Jan Švankmajer’s brilliant first feature is a free interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice is alternately a wide-eyed young girl (Kristýna Kohoutová) […]

This digitally restored third collaboration between screenwriter Tibor Vichta and director Peter Solan is a too little known New Wave masterpiece whose time has come! […]

Shot under highly straitened circumstances in the immediate wake of the Soviet invasion, and featuring a score by the great Zdeněk Liška and breathtaking cinematography […]

Premiering as a three-part mini-series produced by the Czech branch of HBO and directed by Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland, this extraordinary epic begins with […]

This box-office smash, a critically acclaimed political comedy-thriller, tells “a real story that never happened.” An unprepossessing young man (Michal Kubovčík) from the colossal prefab […]

This much adored Best Foreign Language Oscar winner from Jiří Menzel has just been digitally restored. Based on the novel of the same name by […]

Dialogue free and mostly live action, Jan Švankmajer’s hilarious third feature has its origins in an unmade short film from 1970, Light-Bluebeard, concerning the sado-masochistic, […]

Alien (Cizinec) Director Martin Máj, 2013, Czech Republic, 7 minutes An animated comedy about travelling to foreign countries. Alien will screen before The Boxer and […]

In this contemporary and stylish metropolitan drama, Jana Plodková leads an excellent cast as film editor Milena, who is in love with translator Vladimír (Martin […]

The veteran pairing of director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský have a new film about inglorious pasts and their tendency to catch up with […]

In Zdeněk Tyc’s compelling chamber drama, the end of summer also spells the end of a life. Painter Vladimír Holas (Jiří Schmitzer) is dying. He […]

Eight years in the making, Robert Kirchhoff’s documentary investigates the events behind the scenes in the longest case in the history of the Czechoslovak courts, […]

Homo ciris Director Jana Mináriková, 2013, Slovakia, 23 minutes Concerning one ordinary man’s wish to be a fish. Homo Ciris will screen before To See […]

In this gripping WWII drama concerned with the tragic story of a man whose only chance for survival is in accepting the rules of a […]

This paranoid historical thriller is based on a true story and comes from archive material from the Nation’s Memory Institute in Bratislava. The prototype of […]

Based on Jaroslav Kmenta’s bestseller Kmotr Mrázek (Godfather Mrazek), The Godfather’s Story relates the rise and fall of real-life mafioso František Mrázek. Ondřej Vetchý plays […]

“The Lyricist” was the code name, as an “object of surveillance” in the archives of the secret police, for the erudite historian and dissident, Ján […]

The charming directorial debut of Jiří Mádl (star of The Confidant) claims instead to be the work of his film’s protagonist, intrepid 12 year old […]

This seriocomic documentary focuses on three men who performed romantic, some might say foolhardy or inept, acts of guerrilla resistance under Normalization. One had wanted […]