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CZECH documentaries 2018–2019 Published by Czech Film Fund. Czech Film Center division of the Czech Film Fund Dukelských hrdinů 47 170 00 Prague 7 Czech Republic Statistical information provided by the Union of Film Distributors and the Czech Statistical Office. catalogue editor: Vítězslav Chovanec, Vladimíra Chytilová text editor: Denisa Štrbová graphic design: Cellula – Pavel Rakušan printed by: Uniprint print run: 600 not for sale
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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
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INTRODUCTION With 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).
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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).
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CONTENTS 2018 Released Films Ark of Lights and Shadows Archa světel a stínů Jan Svatoš Breaking News Mimořádná zpráva Tomáš Bojar Bruce Lee and the Outlaw Bruce Lee and the Outlaw Joost Vandebrug Central Bus Station Central Bus Station Tomáš Elšík Circus Rwanda Cirkus Rwanda Michal Varga D is for Division Neklidná hranice Dāvis Sīmanis Empire Builders Budovatelé říše Andran Abramjan Enclosed World Uzamčený svět Karel Žalud Feral Feral Jiří Holba God Forsaken Bohu žel Saša Dlouhý Good Death Dobrá smrt Tomáš Krupa Good Mr. Benda Dobrý život bratra Bendy Pavel Jurda Grygar Grygar Martin Petrásek Illusion Iluze Kateřina Turečková Inside the War on ISIS V Mosulu Jana Andert Jindrich Streit – Sudetenland my love Na tělo Libuše Rudinská King Skate King Skate Šimon Šafránek Little Moscow Malá Moskva Grímur Hákonarson March or Die Pochoduj nebo zemři Michael Kaboš My Unknown Soldier Můj neznámý vojín Anna Kryvenko Occupation 1968 Okupace 1968 Evdokia Moskvina, Linda Dombrovszky, Magdalena Szymkow, Marie Elisa Scheidt, Stefan Komandarev Passengers Pasažéři Jana Boršková Putin‘s Witnesses Svědkové Putinovi Vitaly Mansky The Band Kapela Ladislav Kaboš Vienna Calling Vienna Calling Petr Šprincl Vote For Kibera Kibera: Příběh slumu Martin Páv Vratislav Effenberger Vratislav Effenberger David Jařab or Black Shark Hunting aneb Lov na černého žraloka We Can Do Better Máme na víc Radim Procházka, Robin Kvapil When the War Comes Až přijde válka Jan Gebert
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postproduction A Five Hundred Plateaus Another Chance Batastories Blackandwhite Fathers of Ours Forman versus Forman FREM Jaroslav Kučera: A Portrait Jiří Trnka – A missing friend Kiruna 2.0
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Pět set plošin Začít znovu Baťa, první globalista Černobílá Otcové naši Forman versus Forman FREM Jaroslav Kučera zblízka Jiří Trnka – Nalezený přítel Kiruna 2.0
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Andrea Slováková Eva Tomanová Peter Kerekes Zoe Aiano, Anna Benner Martin Mareček Helena Třeštíková Viera Čákanyová Jakub Felcman, Tomáš Michálek Joël Farges Greta Stocklassa
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Last days of Europe Libussa Unbound Moravia, O Fair Land III. My Father, the Spy Never Happened Nomad in the City Off Sides Pepik the Czech goes to Poland in a quest for love of God Solo The Heaven The Sound is Innocent The Vasulka Effect University and Freedom Will You Dare?
Poslední dnové Evropy Setkání s Libuší Morava, krásná zem III. Můj otec, špión Skutek se nestal Nomád ve městě Letní hokej Český Pepík jede do Polska poznat lásku k Bohu Solo Nebe The sound is innocent Efekt Vašulka University a svoboda Chci tě, jestli to dokážeš
Martin Kohout Taťána Marková Petr Šprincl Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube Barbora Berezňáková Anji Sauvé Clubb Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda
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Artemio Benki Tomáš Etzler Johana Ožvold Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi Dagmar Smržová
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Všichni lidé budou bratři Počátky 2 Na krev Ve jménu Alláha V síti Pohodlné století Komunismus Sluníčko jako čtvereček Psí láska Sny o toulavých kočkách Jan Jedlička: barevné stopy krajiny Šifry Jana Kapra Jiří Suchý Láska pod kapotou The Tap Tap – Postiženi muzikou Mucha Roztroušená naděje Můj otec Antonín Kratochvíl Do druhý nohy Provinční městečko E. Satanic Girls: Ženy na cestě Sovětský muž Únos Ti, kteří tancují ve tmě Rozsviť světlo, ať je vidět Viva video video viva Vlci na hranicích
Robert Kirchhoff Linda Kallistová Jablonská Erik Knopp Francesco Montagner Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová Jaroslav Kratochvíl Karel Vachek Rudolf Šmíd Linda Kallistová Jablonská David Sís Petr Záruba
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Lucie Králová Olga Sommerová Miro Remo Radovan Síbrt Roman Vávra Petr Jančárek Andrea Sedláčková Bohdan Bláhovec, Jan Foukal Dmitry Bogolubov Bohdan Bláhovec Ivo Briedis Ivan Ostrochovský Jana Ševčíková Václav Kučera Adéla Komrzý MartinPáv
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production All Men Become Brothers Beginnings Blood, Sweat and Tears Brotherhood Caught in the Net Comfortable century Communism Diamond Czech Style Dog‘s Love Dreams About Stray Cats Jan Jedlička: Colourful Traces of a Landscape Jan Kapr‘s Codes Jiří Suchý Love Under The Hood Lust for Life Mucha Multiple Hope My father Antonín Kratochvíl One More for the Road Provincial Town of E Satanic Girls Soviet Man The Hijacking Those Who Dance in the Dark Turn on the Light So We Can See VIVA VIDEO, VIDEO VIVA Wolves on the Borders!
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CONTENTS development A Marriage Adam Ondra: pushing the limits Amoosed! Buddhist Assasin Dream-Heeders Forgotten War Happily for ever Human Beeing Identity Es Jednotka intenzivního života Life in The Hell My Private Mongolia Pongo story Storyteller of the Jungle: Otto Placht tatabojs.doc The Boxer The Sperminators The Wild of the Nineties
Manželství Adam Ondra: posunout hranice Amoosed! Buddhist Assasin Naslouchači snů Zapomenutá válka Šťastně až na věky Human Beeing Identita Es Jednotka intenzivního života Život v pekle Moje vlastní Mongolsko Pongo story Mluvčí džungle: Otto Placht tatabojs.doc Boxer Sperminátoři Divoký devadesátky
Contacts Facts and Figures Index of Directors Index of English Titles
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Kateřina Hager, Asad Faruqi Jan Šimánek, Petr Záruba Hana Nováková Vít Janeček Lucie Králová Zdeněk Chaloupka Jana Počtová Kristýna Bartošová Alena Činčerová Adéla Komrzý Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi Artemio Benki Tomáš Kratochvíl Alice Růžičková Václav Kučera Karolína Peroutková Eva Tomanová Radim Špaček
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Ark of Lights and Shadows Archa světel a stínů 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | English, Czech director Jan Svatoš Ivana Buttry Art Francesco CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Art Francesco – Zuzana Sekorová sekorova@artfra.cz +420 777 651 905
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Breaking News Mimořádná zpráva
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Tomáš Bojar Tomáš Bojar Cinema Arsenal CO-PRODUCTION Bystrouška, Sounderground, i/o post PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cinema Arsenal – Tomáš Bojar tomas@cinemaarsenal.cz +420 604 472 934
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Bruce Lee and the Outlaw 1ST FILM
minority co-production
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Czech Republic | 86 min | Romanian director Joost Vandebrug Andrea Cornwell Grain Media CO-PRODUCTION Revolver Amsterdam, PINK PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact PINK – Alžběta Karásková alzbeta@pinkproductions.cz +420 776 061 060
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Central Bus Station 1ST FILM
Czech Republic | 75 min | English, Hebrew director Tomáš Elšík PRODUCER
Jitka Kotrlová
PRODUCTION COMPANY Frame CO-PRODUCTION R.U.R., SCRIPT Kristina
Films FAMU, Bystrouška
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.
contact Frame Films – Jitka Kotrlová jitka@framefilms.cz +420 774 131 613
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Circus Rwanda CIRKUS RWANDA 1st FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 80 min | Czech, English, Kinyarwanda director Michal Varga Marek Novák Xova Film CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Nutprodukcia, Radio and Television Slovakia PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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?
