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