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CZECH FILMS 2019–2020 FICTION
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020
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Published by Czech Film Fund.
Czech Film Center division of the Czech Film Fund Dukelských hrdinů 47 170 00 Prague 7 Czech Republic catalogue editors: Barbora Ligasová, Vladimíra Chytilová text editor: Denisa Štrbová graphic design: Cellula – Pavel Rakušan printed by: Uniprint print run: 400 not for sale
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Dear friends of Czech film,
With the arrival of 2020, the Czech Film Fund enters its eighth year of existence.
I dare say that everyone knows by now that the Czech Film Fund’s support for Czech cinema is comprehensive – it is not only for production but also for development, distribution, film festivals, projects aimed at promoting Czech cinema, the long-term activity of film institutions, and projects aimed at cooperation within the film industry.
In this catalogue you will find not only Czech films on their way to the cinemas or festivals worldwide but also projects that are still in the stages of development, production, or post-production. The catalogue also serves as a map for better orientation in the Czech film environment. It therefore includes contacts for all important institutions and organizations in the Czech film industry, film schools, film festivals, and more.
I hope this will give you a good overview of the year 2019 in Czech fiction film as well as what’s ahead of us in 2020.
Helena Bezděk Fraňková Director of the Czech Film Fund
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 3 introduction
With the arrival of the new year, the time is here for taking stock and looking back at the most important events in Czech fiction film production in 2019. And there was plenty.
In Czech cinemas: People are longing for entertainment
Last year saw the production of 42 live-action feature films of which 36 vied for domestic cinema-goers. Like in previous years, comedies were the most popular overall, with Women on the Run by debuting director Martin Horský being the biggest hit at Czech cinemas in 2019. Over 1.3 million viewers came to see the mosaic of stories about a mother and her three daughters finally getting their lives under control. Second and third places were taken by Jiří Vejdělek’s nostalgic comedy The Last Aristocrat, about a family who get their ancestral castle back after the Velvet Revolution, which sold nearly half a million tickets, and the romantic comedy set in the world of sports, Přes prsty (Unexpected Server), in which seasoned screenwriter Petr Kolečko took his first shot at directing. That film brought more than 350 000 to cinemas.
International success: The Painted Bird and the others
The film that was probably discussed most abroad was Václav Marhoul’s long-awaited The Painted Bird. The world premiere of the star-studded film was in the main competition at the Venice International Film Festival followed by a North American premiere at the festival in Toronto and a tour of festivals throughout the autumn and winter with stops in London, Warsaw, Tokyo, or Chicago, where the jury awarded the work of cinematographer Vladimír Smutný. Other festival accomplishments include that of Ondřej Erban’s short film One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand in the Cinéfondation students’ section at Cannes, which also hosted the premiere of the restored version of Miloš Forman’s Loves of a Blonde last year. The National Film Archive followed up on this success with a screening of the restored version of Gustav Machatý’s Extase. As is customary, several feature-length narrative films had their world premieres at the Karlovy Vary festival before going abroad. The main competition included a Slovak-Czech coproduction by director Marko Škop, Let There Be Light, while Michal Hogenauer’s debut A Certain Kind of Silence competed in the East of the West competition before winning the audience award at the Milano Film Festival, and Old-Timers by directing duo Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník had its world premiere out of competition. In the second half of the year the Slovenian-Czech film Oroslan had its world premiere at the Locarno festival in the competition section Concorso Cineasti del Presente, the student film Playing by Slovenian FAMU student Lun Sevnik premiered first in Karlovy Vary and then internationally at San Sebastian, Jiří Mádl’s second film On the Roof won the main prize at the festival in Mannheim, and before the year was out, Mira Fornay presented her new film Cook F**k Kill in the Rebel With A Cause competition at the Black Nights festival in Tallinn.
Films in progress, talked about abroad
At the When East Meets West coproduction market in Trieste, two Czech projects were presented in January – Year of a Widow by director Veronika Lišková, which is being developed by producers Petra Oplatková and Artemio Benki (Artcam Films) and Victim, directed by Michal Blaško and being prepared by producer Jakub Viktorín (nutprodukcia) in collaboration with Pavla Janoušková Kubečková of Czech nutprodukce. At the Venice Gap Financing Market, partners were sought for Charlatan by director Agnieszka Holland, produced by Šárka Cimbalová of Marlene Film Production, and producer-director Slávek Horák presented a couple of scenes from the biopic Havel to foreign sales agents and festival programmers at the Works in Progress presentation at the festival in Les Arcs. Word spread abroad about children’s films in the works, too. At the Warsaw Kids Film Forum producer Vratislav Šlajer and director Štěpán Fok Vodrážka familiarized the professional community with their comics-based children’s film Dustzone which is being developed in the Kids Kino LAB, and Tomáš Pavlíček attended the Cinekid Script LAB with the project Don’t Drink Our Blood!.
4 CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 The fund has their backs
The Czech Film Fund provided a number of projects with major support last year. The largest sum, 588 235 EUR, went to Tomáš Mašín’s ongoing project Brothers, inspired by the Mašín brothers who literally shot their way through from heavily guarded post-war Czechoslovakia to the West. The fund council also awarded support to the second film by Tereza Nvotová, The Nightsiren, which looks at the character of a modern-day Slovak village, with 392 157 EUR. Major support also went to the second film of another distinct young female director, Beata Parkanová and her project The Word, which received 333 333 EUR. A number of Czech projects underway also succeeded amid international competition and received funding from the Creative Europe – MEDIA program. The children’s film Martin and the Forest Secret by established director Petr Oukropec, the aforementioned biographical drama about the first Czech president Havel, the lesbian romance drama The Ugly Mandarine by Chinese director based in Prague Piaoyu Xie, and the family- adventure series with elements of sci-fi, Dorotka. Production companies Bionaut, nutprodukce and Sirena Film also received the slate funding for a couple of their projects, so there is a lot to look forward to. The only support from the Eurimages Fund in 2019 went to the prison drama Censor by Peter Kerekes, a Slovak-Czech-Ukrainian coproduction which received 140,000 EUR. The Czech coproducer is Jiří Konečný and his company endorfilm.
Awards at home and abroad
The winner of the Czech Film Critics’ Awards was Jan Palach by Robert Sedláček, Olmo Omerzu took the best director award for his film Winter Flies, and Tomáš Pavlíček and Lucie Bokšteflová won best screenplay forBear with Us. The best actors selected by the critics were Jenovéfa Boková for the lead role in the film Moments and Martin Huba for Talks with TGM, for which director-producer Jakub Červenka also won the Discovery of the Year award. The Czech Lions were dominated by the aforementioned Winter Flies by director Olmo Omerzu and producer Jiří Konečný, which came away with a total of six awards in the categories best film, director, screenplay, actress and actor in a supporting role, and editing. Four statuettes went to the film The Hastrman by debuting director Ondřej Havelka – best actor, cinematography, music, and costumes. The academy also awarded the best actress award to Jenovéfa Boková for Moments, best sound to Domestique by director Adam Sedlák, and set design to Jan Švankmajer’s latest film, Insect. The award for best student film was taken by Ondřej Erban for his One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand. In the autumn, the live-action short Reconstruction by directing duo Ondřej Novák and Jiří Havlíček earned itself a place among the five shorts nominated for a European Film Award. The Czech Film and Television Academy selected the drama The Painted Bird to vie for an Oscar and the film has made the shortlist of ten international features.
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 5 CONTENTS
FEATURE FILMS / 2019 RELEASED FILMS A Certain Kind of Silence Tiché doteky Michal Hogenauer 12 Amnesty Amnestie Jonáš Karásek 13 Amundsen Amundsen Espen Sandberg 14 By a Sharp Knife Ostrým nožem Teodor Kuhn 15 Cook F**k Kill Žáby bez jazyka Mira Fornay 16 Enchanted Feather Zakleté pírko Zdeněk Troška 17 Freedom in the Air Narušitel David Balda 18 Heads and Tails Panna nebo orel Nicolae Constantin Tănase 19 Karel, Me and You Karel, já a ty Bohdan Karásek 20 Let There Be Light Budiž světlo Marko Škop 21 Listen Poslouchej David Laňka, Martin Müller 22 Loaded Eels Úhoři mají nabito Vladimír Michálek 23 LOVEhunt LOVEní Karel Janák 24 Moravia, O Fair Land III. Morava, krásná zem III Petr Šprincl 25 My Grandpa Is an Alien Môj dedo spadol z Marsu Dražen Žarković, Marina Andree Škop 26 National Street Národní třída Štěpán Altrichter 27 Old-Timers Staříci Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník 28 On the Roof Na střeše Jiří Mádl 29 Oroslan Oroslan Matjaž Ivanišin 30 Owners Vlastníci Jiří Havelka 31 Parking Parking Tudor Giurgiu 32 Přes prsty Přes prsty Petr Kolečko 33 Punk is Now! Punk je hned! Juraj Šlauka 34 Román pro pokročilé Román pro pokročilé Zita Marinovová 35 Saint Sebastian’s Cry Pláč svatého Šebestiána Milan Cyroň, Tomáš Uher 36 Scent of Oranges Uzly a pomeranče Ivan Pokorný 37 Shotgun Justice Teroristka Radek Bajgar 38 Snowing! Sněží! Kristina Nedvědová 39 Špindl 2 Špindl 2 Radek Balaš 40 The Abstainer Abstinent David Vigner 41 The Glass Room Skleněný pokoj Julius Ševčík 42 The Humorist Humorista Michael Idov 43 The Last Aristocrat Poslední aristokratka Jiří Vejdělek 44 The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče Václav Marhoul 45 The Play Hra Alejandro Fernández Almendras 46 The Prague Orgy Pražské orgie Irena Pavlásková 47 The Prize for Happiness Cena za štěstí Olga Dabrowská 48 The Summer with a Gentleman Léto s gentlemanem Jiří Adamec 49 The Water Keeping Me Afloat Voda čo ma drží nad vodou Tomáš Magnusek 50 V zajetí sítě V zajetí sítě Matěj Krátký 51 Watchmaker‘s Appretice Hodinářův učeň Jitka Rudolfová 52 Women at the Peak Ženská na vrcholu Lenka Kny 53 Women on the Run Ženy v běhu Martin Horský 54
6 CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 FEATURE FILMS / POSTPRODUCTION a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i- JONESTOWN á-B-C-D-é-F-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN Jan Bušta 56 Absence Absence Ali Mosaffa 57 Bourák Bourák Ondřej Trojan 58 Charlatan Šarlatán AgnieszkaHolland 59 City on the River Město na řece Viesturs Kairišs 60 Daria Daria Matěj Pichler 61 Dear Ones Dear Ones Grzegorz Jaroszuk 62 Deer Jelen George Bogdan Apetri 63 Droneman Modelář Petr Zelenka 64 Happiness is a Bliss Štestí je krásná věc Jiří Diarmaid Novák 65 Havel Havel Slávek Horák 66 In the Dusk Za soumraku Šarūnas Bartas 67 Kryštof Kryštof Zdeněk Jiráský 68 Lost in Paradise Ztraceni v Ráji Fiona Ziegler 69 Martin and the Forest Secret Mazel a tajemství lesa Petr Oukropec 70 Medieval Jan Žižka Petr Jákl 71 My Story Můj příběh Libor Adam, Hana Hendrychová 72 Nikola Šuhaj Nikola Šuhaj Vladimír Morávek 73 Perinbaba and The Two Worlds Perinbaba a dva světy Juraj Jakubisko 74 Princess Lost in Time Princezna zakletá v čase Petr Kubík 75 Scumbag Sviňa Mariana Čengel Solčanská 76 Servants Služebníci Ivan Ostrochovský 77 Shadow Country Krajina ve stínu Bohdan Sláma 78 The Case of the Dead Deadman Případ mrtvého nebožtíka Miloslav Šmídmajer 79 The Grapes 3 3Bobule Martin Kopp 80 The Man with Hare Ears Muž se zaječíma ušima Martin Šulík 81 The Pack Smečka Tomáš Polenský 82 The Report Zpráva Peter Bebjak 83 The Silent Companion Tichý společník Pavel Göbl 84 The Way Home Cesta domů Tomáš Vorel 85 The Year Before the War Rok před válkou Dāvis Sīmanis 86 Zatopek Zátopek David Ondříček 87
FEATURE FILMS / PRODUCTION Blue box Blue box Petr Šprincl, Marie Hájková 89 Breaking Point Hrana zlomu Emil Křižka 90 Erhart Erhart Jan Březina 91 Il Boemo Il Boemo Petr Václav 92 Leave No Traces Nezanechat stopy Jan P. Matuszyński 93 Mistakes Chyby Jan Prušinovský 94 Occupation Okupace Michal Nohejl 95 People of Blood Lidi krve Miroslav Bambušek 96 Piargy Fašiangy Ivo Trajkov 97 Prvok, Šampón, Tečka and Karel Prvok, Šampón, Tečka a Karel Patrik Hartl 98 The End of the World Konec světa Milan Klepikov 99 The Last Race Poslední závod Tomáš Hodan 100 Two Ships Marťanské lodě Jan Foukal 101
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 7 CONTENTS
FEATURE FILMS / DEVELOPMENT ’Merican Chick Amerikánka Viktor Tauš 103 1260 1260 Jakub Červenka 103 A Sensitive Man Citlivý člověk Tomáš Klein 104 A Summer Fair Pouť v Modré Erlend Hella Matre 104 Agnes Anežka Dagmar Knöpfel 105 Alma and Oskar Alma a Oskar Dieter Berner 105 Arved Arvéd Vojtěch Mašek 106 Bikes Kola Jakub Machala 106 Bloody Easter Krvavá pomlázka Jan Bušta 107 Brothers Bratři Tomáš Mašín 107 Caravan Karavan Zuzana Kirchnerová 108 Caruso - A Novel Live Caruso - Román naživo Lordan Zafranović 108 Confidentiality Nehybnost Martin Ryšavý 109 Don‘t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Nehleď dlouho do propasti Mohammadreza Farzad 109 Dragon Girl Dračí princezna Katarina Launing 110 Dustzone Prašina Štěpán Fok Vodrážka 110 Eternal Peace Věčný klid Vojtěch Strakatý 111 Fichtelberg Fichtelberg Šimon Koudela 111 Fork Ridge Fork Ridge Ondřej Hudeček 112 Goodwill Dobrý skutek Dušan Trančík 112 Grand Prix Grand Prix Jan Prušinovský 113 Gregorius, the Chosen One Vyvolený Tomasz Mielnik 113 I Don‘t Like You Anymore Už tě němám rád Zdeněk Jiráský 114 In the Pines Lesní vrah Radim Špaček 114 Little Daughter Dceruška Jan Hřebejk 115 Money from Hitler Peníze od Hitlera Tomáš Mašín 115 Night of the Whale Noc velryby Kaveh Daneshmand 116 Nobody Likes Me Nikdo mě nemá rád Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb 116 Ordinary Failures Běžná selhání Cristina Groșan 117 Otel Prague Otel Prague Zdeněk Viktora 117 Plague Mor Jan Těšitel 118 Polaris Polárka Tomáš Janáček 118 Prince Mamma‘s Boy Princ Mamánek Jan Budař 119 Queen of the Night Královna noci 119 Restore Point Bod obnovy Robert Hloz 120 Resurrections Vzkříšení Petr Václav 120 Sara Sára Jan Komasa 121 Saving One Who Was Dead Zpráva o záchraně mrtvého Václav Kadrnka 121 Silent Mail Tichá pošta Ján Sebechlebský 122 Snake Gas Hadí plyn David Jařab 122 So Far, So Close Tak daleko, tak blízko Ondřej Erban 123 Stillborn Stále nestálá Olga Chajdas 123 Sunburn Úpal Štěpán Fok Vodrážka 124 Swing Times V rytmu swingu buší srdce mé Ondřej Havelka 124 The Barbecue Party Grilování Jaroslav Fuit 125 The Body Tělo Natálie Císařovská 125 The Fragile Beauty of Masculinity Křehká krása mužství Andrea Culková 126 The Man Who Stood In the Way Muž, který stál v cestě Ivan Fíla 126 The Nightsiren Světlonoc Tereza Nvotová 127 The Spring Man Pérák Jiří Havelka 127 The Ugly Mandarine Ošklivá Mandarínka Piaoyu Xie 128 The Word Slovo Beata Parkanová 128
8 CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 Thinking David Mít rád Davida Šimon Holý 129 This Is Not Bob Dylan Toto není Bob Dylan Josef Heřmánek 129 Three Weeks Under The Sea Tři týdny pod mořem Martin Kuba 130 Three Women Tři ženy Matěj Chlupáček 130 Traffic Jam Kolona na D1 Robert Sedláček 131 Twins Sestry Dietlovy Vojtěch Mašek, Michal Nohejl 131 Victim Oběť Michal Blaško 132 Waltzing Matylda Tancuj Matyldo Petr Slavík 132 Waves Vlny Jiří Mádl 133 Wirbel Wirbel Tomáš Hubáček 133 Year of a Widow Rok vdovy Veronika Lišková 134
SHORT FILMS / 2019 RELEASED FILMS Figurant Figurant Jan Vejnar 136 First Action Hero První akční hrdina Jan Haluza 136 Mitsu Mitsu Mark Ther 137 Switched Shifts Vyměnila jsem si směnu Luboš Kučera 137
SHORT FILMS / POSTPRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT A Prince Came Passing By Po víkendu Cristina Groșan 139 Anatomy of a Czech Afternoon Anatomie českého odpoledne Adam Martinec 139 Divine Sparks Božské jiskry Vít Poláček 140 Fibonacci Fibonacci Tomáš Hubáček 140 Francek Francek Natálie Císařovská 141 Frontier Hranice Damián Vondrášek 141 Inversion Inverze Lucia Kajánková 142 Opponent Protihráč Ondřej Erban 142 Taurofilia Taurofilie Francesco Montagner 143 The Last Day Of Patriarchy Poslední den patriarchátu Olmo Omerzu 143 Plastic Igelit Tomáš Brožek 144
Contacts 145 Index of English Titles 149 Index of Directors 151
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 9 FEATURE FILMS 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
A Certain Kind of Silence Tiché doteky
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Netherlands, Latvia Czech young au pair Mia starts working abroad for 2019 | 96 min | English, Dutch, Czech a well-off family in their lavish villa. Looking after their director Michal Hogenauer ten years old son, she must follow many strange rules of the household. She slowly begins to gradually PRODUCERS Petr Oukropec, Pavel Strnad and systematically disappear and abandon her PRODUCTION COMPANY Negativ morality and her relationships with the child entrusted CO-PRODUCTION Circe Films, Tasse Film as a result of manipulation by a radical family SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages community. Mia is suddenly able to expresses her love by violent tools. SCRIPT Jakub Felcman, Michal Hogenauer DOP Gregg Telussa EDITOR Michal Reich SOUND Richard Müller MUSIC Filip Míšek SET DESIGNER Laura Dišlere CAST Eliška Křenková, Jacob Jutte, Monic Hendrickx, Roeland Fernhout
contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký [email protected] +420 777 697 543
12 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
Amnesty Amnestie
2nd FILM minority co-production
Slovakia, Czech Republic 2019 | Amnesty captures a world controlled by the Secret 128 min | Slovak, Czech State Police in communist Czechoslovakia, where director Jonáš Karásek dissidents communicate through secret messages and people spy on members of their own families. PRODUCERS Maroš Hečko, Peter Veverka, Nataša The Velvet Revolution of November 1989 sees the Ďurovičová, Ivan Juráš, Jiří Konečný dawn of democracy and opens new opportunities. PRODUCTION COMPANIES Azyl Production, endorfilm However, not all inmates of the infamous Leopoldov CO-PRODUCTION HomeMedia Production, Radio and Prison – many of them political hostages of the Television Slovakia, Czech Television Communist establishment – are granted amnesty, and an explosion of emotions among those left inside SCRIPT Beata Grünmannová, Marek Janičík, Maroš develops into a full-blown riot. Prisoner Drahoš Lupko, Hečko DOP Tomáš Juríček EDITOR Matej Beneš a reluctant hero, must overcome enormous obstacles SOUND Viktor Krivosudský MUSIC Jozef Lupták, Matúš to fight for his rights. Surrounded by cruel, selfish Široký SET DESIGNERS Karol Filo, Tomáš Berka, Václav and manipulative people, he rises to the challenge, Vohlídal CAST Juraj Bača, Natália Germani, Aňa determined to achieve a second chance in life. Geislerová, Marek Vašut
contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný [email protected] +420 602 358 373
2019 RELEASED FILMS 13 T UR ES FE A
Amundsen
minority co-production
Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic 2019 | How could Roald Amundsen, an unknown man from 125 min | Norwegian impoverished Norway, become the greatest polar director Espen Sandberg explorer the world has ever seen? The answer is not found just in one single expedition, but in a dramatic PRODUCERS Espen Horn, Kristian Strand Sinkerud, and epic film about the life of a remarkable and John M. Jacobsen fascinating man. PRODUCTION COMPANIES Motion Blur Films, Filmkameratene CO-PRODUCTION SF Studios, FILM KOLEKTIV
SCRIPT Ravn Lanesskog DOP Pål Ulvik Rokseth EDITORS Martin Stoltz, Perry Eriksen SOUND Baard H. Ingebretsen, Tormod Ringnes MUSIC Johan Söderqvist SET DESIGNERS Karl Júlíusson, Martin Kurel CAST Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck, Ida Ursin-Holm
INTERNATIONAL SALES contact SF STUDIOS – Anita Simovic FILM KOLEKTIV – Pavel Berčík [email protected] [email protected] +46 706 48 2611 +420 777 932 957
14 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
By a Sharp Knife Ostrým nožem
1st FILM minority co-production
Slovakia, Czech Republic 2019 | 89 min A story of a father whose son has been murdered. | Slovak Four perpetrators are charged with the crime, but director Teodor Kuhn due to an erroneous court ruling, they soon get to walk free. Determined to uncover the truth, the father PRODUCER Jakub Viktorín enters into an uneven struggle with a passive police PRODUCTION COMPANY Nutprodukcia force, a corrupt judiciary and a dominant mob. Can CO-PRODUCTION Radio and Television Slovakia, he prevail in such a crooked system? nutprodukce
SCRIPT Jakub Medvecký, Teodor Kuhn DOP Denisa Buranová EDITOR Pavel Hrdlička SOUND Tobias Potočný MUSIC Michal Novinski SET DESIGNER Michal Lošonský CAST Roman Luknár, Ela Lehotská, David Hartl, Miroslav Krobot
INTERNATIONAL SALES WIDE – Danya Hannah [email protected] +33 7 61 57 96 86 contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková festivals [email protected] WIDE – Matthias Angoulvant +420 605 256 190 [email protected] +33 7 70 07 64 04 2019 RELEASED FILMS 15 T UR ES FE A
Cook F**k Kill Žáby bez jazyka
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | Jaroslav, a handsome and seemingly good-natured 116 min | Czech, Slovak son, father and a decent husband, is, as a matter director Mira Fornay of fact, pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka. He is very much afraid that one day she would leave PRODUCERS Viktor Schwarcz, Mira Fornay him together with their three children. Jaroslav and PRODUCTION COMPANIES Cineart TV Prague, Mirafox his family don’t hesitate to employ violence, deceit CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Radio and and terror against others, which ultimately leads to Television Slovakia, Synergia Film a family tragedy. SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages
SCRIPT Mira Fornay DOP Tomáš Sysel EDITORS Mira Fornay, Urszula Lesiak SOUND Dominik Dolejší SET DESIGNER Jana Boháčková CAST Jaroslav Plesl, Petra Fornayová, Regina Rázlová, Jan Alexander
INTERNATIONAL SALES Cercamon – Sebastien Chesneau [email protected] +33 6 21 71 39 11 contact FESTIVALS Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz Cercamon – Dorian Magagnin [email protected] [email protected] +420 777 220 364
16 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
Enchanted Feather Zakleté pírko
Czech Republic 2019 | 94 min | Czech Once upon a time, there were three sisters. Two evil director Zdeněk Troška ones, and nice and pretty Aninka. Evil sisters made Aninka their servant to be able to just laze around. PRODUCER Dana Voláková One day Aninka finds a bird feather. She strokes it, PRODUCTION COMPANY Fénix Film kisses it, and there comes Prince Vítek, cursed and transformed to a bird. Vítek and Aninka fall in love. SCRIPT Zdeněk Troška, Marek Kališ DOP David Ployhar The sisters soon trace them and try to spoil their EDITOR Dalibor Lipský SOUND Roman Čapek MUSIC happiness. Vítek disappears and Aninka escapes Miloš Krkoška CAST Anastasia Chocholatá, Lukáš from home to the world to look for him. On the way, Pavlásek, Petr Urban, Sara Sandeva she saves Water Goblin, who joins her on her quest.
INTERNATIONAL SALES contact S-MEDIA.TV – Lubomír Nemec Fénix Film – Dana Voláková [email protected] [email protected] +421 903 245 999 +420 602 369 033
2019 RELEASED FILMS 17 T UR ES FE A
Freedom in the Air Narušitel
1st FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 86 min | Czech director David Balda Thrilling story of a Czech pilot about an endless love for flying. The lives of army soldiers in socialist PRODUCER David Balda Czechoslovakia before 1989 were filled with moments PRODUCTION COMPANY Actoress Production of freedom in the air, but at the same time poisoned by ever present State Secret Police informers. Four SCRIPT David Balda, Petr Kult DOP David Balda friends and their flight mentor have been serving EDITOR Martin Kirov SOUND Marek Bert Fuchs, Ondřej at the border for years. The death of a former RAF Coufal MUSIC Jiří Janouch, Michal Hrůza CAST Pavel pilot in 1974, during his attempt to fly westward and Neškudla, Jiří Dvořák, Petr Kostka, Stanislav Zindulka escape the persecution of the communist regime, changes everything.
contact Actoress Production – David Balda [email protected] +420 728 646 660
18 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
Heads and Tails Panna nebo orel
2nd FILM minority co-production
Romania, Czech Republic 2019 | Laurentiu suffers a serious head injury in a fight at 80 min | Romanian a bar. He refuses any medical treatment, determined director Nicolae Constantin Tănase to wait at home for his brother’s return from Germany, where he works. He needs to confess something PRODUCER Anamaria Antoci important to him. The film is an intimate glimpse into PRODUCTION COMPANY 4 Proof Film the last day of Laurentiu’s life, picking up puzzle CO-PRODUCTION Xova Film pieces of his story, leading to this ending.
SCRIPT Nicolae Constantin Tănase, Raluca Manescu DOP Daniel Kosuth EDITOR Ion Tănase MUSIC Tomáš Procházka CAST Alex Călin, Iulia Ciochină
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966
2019 RELEASED FILMS 19 T UR ES FE A
Karel, Me and You Karel, já a ty
1st FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 111 min | Czech A film reflecting on stability of relationships, the option director Bohdan Karásek of choosing a single life-partner, and from a broader perspective, on life around the age of thirty as it is PRODUCER Bohdan Karásek here and now, from both female and male viewpoints. PRODUCTION COMPANY Filmová společnost Alfreda Due to a marriage crisis, Saša moves out from Karel, Bouriany finding a temporary refuge with Dušan, an old friend of the couple. The film follows a series of encounters, SCRIPT Bohdan Karásek DOP Zdeněk Eliáš EDITOR conversations and minor episodes, through which Bohdan Karásek SOUND Jan Hála MUSIC Miroslav both main characters explore the fleeting nature of Faderholz SET DESIGNER Zdeněk Eliáš CAST Jenovéfa relationships and shed light on them from their own Boková, Miroslav Faderholz, Miloslav König, Marie perspectives. Švestková
contact Filmová společnost Alfreda Bouriany – Bohdan Karásek [email protected] +420 774 615 807
20 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
Let There Be Light Budiž světlo
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic 2019 | Milan (40), a father of three children, does 93 min | Slovak, German construction work in Germany in order to provide director Marko Škop for his family in Slovakia. While visiting home over Christmas, he discovers that his eldest son Adam is PRODUCERS Marko Škop, Ján Meliš, Petr Oukropec, a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is Pavel Strnad involved in bullying and death of a classmate. The PRODUCTION COMPANIES Artileria, Negativ father needs to decide how to deal with the situation. CO-PRODUCTION Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech In this process, he and his wife come to discover the Television truth about their son, their family, themselves and the SUPPORT Eurimages community around them. SCRIPT Marko Škop DOP Ján Meliš EDITOR František Krähenbiel SOUND Jan Čeněk MUSIC David Solař, Oskar Rózsa SET DESIGNER Pavol Andraško CAST Milan Ondrík, František Beleš, Zuzana Konečná, Ľubomír Paulovič international sales Loco Films – Laurent Danielou [email protected] contact +33 6 64209160 Negativ – Daniel Vadocký [email protected] Festivals +420 777 697 543 Loco Films – Rose Vives [email protected] +33 6 23 96 70 18 2019 RELEASED FILMS 21 T UR ES FE A
Listen Poslouchej
Czech Republic 2019 | 78 min | Czech A young couple goes on a trip to pump their directorS David Laňka, Martin relationship new energy as it seems exhausted and Müller ruined. Moreover, the girl suspects her partner to be unfaithful but has no proof of it. Her boyfriend’s PRODUCERS David Laňka, Martin Müller, Kateřina constant flirting with other women only strengthens Dušková, Jiří Dušek her suspicion. During their journey, with her boyfriend PRODUCTION COMPANIES No Stress Production, KVArt asleep in the car, she suddenly hears a female voice, Production which turns out to belong to his lover. Is it just an illusion or some horrible secret her boyfriend hides SCRIPT David Laňka, Martin Müller DOP Václav Tlapák from her? Tempers begin to fray and when the girl EDITOR Martin Müller SOUND Tomáš Oramus MUSIC finally unravels the puzzle, her life is at stake. Sven Mikkelsen CAST Kristýna Podzimková, Aleš Bílík, Petr Batěk, Elizaveta Maximová
contact No Stress Production – David Laňka [email protected] +420 603 109 873
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Loaded Eels Úhoři mají nabito
Czech Republic 2019 | 101 min | Czech This is not just a game. It’s an escape from everyday director Vladimír Michálek life, an escape which can’t be given up. The film is based on the radio play titled Benzina Dehtov, PRODUCER Matěj Turek a black comedy about a group of men who decided PRODUCTION COMPANY Slothmachine to escape from their everyday lives through role- CO-PRODUCTION PFX, Czech Television playing. They pretend to be soldiers of SWAT team, evacuating community centers, dragging SCRIPT Petr Pýcha, Vladimír Michálek DOP Martin unsuspecting people into their game. Driven by Štrba EDITOR Olina Kaufmanová SOUND Radim Hladík adrenalin and delusion, they feel like Robin Hood – jr. MUSIC Roman Holý SET DESIGNER Marcel Hána stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. Everything CAST Oldřich Kaiser, Kryštof Hádek, Matěj Hádek, goes smoothly until they find themselves in the wrong Jiří Vyorálek place and at the wrong time.
contact Slothmachine – Tereza Sládková [email protected]
2019 RELEASED FILMS 23 T UR ES FE A
LOVEhunt LOVEní
Czech Republic 2019 | 106 min | Czech Left at the altar by her fiancé, 35-year-old Eliška director Karel Janák moves together with a young peculiar stranger, who breeds bees on the roof. She has nowhere else to PRODUCERS Ondřej Kulhánek, Martin Palán, Vojtěch Frič go. Her friend advices her to look for love through an PRODUCTION COMPANIES Bontonfilm Studios, love. online dating site. But soon she gets to understand FRAME that finding a partner for life is not just about pushing the right icon on the phone. SCRIPT Karel Janák, Jan Potměšil DOP Martin Preiss EDITOR Vojtěch Frič SOUND Lukáš Moudrý MUSIC Jan Jakubec, Miroslav Chyška SET DESIGNER Martina Hladíková CAST Ester Geislerová, Jakub Prachař, Eva Kramerová, Veronika Žilková
contact Bontonfilm Studios – Ondřej Kulhánek [email protected] +420 605 264 091
24 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
Moravia, O Fair Land III. Morava, krásná zem III.
2nd FILM EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic 2019 | 65 min | Czech Ivana Slabáková, a folklore radio presenter, director Petr Šprincl announces a historical discovery – an ancient document revealing the importance of Great Moravia, PRODUCER Marek Novák the once mighty kingdom and early adopter of PRODUCTION COMPANY Xova Film Christianity in Central Europe. Slabáková puts CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television together Moravian patriots, a troupe of pensioned theatre amateurs and the regional head of Satanist SCRIPT Lukáš Jiřička, Petr Šprincl DOP Marie Hájková, Church to perform a splashy musical performance Matěj Piňos, Michal Böhm, Petr Šprincl EDITOR Marie based on the artifact. The climax of the show Hájková SOUND Ladislav Mirvald, Richard Vacula reanimates ancient dead from Pagan burial grounds MUSIC Bojané, Ex Argema, Mojmír Měchura, Petr and a zombie apocalypse ensues. During an epic Vrba, Root, Tomáš Procházka SET DESIGNERS Františka clash of cultures, Moravia’s Christian invaders are Králíková, Klára Fleková CAST Ivana Slabáková, Ján wiped out. After that, life goes back to normal – Sedal, Eva Machourková, Aleš Zbořil folklore music plays again, zombies work at the vineyard and hope for even better harvest ever after. Make Moravia Great again!
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966
2019 RELEASED FILMS 25 T UR ES FE A
My Grandpa Is an Alien Môj dedo spadol z Marsu
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Croatia, Luxembourg, Norway, Czech In a single moment, the entire life of Una is turned Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia upside down; her grandpa is abducted by aliens and Herzegovina 2019 | 79 min | Croatian and her mum collapses and ends up in hospital. Una discovers in her house basement that her grandpa directorS Dražen Žarković, Marina is an alien whose spaceship hit the planet some Andree Škop time ago, and the pilot, a small grumpy robot, is still PRODUCERS Darija Kulenović Gudan, Marina Andree around. Una and the robot have less than 24 hours Škop to find and rescue her grandpa. This extraordinary PRODUCTION COMPANY Studio Dim adventure leads to a new friendship, the rational CO-PRODUCTION WADY FILMS, Filmbin, MasterFilm, robotic logic being replaced by emotions and Una‘s Artileria, Senca Studio, Fabrika Sarajevo, Hrvatska selfless love saves her partly alien family. radiotelevizija, Magiclab SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA
SCRIPT Branko Ružić, Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro DOP Sven Pepeonik EDITOR Marina Andree Škop SOUND Daniel Angyal MUSIC Stein Berge Svendsen ANIMATOR Michal Struss CAST Petra Polnišová, Lana Hranjec, Nils Ole Oftebro, Ozren Grabarić contact MasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková [email protected] +420 733 579 107
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National Street Národní třída
2nd FILM
Czech Republic, Germany 2019 | What once was a deep dark forest, became 91 min | Czech a housing estate of prefabricated apartment buildings director Štěpán Altrichter and the home of the protagonist, a roof painter nicknamed Vandam. He lives alone in a housing PRODUCERS Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec estate apartment in the suburbs of Prague, working PRODUCTION COMPANY Negativ out every day, to stay in shape. The evenings are CO-PRODUCTION 42film, Czech Television, ZDF – Das spent drinking beer with his chums at the local North kleine Fernsehspiel Star pub. Vandam‘s chums from the North Star dub SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages him their “national hero”. Vandam took part at the 17 November 1989 National Street demonstration, SCRIPT Jaroslav Rudiš, Štěpán Altrichter DOP Cristian where – according to the local legend – he set history Pîrjol EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Florian Marquardt, into motion by dealing the first blow. Ivan Horák, Sebastian Schmidt MUSIC Clemens Christian Poetzsch, Reentko Dirks SET DESIGNER Jan Pjena Novotný CAST Hynek Čermák, Kateřina Janečková, Jan Cina, Václav Neužil
contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký [email protected] +420 777 697 543
2019 RELEASED FILMS 27 T UR ES FE A
Old-Timers Staříci
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | „Nobody fucks with the truth“ says Vlastimil Reiner, 85 min | Czech retired and immobile 90-year-old army colonel, while directorS Martin Dušek, Ondřej his friend Tonda helps him with personal hygiene. The two men are about to embark on the last mission Provazník of their lives: to find and kill the former communist PRODUCER Jiří Konečný prosecutor who used to send the elite of the nation PRODUCTION COMPANY endorfilm to their deaths. His crimes remained unpunished, CO-PRODUCTION sentimentalfilm, Czech Television denied and forgotten. Now the two former resistance SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages fighters who used to battle a totalitarian society must battle their old age, their loved ones, and an era they SCRIPT Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník DOP Lukáš no longer understand. Milota EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Václav Flégl MUSIC Matouš Hejl, Miroslav Srnka SET DESIGNER Antonín Šilar CAST Jiří Schmitzer, Ladislav Mrkvička, Dušan Kaprálik, Milena Steinmasslová
contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný [email protected] +420 602 358 373
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On the Roof NA STŘEŠE
2nd FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | Set in Prague, while the same story may easily take 95 min | Czech, Vietnamese place in any European or North American city that director Jiří Mádl attracts immigrants and is big enough to shelter stories we never get to know. Song, a 20-year-old PRODUCER Monika Kristl Vietnamese, hoped for a better future in Europe. Now, PRODUCTION COMPANY Dawson Films living in a Vietnamese district in Prague, trapped CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Hitchhiker Cinema, in a marijuana grow house, he has life of a modern Barrandov Studio, Radio and Television Slovakia, slave. Police crushes in. Song runs away, hiding on Innogy, Investito the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA and breaks down. Mr. Rypar (75) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in a strong opposition to SCRIPT Jiří Mádl DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Jakub modern world. Rypar goes up on the roof to meet Vansa SOUND Marek Hart, Klára Javoříková MUSIC Song standing on the its very edge, crying. René Rypar SET DESIGNER Adam Pitra CAST Alois Švehlík, Duy Anh Tran, Mária Bartalos, Vojtěch Dyk
contact Dawson Films – Monika Kristl [email protected] +420 602 430 420
2019 RELEASED FILMS 29 T UR ES FE A
Oroslan
1st FILM minority co-production
Slovenia, Czech Republic 2019 | When a man, known as Oroslan, dies, the news 72 min | Slovenian quickly spreads through a little village, causing grief director Matjaž Ivanišin and emotion. Later on, actions become words and words become stories. In order to overcome the PRODUCER Miha Černec sorrow and restore the natural flow of life, the villagers PRODUCTION COMPANY Staragara start sharing their memories about Oroslan, re- CO-PRODUCTION i/o post creating his image through their tales.