SCRIPT Michal EDITOR
Varga DOP Jakub Jelen, Matěj Piňos Alexandra Jonášová SOUND Luka Šuto
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966
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D is for Division Neklidná hranice MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Latvia, Czech Republic | 88 min | Latvian, Russian, Belarusian, English director Dāvis Sīmanis PRODUCER
Guntis Trekteris
PRODUCTION COMPANY Ego CO-PRODUCTION Produkce SCRIPT Dāvis
Media Radim Procházka
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.
contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161
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Empire Builders Budovatelé říše 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Andran Abramjan Ondřej Šejnoha FAMU CO-PRODUCTION Frame Films PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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 highstakes 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. contact Frame Films – Hana Šilarová hana@framefilms.cz +420 602 792 856
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Enclosed World Uzamčený svět
Czech Republic | 230 min | Czech director Karel Žalud PRODUCER
Petr Kubica Czech Television
PRODUCTION COMPANY 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 crosssectional 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.
contact Czech Television – Jitka Procházková jitka.prochazkova@ceskatelevize.cz +420 736 531 568
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Feral 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 72 min | Czech, English director Jiří Holba PRODUCER
Jiří Holba Jiří Holba Wet Cat Pictures
PRODUCTION COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION SCRIPT Jiří SOUND
Holba DOP Jiří Holba EDITOR Jiří Holba 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.
contact Jiří Holba enaqua82@gmail.com +420 725 430 340
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God Forsaken Bohu žel
Czech Republic | 83 min | Czech, English, Arabic, Georgian, Russian director Saša Dlouhý Saša Dlouhý freeSaM CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television PRODUCER
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?
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Saša
Dlouhý DOP Saša Dlouhý EDITOR Jakub Voves SOUND Václav Flegl MUSIC Ondřej Skala
contact freeSaM – Saša Dlouhý s@freesam.org +420 603 457 890
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Good Death Dobrá SMRT 2nd FILM
minority co-production
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, France | 80 min | English director Tomáš Krupa Tomáš Krupa Hailstone CO-PRODUCTION MasterFilm, Golden Girls Film, ARTE, Czech Television, Radio and Television Slovakia PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Tomáš Krupa DOP Ondřej Szollos EDITOR Peter Kudlička SOUND Lukáš Kasprzyk
International Sales First Hand Films – Gitte Hansen gitte.hansen@firsthandfilms.com +41 44 312 2060
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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.
contact MasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková dagmar@masterfilm.cz +420 733 579 107
Good Mr. Benda Dobrý život sokola Bendy 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 76 min | Czech, Japanese director Pavel Jurda PRODUCER
Jiří Konečný
PRODUCTION COMPANY endorfilm CO-PRODUCTION Czech SCRIPT Pavel
Television
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.
contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný jiri@endorfilm.cz +420 602 358 373
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Grygar
Czech Republic | 84 min | Czech director Martin Petrásek PRODUCER
Martin Petrásek Silesian University in Opava
PRODUCTION COMPANY 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?
contact Silesian University in Opava – Martin Petrásek martin.petrasek@fpf.slu.cz +420 553 684 279
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Illusion Iluze
Czech Republic | 53 min | Hungarian, English director Kateřina Turečková PRODUCER
Ondřej Šejnoha FAMU
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
SCRIPT Kateřina Turečková DOP Ludvík Otevřel EDITOR Kateřina Turečková, Lucie Navrátilová SOUND Šimon Herrmann
contact FAMU – Alexandra Hroncová alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz +420 724 753 713
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Inside the War on ISIS V Mosulu 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 72 min | English, Arabic director Jana Andert PRODUCER
Jan Macola
PRODUCTION COMPANY Mimesis CO-PRODUCTION Czech
Film Television
SCRIPT Jana Andert DOP Jana Andert EDITOR Antonie Janková MUSIC Daniel Němec
International Sales First Hand Films – Gitte Hansen gitte.hansen@firsthandfilms.com +41 44 312 2060
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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.
contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola jan@mimesis.cz +420 724 938 883
Jindrich Streit – Sudetenland my love Na tělo
Czech Republic | 78 min | Czech director Libuše Rudinská PRODUCER
Libuše Rudinská Rudinskafilm
PRODUCTION COMPANY 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.
contact Rudinskafilm – Libuše Rudinská liburud@gmail.com +420 725 044 891
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King Skate 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 82 min | Czech director Šimon Šafránek PRODUCER
Kateřina Černá
PRODUCTION COMPANY Negativ CO-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.
contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543
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Little Moscow Malá Moskva
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Iceland, Czech Republic, Slovakia | 85 min | Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson Grímur Hákonarson Hark Films CO-PRODUCTION Netop Films, školfilm, Punkchart films PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Grímur
Hákonarson DOP Tómas Orri Tómasson Janus Bragi Jakobsson SOUND Huldar Freyr Arnarson MUSIC Hallvarður Ásgeirsson EDITOR
Festivals Kaleidoscope – Katarina Tomková katarina@kaleidoscope.sk +421 908 281 407
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.
contact školfilm – Martin Šmok martinsmok@me.com +420 775 966 653
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March or Die Pochoduj nebo zemři 2nd FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 52 min | Czech, French, Slovak director Michael Kaboš Michael Kaboš KABOS Film & Media CO-PRODUCTION MEDIA FILM, Czech Television, Radio and Television Slovakia PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact KABOS Film & Media – Michael Kaboš kabos.michael@gmail.com +420 775 243 743
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My Unknown Soldier Můj neznámý vojín 1st FILM
Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia | 79 min | Czech, Russian, Slovak director Anna Kryvenko Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision CO-PRODUCTION Baltic Pine Films, Czech Television, Wandal Production SUPPORT Eurimages PRODUCER
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SCRIPT Anna
Kryvenko DOP Radka Šisuláková Anna Kryvenko, Daria Chernyak SOUND Viktor Krivosudský MUSIC Andris Dzenitis, Yair Elazar Glotman, David Střeleček SET DESIGNER Jurģis Krāsons EDITOR
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.
contact Analog Vision – Michal Kráčmer michal@analog.vision +420 602 838 388
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Occupation 1968 Okupace 1968
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
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
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
Peter Kerekes Peter Kerekes Film CO-PRODUCTION Hypermarket Film, Silver Frame, Agitprop, ELF Pictures, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA
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 Sales Slingshot Films – Manuela Buono manuela@slingshotfilms.it +39 347 62 73 390
contact Peter Kerekes Film – Peter Kerekes kerekesfilm@gmail.com +421 905 255 698
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Passengers Pasažéři 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 77 min | Czech director Jana Boršková Jarmila Poláková Film & Sociologie CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Adam Rakovský PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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?
