites.cz

Institute of Documentary Film Štěpánská 14 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 214 858 e-mail: [email protected]

Union of Film Distributors náměstí Winstona Churchilla 2 130 00 Praha 3 tel.: +420 222 713 001 e-mail: [email protected] www.ufd.cz


FIlM SCHOOlS

FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Smetanovo nábřeží 2 116 65 Praha 1 tel.: +420 234 244 311 e-mail: [email protected]

FAMO – Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek Lipová alej 2068 397 01 Písek tel.: +420 382 264 212 e-mail: [email protected] www.filmovka.cz

Prague Film School Pštrossova 19 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 534 013 e-mail: [email protected] www.filmstudies.cz

Tomas Bata University in Zlín – Faculty of Multimedia Communications Univerzitní 2431 760 01 Zlín tel.: +420 576 034 205 e-mail: [email protected] www.fmk.utb.cz

UMPRUM – Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague – Studio of Film & TV Graphicsnám. Jana Palacha 80 116 93 Praha 1 tel.: +420 251 098 270 e-mail: [email protected] www.umprum.cz

Charles University / Faculty of Arts – Film Studies Department nám. Jana Palacha 2 116 38 Praha 1tel.: +420 221 619 227 e-mail: [email protected] film.ff.cuni.cz

Masaryk University / Faculty of Arts – Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual CultureArna Nováka 1 602 00 Brno tel.: +420 549 491 583e-mail: [email protected] www.fav.phil.muni.cz

Palacký University / Faculty of Arts – Department of Theatre and Film Studies Univerzitní 3 771 47 Olomouc tel.: +420 585 633 423e-mail: [email protected] www.filmadivadlo.cz

TRAININg PROgRAMMES

ANOMALIA Budějovická 73 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 731 612 803 e-mail: [email protected] www.anomalia.eu

dok.incubator Bolzanova 1615/1 110 06 Prague 1 tel.: +420 224 241 046 e-mail: [email protected] www.dokincubator.net

MIDPOINTOstrovní 126/30 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 773 187 441 e-mail: [email protected] www.midpoint-center.eu


DISTRIbUTORS

A-Company Štefánikova 18/25 150 00 Praha 5 tel.: +420 257 315 540 e-mail: [email protected] www.a-company.cz

Aerofilms Milady Horákové 383/79 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 947 566 e-mail: [email protected] www.aerofilms.cz

APK Cinema Service Politických vězňů 445/13266 01 Beroun e-mail: [email protected] www.apkcs.cz

Artcam Films Rašínovo nábřeží 6 128 00 Praha 2 tel.: +420 221 411 619 www.artcam.cz

Asociation of Czech Film ClubsStonky 860 686 01 Uherské Hradiště tel.: +420 572 501 989 e-mail: [email protected] www.acfk.cz

BalkanfilmNa Hrázi 1245 755 01 Vsetín+420 776 840 386e-mail: [email protected]

Bioscop / AQS Na Klikovce 7 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 221 436 100 www.bioscop.cz

Blu Sky Distribution Sněmovní 9 118 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 222 398 e-mail: [email protected]

Bohemia Motion PicturesVšehrdova 560/2 118 00 Praha 1 www.bohemiamp.cz

Bontonfilm Na Poříčí 1047/26 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 415 111 e-mail: [email protected] www.bontonfilm.cz

CinemArt Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 949 110 www.cinemart.cz

Falcon Radlická 1c/3185 150 00 Praha 5 tel.: +420 224 422 244 www.falcon.cz

Fénix Distribution Petra Rezka 1723/1a 140 00 Praha 4 www.fenixdistribution.cz

Film Europe V Jámě 1 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 222 521 257 e-mail: [email protected] www.filmeurope.cz

Forum Film Czech Arkalycká 951/3 149 00 Praha 4 tel.: +421 249 113 119 e-mail: [email protected] www.forumfilm.cz

Mirius Film Distribution V Jámě 1 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 602 648 882 e-mail: [email protected] www.miriusfd.cz

Pilot FilmDonská 19101 00 Praha 10e-mail: [email protected]

Vertical Entertainment Soukenická 13 110 00 Praha 1 www.freeman-ent.cz

vOD PlATFORMS

AerovodMilady Horákové 383/79 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 947 566e-mail: [email protected]

Doc Alliance Films Vodičkova 36 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 602 212 545 e-mail: [email protected] www.dafilms.com

SAlES

AQSNa Klikovce 7 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 221 436 100e-mail: [email protected]