SCRIPT Matjaž Ivanišin DOP Gregor Božič EDITOR Matic Drakulić SOUND Branko Rožman, Julij Zornik MUSIC Branko Rožman, Ivan Antić CAST Margit Gyecsek, Dejan Spasić, Miki Roš
INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS contact Slingshot Films – Manuela Buono i/o post – Jordi Niubo [email protected] [email protected] +39 347 62 73 390 +420 604 703 308
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Owners Vlastníci
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | Mrs. Zahrádková wants to save the old crumbling 96 min | Czech house she shares with other owners of the flats director Jiří Havelka located in it. She might find supporters for her plan in young newlyweds with their idealistic enthusiasm PRODUCER Marek Jeníček that have just moved in and are astonished by PRODUCTION COMPANY CinemArt the co-owners’ inability to agree on anything. Mrs. CO-PRODUCTION CinemArt SK, Czech Television Roubíčková vigilantly controls the proper course of the meeting, not allowing the slightest deviation from SCRIPT Jiří Havelka DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Otakar the rules, Mrs. Procházková and her proclaimed Šenovský SOUND Marek Hart, Pavel Bělohlávek MUSIC business partner Mr. Novak are looking for ways to Jan Zelenka SET DESIGNER Anežka Straková CAST increase the value of their property not only by renting Tereza Ramba, Vojtěch Kotek, Dagmar Havlová, Klára an apartment to African students, Mr. Nitranský Melíšková tries to get hold of the attic to expand his flat, and frustrated Mr. Kubát sabotages any decision.
contact CinemArt – Marek Jeníček [email protected] +420 777 464 792
2019 RELEASED FILMS 31 T UR ES FE A
Parking
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Romania, Spain, Czech Republic 2019 | Adrian is a Romanian poet, who immigrated illegally 112 min | Spanish, Romanian to Spain in 2002. Rafael, a second-hand car dealer director Tudor Giurgiu offers him a night guard job at his auto dealership. During the rituals of the magical night of San Juan, PRODUCER Bogdan Craciun Adrian meets Maria, a Spanish bass player in PRODUCTION COMPANY Libra Film Productions a jazz band, who is married to Javier, and they fall CO-PRODUCTION Tito Clint Movies, Evolution Films in love. Adrian never reveals to Maria though that SUPPORT Eurimages back home in Romania, he is married. Rafael is torn between bankruptcy and divorce, when he finds SCRIPT Tudor Giurgiu, Marin Malaicu Hondrari DOP a new girlfriend, Maria-Eugenia. Adrian and Maria- Marius Panduru EDITORS José M. G. Moyano, Manuel Eugenia become good friends and together they try Terceño SOUND Lukáš Moudrý, Adam Levý MUSIC to prevent Rafael’s drifting. They all run for love and Julio de la Rosa SET DESIGNER Sonia Nolla CAST Mihai understanding. They all make mistakes. Smarandache, Belén Cuesta, Luis Bermejo, Eric Frances
contact Evolution Films – Ondřej Zima [email protected] +420 736 751 010
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Přes prsty
1st FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 101 min | Czech Linda and Pavla, beach volleyball players, are director Petr Kolečko willing to give up everything for their sports goals. Younger Pavla, however, has lately another goal PRODUCERS Martin Tošenovský, Petr Štefka too – to start a family with her boyfriend Hynek. The PRODUCTION COMPANY PP FILM older, single and childless Linda doesn‘t have much understanding for Pavla’s desires since they finally SCRIPT Petr Kolečko DOP Petr Bednář EDITOR Šimon managed to qualify for European championship. Hájek SOUND Jan Paul MUSIC Marcel Procházka, At this point, the manager of the sports ground Jíra Viliam Béreš SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Petra enters the picture to make everything even more Hřebíčková, Jiří Langmajer, Denisa Nesvačilová, complicated. Vojtěch Dyk
contact PP FILM – Martin Tošenovský [email protected]
2019 RELEASED FILMS 33 T UR ES FE A
Punk is Now! Punk je hned!
1st FILM minority co-production
Slovakia, Czech Republic 2019 | A film inspired by the closely observed life of punks, 70 min | Slovak who spend their lives on the periphery of the city. director Juraj Šlauka A thirty-year-old drug addict lives in a decaying sublet at a dump with his partner and two-year-old PRODUCERS Ivan Ostrochovský, Jordi Niubo son. His “idyllic” world is suddenly threatened by PRODUCTION COMPANIES Punkchart films, i/o post a letter from the welfare. In fear of losing his child, the CO-PRODUCTION Academy of Performing Arts in punk pulls himself together and attempts to resolve Bratislava – Film and TV Faculty the situation. His impulsive behaviour, however, does not take any account of the consequences, and all SCRIPT Juraj Šlauka DOP Ivo Miko EDITORS Michal the opportunities turn into a free fall. Reich, Matej Beneš SOUND Michal Džadoň, Jan Čeněk MUSIC David Kollar CAST Pavol Kovačovský, Juraj Gerža, Mário Fríbert, František Škorpík
FESTIVALS contact kaleidoscope – Katarína Tomková i/o post – Jordi Niubo [email protected] [email protected] +420 770 122 598 +420 604 703 308
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Román pro pokročilé
2nd FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 95 min | Czech Charming Rudolf, recently divorced, leaves the city director Zita Marinovová to move into a country hotel, he owns together with his rakish brother Arnošt. In his new home, Rudolf PRODUCER Zita Marinovová is struggling, unable to decide whether he should PRODUCTION COMPANY MS Elements settle down in a simple monogamous relationship or succumb to the lifestyle of notorious womanizer and SCRIPT Zita Marinovová DOP Martin Hes EDITOR Petr drunk Arnošt. On top of the constant hangover, the Staněk CAST Marek Vašut, Miroslav Etzler, Jitka brothers must deal with the annoying owner of the Čvančarová, Vanda Hybnerová neighboring hotel, with whom they – by mistake – started a war. And the victory is not always what we expect it to be.
2019 RELEASED FILMS 35 T UR ES FE A
Saint Sebastian’s Cry Pláč svatého Šebestiána
1st FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 89 min | Czech Period drama with balladic traits set in the realm directorS Milan Cyroň, Tomáš Uher of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of The Great Plague (1348). The story is based on the acts of PRODUCER Milan Cyroň violence committed at the time against the Jewish PRODUCTION COMPANY Cinéma Cuvée community in countries of central and western Europe. The protagonists are knights Gottfried and SCRIPT Milan Cyroň, Tomáš Uher DOP Lukáš Masner a generation younger Siegfried, who offers a shelter EDITORS Andy Fehu, Milan Cyroň SOUND Jan Tomšů to a Jew named Amos, chased by Gottfried. Gottfried, MUSIC Jakub Linhart, Jan Tomšů SET DESIGNER fanatically devoted to his conviction, insists on Amos Vendula Bělochová CAST Ondřej Malý, Ján Smolka, being handed over, which Siegfried refuses. Thus, the Kamila Janovičová, Matouš Ruml clash between the Christians and the Jews carries over to the plain of conflict between two members of the same social class with different standpoints.
FESTIVALS contact Cinéma Cuvée – Šimon Gillar Cinéma Cuvée – Milan Cyroň [email protected] [email protected] +420 737 170 459 +420 608 219 667
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Scent of Oranges Uzly a pomeranče
Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia In love with a girl that smells of oranges, while in 2019 | 92 min | Czech, German, Slovak a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is director Ivan Pokorný gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek’s world is full of joy PRODUCER Daniel Severa and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful PRODUCTION COMPANY Daniel Severa Production Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Kinderfilm, specimens of racing stables, but beings you should Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Trigon Production, Radio care for and love. Not even that is enough in life and Television Slovakia though, as Darek finds out nearing the summer’s end, closing his childhood forever. But just like any ending, SCRIPT Iva Procházková DOP Jürgen Rehberg EDITORS this means a start of something new. Andreas Baltschun, Michal Hýka SOUND Miroslav Hřebejk MUSIC Jiří Hájek SET DESIGNER David Voborský CAST Tomáš Dalecký, Emilie Neumeister, Stanislav Majer, Ewa Farna
Festivals contact Czech Television – Jitka Procházková Daniel Severa Production – Daniel Severa [email protected] [email protected] +420 736 531 568 +420 777 000 280
2019 RELEASED FILMS 37 T UR ES FE A
Shotgun Justice Teroristka
2nd FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | “Beware of old people, they have nothing to lose.” 95 min | Czech, Slovak The story of a retired teacher, who gets angry at director Radek Bajgar the whole world and refuses to spend the rest of her life with a sense of being a victim, who always PRODUCER Petr Erben has to surrender. She buys an illegal gun, learns to PRODUCTION COMPANY Logline Production shoot, and then points it at a man who seems to be CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Radio and omnipotent and non-punishable. „Are you threatening Television Slovakia me with life imprisonment? It will not be a long sentence. In addition, jail and retirement home are not SCRIPT Radek Bajgar DOP Lukáš Hyksa EDITOR Jan so different.“ Mattlach SOUND Radim Hladík jr. MUSIC Jiří Hájek SET DESIGNER Jan Vlček CAST Iva Janžurová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Pavel Liška, Martin Hofmann
FESTIVALS contact Logline Production – Barbora Zelenková Logline Production – Petr Erben [email protected] [email protected] +420 730 540 335 +420 602 244 544
38 2019 RELEASED FILMS T UR ES FE A
Snowing! Sněží!
1ST FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 76 min | Czech Tereza (30) and her sister Petra (29) attend their director Kristina Nedvědová father’s second wedding. Tereza is accompanied by František, her ex-boyfriend. They didn’t tell anyone PRODUCER Jitka Kotrlová about their breakup. After the wedding, all three go to PRODUCTION COMPANY Frame Films visit the sisters’ mother Ester who has lived with their CO-PRODUCTION Barrandov Studio, Bystrouška, grandma since the divorce. While visiting grandma’s SoundMice, i/o post, love.FRAME house, Tereza decides to take care of the grandma and the house from now on. The film pictures SCRIPT Kristina Nedvědová DOP Klára Belicová EDITOR a complicated small family whose members softly Tomáš Elšík SOUND Ivan Horák MUSIC Martin Tvrdý balance between their expectations and illusions. CAST Petra Nesvačilová, Hana Vagnerová, Vanda Hybnerová, Monika Pošívalová
contact Frame Films – Jitka Kotrlová [email protected] +420 774 131 613
2019 RELEASED FILMS 39 T UR ES FE A
Špindl 2
1st FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 109 min | Czech Silvie is a successful doctor, who believes to have director Radek Balaš finally found the recipe for a happy relationship. Renata is married to a famous author. At her PRODUCER Jiří Markvart workshops, she encourages other women to start PRODUCTION COMPANY JM Production a better life, while missing an important element in her own life. The dancer and actress Eliška SCRIPT Jaroslav Sauer DOP Jiří Markvart EDITOR starts a promising career, but her relationship with Jiří Markvart SOUND Martin Šulc CAST Radim Fiala, a musician gets complicated. The mountain rescue Kateřina Kaira Hrachovcová, Anna Čtvrtníčková, men are always ready to help. Where else should Hana Vagnerová these stories intersect than at snowy Špindlerův mlýn ski resort?
contact JM Production – Jiří Markvart [email protected] +420 603 240 214
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The Abstainer Abstinent
Czech Republic 2019 | 78 min | Czech Nineteen-year-old Adam becomes a patient of director David Vigner an alcohol treatment institute, the place, most people associate with older habitual drunkards. PRODUCER David Vigner More and more – even very young – people are PRODUCTION COMPANY David Vigner Film alcohol addicted these days. Adam had his whole life ahead of him. All he needed to do was pass SCRIPT David Vigner, Lucie Kryzová, Jan Jílek DOP Jan the final exam and send the application for the Vlnas EDITORS Lukáš Skalník, John Duffy Jr. SOUND university. But there was no rush. The time was František Šec, Jiří Gráf, Martin Stýblo MUSIC Marek just right for a big party with his mates, a date with Mrkvička SET DESIGNER Radka Josková CAST Josef a girl or a beer or something stronger with a friend. Trojan, Jessica Bechyňová, Šimon Fridrich, Vasil Adam was convinced that he was having everything Fridrich under control. He perceived drinking as an effective medicine against boredom and he felt much more careless and funnier with its help. And his parents? They were cool and didn’t notice too much. But then it all went wrong.
contact David Vigner Film – Tomáš Macháček [email protected] +420 703 615 780
2019 RELEASED FILMS 41 T UR ES FE A
The Glass Room Skleněný pokoj
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | In early 1930s, a remarkable modernist villa is built in 104 min | English Czechoslovakia for a wealthy Jewish family Landauer. director Julius Ševčík The family life dreamt up by Liesel, bathed in light and clarity of the focal point of the house – the PRODUCER Rudolf Biermann “Glass Room” – augmented by a relationship with her PRODUCTION COMPANY IN Film Praha inseparable friend Hana, does not endure. Sense of CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Investito, JOJ unfulfilled love, discovery of betrayal and Nazi threat SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA overtake this transparent space. In panic caused by the German invasion, the Landauers flee their home, SCRIPT Andrew Shaw DOP Martin Štrba EDITOR leaving everything behind. An affair with a German Jarosław Kamiński SOUND Pavel Rejholec MUSIC engineer Stahl allows Hana to return to the magical Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz, Rupert Vokmann SET Glass Room, where her memories of Liesel and the DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Carice van Houten, pre-war days are reinvigorated. The forced separation Hanna Alström, Claes Bang, Karel Roden of Liesel and Hana seems to strengthen their feelings for each other. Will hope, symbolized by Glass Room, prevail?
contact IN Film Praha – Rudolf Biermann [email protected] +420 222 515 357
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The Humorist Humorista
1st FILM minority co-production
Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic 2019 | In 1984, the USSR’s most famous and beloved stand- 101 min | Russian up comedian Boris Arkadiev is slowly becoming director Michael Idov unhinged. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship, but also by his own PRODUCER Artem Vasilyev insecurities that poison all his relationships. This time, PRODUCTION COMPANY Metrafilms the eternal battle between an Artist and the State will CO-PRODUCTION Tasse Film, Sirena Film be fought on the unexpected level of insult humor SUPPORT Eurimages routines and jokes. Humorist is a psychological drama raising timeless issues: Is talent an excuse SCRIPT Lily Idova, Michael Idov DOP Alexander for unprincipled behavior; can someone working in Šurkala EDITOR Michal Lánský MUSIC David Mason the “low genre” of comedy be considered an artist; CAST Aleksey Agranovich, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Alisa what is the value of success achieved at the cost of Khazanova, Pavel Ilyin, Polina Aug endless compromise.