contact Film & Sociologie – Eva Rybková eva@filmpasazeri.cz +420 778 492 769
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Putin‘s Witnesses Svědkové Putinovi minority co-production
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republic | 106 min | Russian director Vitaly Mansky Natalia Manskaya Studio Vertov CO-PRODUCTION GoldenEgg Production, Hypermarket Film, Current Time TV, Latvijas Televīzija, SRG SSR, ZDF / ARTE, Czech Television PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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
International Sales Deckert Distribution – Ina Rossow ina@deckert-distribution.com +49 341 2156 638
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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.
contact Hypermarket Film – Filip Remunda filip@hypermarketfilm.cz +420 603 180 312
The Band Kapela
minority co-production
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 80 min | Slovak, Romany director Ladislav Kaboš Svatava Maria Kabošová, Michael Kaboš MEDIA FILM CO-PRODUCTION Kabos Film & Media, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact KABOS Film & Media – Michael Kaboš kabos.michael@gmail.com +420 775 243 743
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Vienna Calling 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 67 min | Czech, Slovak, German director Petr Šprincl PRODUCER
Marek Novák Xova Film
PRODUCTION COMPANY 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.
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966
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Vote For Kibera Kibera: Příběh slumu 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 96 min | English, Svahili director Martin Páv Zuzana Kučerová, Jitka Kotrlová Frame Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Martin SOUND
Páv DOP Petr Racek EDITOR Matěj Beran 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.
contact Frame Films – Zuzana Kučerová zuzana@framefilms.cz +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 | Czech director DAVID JAŘAB Viktor Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364
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We Can Do Better Máme na víc
Czech Republic | 74 min | Czech directorS Radim Procházka, Robin Kvapil PRODUCERS
Radim Procházka, Robin Kvapil Radim Procházka
PRODUCTION COMPANY Produkce 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.
contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161
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When the War Comes Až přijde válka 1st FILM
Czech Republic, Croatia | 78 min | Slovak director Jan Gebert
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 Sales Cat & Docs – Maëlle Guenegues maelle@catndocs.com +33 6 81 77 65 05
contact PINK – Radovan Síbrt radovan@bypink.cz +420 777 161 552
Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková PINK CO-PRODUCTION Hulahop, HBO Europe PRODUCERS
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SCRIPT Jan
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A Five Hundred Plateaus Pět set plošin short
Czech Republic | 7 min | No Dialogue director Andrea Slováková PRODUCER Vít
Janeček D1film January 2019
PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE 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).
contact D1film – Vít Janeček vit@d1film.com +420 603 164 232
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Another Chance Začít znovu 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Eva Tomanová Jiří Konečný endorfilm CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný jiri@endorfilm.cz +420 602 358 373
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Batastories
Baťa, první globalista
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France | 76 min | Czech, English, Portuguese, French, Swahili, Ghanaia Pidgin English, Bengali, Marathi director Peter Kerekes PRODUCER Kateřina
Černá Negativ CO-PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes Film, Seppia, ARTE, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
SCRIPT Peter
Kerekes DOP Martin Kollár EDITOR Marek Šulík SOUND Martin Sadoux MUSIC David Solař
contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543
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Blackandwhite Černobílá short
Czech Republic, Germany | 15 min | Czech directorS Zoe Eluned Aiano, Anna Benner Linda Dědková Punk Film CO-PRODUCTION ZLA films COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER
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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.
contact Punk Film – Linda Dědková dedkovalinda@gmail.com +420 777 952 066
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Fathers of Ours Otcové naši
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech, Russian, Ukrainian director Martin Mareček PRODUCER Petr
Oukropec
PRODUCTION COMPANY Negativ CO-PRODUCTION HBO COMPLETION DATE
Europe January 2019
SCRIPT Martin DOP
Mareček, Tomáš Bojar, Marek Šindelka 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. contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543
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Forman versus Forman
Czech Republic, France | 75 min | Czech, English, French director Helena Třeštíková Kateřina Černá Negativ CO-PRODUCTION Alegria, Czech Television, ARTE SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
SCRIPT Helena Třeštíková DOP David Cysař EDITOR Jakub Hejna SOUND Richard Müller
contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543
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FREM
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 80 min | English director Viera Čákanyová Nina Numankadić Hypermarket Film CO-PRODUCTION Punkchart films, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages COMPLETION DATE February 2019 PRODUCERS
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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?
SCRIPT Viera Čákanyová DOP Tomáš Klein EDITOR Marek Šulík
contact Hypermarket Film – Nina Numankadić nina@dafilms.com +420 724 516 755
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Jaroslav Kučera: A Portrait Jaroslav Kučera zblízka
Czech Republic | 62 min | Czech, English directorS Jakub Felcman, Tomáš Michálek PRODUCER Tomáš
Michálek
PRODUCTION COMPANY MasterFilm
Czech Television Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2019 CO-PRODUCTION SUPPORT
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.
SCRIPT Jakub
Felcman DOP Jaroslav Kučera, Peter Zeitlinger EDITOR Jiří Brožek SOUND Sandra Klouzová MUSIC Aid Kid SET DESIGNER Anna Hanáková
contact MasterFilm – Tomáš Michálek tomas@masterfilm.cz +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 Vladimír Lhoták Hausboot CO-PRODUCTION Kolam, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE May 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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. contact Hausboot – Vladimír Lhoták vladimir@hausboot.cz +420 777 080 353
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Kiruna 2.0 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Arabic, Swedish director Greta Stocklassa PRODUCERS Veronika
Kührová, Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision CO-PRODUCTION FAMU COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová veronika@analog.vision +420 724 148 114
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Last Days of Europe Poslední Dnové Evropy 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech director Martin Kohout Jakub Wagner GPO Platform COMPLETION DATE October 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact GPO Platform – Jakub Wagner kuba.wag@seznam.cz +420 776 329 183
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Libussa Unbound Setkání s Libuší
Czech Republic | 70 min | Czech, English, German director Taťána Marková PRODUCER Jarmila
Poláková Film & Sociologie CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE March 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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?
SCRIPT Taťána
Marková DOP Dalibor Fencl, Nataša Dudinski, Petr Vejslík EDITOR Šárka Sklenářová SOUND Vojtěch Knot ANIMATOR Alžběta Beránková, Jaroslav Polenský
contact Film & Sociologie – Jarmila Poláková fas@seznam.cz +420 774 442 435
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Moravia, O Fair Land III. Morava, krásná zem III. 2nd FILM
EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic | 70 min | Czech director Petr Šprincl PRODUCER Marek
Novák Xova Film CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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 GreatMoravian 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.
