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- Follows the real-life stories of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine.
- Two documentarians exploring the world of online sexual abuse of children succeed in turning an experiment into an act of social intervention.
- A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.
- On February 24, 2022, Yevhen, together with his friends, volunteered to join the first aid squad on the front line. They provided life-saving support and evacuation of the wounded. This film reveals the experiences of these young men for six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love, and, most importantly, faith in victory.
- Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however does not exist and is not meant to. The advertising campaign includes radio and television ads, posters, flyers with photos of fake Czech Dream products, a promotional song, an internet site, and ads in newspapers and magazines. Will people believe in it and show up for the grand opening?
- Rouzebeh travels from Tehran, far from his troubled family life, to Prague, investigating his father's path as a communist expatriate. Yet each clue he finds deepens the mystery into the man he thought he knew.
- A rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power.
- An interview with former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most influential figures of the last century, whose rule heralded the end of the Soviet Union. In an intimate setting, he gives his view of Russia then and now.
- Since the fall of the Wall, a new iron curtain - that of wages - has stretched across Europe. Every year, hundreds of thousands of workers from Eastern Europe, lured by wages three times higher than in their home countries, cross the continent in search of demanding, low-skilled jobs. Leaving Prague, Czech journalist Sasa Uhlova experiences the reality of these precarious jobs in the shoes of economic migrants essential to Western Europe's prosperity. In Germany, on a vast fruit and vegetable farm alongside Polish immigrants, in an Irish hotel in the company of Slovakian colleagues, then as a care assistant in Marseille, she experiences physical pain, stress, fatigue and hellish work rates.
- Most of the 10,000 inhabitants of Yelnya feel nostalgic about the former USSR and its army. They're raising the town's children to be military trained national patriots. Yelnya misses the days when things were different, when society was stable, even when that meant living under strict rules.
- Farewell Comrades paints a portrait of the Soviet Union's decline from the inside, covering the period from 1975 to 1991.
- The Film maps the terrorist acts of individuals in the period of "normalisation" in Czechoslovakia. Their attempts, which often remained unrealized, were isolated heroic cries in the homogeneous gray mass of society. With the main theme as the background, the film looks at issues of ethics, irrationality and terrorism, its sense and deadly force in today's world. The film focuses on a trio of protagonists. The first wanted to blow up a podium during Labour Day celebrations in the 1970's. The second wanted to assassinate the President and launch an anti-Communist revolution, but his letter addressed to the CIA was so naive that he never received a response. The third destroyed billboards. At the time their acts were crimes, though today they are considered to be heroism. It is a film about relative perspectives on history and its heroes.
- A stylized portrait of a Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn't know what to change about it. Corrosively absurd and starkly chilling in equal measure, this tragicomedy investigates the radical worldview of 'decent, ordinary people.' And just when it seems that its message can't get any more urgent, the film culminates in a totally uncompromising way.
- As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent beyond the point of no return, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, FREM presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking.
- An ancient river tells us her story, conversing with inhabitants along her flow. Corseted by man, she is an artery not a barrier, taking the viewer on a 990 km journey through divided lands she seeks to understand. She is Sava (Mira Furlan). Her ethereal voice acts as a guide between people who share stories, memories and visions of the future which navigate an innate connection to nature, a relationship with borders and the construct of nationhood. For millennia Sava has been a witness to human history; a conduit between East and West, the dividing line of great empires and a common thread between nations. Sava's journey connecting these young nation states begins in Slovenia taking us through the entire country and into Croatia where she eventually forms the border with Bosnia and that of the European Union frontier, finally we enter Western Serbia where she flows to the heart of Belgrade and joins the Danube. Old Steelworkers ruminate on what their communities have lost and gained by the fall of heavy industry, musicians and drag queens and new ways to talk about their own and regional identity, ferrymen deliberate on hydropower shifting the rivers ow, war veterans question what independence was for and anarchists who seek to escape the ever invasive and controlling machinations of the state. With the river as the protagonist, voiced by former-Yugoslav actress Mira Furlan. Speaking on behalf of Sava her voice transcends borders and ideology stimulating a discourse between humanity, nationhood and nature.