INTERNATIONAL SALES m-appeal – Aleksanda Abykova [email protected] +49 178 554 675 4 contact FESTIVALS Sirena Film – Artemio Benki m-appeal – Magdalena Banasik [email protected] [email protected] +420 602 332 793 +49 306 150 725 2
2019 RELEASED FILMS 43 T UR ES FE A
The Last Aristocrat Poslední aristokratka
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | Native New Yorker Frank has reacquired his noble 110 min | Czech family’s ancient Bohemian seat – Kostka Castle, director Jiří Vejdělek which he has not visited in 40 years. He gets ready to make a glorious homecoming with his daughter, PRODUCERS Ondřej Zima, Silvie Michajlova, Pavel Maria, and his wife, Vivien. But the newly minted Berčík aristocrats have no knowledge of local customs or PRODUCTION COMPANY Evolution Films the ins-and-outs of the 1990s Czech Republic, and CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, Czech Television, Certicon all they know of castle life comes from their relatives’ Group, Hangar Films, Innogy age-old yarns. The family arrives with their lawyer, Benda, only to discover that Kostka is in a state of SCRIPT Jiří Vejdělek DOP Vladimír Smutný EDITOR gradual decline and cut off from the world around Ondřej Hokr SOUND Michal Pajdiak MUSIC Michal it. Its only permanent inhabitants are a backward Novinski SET DESIGNER Martin Kurel CAST Hynek caretaker, Josef, a jovial housekeeper, Mrs. Tichá, Čermák, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Yvona Stolařová, Eliška and the hypochondriac maintenance man Lebeau. Balzerová
contact Evolution Films – Ondřej Zima [email protected] +420 736 751 010
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The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče
Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by 2019 | 169 min | Slavic Esperanto his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. director Václav Marhoul The old woman soon dies, and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village PRODUCER Václav Marhoul to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy PRODUCTION COMPANY Silver Screen suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Milada a Eduard the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses Kučerovi, Directory Films, PubRes, Radio and the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless Television Slovakia, Certicon Group, Innogy, soldiers, both Russian and German. When the war Richard Kaucký, Monte Rosso Production ends, The Boy has been changed forever. SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA SCRIPT Václav Marhoul DOP Vladimír Smutný EDITOR Luděk Hudec SOUND Jakub Čech, Pavel Rejholec SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák CAST Petr Kotlár, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper
International Sales Celluloid Dreams – Francois-Nicolas Descombes contact [email protected] Silver Screen – Václav Marhoul +33 6 46 72 00 06 [email protected] +420 602 202 811 Festivals Celluloid Dreams – Pascale Ramonda [email protected] 2019 RELEASED FILMS 45 T UR ES FE A
The Play HRA
Czech Republic, Chile, France, South The world of the young theatre director Petr in a small Korea 2019 | 93 min | Czech Czech town crumbles after he decides to realize director Alejandro Fernández his dream: to adapt an overly ambitious play based on Euripides’ classic Phaedra. During rehearsals Almendras he loses his two main actors and the municipality PRODUCERS Veronika Finková, Bruno Bettati, Augusto threatens to cut funding due to the play’s political Matte, Guillaume de Seille content. Petr falls for young actress Karolína, who PRODUCTION COMPANIES Film & Roll, Jirafa, Arizona plays the lead. Tensions at his home grow; he is not Productions much of a present husband and a father. Shortly CO-PRODUCTION Magiclab, Sleepwalker, Inti Briones, before the premiere both women leave him. Petr Jeonju Cinema Project attempts to save his masterpiece, but the play is a fiasco. Devastated, he tries to regain last pieces left SCRIPT Alejandro Fernández Almendras DOP Inti of his life. But isn’t it far too late? Briones EDITOR Alejandro Fernández Almendras Klára Javoříková, Lukáš Ujčík Pablo SOUND MUSIC contact Vergara SET DESIGNER Hynek Dřízhal CAST Jiří Mádl, Film & Roll – Veronika Finková Elizaveta Maximová, Marika Šoposká, Ondřej Malý [email protected] +420 603 865 157
Festivals Jirafa – Bruno Bettati [email protected] +56 998211708
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The Prague Orgy Pražské orgie
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | The famous American writer Philip Roth based his 112 min | English, Czech book of the same name partially on his authentic director Irena Pavlásková experiences. In 1970’s, after the Soviet occupation of 1968, he used to visit Prague to help the PRODUCERS Viktor Schwarcz, Irena Pavlásková banned Czechoslovak writers. Despite the political PRODUCTION COMPANY Prague Movie Company oppression, the social life in Prague was rampant, full CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Eydelle Film, of amusement and open relationships. The greater Cineart TV Prague, Arina, Europeana Production, the pressure of the regime was, the stronger got Analog Vision Czechs’ desire to resort to their free private intimate worlds. The story depicts a journey of the famous SCRIPT Irena Pavlásková DOP Alexander Šurkala American writer Nathan Zuckerman who arrives in EDITOR Pavel Hrdlička SOUND Igor Pokorný, Jiří Klenka Prague in 1976. He carries out a mission to save a MUSIC Jiří Chlumecký SET DESIGNER Jiří Sternwald CAST unique collection of brilliant tales written in Yiddish by Jonas Chernick, Ksenia Rappoport, Pavel Kříž, Klára smuggling them across the border. Issová
festivals contact Analog Vision – Michal Kráčmer Prague Movie Company – Viktor Schwarcz [email protected] [email protected] +420 602 838 388 +420 777 220 364
2019 RELEASED FILMS 47 T UR ES FE A
The Prize for Happiness Cena za štěstí
2ND FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 92 min | Czech Who pays for our mistakes? Ordinary human director Olga Dabrowská happiness comes in many forms, some obvious, some unexpected. Where to find it and what must be PRODUCER Jiří Tuček sacrificed to attain it? The film tells stories of several PRODUCTION COMPANY DonArt production people who got lost in their search for happiness and are trying to get back on track. Relationships, SCRIPT Olga Dabrowská DOP Diviš Marek EDITOR love, power, and, of course, children, who bring us Zuzana Staregová SOUND Pavel Dvořák MUSIC Jan hope and joy but often must atone for our mistakes. P. Muchow SET DESIGNER Petr Pištěk CAST Ivana The film’s several independent storylines focus on Chýlková, Vanda Hybnerová, Klára Pollertová individual characters whose paths gradually intersect Trojanová, Tomáš Hanák to create one grand story of life. A tangle of children and partners that you might chance to meet any day.
contact DonArt production – Jakub Bureš [email protected]
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The Summer with a Gentleman Léto s gentlemanem
Czech Republic 2019 | 98 min | Czech Anna and her husband spend every summer at their director Jiří Adamec cottage outside Prague. They have been married for ages and their marriage is not what it used to be. PRODUCERS Jaromír Hanzlík, Jiří Adamec Anna’s husband spends most of the time playing cards with friends in the local pub or making small SCRIPT Jaromír Hanzlík DOP Václav Tlapák EDITOR models of ships of matches, and Anna is almost Libor Merta SOUND Ondřej Muška MUSIC Pavel invisible to him. One day, an elegant gentleman Artur Orm, Petr Orm SET DESIGNER Tomáš Kuča CAST appears in the village, whom everyone expects to Jaromír Hanzlík, Alena Antalová, Igor Bareš, Lucie be the new owner of the local rundown castle. Anna Vondráčková immediately falls for him. Artur is elegant, thoughtful and gives her the attention she missed for so long. Anna escapes from her monotonous life towards the romantic adventures with Artur more and more often.
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The Water KEEPING ME AFLOAT Voda čo ma drží nad vodou
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | A film about Jozef Urban, a legend of the Czech- 73 min | Slovak Slovak poetic scene. The amusingly dramatic director Tomáš Magnusek story about one of the greatest Slovak poets, the representative of the so-called lost generation, the PRODUCER Tomáš Magnusek author of the King David musical libretto and many PRODUCTION COMPANY Magnus Film popular song lyrics. A genius who couldn’t cope with everyday life issues but whose work became a part SCRIPT Ondrej Kalamár, Tomáš Magnusek DOP Pavel of school-leaving exams when he was still in his Mědílek MUSIC Lukáš Černý CAST Roman Pomajbo, thirties. The film focuses on the last seven years of his Robert Roth, Andrea Růžičková Kerestešová, Martin turbulent life. His loves, hopes, disappointments, falls Dejdar and rises and battles with his inner demons. He never lived to see the release of his most popular song, The Water Keeping Me Afloat, as he tragically died in a car accident.
contact Magnus Film – Tomáš Magnusek [email protected] +420 774 525 604
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V zajetí sítě
Czech Republic 2019 | 91 min | Czech To have the best story, Hanka, a young ambitious director Matěj Krátký journalist, is willing to do anything. When young girls start to disappear in her town and Hanka, as an PRODUCER Roman Florian investigative journalist, starts to deal with the case, she discovers tracks leading to certain prominent SCRIPT Dominik Macháček, Martina Rundštuková, people. The case almost becomes fatal for her, and Romana Jungová DOP Matěj Danielčík EDITOR Roman without her colleague Oscar’s help, she would get Florian SOUND Martin Hrnčíř MUSIC Ladislav Novotný into real trouble. The film warns about the danger of CAST Josef Mádle, Romana Jungová, Petr Kubík, social media, the young generation is not aware of, Stanislav Vít police corruption and influence money has on the world.
contact Roman Florian [email protected]
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Watchmaker‘s Apprentice Hodinářův učeň
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | Standing over the cradle of newborn Urban are 102 min | Czech three Fates: two nice ones, who wish him wealth director Jitka Rudolfová and love, and the third evil one, predicting poverty and endless hardship. Urban is soon orphaned and PRODUCER Pavel Berčík a miserly watchmaker takes him in as an apprentice. PRODUCTION COMPANY Evolution Films When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, Czech Television watchmaker’s daughter, Laura. Her father sends him off into the world to seek a watch that can warn SCRIPT Jitka Rudolfová DOP Ferdinand Mazurek EDITOR of death. If Urban fails to bring it, Laura will never Jakub Hejna SOUND Richard Müller MUSIC Ivan Acher, become his wife. Urban sets off on a long journey Michal Novinski SET DESIGNER Martin Kurel CAST full of obstacles and tasks he must face with bravery, Michal Balcar, Viktor Preiss, Jana Plodková, Jaroslav watchmaking skills, and a good heart. His love for Plesl Laura drives him onward just as the three Fates are ever at his back, two to help him along and one constantly trying to trip him up.
contact Evolution Films – Pavel Berčík [email protected] +420 777 932 957
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Women at the Peak Ženská na vrcholu
Czech Republic, Slovakia 2019 | Helena, a bit quirky single mother and owner of a bio 107 min | Czech, Slovak café, is weary of her partner‘s promises of spending director Lenka Kny Christmas with her and their 8-year-old son Mikuláš. Prompted by her aunt Ela, Helena with Mikuláš leave PRODUCER Lenka Kny Prague to spend Christmas in the mountains. Due to PRODUCTION COMPANY BLUETIME her own absent-mindedness and a twist of fate, she CO-PRODUCTION Art4, Investito finds herself instead of a luxurious hotel in a mountain cottage called Loneliness, where mountaineer SCRIPT Hana Cielová, Lenka Kny DOP Michael Richard practices adrenaline sports. The loner lives Baumbruck EDITOR Alois Fišárek SOUND Ján Ravasz, with his little daughter Zuza and a very sociable Martin Merc MUSIC Michal Pavlíček SET DESIGNER Otto brother Mišo. And unsuspecting Helena doesn’t Hausler CAST Anna Polívková, Martin Dejdar, Marek know yet about her loving mother’s plan to make her Němec, Jana Preissová disapproving father join Helena in the mountain resort too. It‘s Christmas time and family should be together!
contact BLUETIME – Lenka Kny [email protected] +420 603 419 595
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Women on the Run Ženy v běhu
1st FILM
Czech Republic 2019 | 93 min | Czech Věra has lived a wonderful life with Jindřich, and director Martin Horský she is determined to fulfil his last wish – running a marathon! She and her daughters would split PRODUCER Tomáš Hoffman up the route into four parts, to overcome the over PRODUCTION COMPANY Infinity Prague 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay CO-PRODUCTION CinemArt team. There‘s three months left until the start, and trainer Vojta has prepared a great fitness plan. The SCRIPT Martin Horský DOP Jan Drnek EDITOR Ondřej daughters aren‘t rushing to start running, however. Hokr SOUND Michal Pajdiak, Viktor Prášil SET DESIGNER They‘re dealing with a different sort of problems Milan Býček CAST Jenovéfa Boková, Tereza Kostková, altogether. What applies to running applies to life as Veronika Khek Kubařová, Zlata Adamovská well. It‘s important to persevere and not give up when the finish line is within reach.
contact Infinity Prague – Tomáš Hoffman [email protected] +420 724 102 118
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a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i- JONESTOWN á-B-C-D-é-F-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN
1st FILM EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech Fanatic sect leader‘s never-ending flow of words director Jan Bušta culminates in the drinking of poison. A thousand faithful commit ritual suicide, the largest in modern PRODUCER Radim Procházka times. These dramatic moments were caught on tape PRODUCTION COMPANY Produkce Radim Procházka which bore witness to the event. On that basis a film CO-PRODUCTION Lubomír Konečný experiment came to pass in which the sect members COMPLETION DATE March 2020 are represented by children. In a “live broadcast“, the film brings an electrifying experience of demagogy SCRIPT Jan Bušta DOP Michal Černý EDITOR Šimon and manipulation, at the same time representing Špidla SOUND Jan Balcar SET DESIGNER Petra a cinephile tribute to film experiment milestones, Vlachynská CAST Jakub Kanhäuser “demagogically manipulating“ with all elements of film narration and audience‘s expectations.
contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka [email protected] +420 603 862 161
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Absence
Czech Republic, Iran, Slovakia | Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, away from his troubled 100 min | English, Czech, Persian family life in Tehran, to immerse himself in a research director Ali Mosaffa of his father’s past. When visiting the flat where his father, a communist expatriate, lived 50 years ago, PRODUCERS Jordi Niubó, Ali Mosaffa in the times of Czechoslovakia, he is stopped by PRODUCTION COMPANIES i/o post, Ali Mosaffa a policewoman investigating a recent accident. The Productions current resident of the flat, Vladimír, who turns out to CO-PRODUCTION Arina be Rouzbeh’s half-brother, has fallen out the window. SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA Discovering hidden corners of Vladimír’s life and COMPLETION DATE March 2020 getting closer to his soul, Rouzbeh learns a shocking truth about his father, which is in total contradiction to SCRIPT Ali Mosaffa DOP Masoud Salami EDITOR Fardin the hero he used to admire in him. This puts him on Sahebzamani SOUND Vahid Moghadassi SET DESIGNER a path identical to the one bringing Vladimír to the fall Jalil Fotouhinia CAST Ali Mosaffa, Zuzana Stivínová, out of the window. Klára Melíšková, Zuzana Kronerová
contact i/o post – Jordi Niubo [email protected] +420 604 703 308
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Bourák
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 80 min | Your mother wastes away in front of your eyes, Czech pretending to be oblivious, while your dad, hit by yet director Ondřej Trojan another attack of chronic puberty, shakes a leg with some twenty-year-old who looks like a model from PRODUCER Ondřej Trojan an old American bra catalogue. Can you stand it PRODUCTION COMPANY Total HelpArt T.H.A. anymore? The way your own parents lead their lives? CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, PubRes, bpd Feeling ashamed of your dad while your mum pulls partners the wool over her own eyes? As their only daughter, COMPLETION DATE February 2020 you could do something about it. Would you? I did. And all of it ended with a few funerals and one SCRIPT Petr Jarchovský, Evita Naušová DOP Tomáš beautiful wedding. Sysel EDITOR Vladimír Barák MUSIC Roman Holý SET DESIGNER Tomáš Svoboda CAST Ivan Trojan, Veronika Marková, Kristýna Boková, Jiří Macháček
Festivals contact Eva Přibylová Total HelpArt T.H.A. – Ondřej Trojan [email protected] [email protected] +420 732 621 590 +420 602 327 165
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Charlatan Šarlatán
Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Inspired by the true story of herbalist Jan Mikolášek, Slovakia | 118 min | Czech who dedicated his life to caring for the sick in spite director Agnieszka Holland of the immense obstacles he faced in his private and public life. Born at the turn of the 20th century, PRODUCERS Šárka Cimbalová, Kevan van Thompson Mikolášek wins fame and fortune using unorthodox PRODUCTION COMPANY Marlene Film Production treatment methods to cure a wide range of diseases. CO-PRODUCTION Film and Music Entertainment, Already a local institution in Czechoslovakia before Madants, Furia Film, Czech Television, Barrandov World War II, the healer gains in reputation and Studio, Radio and Television Slovakia, Certicon, wealth whether during the Nazi occupation or under Magiclab the Communist rule. One after the other, every COMPLETION DATE February 2020 regime will want to use his skills and in return gives SCRIPT Marek Epstein DOP Martin Štrba EDITOR Pavel him protection. But how high shall be the costs to Hrdlička SOUND Radim Hladík MUSIC Antoni Komasa- maintain this status as the tide turns? Łazarkiewicz SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná
INTERNATIONAL SALES Films Boutique – Jean-Christophe Simon [email protected] contact +49 173 591 5767 Marlene Film Production – Šárka Cimbalová [email protected] Festivals +420 602 314 776 Films Boutique – Isabel Ivars [email protected] +49 152 54309222 POSTPRODUCTION 59 T UR ES FE A
City on the River Město na řece
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic | Ansis earns his living as a sign painter, a seemingly 110 min | Latvian, Russian, German innocent occupation. His craft is needed in every director Viesturs Kairišs regime – the authoritarian Thirties, the following Nazism as well as Communism. Ansis is compelled PRODUCER Guntis Trekteris to cooperate. He paints the signs of the city green, PRODUCTION COMPANY Ego Media later replaced by red and finally brown. But then he CO-PRODUCTION ARTBOX, 8Heads Productions gets caught up in a love triangle. While being in love COMPLETION DATE January 2020 with the Jewish girl Zisla, whom he cannot marry for religious and social reasons, he falls for a Latvian girl, SCRIPT Viesturs Kairišs DOP Gints Bērziņš EDITOR who quickly captures his heart. Historical events turn Armands Začs SOUND Ludvík Bohadlo, Robert the perspective of relationships upside down as Zisla, Slezák MUSIC Juste Janulyte SET DESIGNER Ieva the daughter of a rich merchant, turns into a class Jurjane CAST Dāvis Suharevskis, Brigita Cmuntová, enemy – a communist. Ansis’s relationship with both Agnese Cīrule, Gundars Āboliņš women becomes explosive after Zisla falls victim to the Nazis’ persecutions.
contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel [email protected] +420 602 292 971
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Daria
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 84 min | Czech The film about fear; about the thin line between director Matěj Pichler madness and sanity and about the equally thin line between truth and fiction. Psychiatrist Marek meets PRODUCER Michal Theer Daria, a young pharmacist, on chat. He is immediately PRODUCTION COMPANY Europe DMT Production smitten with her, but ever since their first date, CO-PRODUCTION Patrik Kettner a succession of peculiar events begins to unfold. COMPLETION DATE January 2020 Moreover, Daria disappears and turns up a week later as a patient in the mental sanatorium where Marek SCRIPT Daniel Miňovský DOP Aleš Hart EDITOR Jakub works. He takes up her case and slowly begins to Vansa SOUND Tomáš Bělohradský MUSIC Patrik Kettner unravel that there is something wrong with her. SET DESIGNER Štěpán Kuklík CAST Jaromír Nosek, Klára Miklasová, Pawel Delag, Jiří Schmitzer
contact Europe DMT Production – Michal Theer [email protected] +420 604 976 557
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Dear Ones
2ND FILM minority co-production
Poland, Czech Republic | 75 min | Polish Allegorical story about people who miss a real director Grzegorz Jaroszuk contact with their family and friends. Piotr is looking for a purpose and order in his life. To find it, he turns PRODUCER Agnieszka Kurzydlo to magic, religion, and psychology. Unexpectedly, his PRODUCTION COMPANY MD4 father calls him and asks Piotr to come to his family CO-PRODUCTION Axman Production home immediately. Piotr arrives at the same time as COMPLETION DATE April 2020 his sister, Marta, whom he hardly remembers and does not recognize. The father called for Piotr and SCRIPT Grzegorz Jaroszuk DOP John Magnus Borge, Marta because their mother went missing. Family Robert Lis EDITOR Krzysztof Komander SOUND Michał members who meet for the first time after many Fojcik MUSIC Petr Ostrouchov SET DESIGNER Antonín years begin to search for her together. The facts they Šilar CAST Olaf Lubaszenko, Adam Bobik, Izabela discover about their mother make them redefine what Gwizdak, Piotr Żurawski kind of family they are.