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966
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My Father, the Spy Můj otec, špión
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Latvia, Germany, Czech Republic, Estonia | 85 min | English, Latvian, Russian directorS Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grūbe Julietta Sichel Mistrus Media CO-PRODUCTION Kick Film, 8Heads Productions, PIMIK SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
SCRIPT Gints
Grūbe, Jaak Kilmi DOP Aigars Sērmukšs Armands Začs SOUND Lukáš Ujčík MUSIC Janek Murd, Jan Trojan EDITOR
contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel julietta@8heads.com +420 602 292 971
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Never Happened SkutEk se nestal 1st FILM
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 80 min | Slovak, Czech director Barbora Berezňáková PRODUCER Dávid
Čorba
PRODUCTION COMPANY Leon
Productions Frame Films COMPLETION DATE March 2019 CO-PRODUCTION
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...
contact Frame Films – Hana Šilarová hana@framefilms.cz +420 602 792 856
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Nomad in the City Nomád ve městě 1st FILM
Czech Republic, United States, Mongolia | 90 min | Czech director Anji Sauvé Clubb PRODUCER
Alice Tabery
PRODUCTION COMPANY Cinepoint CO-PRODUCTION Anji
Sauvé Clubb, i/o post, Suzanna
Sumkhuu COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Anji
March 2019
Sauvé Clubb DOP Dulguun Bayasgalan Šimon Špidla SOUND Vladimír Chrastil MUSIC Dulguun Bayasgalan EDITOR
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.
contact Cinepoint – Alice Tabery tabery.alice@gmail.com +420 732 883 260
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Off Sides LETNÍ HOKEJ
Czech Republic | 76 min | Czech, Arabic, English directorS Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar PRODUCER Tomáš
Bojar Cinema Arsenal CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cinema Arsenal – Tomáš Bojar tomas@cinemaarsenal.cz +420 604 472 934
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Pepik the Czech Goes to Poland In a Quest for Love of God Český 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 Holý
PRODUCTION COMPANY Vernes CO-PRODUCTION Hypermarket
Film, Czech Television, Plesnar & Krauss Films, Peter Kerekes Film SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION 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”.
contact Vernes – Jana Brožková jana@vernes.cz +420 776 650 778
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Solo Sólo
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Austria, France, Argentina | 90 min | Spanish director Artemio Benki PRODUCERS Artemio
Benki, Petra Oplatková Films CO-PRODUCTION Golden Girls Filmproduktion, Petit à Petit Productions, Buen Destino, Lomo Cine SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY Artcam
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.
contact Artcam Films – Petra Oplatková petra.oplatkova@artcam.cz +420 221 411 619
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The Heaven Nebe
2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 75 min | Mandarin Chinese director Tomáš Etzler PRODUCER
Jan Macola
PRODUCTION COMPANY Mimesis COMPLETION DATE March SCRIPT Tomáš
Film
2019
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.
contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola jan@mimesis.cz +420 724 938 883
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The Sound is Innocent 1st FILM
Czech Republic, France, Slovakia | 65 min | English, French, Czech director Johana Ožvold PRODUCER Kristýna
Michálek Květová Cinémotif Films CO-PRODUCTION Films de Force Majeure, Punkchart Films, Czech Television, UPP, SoundSquare, Radio and Television Slovakia COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cinémotif Films – Kristýna Michálek Květová kristyna@cinemotiffilms.cz +420 731 203 715
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The Vasulka Effect Efekt Vašulka
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Iceland, Czech Republic | 90 min | English director Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir Margrét Jónasdóttir Sagafilm CO-PRODUCTION Produkce Radim Procházka, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161
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University and Freedom University a Svoboda
Czech Republic | 77 min | Czech, English directorS Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi PRODUCER Vít
Janeček
D1film Television COMPLETION DATE November 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY
CO-PRODUCTION Czech
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.
contact D1film – Vít Janeček vit@d1film.com +420 603 164 232
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Will You Dare?
Chci tě, jestli to dokážeš
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Dagmar Smržová Miloš Lochman moloko film CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE November 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact moloko film – Miloš Lochman milos@molokofilm.com +420 603 477 707
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All Men Become Brothers Všichni lidé budou bratři MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 80 min | Slovak, Czech director Robert Kirchhoff PRODUCERS Robert
Kirchhoff, Jiří Konečný atelier.doc CO-PRODUCTION endorfilm, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE November 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
SCRIPT Robert
Kirchhoff DOP Juraj Chlpík EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Václav Flegl
contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný jiri@endorfilm.cz +420 602 358 373
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Beginnings Počátky 2
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Linda Kallistová Jablonská Jana Brožková Vernes CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE September 2021 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Linda SOUND
Kallistová Jablonská DOP David Cysař 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.
contact Vernes – Jana Brožková jana@vernes.cz +420 776 650 778
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Blood, Sweat and Tears Na krev 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech, English director Erik Knopp PRODUCER Dagmar
Sedláčková MasterFilm CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact MasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková dagmar@masterfilm.cz +420 733 579 107
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Brotherhood Ve jménu Alláha 2nd FILM
Czech Republic, Italy | 70 min | Bosnian director Francesco Montagner Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce CO-PRODUCTION Nefertiti Film, FAMU COMPLETION DATE September 2020 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Francesco SOUND
Montagner DOP Prokop Souček 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.
contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková pavla@nutprodukce.cz +420 605 256 190
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Caught in the Net V síti
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech directorS Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová PRODUCERS Vít
Klusák, Filip Remunda Hypermarket Film CO-PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes Film, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
SCRIPT Vít
Klusák, Barbora Chalupová DOP Adam Kruliš EDITOR Zuzana Walter SOUND Adam Bláha MUSIC Vladimír Godár SET DESIGNER Jan Vlček
contact Hypermarket Film – Vít Klusák vit@hypermarketfilm.cz +420 608 889 484
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Comfortable century Pohodlné století
Czech Republic | 70 min | Czech, English, German director Jaroslav Kratochvíl PRODUCER
Petr Polák
PRODUCTION COMPANY Studio COMPLETION DATE December SCRIPT Vít
Petrohrad 2019
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.
contact Studio Petrohrad – Petr Polák polak@studiopetrohrad.cz +420 605 156 051
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Communism Komunismus
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 300 min | Czech director Karel Vachek PRODUCERS Mikuláš
Novotný, Radim Procházka Background Films CO-PRODUCTION atelier.doc, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný novotny@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290
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Diamond Czech Style Sluníčko jako čtvereček 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Rudolf Šmíd Jarmila Poláková & Sociologie COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY Film
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.
contact Film & Sociologie – Jarmila Poláková fas@seznam.cz +420 774 442 435
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Dog‘s Love Psí láska
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Linda Kallistová Jablonská PRODUCER Pavel
Berčík Evolution Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE September 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Linda SOUND
Kallistová Jablonská DOP David Cysař 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.
contact Evolution Films – Pavel Berčík pbercik@evolutionfilms.cz +420 777 932 957
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Dreams About the Stray Cats Sny o toulavých kočkách
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech, English director David Sís PRODUCER
Vít Bělohradský
PRODUCTION COMPANY Frmol
Production Czech Television COMPLETION DATE 2019 CO-PRODUCTION
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 highquality 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.
contact Frmol Production – Vít Bělohradský vitek@frmol.com +420 739 086 548
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Jan Jedlička: Colourful Traces of a Landscape Jan Jedlička: barevné stopy krajiny 1st FILM
Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy | 75 min | Czech director Petr Záruba PRODUCER Alice
Tabery Cinepoint CO-PRODUCTION Box Productions, Mammut Film, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cinepoint – Alice Tabery tabery.alice@gmail.com +420 732 883 260
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Jan Kapr‘s Codes Šifry Jana Kapra
Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia | 70 min | Czech director Lucie Králová PRODUCERS
Martin Řezníček, Andrea Shaffer DOCUfilm Praha, Mindset
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Pictures CO-PRODUCTION Cisar
Film, atelier.doc, Czech
Television COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Lucie
2020
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. contact DOCUfilm Praha – Martin Řezníček reznam@seznam.cz +420 608 874 722
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Jiří Suchý
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Olga Sommerová PRODUCER Viktor
Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364
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Love Under the Hood Láska pod kapotou MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Miro Remo PRODUCER
Miro Remo
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Arsy Versy
CO-PRODUCTION D1film COMPLETION DATE October SCRIPT Juraj
Šlauka
2019
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.
