As has been the tradition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival since 2008, CaSFFA 2018 will be screening vignettes staring past winners of the […]
Festival Trailers
12 - 26 Sep
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 […]
Now a stalwart of CaSFFA exhibitions, this year’s selection of vintage film posters once again complements the classic offerings in this year’s film program, specifically […]
and Variations
14 - 22 Sep
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thank you all once again for supporting CaSFFA in 2020.
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