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Voted the best Czech film ever made, Marketa Lazarova is a powerful and passionate medieval epic set in the mid-13th Century. Based on avant-garde writer Vladislav Vancura’s novel, it follows the rivalry between two warring clans, the Kozlíks and the Lazars, and the doomed love affair of Mikoláš Kozlík and Marketa Lazarová.
Re-creating an authentic world […]

Prague gets punk’d in Czech Dream, a delicious “provocumentary” about an outrageous culture-jamming hoax perpetuated on Czech consumers by two young filmmaking pranksters. Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda, documentary students at the state film school, used a government grant and support from Czech TV to create an entirely fictitious mass marketing campaign hyping the arrival […]

Audition / Talent Competition [Konkurs]was the debut full length film from acclaimed Czech New Wave director Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus). Konkurs is an incredibly shot, stunning documentary candidly looking into a number of talent competitions, captivating from start to finish with human aspects that transcend […]

This wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life is the debut film of a great director and one of the signature works of the Czech New Wave. Ivan Passer’s film concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind […]

The first feature from Corneliu Porumboiu, 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Camera d’Or award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set sixteen years after the fall of Ceausescu’s communist regime and just days before Christmas. Three men–a local TV host, a drunken history teacher, and a retiree playing Santa–are on […]

Juraj Herz’s film The Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy, as a dark and disturbing tale of terror.
This brilliantly chilling film, a mix of Dr. Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation. It tells the story of Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusínský), a professional […]

Palms is Aristakisyan’s astonishing portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society. Profound, spiritual and hallucinatory, Palms is remarkable at every level and one of the most visionary films of recent years.
Narrated by the director addressing his unborn son, the film is compassionate, revelatory and bold in its […]

Andrzej Zulawski is one of the true mavericks of European cinema and his wild, imaginative and unique films have won awards at many international film festivals over the years. A nightmarish and surreal masterpiece, The Third Part of the Night is his highly influential debut feature film. Set during the time of the Nazi-occupation […]