contact D1film – Vít Janeček vit@d1film.com +420 603 164 232
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Lust for Life
The Tap Tap – Postiženi muzikou
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Radovan Síbrt PRODUCERS Karel
Poupě, Alžběta Karásková PINK CO-PRODUCTION HBO Europe COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact PINK – Karel Poupě karel@pinkproductions.cz +420 734 762 886
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Mucha
Czech Republic, Germany, France | 90 min | Czech, English director Roman Vávra Ondřej Beránek, Dušan Mulíček Film CO-PRODUCTION Maxim Films, ARTE, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COMPANY Punk
SCRIPT Markéta
Sára Valnohová DOP Martin Štěpánek Katerina Geyer Buchanan SET DESIGNER Milan Popelka EDITOR
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.
contact Punk Film – Ondřej Beránek ondrejberanek@punkfilm.cz +420 777 952 066
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Multiple Hope Roztroušená naděje
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech, English director Petr Jančárek PRODUCER Petra
Klausová Nadace Jakuba Voráčka COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Nadace Jakuba Voráčka – Lenka Dominiková lenka.dominikova@nadacejakubavoracka.cz +420 608 304 126
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My father Antonín Kratochvíl Můj otec Antonín Kratochvíl
Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech director Andrea Sedláčková Martin Hůlovec, Věra Krincvajová Punk Film CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE March 2020 PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Punk Film – Martin Hůlovec martinhulovec@punkfilm.cz +420 608 977 930
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One More for the Road Do druhý nohy 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech directorS Bohdan Bláhovec, Jan Foukal PRODUCER Jakub
Drocár Punk Film CO-PRODUCTION HBO Europe COMPLETION DATE October 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Punk Film – Jakub Drocár jakubdrocar@punkfilm.cz +420 605 533 335
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Provincial Town of E Provinční městečko E MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Russia, Germany, Czech Republic | 90 min | Russian director Dmitry Bogolubov Vlad Ketkovich Ethnofund CO-PRODUCTION Saxonia Entertainment, Hypermarket Film, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Anna
Shishova-Bogolubova DOP Dmitry
Bogolubov
International Sales & Festivals First Hand Films – Gitte Hansen gitte.hansen@firsthandfilms.com +41 44 312 2060
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.
contact Hypermarket Film – Filip Remunda filip@hypermarketfilm.cz +420 603 180 312
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Satanic Girls 2nd FILM
Czech Republic, Sweden | 78 min | 52 min | Czech, Swedish director Bohdan Bláhovec PRODUCER Anna
Herza Tydlitátová Telekinetic CO-PRODUCTION Dixit International COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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...
contact Telekinetic – Anna Herza Tydlitátová annatydlitatova@gmail.com +420 734 386 367
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Soviet Man Sovětský muž
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Latvia, Czech Republic | 80 min | Lithuanian, Russian, Latvian, Estonian, English director Ivo Briedis Elīna Gediņa – Ducena Mistrus Media CO-PRODUCTION Frame Films SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE October 2019 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Frame Films – Hana Šilarová hana@framefilms.cz +420 602 792 856
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The Hijacking Únos
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 75 min | Czech, Slovak, German, English, Hebrew, Russian director Ivan Ostrochovský PRODUCER Albert
Malinovský školfilm CO-PRODUCTION partizanfilm COMPLETION DATE March 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Martin
Šmok DOP Pavol Pekarčík
festivals Kaleidoscope – Katarina Tomková katarina@kaleidoscope.sk +421 908 281 407
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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.
contact školfilm – Albert Malinovský albert.malinovsky@gmail.com +420 775 966 653
Those Who Dance in the Dark Ti, kteří tancují ve tmě
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Jana Ševčíková PRODUCER Jana
Ševčíková Jana Ševčíková CO-PRODUCTION i/o post, Studio Virtual COMPLETION DATE 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Jana Ševčíková filmsevcikova@seznam.cz +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 | Czech director Václav Kučera PRODUCER Romek
Hanzlík AMP CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE April 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact AMP – Romek Hanzlík romek.hanzlik@gmail.com +420 602 319 505
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VIVA VIDEO, VIDEO VIVA 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Adéla Komrzý PRODUCER
Vít Komrzý
UPP Television COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
CO-PRODUCTION Czech
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 prerevolution 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.
contact UPP – Vít Komrzý vit.komrzy@upp.cz +420 602 231 942
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Wolves on the Borders! Vlci na hranicích! 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Martin Páv PRODUCER Zuzana
Kučerová Frame Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Martin EDITOR
Páv, Adéla Kabelková DOP Petr Racek 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.
contact Frame Films – Zuzana Kučerová zuzana@framefilms.cz +420 776 600 278
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A Marriage Manželství
Czech Republic, Pakistan | 70 min | Czech, Urdu, English directorS KATEŘINA Hager, Asad Faruqi PRODUCER Kateřina
Hager Bohemian Productions CO-PRODUCTION Revolutionary Films COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Kateřina EDITOR
Hager DOP Aleš Hart, Asad Faruqi 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?
contact Bohemian Productions – Kateřina Hager katerina@bohemian-productions.cz +420 604 216 830
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Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits Adam Ondra: posunout hranice 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech directorS Jan Šimánek, Petr Záruba PRODUCER
Alice Tabery
PRODUCTION COMPANY Cinepoint COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Jan
October 2020
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.
contact Cinepoint – Alice Tabery tabery.alice@gmail.com +420 732 883 260
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Amoosed! 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 70 min | Czech, Norwegian, English, Swedish, Russian, Polish director Hana Nováková PRODUCER Kateřina
Traburová GURU FILM CO-PRODUCTION FAMU COMPLETION DATE 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Hana
Nováková DOP Františka Chlumská Soňa Jelínková, Mariana Kozáková SOUND Sandra Klouzová
EDITORS
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.
contact GURU FILM – Kateřina Traburová ktraburova@gmail.com +420 731 712 686
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Buddhist Assasin
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Myanmar | 90 min | English, Burmese director Vít Janeček PRODUCER
Vít Janeček
D1film Ultrafilm, Third Floor Film Productions COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION
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.
contact D1film – Vít Janeček vit@d1film.com +420 603 164 232
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Dream-Heeders Naslouchači snů
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech, English, Russian, German director Lucie Králová PRODUCERS Martin
Řezníček, Andrea Shaffer DOCUfilm Praha, Mindset
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Pictures CO-PRODUCTION
Ultrafilm 2022
COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Lucie EDITOR
Králová DOP Tomáš Stanek, Adam Ol‘ha 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.
contact Mindset Pictures – Andrea Shaffer andrea@mindsetpictures.com +420 602 343 717
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Forgotten War Zapomenutá válka 1ST FILM
Czech Republic | 70 min | Russian, Ukrainian director Zdeněk Chaloupka Zuzana Tichá, Radovan Síbrt PINK COMPLETION DATE October 2019 PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact PINK – Radovan Síbrt radovan@bypink.cz +420 777 161 552
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Happily for Ever Šťastně až na věky
Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech director Jana Počtová PRODUCER Martin
Hůlovec
PRODUCTION COMPANY Punk COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Jana
Film March 2022
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 timelapse method documents the relationships of the protagonists, their development, the difficulties, the compromises and the challenges.
contact Punk Film – Martin Hůlovec martinhulovec@punkfilm.cz +420 608 977 930
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Human Beeing 2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 78 min | Czech director Kristýna Bartošová Hana Šilarová Frame Films COMPLETION DATE February 2021 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Frame Films – Hana Šilarová hana@framefilms.cz +420 602 792 856
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Identity Es Identita Es
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech, English director Alena Činčerová PRODUCER Viktor
Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague CO-PRODUCTION ARINA COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364
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Jednotka intenzivního života
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Adéla Komrzý Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce COMPLETION DATE October 2022 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Adéla
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.