FilmotorKaprova 14110 00 Praha 1tel.: +420 721 006 421e-mail: [email protected]

CONTACTS


FIlM FESTIvAlS

Prague Short Film Festival23 – 27 January 2019, PragueSubmission deadline: 30 September 2018/31 October 2018e-mail: [email protected]

One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival6 – 17 March 2019, PragueSubmission deadline: 15 September 2018/1 November 2018www.oneworld.cz

Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival21 – 29 March 2019, Praguee-mail: [email protected]

Finále Plzeň Film Festival11 – 16 April 2019, PlzeňSubmission deadline: 30 November 2018www.festivalfinale.cz

Academia Film Olomouc23 – 28 April 2019, OlomoucSubmission deadline: 31 January 2019e-mail: [email protected]

Anifilm7 – 12 May 2019, TřeboňSubmission deadline: 10 January 2019e-mail: [email protected]

Zlín Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth24 May – 1 June 2019, ZlínSubmission deadline: 1 March 2019e-mail: [email protected]

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 28 June – 6 July 2019, Karlovy VarySubmission deadline: 28 February 2019 (31 March 2019 for late submissions) e-mail: [email protected]

Summer Film School26 July – 4 August 2019, Uherské Hradištěwww.lfs.cz

Brno 16 – International Short Film Festival9 – 12 October 2019, BrnoSubmission deadline: 30 June 2019e-mail: [email protected]

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival24 – 29 October 2019, JihlavaSubmission deadline: 31 May 2019e-mail: [email protected]

Mezipatra Queer Film Festival7 – 14 November 2019, PragueSubmission deadline: 15 June 2019e-mail: [email protected]

Juniorfest – International Film Festival for Children and Youth8 – 14 November 2019, Plzeň, Domažlice, Dobřany, Horšovský Týn, Přešticee-mail: [email protected]

PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art5 – 8 December 2019, Olomouce-mail: [email protected]


FACTS & FIgURES CZECH FIgURES 2018

Population 10.6 milExchange Rate 1 EUR = 26 CZkNumber of Theaters 285

Number of Screens 532

Number of Multiplex Cinemas 31

CINEMA RElEASES

Czech Fiction Films 39

Czech Documentary Films 29Czech Animation Films 2

Total Cinema Admissions* 14,4 mil Admissions to Czech Films* 3,4 mil National Market Share* 23.5

FIlM RElEASES IN CZECH CINEMAS 2013–2018 Year Admissions Box Office / EUR AVG. Ticket Price / EUR2013 11 057 559 54 778 679 4,952014 11 558 586 56 256 547 4,872015 12 958 099 64 199 099 4,952016 15 621 923 77 347 854 4,952017 15 233 432 77 086 351 5,062018* 14 446 804 77 639 491 5,37

CZECH FIlMS IN CINEMAS 2013–2018 Year Czech Premieres Admissions* Share %* Box Office / EUR* Share %*2013 47 2 661 424* 24,1* 12 195 214* 22,3*2014 52 2 725 985* 23,6* 12 248 811* 21,8*2015 51 2 349 263* 18,1* 10 834 347* 16,9*2016 64 4 606 865* 29,5* 21 114 951* 27,3*2017 58 3 385 269* 22,2* 14 785 982* 19,2*2018 70 3 392 814* 23,5* 15 774 963* 20,3*

MARkET SHARE (ADMISSIONS)*

Others 2.3%

EU 17%

US 57.3%

CZ 23.5%

* Data available by 30 November 2018


TOP 20 IN 2018* Rank Original Title English Title Country Distributor Date of

ReleaseAdmissions Box Office /

EUR 1 Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War US Falcon 26/4/18 630 551 3 817 933 2 Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody GB, US CinemArt 1/11/18 621 654 3 846 844 3 Po čem muži touží What Men Long For CZ CinemArt 20/9/18 535 811 3 078 251 4 Hotel Transylvania 3:

Summer VacationHotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

US Falcon 12/7/18 483 855 2 624 365

5 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

US, ES CinemArt 21/6/18 405 852 2 502 231

6 Venom Venom US Falcon 4/10/18 386 957 2 418 335 7 Fifty Shades Freed Fifty Shades Freed US CinemArt 8/2/18 360 442 2 115 857 8 Fantastic Beasts: The