contact Axman Production – Karla Stojáková [email protected] +420 603 553 915
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Deer Jelen
minority co-production
Romania, Czech Republic, Latvia | 100 At the first glance, this project is a genre film, min | Romanian combining and subverting several popular cinema director George Bogdan Apetri archetypes: film noir, detective story, action film, anti-hero character, etc. At the same time, all these PRODUCER Florin Serban purely filmic elements work by supporting and PRODUCTION COMPANY Fantascope Films complementing a very strong, original central story, CO-PRODUCTION Cineart TV Prague, Tasse Film set in a unique and a very specific place: the world SUPPORT Eurimages of the small town in Romania. The synergy which COMPLETION DATE September 2020 results from the combination of these different approaches makes this story a courageous but SCRIPT Iulian Postelnicu DOP Marius Panduru EDITOR perfectly calculated challenge. The film has the Eugen Kelemen SOUND Jiří Klenka SET DESIGNER suspense of a thriller, however, it gets the audience Simona Paduretu CAST Mimi Branescu, Alexandru deeply involved not by the cliché and cardboard-cut Dabija, Rafael Florea, Ana Ularu characters but by authentic, genuine people, places and relationships.
contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz [email protected] +420 777 220 364
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Droneman Modelář
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia | Having worked for several years in Israel as 109 min | Czech, English, Hebrew a chemist, Pavel witnessed a terrorist attack. After director Petr Zelenka return to the Czech Republic, he is approached by an old friend to help him with a film commercial, flying PRODUCERS Petr Zelenka, Martin Sehnal a drone. Pavel enjoys working with the drone, but he PRODUCTION COMPANY 0,7km films realizes that life around him is dissatisfying – there CO-PRODUCTION Czech Televison, Punkchart films, is a lot of tension among people, but none is able Fabula, Innogy, Hangar Films to take direct action or to see a bigger picture. So COMPLETION DATE January 2020 Pavel sets out to “do the right thing”. He aims straight to the top, choosing to eliminate Dick Cheney, the SCRIPT Petr Zelenka DOP Alexander Šurkala EDITOR controversial American politician and businessman, Vladimír Barák SOUND Petr Neubauer MUSIC Janez on his upcoming visit to Prague. It’s not too difficult Dovč, Janka Djagileva, Jan Ponocný SET DESIGNER for Pavel, an ex-chemist, to build a home-made Nikola Tempír CAST Kryštof Hádek, Jiří Mádl, Veronika explosive. The question is – can he succeed? Khek Kubařová, Richard Stanke
contact 0,7km films – Martin Sehnal [email protected] +420 777 245 589
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Happiness is a Bliss Štěstí je krásná věc
Czech Republic | 99 min | Czech Winning a lot of money in a lottery definitely changes director Jiří Diarmaid Novák one’s life. The question is in what way. Čenda and Jana have no happy life. Both are unemployed, Čenda has PRODUCER Pavel Pásek debts wherever he turns, and his most frequent visitor PRODUCTION COMPANY Mojo film is a bailiff. But the lottery ticket blessed by a priest COMPLETION DATE January 2020 would change everything. The fabulous prize opens the door to a great world of unlimited possibilities, SCRIPT Jaroslav Sauer DOP Petr Hojda EDITOR Petr but also to a lot of new friends who would like to cut Svoboda SOUND Marek Hart MUSIC René Rypar SET a piece from the cake. At the end, the couple find that DESIGNER Lucie Fejková CAST Petra Hřebíčková, Karel the greatest win in life is love. Zima, Ondřej Pavelka, Jan Dolanský
contact Mojo film – Pavel Pásek [email protected] +420 602 326 326
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Havel
2ND FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 120 min | Drama inspired by the life and personal development Czech, Slovak of Václav Havel, prominent Czech playwright/ director Slávek Horák dissident/president. The film focuses on Havel‘s transformation from successful – later banned – PRODUCER Slávek Horák playwright of the late 60s into human rights fighter PRODUCTION COMPANY TVORBA films in the 70s, leading to his presidency in the late 80‘s. CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Novinski A drama of self-doubting intellectual, torn between SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA his own passions and self-imposed duties. From COMPLETION DATE May 2020 careless bohemian, Havel grows into mature man, realizing the uniqueness of the opportunity he was SCRIPT Slávek Horák, Rudolf Suchánek DOP Jan given, but also the huge responsibility connected with Šťastný EDITOR Vladimír Barák CAST Viktor Dvořák, it, he had to accept. Both for the greater good and to Anna Geislerová prove his worth – above all to himself.
contact TVORBA films – Slávek Horák [email protected] +420 603 206 038
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In the Dusk Za soumraku
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Lithuania, France, Czech Republic, Lithuania, 1948. The war is over, but the country Serbia, Portugal, Latvia | 90 min | is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of Lithuanian, Russian partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. The fight is unequal, but this desperate struggle director Šarūnas Bartas will determine the future of the whole nation. At the PRODUCERS Šarūnas Bartas, Janja Kralj age of discovering the life and love, Untė is also PRODUCTION COMPANIES Studija Kinema, KinoElektron confronted with violence and betrayal. The lines CO-PRODUCTION Sirena Film, Biberche Production, between the burning passion of his youth and the Terratreme, Mistrus Media cause for which he is fighting are blurred. At the risk SUPPORT Eurimages of losing his innocence, he is ready to commit himself COMPLETION DATE January 2020 completely...
SCRIPT Šarūnas Bartas, Ausra Giedraityte DOP Eitvydas Doskus SOUND Fabrice Osinski SET DESIGNER Aivars Zukovskis, Jurģis Krāsons CAST Elijas Martynenko, Arvydas Dapšys, Alina Žaliukaitė- Ramanauskienė, Vita Šiaučiūnaitė
INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS contact Luxbox – Hédi Zardi Sirena Film – Petra Oplatková [email protected] [email protected] +420 775 619 541
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Kryštof
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 110 min | Kryštof, a youth approaching adulthood, is living Czech, Slovak as a new postulant before taking his vows in director Zdeněk Jiráský a community of monks somewhere in Czech Šumava mountains. Not only does he share with the brothers PRODUCERS Olga Raitoralová, Marian Urban their world of contemplation, but also their role as PRODUCTION COMPANIES Fulfilm, ALEF Film & Media a link in the long chain smuggling fugitives from the CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television communist regime across the border to Bavaria. COMPLETION DATE March 2020 Kryštof once wanted to flee from the world into a monastery, but instead he has to flee to save his SCRIPT Kristián Suda DOP Michal Černý EDITOR very life and to understand it is his last chance to Radoslav Dubravský SOUND Michal Džadoň SET revolt against the brutal political power and save DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Mikuláš Bukovjan, a loved person. Alexandra Borbély, David Uzsak, Stanislav Majer
contact Fulfilm – Olga Raitoralová [email protected] +420 732 420 450
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Lost in Paradise Ztraceni v ráji
1ST FILM MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Switzerland, Czech Republic | After having built up, managed and lost his 100 min | German, Czech underground music club in Prague, the city his father director Fiona Ziegler emigrated from in the 1960s, bankrupted Evžen (39) shows up as a surprise guest at home in Switzerland. PRODUCERS Rajko Jazbec, Kristýna Michálek Květová His initial plan to get a loan and come quickly back PRODUCTION COMPANIES Cognito Films, Cinémotif Films to Prague to save his dream will change shortly after COMPLETION DATE October 2020 his arrival. He has to face his family‘s life struggles. Apparently, those didn‘t change much since he left SCRIPT Fiona Ziegler DOP Yvonne Teyslerová SET for Prague many years ago. DESIGNER Ivana Kanhauserová CAST Dominique Jahn, Hana Vagnerová, Ivan Pokorný
contact Cinemotif Films – Kristýna Michálek Květová [email protected] +420 731 203 715
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Martin and the Forest Secret Mazel a tajemství lesa
Czech Republic, Poland, Germany | The kids from a scout club often spend summer 80 min | Czech vacation at a place hidden in mountains of the director Petr Oukropec romantic Královka region. For three weeks they live like savages – sleeping in a tepee, washing PRODUCER Peter Badač in a creek, cooking their meals on fire and having PRODUCTION COMPANY BFILM.cz fun in the woods around. This time, the club goes CO-PRODUCTION Wajda Studio, Leitwolf Filmproduktion to Královka for the last time. Due to a plan to mine SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA lithium there, the wilderness will disappear forever. COMPLETION DATE September 2020
SCRIPT Kateřina Kačerovská DOP Lukáš Teren SET DESIGNER Henrich Boráros
INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS contact LevelK – Stine Bomholt-Hansen BFILM.cz – Peter Badač [email protected] [email protected] +45 2636 4091 +420 776 451 425
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Medieval Jan Žižka
minority co-production
United States, Czech Republic, United Epic film inspired by the true story of one of the Kingdom | 120 min | English, Czech greatest commanders of his time, never defeated Jan director Petr Jákl Žižka of Trocnov, who, thanks to his deeds, became a legend. PRODUCERS Petr Jákl, Cassian Elwes PRODUCTION COMPANIES WOG FILM, Elevated Films CO-PRODUCTION KBernhardt, Double Tree Entertainment, Trebor Productions SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2021
SCRIPT Petr Jákl DOP Jesper Tøffne EDITOR Steven Rosenblum, Dirk Westervelt SET DESIGNER Jiří Šternwald CAST Ben Foster, Matthew Goode, Michael Caine, William Moseley
International Sales contact Highland Film Group – Arianne Fraser WOG FILM – Petr Jákl [email protected] [email protected] +1 310 271 8400 +420 608 702 079
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My Story Můj příběh
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Young talented Elizabeth leaves a successful career directorS Libor Adam, Hana in ballet for love. The man who has stolen her heart, Hendrychová however, has a dark side, and in a single moment Elizabeth loses everything dear to her in life. But PRODUCER Pavla Krečmerová what seems like the end turns out to be a new PRODUCTION COMPANY PAL Production beginning. Elizabeth goes to Moravia to cope with CO-PRODUCTION HN Film, IS Produkce, Nakladatelství her misfortunes and demons. With the help of four ASKI, Studio Beep, Winters PNP incredible girlfriends and her Aunt Marie, who has COMPLETION DATE January 2020 been her support all her life, Elizabeth embarks on a new life and, above all, newfound belief in herself. SCRIPT Libor Adam, Pavla Krečmerová DOP Lukáš A vision is born out of crushing cruelty and hopeful Hendrych EDITOR Jakub Řikovský SOUND Lukáš reawakening, giving Elizabeth not only a second Moudrý MUSIC Petr Malásek SET DESIGNER Johana chance at true happiness but heartfelt love as well. Střížková CAST Vlastina Svátková, Vilma Cibulková, Saša Rašilov, Pavel Kříž
contact PAL Production – Pavla Krečmerová [email protected] +420 606 143 106
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Nikola Šuhaj
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | A film lyric based on the famous Czech stage Czech, Ukrainian, Slovak musical A Ballad for a Bandit. A burned-out group director Vladimír Morávek of intellectuals from Brno decides to travel to the Ukrainian Kolochava to perform the famous play PRODUCERS Petr Minařík, Pavel Řehořík, Mátyás there. However, nearly everything goes wrong. They Prikler, Zora Jaurová arrive late, the Ukrainians expected something else PRODUCTION COMPANIES Větrné mlýny, MPhilms and supposedly reliable South Czech Philharmonic CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, South Czech get lost somewhere in Transcarpathia. Romanticizing Philharmonic story about the bandit Nikola Šuhaj, brought to the COMPLETION DATE September 2020 Czech-Slovak cultural context by Ivan Olbracht, changing in the hands of the original director into SCRIPT Vladimír Morávek DOP Petr Příkaský, Noro poetry, which doesn’t live there and then, but strictly Hudec EDITOR Jiří Mikula SOUND Jiří Kalužný, Tobias here and now. Potočný MUSIC Miloš Štědroň CAST Jan Zadražil, Martin Huba, Eva Vrbková, Bolek Polívka
contact Větrné mlýny – Petr Minařík [email protected] +420 732 237 571
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Perinbaba and the Two Worlds Perinbaba a dva světy
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 100 min Lukáš embarks on a quest to find love and director Juraj Jakubisko happiness. He teams up with a little dog. One of them tears everything apart, the other sews it back PRODUCER Deana Jakubisková together. Their journey goes from bad to worse, PRODUCTION COMPANIES J&J JAKUBISKO FILM heading for a tragic end. The Magical Seven, EUROPE SE, J&J JAKUBISKO FILM EUROPE bestowed upon Lukáš by Perinbaba, brings him Production into the enchanted land of the Seven-horned Ram CO-PRODUCTION TV JOJ and the Seven Raven Warriors. He meets beautiful COMPLETION DATE March 2020 Lucia and saves the doomed kingdom. Eventually, he has to decide: will he choose love or riches? SCRIPT Juraj Jakubisko DOP Jan Ďuriš EDITOR Ondřej Perinbaba gives Lukáš an opportunity to make up for Šošolík MUSIC Ondřej Soukup, Jan Jirásek SET his mistakes, and the Grim Reaper does not stand DESIGNER Andrea Vrábelová, Juraj Jakubisko CAST a chance. Lukáš Frlajs, Valeria Stašková
contact J&J JAKUBISKO FILM EUROPE SE – Deana Jakubisková [email protected] +420 724 936 331
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Princess lost in time Princezna zakletá v čase
2ND FILM
Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech Princess Elen wakes up to her birthday celebrations director Petr Kubík knowing she must kill the evil witch who cursed her or find a true love. In case she doesn’t make it, PRODUCER Viktor Krištof the kingdom will be destroyed by dark storm, as it PRODUCTION COMPANY three brothers has already happened multiple times. Luckily, the CO-PRODUCTION ProfesionalniVideo, QQ studio Ostrava princess is protected by a magical mark which she COMPLETION DATE January 2020 was given by the court alchemist. However, will she be able to persuade her friends, break the strong SCRIPT Petr Kubík, Lukáš Pařík, Viktor Krištof DOP warding spells and defeat the powerful witch? Pavel Kopp EDITOR Matěj Jankovský MUSIC Lukáš The mark weakens and is unluckily revealed and Pařík SET DESIGNER Vladimír Pešek, Pavel Svoboda destroyed by the witch. Princess has got one last CAST Marek Lambora, Natalie Germani, Eliška chance to save herself and the kingdom. Her friends Křenková, Viktor Krištof are willing to sacrifice everything but why should they be successful right now? Maybe destroying the witch is not the only way and the princess will have to sacrifice much more...
FESTIVALS contact three brothers – Kristýna Kamenická three brothers – Viktor Krištof [email protected] [email protected] +420 728 223 042 +420 724 809 247
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Scumbag Sviňa
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 98 min | A small, picturesque country is controlled by high- Slovak ranking criminals, people linked to politics, the mafia, director Mariana Čengel Solčanská the police, judges and big business. A teenage drug addict who escaped from a resocialization PRODUCERS Rudolf Biermann, Mariana Čengel centre wants to complain about being forced into sex Solčanská, Marek Jeníček and drug abuse at the police but is sent away. She PRODUCTION COMPANIES IN Film Praha, Magic Seven finds a journalist, who unravels an incredible web of Slovakia, Cinemart SK crime, gangsters and extortion. A talented politician COMPLETION DATE February 2020 becomes prime minister and controls the whole country, as people in power also control the police and SCRIPT Mariana Čengel Solčanská, Rudolf Biermann government contracts. A small-time black marketeer DOP Ivan Finta EDITOR Ondrej Azor SOUND Lukáš becomes a major blackmailer, using people as pawns Kasprzyk, Miloš Hanzély MUSIC Vladimír Martinka on a chessboard. Can truth ever prevail among people CAST Jozef Vajda, Marko Igonda, Daniel Heriban, who only care for money and power? Or does God Gabriela Marcinkova turn a blind eye to murder and greed?
contact IN Film Praha – Rudolf Biermann [email protected] +420 222 515 357
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Servants Služebníci
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at Ireland | 80 min | Slovak a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. director Ivan Ostrochovský Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the students into a shape satisfactory PRODUCERS Ivan Ostrochovský, Albert Malinovský, to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young Katarína Tomková seminarians must decide if he will give into PRODUCTION COMPANY Punkchart films the temptation and choose the easier way of CO-PRODUCTION Point Film, Radio and Television collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject Slovakia, Negativ, Film and Music Entertainment, himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police. Libra Film Productions, Hai Hui Entertainment, sentimentalfilm contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký Eurimages SUPPORT [email protected] COMPLETION DATE February 2020 +420 777 697 543
SCRIPT Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marek Leščák, Ivan INTERNATIONAL SALES Ostrochovský DOP Juraj Chlpík EDITORS Jan Daňhel, Loco Films – Laurent Danielou Martin Malo, Maroš Šlapeta SOUND Tobias Potočný [email protected] MUSIC Miroslav Tóth, Cristian Lolea CAST Samuel +33 6 64209160 Skyva, Samuel Polakovič, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko FESTIVALS Loco Films – Rose Vives [email protected] +33 6 23 96 70 18
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Shadow Country Krajina ve stínu
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 120 min | A young, good-looking city girl, Marie, marries into Czech a small Austrian town of Schwarzwald. A little vain for director Bohdan Sláma a small-town woman, she likes to dress up and makes her own clothes. The town is by Austrian border, in an PRODUCER Martin Růžička area, forcibly annexed by Czechoslovakia in 1920. PRODUCTION COMPANY LUMINAR Film Most of the Czech-speaking citizens chose German CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Filmpark nationality at the beginning of WW2. While peaceful COMPLETION DATE March 2020 during the war, the area was swept by violence right after the war. A group of malicious neighbours force SCRIPT Ivan Arsenjev DOP Diviš Marek SOUND Michal fourteen wealthiest town inhabitants in front of the Holubec SET DESIGNER Jiří Novotný CAST Magdalena people’s court and they are murdered. Marie and her Borová, Stanislav Majer, Pavel Nový, Bára Poláková two children have to cross the border into the woods, where they build a temporary shed of branches.
contact LUMINAR Film – Martin Růžička [email protected] + 420 777 885 565
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The Case of the Dead Deadman Případ mrtvého nebožtíka
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Major Prubner and his excellent team must solve director Miloslav Šmídmajer a series of brutal murders that are linked by the mysterious signature of the murderer – ATSMOP. PRODUCER Miloslav Šmídmajer The search is starting at full speed, but Prubner has PRODUCTION COMPANY Bio Illusion nothing to catch, moreover he has an arrogant Chief COMPLETION DATE January 2020 Drátek in his back and just 160 hours to solve the murders. SCRIPT Lumír Holčák, David Ziegelbauer DOP Peter Beňa EDITOR Adam Dvořák SOUND Pavel Dvořák, Pavel Brejcha SET DESIGNER Adam Pitra CAST David Novotný, Hana Vagnerová, Martin Pechlát, Lukáš Příkazký
contact Bio Illusion – Pavel Šmídmajer [email protected] +420 772 026 442
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The Grapes 3 3Bobule
Czech Republic | 99 min | Czech The sequel to one of the most successful comedies of director Martin Kopp recent years. Honza and Klára became twin parents and winemakers. But their everyday worries have PRODUCER Tomáš Vican alienated them, and they are currently separated. PRODUCTION COMPANY Vinná galerie This is the story of the renaissance of their love in the COMPLETION DATE January 2020 beautiful landscape of South Moravia.