Komrzý DOP Prokop Souček
contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková pavla@nutprodukce.cz +420 605 256 190
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Life in The Hell Život v pekle
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 80 min | Slovak, Czech directorS Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi PRODUCER Vít
Janeček
PRODUCTION COMPANY D1film CO-PRODUCTION
Ultrafilm April 2020
COMPLETION DATE 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.
contact D1film – Vít Janeček vit@d1film.com +420 603 164 232
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My Private Mongolia Moje vlastní Mongolsko 2ND FILM
Czech Republic, Latvia, Russia | 90 min | Russian director Artemio Benki Petra Oplatková, Artemio Benki Artcam Films CO-PRODUCTION Mistrus Media, Metra Films SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE August 2020 PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Artemio
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.
Benki
contact Artcam Films – Petra Oplatková petra.oplatkova@artcam.cz +420 775 619 541
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Pongo story
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech, English director Tomáš Kratochvíl PRODUCER Radim
Procházka
PRODUCTION COMPANY Produkce
Radim Procházka Television COMPLETION DATE November 2021 CO-PRODUCTION Czech
SCRIPT Tomáš
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.
Kratochvíl
contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161
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Storyteller of the Jungle: Otto Placht Mluvčí džungle: Otto Placht
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech, Spanish director Alice Růžičková Barbora Kinkalová Happy Film CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE September 2020 PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
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.
contact Happy Film – Barbora Kinkalová b.kinkalova@seznam.cz +420 776 123 969
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tatabojs.doc
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Václav Kučera PRODUCER Petr
Koza Bio Art Production March 2020
PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE 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.
contact Bio Art Production – Petr Koza petr.koza@bioartproduction.cz +420 737 520 099
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The Boxer Boxer 1st FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Karolína Peroutková PRODUCER
Martin Jůza Krutart September 2021
PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Karolína
Matěj Chrudina
Peroutková DOP Ludvík Otevřel SOUND
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?
contact Krutart – Martin Jůza martin.juza@krutart.cz +420 732 341 149
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The Sperminators Sperminátoři
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech, English director Eva Tomanová PRODUCERS Petra
Oplatková, Artemio Benki Artcam Films SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE November 2020
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?
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SCRIPT Eva
Tomanová
contact Artcam Films – Petra Oplatková petra.oplatkova@artcam.cz +420 775 619 541
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The Wild of the Nineties Divoký devadesátky
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Radim Špaček PRODUCER
Petr Koza Bio Art Production October 2019
PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE
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.
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
contact Bio Art Production – Petr Koza petr.koza@bioartproduction.cz +420 737 520 099
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contacts INSTITUTIONS
organizations
Creative Europe – MEDIA Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 210 e-mail: media@kreativnievropa.cz www.mediadeskcz.eu
Actors‘ Association Senovážné náměstí 23 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 142 672 e-mail: herecka.asociace@cmkos.cz www.hereckaasociace.cz
Czech Film Fund Dukelských hrdinů 47 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 301 278 e-mail: sekretariat@ fondkinematografie.cz www.fondkinematografie.cz Czech Film Fund – Czech Film Center Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 398 e-mail: info@filmcenter.cz www.filmcenter.cz Czech Film Fund – Czech Film Commission Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 254 e-mail: info@filmcommission.cz www.filmcommission.cz Ministry of Culture Czech Republic – Media and Audiovision Department Milady Horákové 139 160 41 Praha 6 Director: Artuš Rejent – artus.rejent@mkcr.cz www.mkcr.cz
APA – Czech Producers‘ Association Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 310 e-mail: apa@asociaceproducentu.cz www.asociaceproducentu.cz ASAF – Association of Czech Animation Film Heřmanova 3 170 00 Praha 7 e-mail: info@asaf.cz www.asaf.cz Association of Czech Cinematographers Senovážné náměstí 23 112 82 Praha 1 www.ceskam.cz Association of Directors and Screenwriters Karlovo náměstí 19 120 00 Praha 2 e-mail: info@aras.cz www.aras.cz
Ministry of Culture Czech Republic – Eurimages Maltézské náměstí 1 118 00 Praha 1 National Coordinator: Elena Kotová – elpeka@seznam.cz National Film Archive Malešická 12 130 00 Praha 3 www.nfa.cz
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Cinema Exhibitors Association Politických vězňů 445 266 01 Beroun tel.: +420 311 625 307 e-mail: tajemnice@kinari.cz www.prokina.cz Czech Film and Television Academy Karlovo náměstí 19 120 00 Praha 2 e-mail: info@cfta.cz www.filmovaakademie.cz FITES – Czech Film and Television Union Korunovační 8 170 00 Praha 7 e-mail: produkce@fites.cz www.fites.cz Institute of Documentary Film Štěpánská 14 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 214 858 e-mail: idf@dokweb.net www.dokweb.net Union of Film Distributors náměstí Winstona Churchilla 2 130 00 Praha 3 tel.: +420 222 713 001 e-mail: ufd@ufd.cz 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: famu@famu.cz www.famu.cz FAMO – Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek Lipová alej 2068 397 01 Písek tel.: +420 382 264 212 e-mail: famo@filmovka.cz www.filmovka.cz
UMPRUM – Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague – Studio of Film & TV Graphics nám. Jana Palacha 80 116 93 Praha 1 tel.: +420 251 098 270 e-mail: film@vsup.cz www.umprum.cz
training programmes
Charles University / Faculty of Arts – Film Studies Department nám. Jana Palacha 2 116 38 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 619 227 e-mail: film@ff.cuni.cz film.ff.cuni.cz
dok.incubator Bolzanova 1615/1 110 06 Prague 1 tel.: +420 224 241 046 e-mail: info@dokincubator.net www.dokincubator.net
Prague Film School Pštrossova 19 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 534 013 e-mail: info@filmstudies.cz www.filmstudies.cz