Crimes of GrindelwaldFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

GB, US Vertical Entertainment

15/11/18 352 401 2 243 454

9 Tátova volha Patrimony CZ CinemArt 8/3/18 347 825 1 667 57010 The Incredibles 2 The Incredibles 2 US Falcon 2/8/18 346 520 1 913 24811 Deadpool 2 Deadpool 2 US CinemArt 17/5/18 341 381 2 053 04712 Čertoviny Devilry CZ CinemArt 4/1/18 317 079 1 370 68413 Jumanji: Welcome

to the JungleJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

US Falcon 21/12/17 296 969 1 661 804

14 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

US CinemArt 19/7/18 294 170 1 668 692

15 Coco Coco US Falcon 18/1/18 292 575 1 448 97516 Black Panther Black Panther US Falcon 15/2/18 278 057 1 700 89617 Peter Rabbit Peter Rabbit US Falcon 22/3/18 222 966 1 059 87718 The Nun The Nun US Vertical

Entertainment 6/9/18 197 870 1 186 037

19 Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci

Desperate Ladies Act Desperately

CZ Bioscop/AQS 18/1/18 189 855 993 740

20 The Grinch The Grinch US CinemArt 8/11/18 189 164 1 042 024

CZECH FIlMS TOP 20 IN 2018* Rank Original Title English Title Country Distributor Date of

ReleaseAdmissions Box Office /

EUR 1 Po čem muži touží What Men Long For CZ CinemArt 20/9/18 535 811 3 078 251 2 Tátova volha Patrimony CZ CinemArt 8/3/18 347 825 1 667 570 3 Čertoviny Devilry CZ CinemArt 4/1/18 317 079 1 370 684 4 Zoufalé ženy dělají

zoufalé věci Desperate Ladies Act Desperately

CZ Bioscop/AQS 18/1/18 189 855 993 740

5 Prezident Blaník President Blaník CZ Falcon 1/2/18 174 333 914 410 6 Úsměvy smutných mužů Smiles of Sad Men CZ Bontonfilm 12/7/18 164 766 850 134 7 Špindl Špindl CZ Bontonfilm 21/12/17 162 105 844 777 8 Dvě nevěsty a jedna svatba Two Brides and One

WeddingCZ Bioscop/AQS 26/4/18 115 599 474 232

9 Věčně tvá nevěrná Unfaithfully Yours CZ Bioscop/AQS 22/2/18 112 802 569 53210 Chata na prodej Bear With Us CZ CinemArt 26/7/18 99 022 464 45711 Když draka bolí hlava The Secret Of The

Two-headed DragonCZ, SK Bohemia

Motion Pictures25/10/18 92 050 436 970

12 Planeta Česko Wilder Than Wilderness CZ Aerofilms 22/3/18 92 024 302 69413 Toman Toman CZ, SK Falcon 4/10/18 87 342 479 53014 Jan Palach Jan Palach CZ, SK CinemArt 21/8/18 85 744 350 62815 Hastrman The Hastrman CZ CinemArt 19/4/18 74 938 302 22816 Ten, kdo tě miloval The One Who Loved You CZ Falcon 8/11/18 69 251 373 77917 Pat a Mat znovu v akci Pat & Mat in Action Again CZ Bioscop/AQS 7/6/18 65 629 297 66618 Pat a Mat – Zimní radovánky Pat & Mat – Winter Fun CZ Bioscop/AQS 22/11/18 53 919 272 22819 Po strništi bos Barefoot CZ, DK, SK Bioscop/AQS 17/8/17 40 380 62 44420 Backstage Backstage SK, CZ Bontonfilm 7/6/18 39 384 204 742

* Data available by 30 November 2018


INDEX OF ENglISH TITlESA Five Hundred Plateaus 40A Marriage 94Adam Ondra: pushing the limits 95All Men Become Brothers 66Amoosed! 96Another Chance 41Ark of Lights and Shadows 10Batastories 42Beginnings 67Blackandwhite 43Blood, Sweat and Tears 68Breaking News 11Brotherhood 69Bruce Lee and the Outlaw 12Buddhist Assasin 97Caught in the Net 70Central Bus Station 13Circus Rwanda 14Comfortable century 71Communism 72D is for Division 15Diamond Czech Style 73Dog‘s Love 74Dream-Heeders 98Dreams About Stray Cats 75Empire Builders 16Enclosed World 17Fathers of Ours 44Feral 18Forgotten War 99Forman versus Forman 45FREM 46God Forsaken 19Good Death 20Good Mr. Benda 21Grygar 22Happily for ever 100Human Beeing 101Identity Es 102Illusion 23Inside the War on ISIS 24Jan Jedlička: Colourful Traces of a Landscape 76Jan Kapr‘s Codes 77Jaroslav Kučera: A Portrait 47Jednotka intenzivního života 103Jindrich Streit – Sudetenland my love 25Jiří Suchý 78Jiří Trnka – A missing friend 48King Skate 26Kiruna 2.0 49