SCRIPT Matěj Podzimek, Tomáš Vávra DOP Jan Filip EDITOR Libor Merta SOUND Jiří Klenka MUSIC Jan P. Muchow SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Tereza Ramba, Kryštof Hádek, Lukáš Langmajer, Miroslav Táborský
contact Vinná galerie – Tomáš Vican [email protected] +420 777 999 169
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The Man with Hare Ears Muž se zaječíma ušima
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Josef, a 60-year-old writer, thinks nothing can surprise Slovak him anymore. One evening, however, his phone rings director Martin Šulík and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also PRODUCER Rudolf Biermann a writer – tries to commit suicide, his young girlfriend PRODUCTION COMPANY IN Film Praha Katka tells him she’s pregnant and his alter ego – the CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Titanic, Radio and man with hare ears – appears to him in everyday Television Slovakia situations. COMPLETION DATE February 2020
SCRIPT Marek Leščák, Martin Šulík DOP Martin Štrba EDITOR Marek Šulík SOUND Pavel Rejholec, Viktor Ekrt SET DESIGNER František Lipták CAST Miroslav Krobot, Oldřich Kaiser, Alexandra Borbély, Tatiana Pauhofová
contact IN Film Praha – Rudolf Biermann [email protected] +420 222 515 357
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The Pack Smečka
1ST FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia | Skate blades cut the surface of the ice. Shadows of 94 min | Czech, Slovak hockey players swirl through the frozen spray, leaving director Tomáš Polenský deep scratches in the ice. David (16), a talented goalie, is placed in a new hockey team. He is PRODUCER Julietta Sichel determined to do everything he can to succeed. Too PRODUCTION COMPANY 8Heads Productions bad, the other goalie, Miky (16), is the coach’s son! CO-PRODUCTION Furia Film, Ego Media And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the team doesn’t SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA exactly welcome David with open arms. Maybe it’s COMPLETION DATE February 2020 because of the little plastic box pumping insulin into his body. However, David won’t let his diabetes get SCRIPT Irena Kocí, Tomáš Polenský DOP Andrejs the better of him! He tries to stand up to the team’s Rudžats EDITOR Michal Kondrla SOUND Jan Paul MUSIC unacceptance, bracing the avalanche of bullying. Jekabs Nimanis SET DESIGNER Jiří Zavadil CAST Tomáš Those who don’t join in, don’t help. David tries to fight Dalecký, Tomáš Mrvík, Anastasia Chocholatá, Denisa back but ends up making everything even worse. The Biskupová injustice, humiliation and hurt keep piling up...
INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS contact LevelK – Stine Bomholt-Hansen 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel [email protected] [email protected] +45 2636 4091 +420 602 292 971
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The Report Zpráva
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, The story of two young Slovak Jews – Freddy and Poland | 95 min | Slovak, German, Polish, Walter – who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. Czech They managed to escape on 10 April 1944 and compiled a 32-page report about the situation director Peter Bebjak inside the camp. The report included the camp PRODUCERS Rastislav Šesták, Peter Bebjak layout, construction details of the gas chambers PRODUCTION COMPANY DNA Production and furnaces, and a label from a Zyklon B canister, CO-PRODUCTION Evolution Films, Czech Television, which was extremely convincing. It has since become Ostlicht Filmproduktion, Agresywna banda, Radio known as the Vrba-Wetzler Report, and despite and Television Slovakia its gruelling journey out of the camp, it was the SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA first detailed report which the Allies received and COMPLETION DATE 2020 regarded as credible. The Vrba-Wetzler Report thus SCRIPT Jozef Paštéka, Peter Bebjak DOP Martin Žiaran helped to save more than 120 thousand Hungarian EDITOR Marek Královský SOUND Juraj Baláž MUSIC Jews from being deported to Auschwitz. Mario Schneider SET DESIGNER Petr Synek CAST Noel Czuczor, Peter Ondrejička, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Jacek Beller
INTERNATIONAL SALES contact Beta Cinema – Thorsten Ritter Evolution Films – Ondřej Zima [email protected], +49 89 67 34 69 82 9 [email protected] +420 736 751 010 Festivals Beta Cinema – Cosima Finkbeiner [email protected], +49 89 67 34 69 82 3 postproduction 83 T UR ES FE A
The Silent Companion Tichý společník
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech A mountain village faces a problem – almost a full director Pavel GöbL cemetery and no free land around. Most inhabitants are Catholics, so saving space by using urns is not PRODUCERS Tomáš Bělohradský, Přemysl Klimsza an option here. Municipal bum, logger gravedigger PRODUCTION COMPANY Czech FILM Miroslav comes up with a solution – a classic coffin CO-PRODUCTION Bontonfilm Studios, Czech Television, can be placed into a grave vertically. The problem love.FRAME, WetCat Pictures is successfully pushed aside, which, in the case COMPLETION DATE March 2020 of the local council, equals solution. The theme of afterlife desecration in the story touches certain SCRIPT Pavel Göbl DOP Jan Horáček SOUND Tomáš contemporary phenomena and the characters are Bělohradský MUSIC Antonín Veselka SET DESIGNER confronted with it through media, commenting on it Roman Švejda CAST Ondřej Malý, Boleslav Polívka, from their viewpoints, with their words, limited by their Klára Issová horizons, which is, among other things, quite natural current source of humour.
contact Czech FILM – Tomáš Bělohradský [email protected] + 420 724 171 724
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The Way Home Cesta domů
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech The third chapter of the director’s “village trilogy”. Like director Tomáš Vorel the previous films, Out of the City and To the Woods, the film is a celebration of the life outside the city. The PRODUCER Ondřej Kulhánek Way Home completes the life stories of three families, PRODUCTION COMPANY Bontonfilm Studios portrayed in the trilogy, who live in countryside, COMPLETION DATE May 2020 make their living by producing homemade products and have to face natural elements as well as the SCRIPT Tomáš Vorel DOP Tomáš Vorel SOUND Jakub aggressivity of the city. The Way Home is a visual and Jurásek MUSIC Michal Vích SET DESIGNER Roman musical celebration of the Czech countryside and Chochola CAST Tomáš Hanák, Barbobra Schlesinger, animals still living there. Tomáš Vorel jr., Lucie Šteflová
contact Bontonfilm Studios – Ondřej Kulhánek [email protected] +420 605 264 091
postproduction 85 T UR ES FE A
The Year Before the War Rok před válkou
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic | The film connects political and philosophical 90 min | Latvian, Russian, German, French extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man director Dāvis Sīmanis participating at the creation of a new world. A mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter PRODUCER Roberts Vinovskis the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal PRODUCTION COMPANY Locomotive Productions race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion CO-PRODUCTION Studio Uljana Kim, Produkce Radim in Riga to preparation of world revolution in Vienna, Procházka psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of COMPLETION DATE August 2020 Mata Hari in Paris.
SCRIPT Dāvis Sīmanis, Uldis Tīrons, Tabita Rudzāte DOP Andrejs Rudzāts EDITOR Anna Johnson Ryndová CAST Petr Buchta, Lauris Dzelzītis, Gints Grāvelis, Ģirts Ķesteris
contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka [email protected] +420 603 862 161
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Zatopek Zátopek
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 120 min | His nickname was “Czech locomotive”. Eighteen Czech, English world records holder Emil Zátopek is most famous director David Ondříček for the Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he won three gold medals. Nobody has repeated his success PRODUCERS Kryštof Mucha, David Ondříček and athletics experts doubt that anyone ever will. PRODUCTION COMPANY Lucky Man Films Emil Zátopek’s grandiose success comes alive in CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Azyl Production, the memories of his loved ones, friends and rivals. Z Films, Accolade, Alef Nula, Sebre, T-mobile, Innogy, 1968: Ron Clarke, an Australian runner comes to Barrandov Studio see Zátopek. We are transferred to the past, during COMPLETION DATE July 2020 their dialogue, to the beginnings of Emil’s passion for running, his first success at the WCA in Berlin, SCRIPT Alice Nellis, David Ondříček, Jan P. Muchow his meeting with javelin thrower Dana, his future wife, DOP Štěpán Kučera SOUND Pavel Rejholec, Jakub but also learn about the increasing pressure of the Čech, David Titěra MUSIC Jan P. Muchow, Beata communist regime. Hlavenková SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák CAST Václav Neužil, Martha Issová
contact Lucky Man Films – Daria Špačková [email protected] +420 603 236 072
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Blue Box
EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic | 70 min | English The story follows a detective on a case of mysterious directorS Petr Šprincl, murders and inexplicable phenomena, taking place in Marie Hájková the US, Europe and Africa. Seemingly unrelated places are linked by mysterious societies and sects, which PRODUCER Marek Novák perpetrate evil of supernatural dimensions. PRODUCTION COMPANY Xova Film COMPLETION DATE December 2020
SCRIPT Petr Šprincl, Marie Hájková DOP Jan Vidlička EDITOR Marie Hájková SOUND Richard Vacula MUSIC Wojciech Kucharczyk O DU CTION
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966 P R production 89 T UR ES FE A
Breaking Point Hrana zlomu
1ST FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Trapped in a marriage with the cold-hearted Robert, director Emil Křižka Catherine has long been determined to leave. The situation reaches breaking point when Robert returns PRODUCERS Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál from a business trip and catches her cheating. For PRODUCTION COMPANY Bionaut Catherine, this finally marks the beginning of the end, COMPLETION DATE November 2020 but Robert refuses to let her go. Everything changes when Robert has a car accident in which he and their SCRIPT Emil Křižka DOP Ryszard Perzynski EDITOR daughter Sarah are badly injured. Little does he know Andy Fehu SET DESIGNER Marcela Dorňáková CAST that this is where his story will intertwine with that of Štěpán Kozub Viktor, a mentally retarded boy whose abusive mother dies in the same car accident. In Robert’s wallet, Viktor finds a photograph of Catherine, and his sick mind hatches a mad plan: Catherine should pay for his mother‘s death.
contact Bionaut – Jakub Košťál [email protected] +420 608 527 777
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Erhart
1ST FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech A small Czech town, early autumn, the present. director Jan Březina Young, energetic Erhart (23) returns to his hometown, after hearing of his mother’s (50) mental breakdown PRODUCER Marek Novák and hospitalisation. Erhart’s mother lives alone in PRODUCTION COMPANY Xova Film a big family house and has been suffering from CO-PRODUCTION IS Produkce mental issues since her husband was jailed for COMPLETION DATE May 2020 privatisation fraud. She tells Erhart that their family house is for sale. At the same time, she claims that SCRIPT Jan Březina DOP Jan Skriečka SOUND Tomáš his missing father has returned to stop the sale Oramus SET DESIGNER Zdeněk Eliáš CAST Filip Březina, and put things in order. Erhart is used to mother’s Klára Soukupová, Elizaveta Maximová, Přemysl Bureš delusions, but when he finds out, that their house actually belongs to an anonymous offshore company, he starts to doubt, what has so far been considered unconditional truth.
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966
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Il Boemo
Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia | The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been 130 min | Italian leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to director Petr Václav become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed PRODUCER Jan Macola to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes PRODUCTION COMPANY Mimesis Film into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, CO-PRODUCTION Dugong Film, sentimentalfilm, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his Czech Television real opportunity arises, when he becomes the lover SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly COMPLETION DATE April 2021 manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence SCRIPT Petr Václav DOP Diego Romero SET DESIGNER free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Luca Servino CAST Vojtěch Dyk, Barbara Ronchi, prepared for the conquest of women and of the Phillippe Jaroussky, Karel Roden world, benefiting from his relationships, Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe’s largest theatre...
contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola [email protected] +420 724 938 883
92 production T UR ES FE A (illustrative photo) Leave No Traces Nezanechat stopy
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Poland, Czech Republic | 120 min | Polish A true story set in 1983 in Warsaw. 24-year-old Jurek director Jan P. Matuszyński witnesses the fatal beating of his friend Grzegorz by the communist police. Since Jurek is the only PRODUCER Leszek Bodzak eyewitness to the beating and is very keen to PRODUCTION COMPANY Aurum Film testify, the entire power of the communist regime, CO-PRODUCTION Background Films represented by general Kiszczak, the minister COMPLETION DATE January 2021 of internal affairs, is unleashed on him. His flat is wiretapped, all his conversations are monitored and SCRIPT Cezary Łazarewicz analysed by the police and he is followed round the clock by several dozen secret agents wherever he goes. He finds himself torn between his loyalty to Barbara, the mother of his late friend and his own parents, who are persecuted by the government. Despite the pressure, Jurek finds the strength to testify but his relationships both with Barbara and his parents are irreparably broken.
INTERNATIONAL SALES contact New Europe Film Sales – Jan Naszewski Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný [email protected] [email protected] +48 600 173 205 +420 777 910 290
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Mistakes Chyby
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Ema is a lively 25-year-old shop assistant living in Czech, Slovak a small town. Tomáš is a 30-year-old roofer living director Jan Prušinovský in a village nearby the capital. They spend a night together, with no expectations. However, it becomes PRODUCERS Ondřej Zima, Jan Prušinovský the start of a relationship, love, living together. Ema PRODUCTION COMPANY OFFSIDE MEN decides to unburden herself and is ready to tell Tomáš CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, Czech Television about her tainted background. Tomáš doesn’t want to COMPLETION DATE June 2020 hear it as he wants to live “here and now”. A random episode unveils Ema’s past and starts off a series of SCRIPT Roman Vojkůvka DOP Petr Koblovský EDITOR incidents which turn their lives upside down. Michal Böhm SOUND Matěj Matuška, Michal Čech MUSIC Ondřej Anděra SET DESIGNER Jan Novotný CAST Jan Jankovský, Pavla Gajdošíková, Kryštof Rimský, Monika Načeva
INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS contact Arkaitz Basterra OFFSIDE MEN – Ondřej Zima [email protected] [email protected] +420 773 381 858 +420 736751010
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Occupation Okupace
1ST FILM
Czech Republic | 70 min | Czech Socialist Czechoslovakia. A group of actors meet director Michal Nohejl in a bar after performing a play inspired by the life of Julius Fučík, a communist journalist executed by PRODUCERS Julie Žáčková, Jan Hlavsa the Nazis. The evening is disrupted by the arrival PRODUCTION COMPANY Unit and Sofa Praha of a Russian officer, who starts terrorising the COMPLETION DATE January 2021 group, professing his power over them. He targets Vladimír whom he humiliates in front of everyone, SCRIPT Marek Šindelka, Vojtěch Mašek, Michal Nohejl disappearing inside of the theatre. The actors start DOP Jan Baset Střítežský EDITOR Petr Turyna SET blaming each other for not standing up. When the DESIGNER Petr Bakoš CAST Martin Pechlát Russian is not returning, Petr who played a Nazi officer in the performance, announces that he found him lying in the boiler room with his head injured – apparently, Petr‘s costume freaked him out. Vladimír uses the opportunity and beats the Russian unconscious. They are now trapped and decide to kill him as the enemy. But who will do it?
contact Unit and Sofa Praha – Julie Žáčková [email protected] +420 602 166 593
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People of Blood Lidi krve
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany | Otto Hille, a man from a Czech-German family, 80 min | Czech, German prepares an expedition for the old and seriously director Miroslav Bambušek ill Leopold Švarc, understood to be a cleansing experience to make amends for deeds long past. PRODUCER Saša Dlouhý Švarc is accompanied by his loyal, autistic servant PRODUCTION COMPANY freeSaM Mišel, his cook Jan and doctor Ignác. At the very CO-PRODUCTION Jana Cisar Filmproduktion, Czech beginning of the long enterprise, Otto takes on Television, atelier.doc board Henry, an insolvent painter who, despite his COMPLETION DATE February 2021 devastated body and mind, is hired as a carrier. The group sets out on a challenging trip to a large cave SCRIPT Miroslav Bambušek DOP Jakub Halousek where they spend the night. While sleeping, Otto EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Václav Flegl MUSIC DG 307 experiences one of his nightmares. He has a vision SET DESIGNER Daniel Tůma Jan Zajíček CAST Miloslav in which he can see an old event. Leo is aiming his König, Tereza Hofová, Miloslav Mejzlík, Jiří Černý gun at Otfried, his grandfather. Otto witnesses events that explain what he is carrying with him and Leopold Švarc is hiding.