Masaryk University / Faculty of Arts – Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture Arna Nováka 1 602 00 Brno tel.: +420 549 491 583 e-mail: fav@phil.muni.cz www.fav.phil.muni.cz
Tomas Bata University in Zlín – Faculty of Multimedia Communications Univerzitní 2431 760 01 Zlín tel.: +420 576 034 205 e-mail: dekanat@fmk.utb.cz www.fmk.utb.cz
Palacký University / Faculty of Arts – Department of Theatre and Film Studies Univerzitní 3 771 47 Olomouc tel.: +420 585 633 423 e-mail: kdfs@upol.cz www.filmadivadlo.cz
ANOMALIA Budějovická 73 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 731 612 803 e-mail: team@anomalia.eu www.anomalia.eu
MIDPOINT Ostrovní 126/30 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 773 187 441 e-mail: midpointcenter@amu.cz www.midpoint-center.eu
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contacts distributors A-Company Štefánikova 18/25 150 00 Praha 5 tel.: +420 257 315 540 e-mail: info@a-company.cz www.a-company.cz Aerofilms Milady Horákové 383/79 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 947 566 e-mail: info@aerofilms.cz www.aerofilms.cz APK Cinema Service Politických vězňů 445/13 266 01 Beroun e-mail: distribuce@apkcs.cz www.apkcs.cz Artcam Films Rašínovo nábřeží 6 128 00 Praha 2 tel.: +420 221 411 619 www.artcam.cz Asociation of Czech Film Clubs Stonky 860 686 01 Uherské Hradiště tel.: +420 572 501 989 e-mail: info@acfk.cz www.acfk.cz Balkanfilm Na Hrázi 1245 755 01 Vsetín +420 776 840 386 e-mail: distribuce@balkanfilm.cz www.balkanfilm.cz Bioscop / AQS Na Klikovce 7 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 221 436 100 www.bioscop.cz
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Blu Sky Distribution Sněmovní 9 118 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 222 398 e-mail: info@bluesky.pro www.blueskyfilm.cz
Mirius Film Distribution V Jámě 1 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 602 648 882 e-mail: info@miriusfd.cz www.miriusfd.cz
Bohemia Motion Pictures Všehrdova 560/2 118 00 Praha 1 www.bohemiamp.cz
Pilot Film Donská 19 101 00 Praha 10 e-mail: info@mimesis.cz www.pilot-film.cz
Bontonfilm Na Poříčí 1047/26 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 415 111 e-mail: info@bontonfilm.cz 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: info@filmeurope.cz www.filmeurope.cz Forum Film Czech Arkalycká 951/3 149 00 Praha 4 tel.: +421 249 113 119 e-mail: office@forumfilm.sk www.forumfilm.cz
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Vertical Entertainment Soukenická 13 110 00 Praha 1 www.freeman-ent.cz
VOD PLATFORMS Aerovod Milady Horákové 383/79 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 947 566 e-mail: vratnice@aerovod.cz www.aerovod.cz Doc Alliance Films Vodičkova 36 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 602 212 545 e-mail: info@dafilms.com www.dafilms.com
SALES AQS Na Klikovce 7 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 221 436 100 e-mail: sales@aqs.cz www.aqs.cz Filmotor Kaprova 14 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 721 006 421 e-mail: michaela@filmotor.com www.filmotor.com
film festivals Prague Short Film Festival 23 – 27 January 2019, Prague Submission deadline: 30 September 2018/31 October 2018 e-mail: info@pragueshorts.com www.pragueshorts.com One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 6 – 17 March 2019, Prague Submission deadline: 15 September 2018/1 November 2018 www.oneworld.cz Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival 21 – 29 March 2019, Prague e-mail: info@febiofest.cz www.febiofest.cz Finále Plzeň Film Festival 11 – 16 April 2019, Plzeň Submission deadline: 30 November 2018 www.festivalfinale.cz Academia Film Olomouc 23 – 28 April 2019, Olomouc Submission deadline: 31 January 2019 e-mail: afo@afo.cz www.afo.cz
Anifilm 7 – 12 May 2019, Třeboň Submission deadline: 10 January 2019 e-mail: info@anifilm.cz www.anifilm.cz Zlín Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth 24 May – 1 June 2019, Zlín Submission deadline: 1 March 2019 e-mail: festival@zlinfest.cz www.zlinfest.cz Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 28 June – 6 July 2019, Karlovy Vary Submission deadline: 28 February 2019 (31 March 2019 for late submissions) e-mail: festival@kviff.com www.kviff.com Summer Film School 26 July – 4 August 2019, Uherské Hradiště www.lfs.cz
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 24 – 29 October 2019, Jihlava Submission deadline: 31 May 2019 e-mail: info@ji-hlava.cz www.ji-hlava.cz Mezipatra Queer Film Festival 7 – 14 November 2019, Prague Submission deadline: 15 June 2019 e-mail: info@mezipatra.cz www.mezipatra.cz Juniorfest – International Film Festival for Children and Youth 8 – 14 November 2019, Plzeň, Domažlice, Dobřany, Horšovský Týn, Přeštice e-mail: info@juniorfest.cz www.juniorfest.cz PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art 5 – 8 December 2019, Olomouc e-mail: info@pifpaf.cz www.pifpaf.cz
Brno 16 – International Short Film Festival 9 – 12 October 2019, Brno Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 e-mail: festival@brno16.cz www.brno16.cz
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FACTS & figures CZECH FIGURES 2018 Population
CINEMA RELEASES
10.6 mil 26 CZK 285 532 31
Czech Fiction Films
39
29
Exchange Rate 1 EUR =
Czech Documentary Films
Number of Theaters
Czech Animation Films
Number of Screens
Total Cinema Admissions*
Number of Multiplex Cinemas
Admissions to Czech Films* National Market Share*
2
14,4 mil 3,4 mil 23.5
FILM RELEASES IN CZECH CINEMAS 2013–2018 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018*
Admissions 11 057 559 11 558 586 12 958 099 15 621 923 15 233 432 14 446 804
Box Office / EUR 54 778 679 56 256 547 64 199 099 77 347 854 77 086 351 77 639 491
Share %* 24,1* 23,6* 18,1* 29,5* 22,2* 23,5*
Box Office / EUR* 12 195 214* 12 248 811* 10 834 347* 21 114 951* 14 785 982* 15 774 963*
AVG. Ticket Price / EUR 4,95 4,87 4,95 4,95 5,06 5,37
CZECH FILMS IN CINEMAS 2013–2018 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Czech Premieres 47 52 51 64 58 70
Admissions* 2 661 424* 2 725 985* 2 349 263* 4 606 865* 3 385 269* 3 392 814*
Share %* 22,3* 21,8* 16,9* 27,3* 19,2* 20,3*
market share (admissions)* Others 2.3% EU 17%
US 57.3% CZ 23.5%
* Data available by 30 November 2018
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top 20 in 2018* Rank
Original Title
English Title
Country
Distributor
1 2 3 4
Avengers: Infinity War Bohemian Rhapsody Po čem muži touží Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Venom Fifty Shades Freed Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Tátova volha The Incredibles 2 Deadpool 2 Čertoviny Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Coco Black Panther Peter Rabbit The Nun
Avengers: Infinity War Bohemian Rhapsody What Men Long For Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Venom Fifty Shades Freed Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Patrimony The Incredibles 2 Deadpool 2 Devilry Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Coco Black Panther Peter Rabbit The Nun
