Complementing our 1918 – 1968 digital exhibition and inspired by this year’s theme of “Spring”, this package of three brilliant documentaries pays tribute to the […]

Dušan Hanák was already a highly regarded maker of experimental and documentary short films before making his feature debut with 322. One of the key […]

Director Vojtěch Jasný and cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera had already teamed up to brilliant effect with 1963’s sublime When the Cat Comes (CaSFFA 2015). In 1968, […]

Celebrated for her Diary tetralogy, the great Hungarian director Márta Mészáros’ latest film concerns the elderly Mária, played by the legendary Mari Törőcsik, and her […]

When the West Coast Crew dance troupe, led by the talented and ambitious Buddy (Tony Porucha), is selected to enter the widely broadcast “Superdance” reality […]

The final film of Jan Svěrák’s “Czech Quartet”, which chronicles the life of his widely beloved father Zdeněk, is a charming comedic drama set during […]

A hit with critics and the public alike at the 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it competed in “East of the West”, this […]

A stunningly shot adaptation of a 2008 novel by Vilmos Kondor widely hailed as the first work of hardboiled detective fiction written in Hungarian, Budapest […]

Characterised by film historian Václav Macek as the “Brueghel of Slovak film”, the brilliant New Wave director Elo Havetta – his FAMU professor Karel Kachyňa […]

The film most emblematic of the freedoms afforded artists by the then imminent Prague Spring, Chytilová’s best-known film is a glorious Dadaist revolt against dominant […]

Any film which opens with words of wisdom from disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong can probably be presumed a cautionary tale; this extraordinary Main Competition title […]

A sensation at the 2nd Venice Film Festival in 1934, where it won Gustav Machatý the Silver Lion for Best Director, Ecstasy made a star […]

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is one of the world’s oldest and most respected. Film Spa was made to celebrate its belated 50th […]

The most experimental film of the Czechoslovak New Wave had Chytilová again collaborating with her Daisies cohort of cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, screenwriter and costume designer […]

This delightful, family-friendly film provides a pocket guide not only to the many turbulent changes in Hungarian life across the 20th century, but also to […]

An official selection for Un Certain Regard at the 70th Cannes Film Festival – the first Slovak film in the country’s modern history to be […]

This scathing and often very funny rubbishing of life under Normalisation (1969–1987) has had scant exposure abroad; the local authorities did their utmost to suppress […]

Concordant with the faraway burgeoning of second-wave feminism, Chytilová’s debut feature intertwines an ostensible documentary on champion gymnast Eva Bosáková with veristic but dramatised scenes […]

Chytilová’s belated return to filmmaking after the suppression of the Prague Spring is a remarkable feminist screwball comedy set around a maternity ward. Forgoing the […]

Multiple award-winning director Roland Vranik’s third feature is a compassionate, complicated, contemporary love story and “a devastatingly good drama about refugees and immigration”. – The […]

The last film Miloš Forman shot in his native country before exiling himself to the United States and, ultimately, multiple Oscar glories, is a hilarious […]

At the beginning of the 19th century, a strange nobleman (played with charismatic aplomb by Karel Dobrý) returns after years abroad to a small Bohemian […]

Long may you have contemplated their existence; what else could possibly account for all those unmatched or “odd” socks in your drawers and laundry baskets? […]

This under-seen, pitch-black farce ranks amongst the director’s most provocative and unforgettable films, as fiercely feminist as it is nonetheless ribald and pessimistic. Burlesquing the […]