- The Czech Republic has only accepted a very small number of refugees. Made over the course of two years, this story-driven time-lapse documentary explores the impact of the refugee simulacrum on the collective imagination and real society.
- A documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of occupiers. Five countries from within the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- Director Vitaly Manskiy sets off on the trail of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline to find out what it's like for ordinary people living in its vicinity.
- The mayor of OSADNE, Mr. Ladislav Mikulasko, is a political record-holder. He has held the position of the village boss for a respectful thirty-six years. His spiritual counterpart, the Orthodox priest, Peter Soroka, has buried fifty people and christened two children over the past five years. The mayor and priest have decided to fight for the survival of the village, together with their wives who are their important shadow advisers.
- The creators of Czech Dream have come out with another feature-length documentary comedy that takes aim this time around at the planned construction of an American radar base in the Czech Republic's Brdy military zone. Employing ironic detachment and a talent for exaggeration, the filmmakers present a wide range of people who either fanatically want or don't want the radar system.
- Like the steam that silently appears and then disappears over a flowing river, the life of every human is just as fleeting, and this particularly applies in the case of artists. The transience of their fame is the main topic of this documentary, which provides a glimpse into the lives of three aging jazzmen: trumpeter Laco Deczi, saxophonist Lubomír Tamaskovic, and contrabass player Ján Jankeje, who fled from the Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia to the West, where their stars shone alongside those of the world's famous musicians.
- After his wife left him, the main character (also the director) decides to move to one of Czech Republic's most notorious Gypsy getto, where he is going to live for almost a year. His main goal is to find out the reason behind the decline of the place where he lives during this experiment. In order to find the answer, he also interacts with Czechs that are anti-Rroma (gypsy people), trying to see where they stand. Being called "a Gandjo" by the gypsy community, he becomes involved in the restauration of the studio in which he is going to live for the next months. He befriends the gypsy family that owns the building, becoming part of the family. 6 months after smhis arrival in the getto, his real family joins his new friends in celebrating Tomás's 30th birthday.
- Documentary inspection in Zambia reveals consequences of privatization of Zambian copper mines, which has been forced by world bank institutions. "This is mining industry, not crime."
- An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea's Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had no intention of selling their plots of land... Not until many of them faced pressure from their neighbors who had accepted approx. EUR 4000 in compensation and not until they received death threats. Using nine protagonists, the film paints a portrait of a village changed beyond recognition. A humorous yet compelling film about a field that yields cars.
- Journalist Renata Kalenská's book of interviews with member of the Plastic People Vratislav Brabenec recorded not only his memories of the underground years, but also the author's experiences with this highly distinctive individual. This cinematic sequel builds on those experiences as it captures her additional interviews with Brabenec - improvised talks at places that hold some meaning for Brabenec or Kalenská. The result is several scenes of irrelevant philosophizing, self-deprecating humor, and commentary on the life of birds and on nature in general. The conversations, recorded mostly by hand-held camera, are interspersed with poetic citations.
- A Czech NGO invited Sandra Kisic, a twenty-six-year old influencer of Bosnian origin, to come to Uganda. She spent ten days in and about the town of Kabala. Besides the local citizens, she was accompanied by a Dutch volunteer who already was on her umpteenth mission. Sandra, on the other hand, saw poverty and technological backwardness for the first time in reality, not just on her cell phone that she practically did not put down. The director captures the clash of seemingly remote, yet equivalent worlds facing up global challenges as an impartial observer to emphasize numerous tragicomic paradoxes. "Instant soup can warm you up, but it won't give you strength. We can look at Instagram in a similar way, or we can use it as a medium that can present the 'old school documentary film' to the younger audience." F. Remunda.