US GB, US CZ US
Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci The Grinch
Desperate Ladies Act Desperately The Grinch
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Admissions
Falcon CinemArt CinemArt Falcon
Date of Release 26/4/18 1/11/18 20/9/18 12/7/18
630 551 621 654 535 811 483 855
Box Office / EUR 3 817 933 3 846 844 3 078 251 2 624 365
US, ES
CinemArt
21/6/18
405 852
2 502 231
US US GB, US
4/10/18 8/2/18 15/11/18
386 957 360 442 352 401
2 418 335 2 115 857 2 243 454
CZ US US CZ US
Falcon CinemArt Vertical Entertainment CinemArt Falcon CinemArt CinemArt Falcon
8/3/18 2/8/18 17/5/18 4/1/18 21/12/17
347 825 346 520 341 381 317 079 296 969
1 667 570 1 913 248 2 053 047 1 370 684 1 661 804
US
CinemArt
19/7/18
294 170
1 668 692
US US US US
18/1/18 15/2/18 22/3/18 6/9/18
292 575 278 057 222 966 197 870
1 448 975 1 700 896 1 059 877 1 186 037
CZ
Falcon Falcon Falcon Vertical Entertainment Bioscop/AQS
18/1/18
189 855
993 740
US
CinemArt
8/11/18
189 164
1 042 024
Admissions 535 811 347 825 317 079 189 855
Box Office / EUR 3 078 251 1 667 570 1 370 684 993 740
czech films top 20 in 2018* Rank
Original Title
English Title
Country
Distributor
1 2 3 4
CinemArt CinemArt CinemArt Bioscop/AQS
CZ CZ CZ CZ
Falcon Bontonfilm Bontonfilm Bioscop/AQS
1/2/18 12/7/18 21/12/17 26/4/18
174 333 164 766 162 105 115 599
914 410 850 134 844 777 474 232
9 10 11
Věčně tvá nevěrná Chata na prodej Když draka bolí hlava
CZ CZ CZ, SK
112 802 99 022 92 050
569 532 464 457 436 970
Planeta Česko Toman Jan Palach Hastrman Ten, kdo tě miloval Pat a Mat znovu v akci Pat a Mat – Zimní radovánky Po strništi bos Backstage
Bioscop/AQS CinemArt Bohemia Motion Pictures Aerofilms Falcon CinemArt CinemArt Falcon Bioscop/AQS Bioscop/AQS Bioscop/AQS Bontonfilm
22/2/18 26/7/18 25/10/18
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
What Men Long For Patrimony Devilry Desperate Ladies Act Desperately President Blaník Smiles of Sad Men Špindl Two Brides and One Wedding Unfaithfully Yours Bear With Us The Secret Of The Two-headed Dragon Wilder Than Wilderness Toman Jan Palach The Hastrman The One Who Loved You Pat & Mat in Action Again Pat & Mat – Winter Fun Barefoot Backstage
CZ CZ CZ CZ
5 6 7 8
Po čem muži touží Tátova volha Čertoviny Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci Prezident Blaník Úsměvy smutných mužů Špindl Dvě nevěsty a jedna svatba
Date of Release 20/9/18 8/3/18 4/1/18 18/1/18
22/3/18 4/10/18 21/8/18 19/4/18 8/11/18 7/6/18 22/11/18 17/8/17 7/6/18
92 024 87 342 85 744 74 938 69 251 65 629 53 919 40 380 39 384
302 694 479 530 350 628 302 228 373 779 297 666 272 228 62 444 204 742
CZ CZ, SK CZ, SK CZ CZ CZ CZ CZ, DK, SK SK, CZ
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index of english titles A Five Hundred Plateaus A Marriage Adam Ondra: pushing the limits All Men Become Brothers Amoosed! Another Chance Ark of Lights and Shadows Batastories Beginnings Blackandwhite Blood, Sweat and Tears Breaking News Brotherhood Bruce Lee and the Outlaw Buddhist Assasin Caught in the Net Central Bus Station Circus Rwanda Comfortable century Communism D is for Division Diamond Czech Style Dog‘s Love Dream-Heeders Dreams About Stray Cats Empire Builders Enclosed World Fathers of Ours Feral Forgotten War Forman versus Forman FREM God Forsaken Good Death Good Mr. Benda Grygar Happily for ever Human Beeing Identity Es Illusion Inside the War on ISIS Jan Jedlička: Colourful Traces of a Landscape Jan Kapr‘s Codes Jaroslav Kučera: A Portrait Jednotka intenzivního života Jindrich Streit – Sudetenland my love Jiří Suchý Jiří Trnka – A missing friend King Skate Kiruna 2.0
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40 94 95 66 96 41 10 42 67 43 68 11 69 12 97 70 13 14 71 72 15 73 74 98 75 16 17 44 18 99 45 46 19 20 21 22 100 101 102 23 24 76 77 47 103 25 78 48 26 49
Last days of Europe Libussa Unbound Life in The Hell Little Moscow Love Under The Hood Lust for Life March or Die Moravia, O Fair Land III. Mucha Multiple Hope My father Antonín Kratochvíl My Father, the Spy My Private Mongolia My Unknown Soldier Never Happened Nomad in the City Occupation 1968 Off Sides One More for the Road Passengers Pepik the Czech goes to Poland in a quest f or love of God Pongo story Provincial Town of E Putin‘s Witnesses Satanic Girls Solo Soviet Man Storyteller of the Jungle: Otto Placht tatabojs.doc The Band The Boxer The Heaven The Hijacking The Sound is Innocent The Sperminators The Vasulka Effect The Wild of the Nineties Those Who Dance in the Dark Turn on the Light So We Can See University and Freedom Vienna Calling VIVA VIDEO, VIDEO VIVA Vote For Kibera Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting We Can Do Better When the War Comes Will You Dare? Wolves on the Borders!
CZECH documentaries 2018–2019
50 51 104 27 79 80 28 52 81 82 83 53 105 29 54 55 30 56 84 31 57 106 85 32 86 58 87 107 108 33 109 59 88 60 110 61 111 89 90 62 34 91 35 36 37 38 63 92
index of directors Abramjan, Andran Aiano, Zoe Andert, Jana Bartošová, Kristýna Benki, Artemio Benner, Anna Berezňáková, Barbora Bláhovec, Bohdan Bogolubov , Dmitry Bojar, Tomáš Boršková, Jana Briedis, Ivo Čákanyová, Viera Chaloupka, Zdeněk Chalupová, Barbora Činčerová, Alena Dlouhý, Saša Dombrovszky, Linda Elšík, Tomáš Etzler, Tomáš Farges, Joël Faruqi, Asad Felcman, Jakub Foukal, Jan Gebert, Jan Grube, Gints Gunnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur Hager, Kateřina Hákonarson, Grímur Holba, Jiří Jančárek, Petr Janeček, Vít Jařab, David Jurda, Pavel Kaboš, Michael Kaboš, Ladislav Kallistová Jablonská , Linda Kerekes, Peter Kilmi, Jaak Kirchhoff, Robert Klusák, Vít Knopp, Erik Kohout, Martin Kohoutová, Rozálie Komandarev, Stefan Komrzý, Adéla Králová, Lucie Kratochvíl, Jaroslav Kratochvíl, Tomáš Krupa, Tomáš
16 43 24 101 58, 105 43 54 84, 86 85 11, 56 31 87 46 99 70 102 19 30 13 59 48 94 47 84 38 53 61 94 27 18 82 62, 97, 104 36 21 28 33 67, 74 42 53 66 57, 70 68 50 56 30 91, 103 77, 98 71 106 20
Kryvenko, Anna Kučera, Václav Kvapil, Robin Mansky, Vitaly Mareček, Martin Marková, Taťána Michálek, Tomáš Montagner, Francesco Moskvina, Evdokia Nováková, Hana Ostrochovský, Ivan Ožvold, Johana Páv, Martin Peroutková, Karolína Petrásek, Martin Piussi, Zuzana Počtová, Jana Procházka, Radim Remo, Miro Remunda, Filip Rudinská, Libuše Růžičková, Alice Šafránek, Šimon Sauvé Clubb, Anji Scheidt, Marie Elisa Sedláčková, Andrea Ševčíková, Jana Síbrt, Radovan Šimánek, Jan Sīmanis, Dāvis Sís, David Slováková, Andrea Šmíd, Rudolf Smržová, Dagmar Sommerová, Olga Špaček, Radim Šprincl, Petr Stocklassa, Greta Svatoš, Jan Szymkow, Magdalena Tomanová, Eva Třeštíková, Helena Turečková, Kateřina Vachek, Karel Vandebrug, Joost Varga, Michal Vávra, Roman Žalud, Karel Záruba, Petr
CZECH documentaries 2018–2019
29 90, 108 37 32 44 51 47 69 30 96 88 60 35, 92 109 22 62, 104 100 37 79 57 25 107 26 55 30 83 89 80 95 15 75 40 73 63 78 111 34, 52 49 10 30 41, 110 45 23 72 12 14 81 17 76, 95
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