contact freeSaM – Saša Dlouhý [email protected] +420 603 457 890
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Piargy Fašiangy
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Macedonia The story is narrated in two timelines. In the present | 100 min | Slovak (spring of 1939), priest Baláž is called in by the director Ivo Trajkov bishop of Banská Bystrica to investigate a mystery of the Antichrist, buried under the avalanche that PRODUCER Silvia Panáková few weeks ago covered the village of Piargy. But PRODUCTION COMPANY Arina Johanka, the only living witness of this tragedy, is not CO-PRODUCTION Radio and Television Slovakia, willing to talk about it although the secret tortures her i/o post, Storyscope production mind. The second timeline takes place a year earlier COMPLETION DATE June 2020 and unfolds a story of Julisa. After her marriage with the son of Roháč, the richest farmer in the village, she SCRIPT Ivo Trajkov, Jana Skořepová DOP Peter Bencsik becomes a part of a tragic love triangle. EDITOR Michal Reich SOUND Juraj Baláž MUSIC Kiril Dzajkovski CAST Judit Bárdos, Attila Mokos, Jana Kvantíková
INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS contact Reel Suspects – Matteo Lovadina i/o post – Jordi Niubó [email protected] [email protected] +33 142 401284 +420 604 703 308
production 97 T UR ES FE A
Prvok, Šampón, Tečka and Karel Prvok, Šampón, Tečka a Karel
2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 110 min | Czech Twenty years after their graduation, four buddies long director Patrik Hartl for a change, realizing their lives haven’t developed the way they once planned. They decide to deal PRODUCER Ondřej Kulhánek, Vojtěch Frič with the middle-age crisis by playing a provocative PRODUCTION COMPANY Bontonfilm Studios, love.FRAME game of almost unfeasible tasks. How to prevent the CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television corrosion of ideals, disintegration of relationships, COMPLETION DATE August 2020 dissolution of dreams and testicle shrinkage? Will they be able to find the courage to do really crazy SCRIPT Patrik Hartl DOP Tomáš Sysel EDITOR Ondřej things like when they were young? Whoever fulfils the Hokr MUSIC Marek Doubrava SET DESIGNER Jan Vlček task is not an asshole… CAST Martin Pechlát, David Švehlík, Martin Hofmann, Hynek Čermák
contact Bontonfilm Studios – Ondřej Kulhánek [email protected] +420 605 264 091
98 PRODUCTION T UR ES FE A
The End of the World Konec světa
1ST FILM EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic | 70 min | Czech An experimental audiovisual project, marked by director Milan Klepikov a unique way of working with actors, combines elements of documentary and fiction, time lapse PRODUCERS Martin Vandas, Antonie Dědečková method, theatre, poetry, and philosophy. The film PRODUCTION COMPANY MAUR film is based on an improvised word game, developing CO-PRODUCTION Milan Klepikov into dialogues which lead to new stories. This style COMPLETION DATE 2021 is unique for Czech cinema and has never been explored and mapped in this way before. SCRIPT Milan Klepikov DOP Jiří Holba EDITOR Jiří Holba
contact MAUR film – Martin Vandas [email protected] +420 775 900 029
PRODUCTION 99 T UR ES FE A
The Last Race Poslední závod
1ST FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | The sports drama tells the true story of Bohumil Hanč Czech, German and Václav Vrbata, two pioneers of Czech skiing, director Tomáš Hodan who perished in the Krkonoše mountains during a dramatic race in 1913. With his wife expecting PRODUCER Ondřej Beránek a child, Hanč had promised never to race again. PRODUCTION COMPANY Punk Film Unfortunately, he gave in to pressure from his friends CO-PRODUCTION D.N.A. Production, Czech Television and took on one last race. The third protagonist in this COMPLETION DATE February 2022 story was German skier Emmerich Rath who, on the brink of collapse himself, dragged Hanč back to their SCRIPT Tomáš Hodan DOP Jan Baset Střítežský EDITOR camp. Sadly, Rath was unable to save Hanč. From Anna Johnson Ryndová SET DESIGNER Jan Pjena the archives, we can reconstruct the race almost Novotný CAST Kryštof Hádek, Marek Adamczyk, minute by minute. However, what exactly happened Oldřich Kaiser, Eva Josefíková when Hanč and Vrbata met at the Harrach Stones in the middle of the storm will forever remain a mystery.
contact Punk Film – Ondřej Beránek [email protected] +420 777 952 066
100 production T UR ES FE A
Two Ships Marťanské lodě
1ST FILM
Czech Republic, Norway | 95 min | Czech Eliška, a psychologist, and Martin, a musician, director Jan Foukal meet at Martin’s birthday party. For a while, it is like a Hollywood romance, just set against the backdrop PRODUCERS Ondřej Zima, Silvie Michajlova of Brno. The first crisis, the first pain, comes right PRODUCTION COMPANY FILM KOLEKTIV before Eliška leaves for Norway for an internship. CO-PRODUCTION Storm Films, Czech Television After her return, they move in together. The idyll is COMPLETION DATE July 2020 soon disrupted by Eliška’s worsening stomach pains, no medical exams can uncover the cause of. Finally, SCRIPT Zdeněk Jecelín DOP Jan Šuster EDITOR Josef Eliška decides to shut the pains down by jumping Krajbich SOUND Adam Levý MUSIC Albert Romanutti, under a train. She will stay with him as a memory, as Jan Foukal, Martin Kyšperský SET DESIGNER Ondřej gratitude for an experience. Lipenský CAST Eliška Křenková, Martin Kyšperský, Jan Strejcovský
contact FILM KOLEKTIV – Silvie Michajlova [email protected] +420 603 152 779
production 101 FEATURE FILMS
development ’Merican Chick
Amerikánka T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia | 100 min | What can keep you alive when you stand Czech on your own against the whole world? director Viktor Tauš Ema, the child heroine of the film inspired by real events, eventually copes with PRODUCERS Viktor Tauš, Pavla Klimešová this situation. The most important part of PRODUCTION COMPANIES HEAVEN‘S GATE, Helium Film the will to survive is belief in oneself, the CO-PRODUCTION MD4, Axman Production, PubRes belief that somewhere far away, perhaps SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA in America, there is someone waiting COMPLETION DATE April 2022 for you. On her way, Ema gets over an orphanage, foster care and a borstal. SCRIPT David Jařab DOP Martin Douba EDITOR Alois Fišárek MUSIC The film is a probe into the history of the Petr Ostrouchov SET DESIGNER Jan Kadlec 1980s’ and 1990s’ Czechoslovakia, but also a purely contemporary drama about contact freedom and desire to live. Heaven‘s Gate – Viktor Tauš [email protected] +420 775 204 809
1260
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech In July 1260, near Austrian Kressenbrunn, director Jakub Červenka the village at the confluence of Moravia and the Danube, Přemysl Otakar II, PRODUCER Jakub Červenka Czech Iron and Golden King, fought PRODUCTION COMPANY Bedna Films a battle with Hungarian king Bela IV COMPLETION DATE January 2023 and his son Stephen. According to chroniclers, it was the biggest battle SCRIPT Pavel Kosatík Central Europe had ever experienced, with 100,000 fighters on the Czech and contact Bednafilms – Jakub Červenka 140,000 on the Hungarian side. Czech [email protected] king finally won that battle. This film pays +420 777 317 980 tribute to all the nameless heroes, without whose heroic deeds he would never reach this victory and gain glory. d evelopment development 103 A Sensitive Man
T UR ES Citlivý člověk FE A
1st FILM
CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA | 75 min | Czech A boy and his father, both dressed up director Tomáš Klein as women, run through a dystopian landscape where people are filled with PRODUCER Tomáš Michálek frustration and fear. To maintain his PRODUCTION COMPANY MasterFilm childhood ideals and become a truly CO-PRODUCTION Punkchart films sensitive person, the boy has to stand up COMPLETION DATE May 2021 to this cruel world of adults, including his own dad. SCRIPT Tomáš Klein, Kateřina Traburová SOUND Dominik Dolejší
contact MasterFilm – Tomáš Michálek [email protected] +420 602 630 466
A Summer Fair PouŤ v Modré
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Finland, Slovakia | 100 min | When her father dies, Eva returns after Czech, English 20 years to her hometown. The mayor director Erlend Hella Matre of the town has expropriated a valuable piece of land Eva claims in her legal PRODUCER Andrea Shaffer heritage. The mayor reacts with PRODUCTION COMPANY Mindset Pictures aggression, but his daughter Sandra CO-PRODUCTION Lucy Loves Stories, KFS Production takes a strange interest in Eva. Sandra COMPLETION DATE May 2021 and Eva both engage intimately with the young entomologist Karel. Mayor’s world SCRIPT Erlend Hella Matre DOP J-P Passi EDITOR Michal Lánský is torn apart as Karel brings the two CAST Eliška Vavříková, Johana Matoušková, Leoš Noha, Jaroslav women together, not knowing they are, Dušek in fact, mother and daughter.
contact Mindset Pictures – Andrea Shaffer [email protected] +420 602 343 717
104 DEVELOPMENT Agnes
Anežka T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic | 110 min | Czech The year is 1282. 70-year-old Agnes director Dagmar Knöpfel of Bohemia is dying. There is a famine and Brandenburgers in Prague, but PRODUCER Karla Stojáková she leaves this world with peace in her PRODUCTION COMPANY Axman Production mind. We follow Agnes from the age COMPLETION DATE 2022 of 4. She is being engaged on and off. Her prearranged grooms either die or SCRIPT Tereza Brdečková marry richer or politically more important brides. Agnes could not care less, since, contact Axman Production – Karla Stojáková in her teenage years, she discovered [email protected] Franciscan principles: faith is love, +420 603 553 915 freedom and poverty. With help of her brother, the king, Agnes constitutes a convent and a hospital for the poorest. While witnessing the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II and Bohemian kingdom rise to power, she devotes her life to religion, passing on the legacy of open-minded faith to her followers.
Alma and Oskar Alma a Oskar
minority co-production
Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech In the spring of 1912, Alma Mahler, Republic | 100 min | German the Grande Dame of Viennese society, director Dieter Berner recently widowed, embarks on a fateful affair with the enfant terrible of the PRODUCER Alexander Glehr Viennese art scene, Oskar Kokoschka. PRODUCTION COMPANY Film AG Produktions The fit of passion will soon be existence- CO-PRODUCTION Wüste Film, Turnus Film, Dawson Films threatening for both of them. COMPLETION DATE December 2020
SCRIPT Hilde Berger, Dieter Berner DOP Thomas Kiennast EDITOR Robert Hentschel SET DESIGNER Julian Friedrich CAST Vicky Krieps, Theo Trebs, Daniel Strasser, Proschat Madani contact Dawson Films – Monika Kristl [email protected] +420 602 430 420
INTERNATIONAL SALES Picture Tree International – Andreas Rothbauer [email protected] +49 151 544 589 21 DEVELOPMENT 105 Arved
T UR ES Arvéd FE A
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech A genius sentenced to life imprisonment director Vojtěch Mašek for collaboration with the totalitarian regime uses his extraordinary memory to PRODUCERS Tomáš Michálek, Kristýna Michálek Květová denounce old friends and summon the PRODUCTION COMPANY Cinémotif Films Devil. COMPLETION DATE December 2020
SCRIPT Vojtěch Mašek, Jan Poláček DOP Dušan Husár EDITOR Hedvika Hansalová MUSIC Aid Kid SET DESIGNER Antonín Šilar CAST Michal Kern, Saša Rašilov, Vojtěch Vodochodský
contact Cinémotif Films – Kristýna Michálek Květová [email protected] +420 731 203 715
Bikes Kola
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 100 min | Russian Viktor and Andrej live in a children’s home, director Jakub Machala south of Moscow. Viktor (17) is a chronic runaway, Andrej (12) has recently been PRODUCER Kateřina Buzková brought in by his father. When a chance PRODUCTION COMPANY DARQ Studio presents itself, they break out. On old COMPLETION DATE 2021 bikes, they travel two thousand kilometres through Kursk, Kharkov, Kiev, Lvov, SCRIPT Jan Němec DOP Václav Fronk EDITOR David Lorenz Bratislava, Prague and Karlovy Vary, getting an opportunity to see the world for contact DARQ Studio – Kateřina Buzková the first time. Their paths split when Viktor [email protected] gets arrested by the Ukrainian police. +420 732 469 629 Andrej makes it to the Czech Republic and catches up with his father, only to get rejected. He is detained by the police and sent to the children’s home again. Both boys are back where they started, but they are not the same as before. Andrej has grown up and Viktor took the first chance in his life not to be a jerk.
106 development Bloody Easter
Krvavá pomlázka T UR ES FE A
2ND FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 120 min | Czech, The Sudetenland, shortly after WW2. The German borderland was home to both Czechs director Jan Bušta and Germans for years. This fragile co- existence was shattered by the horrors PRODUCERS Veronika Kührová, Lubomír Konečný, Michal Kráčmer of the war, the local Germans helped to PRODUCTION COMPANY Analog Vision unleash. While the world is celebrating CO-PRODUCTION Wandal Production a much longed-for peace, here, the last COMPLETION DATE September 2022 conflict is about to start. The roles are reversing: the German winners are now SCRIPT Magdaléna Bittnerová defenceless losers and their former victims have the chance to take revenge. contact A Czech boy, Jirka, who must choose Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová between his first love and his new best [email protected] +420 724 148 114 friend, decides to target the girl’s German family in pursuit of his personal vendetta.
Brothers Bratři
Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia | 100 min | In October 1953, five friends decide to Czech, German leave communist Czechoslovakia and get director Tomáš Mašín to West Berlin. They manage to cross the guarded border but are soon detected PRODUCER Petr Bílek in East German territory. Unknowingly, PRODUCTION COMPANY FilmBrigade they initiate the largest armed manoeuvre CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Rohfilm Productions, PubRes since WW2; twenty thousand German COMPLETION DATE October 2021 Police and Soviet Army members are mobilised, all because of five teenage SCRIPT Marek Epstein SET DESIGNER Henrich Boráros CAST Oskar boys. After an extensive hunt, two Hes, Jan Nedbal group members are caught and, after extradition to Czechoslovakia, executed. contact In the following week, with no shelter, food FilmBrigade – Petr Bílek or rest, the remaining three, the Mašín [email protected] +420 777 733 256 brothers and their injured friend Milan Paumer, finally make it to West Berlin. They save themselves but the regime will have its vengeance on their families.
development 107 Caravan
T UR ES Karavan FE A
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy | 100 min | Ester is turning 40 and nothing is going Czech, Italian on in her life. That is, nothing more director Zuzana Kirchnerová than caring for David (12), her mentally handicapped son. David can’t speak and PRODUCER Pavla Janoušková Kubečková has to be watched constantly – otherwise PRODUCTION COMPANY nutprodukce he runs away and destroys things. Ester CO-PRODUCTION nutprodukcia, Tempesta loves David tremendously, but she’s worn SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA out from the isolation, the routine, having COMPLETION DATE December 2022 to do everything herself. A friend who moved to Italy invites Ester over for a visit. SCRIPT Zuzana Kirchnerová, Tomáš Bojar, Kristina Májová It’s her first chance ever to take a holiday. Just before she’s about to leave, it turns contact out there’s no one to watch over her son nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková and so Ester decides to travel to the [email protected] +420 605 256 190 south, to the sea, with him. On a road trip through Italy, they find out that as long as they are on the road, they’re still alive.
Caruso – A Novel Live Caruso – Román naživo
Czech Republic, France, Croatia, Slovenia, The bitter Fellini-style comedy from Serbia | 110 min | English Adriatic port Split in 1940 about a kind- director Lordan Zafranović hearted street singer nicknamed Caruso and a cruel joke which the life-bored PRODUCER Daniel Severa owner of a fish canning with support of all PRODUCTION COMPANY Daniel Severa Production the locals will prepare to him. CO-PRODUCTION A Atalanta, Art & Popcorn, 26/2 Productions, Zafra film COMPLETION DATE December 2022
SCRIPT Borislav Vujčić, Marina Vujčić, Lordan Zafranović, Daniel Severa
contact Daniel Severa Production – Daniel Severa [email protected] +420 777 000 280
108 development Confidentiality
Nehybnost T UR ES FE A
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech After a revelation predicting the director Martin Ryšavý approaching end of the world, a rich woman decides to have a gigantic PRODUCER Viktor Schwarcz concrete fortress built, where she and her PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart TV Prague family could hide. When the mysterious COMPLETION DATE June 2022 voice leading her fades away – which means she is cured and sane again – she SCRIPT Martin Ryšavý DOP Jan Šuster EDITOR Anna Johnson starts to feel an urge to find out why it all Ryndová SOUND Michaela Patríková MUSIC Pavel Kopecký SET happened to her and what influence the DESIGNER Petr Pištěk CAST Gabriela Míčová, Jan Procházka, fortress – the materialized symbol of the Tomáš Režný forthcoming end – has on the inhabitants in its neighbourhood. The loss of firm contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz ground makes them react in certain way, [email protected] and ironically, the apocalyptic prophecy +420 777 220 364 somehow starts to materialize.