Last days of Europe 50Libussa Unbound 51Life in The Hell 104Little Moscow 27Love Under The Hood 79Lust for Life 80March or Die 28Moravia, O Fair Land III. 52Mucha 81Multiple Hope 82My father Antonín Kratochvíl 83My Father, the Spy 53My Private Mongolia 105My Unknown Soldier 29Never Happened 54Nomad in the City 55Occupation 1968 30Off Sides 56One More for the Road 84Passengers 31Pepik the Czech goes to Poland in a quest f or love of God 57Pongo story 106Provincial Town of E 85Putin‘s Witnesses 32Satanic Girls 86Solo 58Soviet Man 87Storyteller of the Jungle: Otto Placht 107tatabojs.doc 108The Band 33The Boxer 109The Heaven 59The Hijacking 88The Sound is Innocent 60The Sperminators 110The Vasulka Effect 61The Wild of the Nineties 111Those Who Dance in the Dark 89Turn on the Light So We Can See 90University and Freedom 62Vienna Calling 34VIVA VIDEO, VIDEO VIVA 91Vote For Kibera 35Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting 36We Can Do Better 37When the War Comes 38Will You Dare? 63Wolves on the Borders! 92


INDEX OF DIRECTORSAbramjan, Andran 16Aiano, Zoe 43Andert, Jana 24Bartošová, Kristýna 101Benki, Artemio 58, 105Benner, Anna 43Berezňáková, Barbora 54Bláhovec, Bohdan 84, 86Bogolubov , Dmitry 85Bojar, Tomáš 11, 56Boršková, Jana 31Briedis, Ivo 87Čákanyová, Viera 46Chaloupka, Zdeněk 99Chalupová, Barbora 70Činčerová, Alena 102Dlouhý, Saša 19Dombrovszky, Linda 30Elšík, Tomáš 13Etzler, Tomáš 59Farges, Joël 48Faruqi, Asad 94Felcman, Jakub 47Foukal, Jan 84Gebert, Jan 38Grube, Gints 53Gunnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur 61Hager, Kateřina 94Hákonarson, Grímur 27Holba, Jiří 18Jančárek, Petr 82Janeček, Vít 62, 97, 104Jařab, David 36Jurda, Pavel 21Kaboš, Michael 28Kaboš, Ladislav 33Kallistová Jablonská , Linda 67, 74Kerekes, Peter 42Kilmi, Jaak 53Kirchhoff, Robert 66Klusák, Vít 57, 70Knopp, Erik 68Kohout, Martin 50Kohoutová, Rozálie 56Komandarev, Stefan 30Komrzý, Adéla 91, 103Králová, Lucie 77, 98Kratochvíl, Jaroslav 71Kratochvíl, Tomáš 106Krupa, Tomáš 20

Kryvenko, Anna 29Kučera, Václav 90, 108Kvapil, Robin 37Mansky, Vitaly 32Mareček, Martin 44Marková, Taťána 51Michálek, Tomáš 47Montagner, Francesco 69Moskvina, Evdokia 30Nováková, Hana 96Ostrochovský, Ivan 88Ožvold, Johana 60Páv, Martin 35, 92Peroutková, Karolína 109Petrásek, Martin 22Piussi, Zuzana 62, 104Počtová, Jana 100Procházka, Radim 37Remo, Miro 79Remunda, Filip 57Rudinská, Libuše 25Růžičková, Alice 107Šafránek, Šimon 26Sauvé Clubb, Anji 55Scheidt, Marie Elisa 30Sedláčková, Andrea 83Ševčíková, Jana 89Síbrt, Radovan 80Šimánek, Jan 95Sīmanis, Dāvis 15Sís, David 75Slováková, Andrea 40Šmíd, Rudolf 73Smržová, Dagmar 63Sommerová, Olga 78Špaček, Radim 111Šprincl, Petr 34, 52Stocklassa, Greta 49Svatoš, Jan 10Szymkow, Magdalena 30Tomanová, Eva 41, 110Třeštíková, Helena 45Turečková, Kateřina 23Vachek, Karel 72Vandebrug, Joost 12Varga, Michal 14Vávra, Roman 81Žalud, Karel 17Záruba, Petr 76, 95


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