Don‘t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Nehleď dlouze do propasti
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech, Farsi, French Love-hate story of beatnik fascination director Mohammadreza Farzad by exotic East and epic drama about adventurous life and a dream shattered PRODUCER Radovan Síbrt by two political events: Prague Spring PRODUCTION COMPANY PINK and the Islamic Revolution of 1978. COMPLETION DATE September 2023 A meditative film poem about freedom, mysticism, fate and exile. The mysticism SCRIPT Mohammadreza Farzad, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh of a Czech artist seen through eastern, oriental eye. contact PINK – Radovan Síbrt [email protected] +420 777 161 552
development 109 Dragon Girl
T UR ES Dračí princezna FE A
MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION
Norway, Netherlands, Czech Republic | Gina (10) dreads Christmas. Living in 90 min | Norwegian hiding, orphaned and alone, her mantra director Katarina Launing is “Never get to know anyone! Always be invisible!” One night, she breaks into PRODUCERS Frederick P. N. Howard, Lars A Hellebust an empty house whose residents are on PRODUCTION COMPANY Storm Films holiday – a perfect place to celebrate CO-PRODUCTION Volya Films, Evolution Films Christmas all alone. Everything gets SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA upside down when she discovers a baby COMPLETION DATE December 2020 dragon in the garage! The neighbouring SCRIPT Lars Gudmestad, Harald Rosenløw Eeg DOP Trond Tønder kid, Mortimer (10), is surprised to discover SOUND Herman Pieëte MUSIC Jan P. Muchow SET DESIGNER Nina them in the house where he was just Bjerch Andresen supposed to feed a goldfish. For Mortimer is hard to find any friends. He decides contact to deal with his loneliness through social Evolution Films – Pavel Berčík media. Gina and Mortimer are forced to [email protected] become cooperating buddies to save the +420 777 932 957 baby dragon from the local dragon hunter, INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS the police and TV reporters. They both Sola Media – Solveig Langeland earn much more during this rescue then [email protected] they ever hoped for. +49 71 19 68 94 440
Dustzone Prašina
2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech In a mysterious district in the middle of director Štěpán Fok Vodrážka present-day Prague, time has stopped in the 19th century. Electronic devices PRODUCER Vratislav Šlajer and electricity have never worked in PRODUCTION COMPANY Bionaut Dustzone, but one day, this anomaly SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA starts to spread to the whole city. And COMPLETION DATE December 2021 three children, George, En and Tony, are the only ones who can stop the disaster SCRIPT Štefan Titka from happening. Film is based on the bestselling Czech book of the same name contact Bionaut – Vratislav Šlajer by Vojtěch Matocha and is planned as the [email protected] first part of a trilogy. +420 777 210 165
110 development Eternal Peace
Věčný klid T UR ES FE A
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech In the near future, on the brink of director Vojtěch Strakatý ecological apocalypse, a young girl must sell her family‘s belongings to pay off PRODUCER Marek Novák debts incurred by her father, while being PRODUCTION COMPANY Xova Film chased by debt collectors. COMPLETION DATE February 2021
SCRIPT Vojtěch Strakatý DOP Adam Mach SOUND Jan Šulcek SET DESIGNER Stella Šonková CAST Eliška Hanušová contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966
Fichtelberg
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech, German Jizera Mountains, 1551. 20-year-old director Šimon Koudela knight Henry has the Urbach village in his custody. Suddenly, people start PRODUCER Viktor Schwarcz to disappear here under strange PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart TV Prague circumstances. Locals suspect COMPLETION DATE June 2022 mysterious Wallachians, who settled in the mountains nearby. When a young SCRIPT Šimon Koudela DOP Matěj Cibulka EDITOR Jan Daňhel woman Alma disappears too, Henry SOUND Richard Muller MUSIC Irena Havlová, Vojtěch Havel decides to find and rescue her from ANIMATOR Šimon Koudela these demonic people. On the highest mountain, Fichtelberg, always covered contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz with clouds, he discovers a real hell. Dirty [email protected] labourers dig bones here and crush them +420 777 220 364 to powder, used in a secret glass factory to produce porcelain-like white glass. Long desired Alma is there as well and for sure not of her own free will.
development 111 Fork Ridge T UR ES FE A
1st FILM
Czech Republic | 100 min | English A park ranger haunted by guilt sets off director Ondřej Hudeček for a secluded winter keeper’s lodge to investigate a surprising new clue in PRODUCER Pavla Janoušková Kubečková mysterious disappearance of his wife. PRODUCTION COMPANY nutprodukce SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE July 2023
SCRIPT Ondřej Hudeček, Jan Smutný
contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková [email protected] +420 605 256 190
Goodwill Dobrý skutek
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 95 min | Czech, Slovak During an election campaign at the director Dušan Trančík foothills of Beskydy mountains, one of the speakers is taken to hospital, after feeling PRODUCERS Viktor Schwarcz, Silvia Panáková unwell. His problems relate to his kidney PRODUCTION COMPANIES Cineart TV Prague, Arina disease. Once strong and energetic COMPLETION DATE April 2023 Karel Kubík (45) is wasting away and the disease sucks out all his self-confidence. SCRIPT Dušan Trančík DOP Michal Černý SOUND Richard Müller SET For several month he has been on the DESIGNER Petr Pištěk list of patients waiting for a kidney donor. His wife Anna (30) does her best to help contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz him. At stake is a lucrative land above [email protected] the village, Karel owns, which lawyer +420 777 220 364 Juhás is interested to buy. In order to gain the land, Juhás, using his skills, figures out how to get around the law and find a donor for Karel.
112 development Grand Prix T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Emil is a shy, small-town guy. He must director Jan Prušinovský take his medication – otherwise he tends to be aggressive. His world consists of PRODUCERS Ondřej Zima, Jan Prušinovský cars, engines, and particularly Formula PRODUCTION COMPANY OFFSIDE MEN One. His big dream comes true when COMPLETION DATE 2022 he wins two tickets to the Formula races in Barcelona in a TV contest. Roman is SCRIPT Jan Prušinovský DOP Petr Koblovský EDITOR Michal Böhm a seasonal alcoholic who feels completely SOUND Matěj Matuška, Michal Čech MUSIC Ondřej Anděra SET unappreciated. He understands that DESIGNER Jan Novotný Emil is barely willing to stick his head out the door and, taking advantage of contact OFFSIDE MEN – Ondřej Zima the situation, he offers to take him to [email protected] Barcelona. The trip through three EU +420 736 751 010 states in a small van would probably go just fine if a certain third character would stay out of it. Slim simply needs to get to Barcelona after getting involved with some local meth producers.
Gregorius, the Chosen One Vyvolený
2nd FILM
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Medieval story of a sibling love offspring, director Tomasz Mielnik who, guided by the firm hand of destiny, saves the kingdom, marries his own PRODUCER Mikuláš Novotný mother, gets shackled to a rock for PRODUCTION COMPANY Background Films seventeen years and becomes the first COMPLETION DATE August 2022 truly forgiving pope. An adaptation of the medieval legend of Holy Sinner as SCRIPT Tomasz Mielnik interpreted by Tomasz Mielnik. contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný [email protected] +420 777 910 290
development 113 I Don‘t Like You Anymore
T UR ES Už tě nemám rád FE A
Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia | 90 min | Marek (13) hates his mother’s boyfriend Czech and is constantly shooting and posting director Zdeněk Jiráský videos online. These impress Tereza, “a good family girl”. Together, they start PRODUCER Jordi Niubó filming risky situations they stage or PRODUCTION COMPANY i/o post cause. Tereza suggests they run away CO-PRODUCTION Tangaj Production, Staragara from home. They stage even rougher COMPLETION DATE April 2021 videos and pretend Marek kidnapped her. After Marek calls Tereza’s mother, there SCRIPT Zdeněk Jiráský DOP Michal Černý is no way back. They buy train tickets to go as far as possible and end up in contact Bucharest, in a dirty suburb apartment- i/o post – Jordi Niubó block neighbourhood, stealing food. [email protected] +420 604 703 308 Halcyon free ride is over and they begin to realize their escape won‘t last much longer. Marek wants to return home, but Tereza reminds him he is a wanted kidnapper and if he returns without her, nobody will believe he didn’t hurt her. An unfortunate accident fulfils her prediction.
In the Pines Lesní vrah
Czech Republic, Romania, Poland | 90 min | Based on the true case of Viktor Czech Kalivoda, the forest killer, who shot and director Radim Špaček killed three people in Czech forests in 2005, the film captures the last year of PRODUCER Jana Brožková his life, before he was apprehended PRODUCTION COMPANY Vernes by the police. The story is framed by CO-PRODUCTION Tangaj Production, Plesnar & Krauss Films a pair of the main character’s suicide COMPLETION DATE December 2021 attempts, his unsuccessful attempt on the Žampach viaduct and the successful SCRIPT Zdeněk Holý DOP Oleg Mutu EDITOR Jaroslaw Kaminski one in prison. We follow Kalivoda’s SOUND Viktor Prášil SET DESIGNER David Dubenský actions from his victory in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game show contact through the systematic degradation of Vernes – Jana Brožková his ethical inhibitions to the commitment [email protected] +420 776 650 778 of three murders, he refuses to reveal the motivation for. The film leaves us with a burning question, what led him to his actions.
114 development Little Daughter
Dceruška T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic, Slovakia | 110 min | Czech Vladimír is in his sixties. He has lived in director Jan Hřebejk one place all his life and devoted himself to build a family business, which went PRODUCERS Luboš Kučera, Max Funda bankrupt recently. In order to maintain his PRODUCTION COMPANY Actress Film family, Vladimír takes a job of personal COMPLETION DATE 2022 driver in the family of a successful entrepreneur – to drive their daughter, SCRIPT Petr Jarchovský CAST Bolek Polívka, Libuše Šafránková 16-year-old Sofie, to and from school. Her parents have recently moved back contact Actress Film – Luboš Kučera to their homeland, from where Sofie’s [email protected] father manages his prosperous business. +420 721 865 832 During her life, Sofie has been forced to change her home several times and she speaks several foreign languages better than Czech. She is uprooted, lonely and given her parents’ nomadic way of life, she has never felt at home anywhere. Two different people are brought together under these circumstances.
Money from Hitler Peníze od Hitlera
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania | 100 min | It‘s a hot summer day in 2005. Denis, Czech, German a respected orthopaedic surgeon, director Tomáš Mašín attends an important meeting in his home village. His task is to protect his mother PRODUCERS Silvie Michajlova, Ondřej Zima and unmarried sister from claims on their PRODUCTION COMPANY FILM KOLEKTIV property made by Gita Lauschmannová, CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, POINT FILM the daughter of its original German SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA owners. Denis sees Gita as daughter COMPLETION DATE 2022 of a German who collaborated with the Nazis, whereas she sees Denis as SCRIPT Lenka Wimmerová descendant of those who stole from her family and attempted to murder her contact upon her unexpected return from the FILM KOLEKTIV – Silvie Michajlova concentration camp. She was sixteen, [email protected] +420 603 152 779 Jewish in the eyes of the Germans, and German in the eyes of the Czechs. The road to undoing the wrongs done in the past is winding and full of unpleasant surprises.
development 115 Night of the Whale
T UR ES Noc velryby FE A
1st FILM
Czech Republic, Poland, Canada | 90 min | A fraying immigrant couple take their English, Farsi, Czech, Polish 7-year-old daughter on a trip to a remote director Kaveh Daneshmand seaside hotel, in hope that something will change. A thousand unspoken words PRODUCER Jordi Niubó hang between them as they follow a long PRODUCTION COMPANY i/o post quiet road, past a series of unsettling CO-PRODUCTION Lava Films, The Other End incidents that thicken the wall of hostility COMPLETION DATE December 2021 between the parents and draw all three deep into their own private worlds. And SCRIPT Kaveh Daneshmand then, they arrive: Hotel Rewa, a hidden coastal retreat, run by an old friend who contact carries scars and secrets from a far-off i/o post – Jordi Niubó past. It is here, and at a decaying villa [email protected] +420 604 703 308 hidden in a forest nearby, where two encounters grant them their wish for change, if not in the way they imagined.
Nobody Likes Me Nikdo mě nemá rád
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Czech Republic, France, Slovakia | 90 min | Sara is an attractive 29-year-old single Czech woman. She works as a secretary at an directorS Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb army headquarters in Prague. While she is constantly surrounded by strong young PRODUCERS Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb, Vojtěch Frič men, she has not found a partner yet. Her PRODUCTION COMPANIES Black Balance, love.FRAME authoritarian mother’s presence probably CO-PRODUCTION Arizona Films Productions, Lehotský film, does not help either. Yet Sara enjoys Bontonfilm Studios solitude and has come to terms with SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA her position as a detached observer of COMPLETION DATE 2021 other people’s lives. When she meets the gallant, graceful, and soft-faced Martin, SCRIPT Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb EDITOR Vojtěch Frič SOUND Petr she is fascinated by him. Gradually, their Kapeller SET DESIGNER Alexandr Kozák connection grows, but when Sara wants to take their relationship to a deeper and contact more physical level, Martin shies away. Black Balance – Petr Kazda He is hiding a deep secret. [email protected] +420 776 770 316
116 development Ordinary Failures
Běžná selhání T UR ES FE A
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Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania | 80 min | One day in the life of three women. A city Czech struck by random mysterious explosions. director Cristina Groșan A presage of an end and a new beginning in the chaos of postmodern PRODUCER Marek Novák world. PRODUCTION COMPANY Xova Film CO-PRODUCTION Laokoon Filmgroup, Tangaj Production COMPLETION DATE December 2021
SCRIPT Klára Vlasáková contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966
OTEL PRAGUE
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany | 100 min | Tomas (19), a Ukrainian of Czech origin, Czech, Russian the descendant of Czech emigrants still director Zdeněk Viktora living as an organized minority in Ukraine and speaking old Czech language, is PRODUCER Zdeněk Viktora coming to Prague to reunite with his PRODUCTION COMPANY SCREENPLAY BY estranged mother Naďa, whom he hasn‘t CO-PRODUCTION Attack Film, Hildebrandt Film seen for years. Naďa is a small-time crook COMPLETION DATE November 2022 living in the streets of Prague, trying to fulfil her dream: to own cheap hotel in SCRIPT Marek Grajciar, Zdeněk Viktora the city. That’s why she invited her son to come to Prague. Next to son/mother contact relationship, the film also shows how it is SCREENPLAY BY – Zdeněk Viktora to be an immigrant in a foreign country, [email protected] +420 604 915 363 even if you speak the language – bringing up the question: What really makes you a Czech – the language, the roots or yet something else?
development 117 Plague
T UR ES Mor FE A
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Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech In the city state of Prague, 13-year-old director Jan Těšitel Rosálie lives with her careless father and two brothers. Rosálie longs for the return PRODUCER Julie Žáčková of her loving and kind mother who has PRODUCTION COMPANY Unit and Sofa Praha been recovering in an Alpine sanatorium CO-PRODUCTION Sirena Film for ages now. But mommy is not coming SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA back. Instead of her, an orphaned COMPLETION DATE May 2022 girl Šarlota comes to town and starts attending Rosálie’s school. Rosálie does SCRIPT Milada Mašinová Těšitelová DOP Dušan Husár SET DESIGNER not like this strange new girl a single bit. Henrich Boráros When the plague epidemic storms into town, Rosálie spreads a rumour that it is contact Unit and Sofa Praha – Julie Žáčková Šarlota who brought the deadly infection [email protected] to Prague. She is not aware how much +420 602 166 593 she will regret this decision one day.
Polaris POLÁRKA
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Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Dan, a Czech living in Munich, leaves directorS Tomáš Janáček his wife and his child in the middle of the night without explanation to head PRODUCER Mikuláš Novotný to the city of Cheb, where a tragic PRODUCTION COMPANY Background Films fire at the Polaris hostel has recently COMPLETION DATE August 2022 broken out. His intention is to write an article disentangling the background SCRIPT Tomáš Janáček of racial hatred; however, it slowly gets out of hand. During his search in the contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný tragedy-struck city, Dan meets up with [email protected] his ex-colleagues that are journalists, as +420 777 910 290 well as residents, and unwittingly gets involved with the underworld. During an unsuccessful effort to come up with something, Dan gradually realizes that he came to Cheb for himself rather than for the article.
118 DEVELOPMENT Prince Mamma‘s Boy
Princ Mamánek T UR ES FE A
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Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Somewhat overgrown Prince Louis director Jan Budař Otomar Charles XII, born “noble”, is deeply dependent on his loving and PRODUCER Jan Budař caring mother since his childhood. The PRODUCTION COMPANY Budhar Film Prince lives in a chateau in luxury and CO-PRODUCTION Bedna Films wealth, hanging around in large fields COMPLETION DATE September 2021 and wondering how it will feel when he‘ll become the king. Definitely wonderful! SCRIPT Jan Budař Prince‘s father – King Radomil, however, is afraid of his son‘s future government, contact Budhar Film – Jan Budař so he gives him an unexpected present [email protected] for his thirty-eighth birthday: the journey +420 604 759 992 to Mrs. Death herself. The Prince‘s transformation into an adult man can begin...
Queen of the Night Královna noci
Czech Republic | 90 min | English A thrilling classic fairy tale story based director TBA on one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s most famous operas, The Magic Flute, in PRODUCER Daniel Severa which the seemingly kind Queen of the PRODUCTION COMPANY Daniel Severa Production Night turns out to be the epitome of evil, COMPLETION DATE December 2022 and the mysterious old King Sarastro is revealed as the savior of the world. SCRIPT Juraj Herz, Jan Drbohlav, Daniel Severa contact Daniel Severa Production – Daniel Severa [email protected] +420 777 000 280
DEVELOPMENT 119 Restore Point
T UR ES Bod Obnovy FE A
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Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Serbia | Europe, 2038. After stabilizing the first 100 min | Czech refugee crisis followed by several terrorist director Robert Hloz attacks, the Free European Federation issues a new constitutional law that PRODUCER Jan Kallista guarantees the citizens “one whole life to PRODUCTION COMPANY FILM KOLEKTIV live”. Due to new technologies, everyone CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, DNA Production, Film Produkcja, has the right of recovery in case of an Mali Budo unnatural death. In such a society, an SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA “absolute” murder is nearly impossible. COMPLETION DATE 2021 Ambitious detective, Emma Trochinowska is assigned with a murder case of SCRIPT Tomislav Čečka CAST Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, a married couple. But the restoration team Tomáš Maštalíř, Peter Bebjak is able to bring only one of the spouses back to life. Together, they attempt to shed contact FESTIVALS light on the case and find out if the second FILM KOLEKTIV – Jan Kallista Arkaitz Basterra chance isn’t just another easily exploitable [email protected] [email protected] +420 603 244 292 +420 776 139 495 instrument dealing with the consequences instead of the cause itself.
Resurrections Vzkříšení
Czech Republic | 110 min | English Andrea is devastated. Her twin sister director Petr Václav Elly, the first person in the world she revived, got lost. The police think she was PRODUCER Jan Macola murdered. Andrea must do her best to PRODUCTION COMPANY Mimesis Film finish upbringing of the revived Camille. COMPLETION DATE November 2022 The young woman must fall in love with Peter von Bloosk. Afterwards, she come SCRIPT Petr Václav back to him and they will continue their interrupted common life. They would then contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola fly together to the planet Eden to organize [email protected] a colonisation of the universe from there, +420 724 938 883 saving the chosen, improved part of the rich humankind from the flood on the Earth. However, Elly is not dead. She is trying to get in touch with Camille, sabotaging her love to Peter, making her doubt the sense of her revival…
120 development Sara
Sára T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic, Poland, United States | Bridget, a pregnant American woman, 100 min | English has just arrived in Berlin with her husband director Jan Komasa Thomas, who is looking for investors. The baby is born prematurely, something goes PRODUCERS Vratislav Šlajer, Danny Holman, Jan Komasa wrong and the baby dies. The couple is PRODUCTION COMPANIES Bionaut, Kosmonaut trying to piece their lives back together CO-PRODUCTION Laura Bickford when Bridget starts to think that the baby SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA is still alive. She becomes convinced that COMPLETION DATE 2021 her baby was switched at birth. Nobody believes her, so Bridget must act alone SCRIPT Mark Christopher to get her baby back. The trail leads her to a club owned by the charismatic contact Maxim. She creates the alter-ego of Sara Bionaut – Vratislav Šlajer and leads a double life, working her way [email protected] +420 777 210 165 into Maxim’s life and a web of criminal activity. The risks are high, and the threat of discovery is constant, especially when Thomas and a psychologist begin to suspect something is not right.
Saving One Who Was Dead Zpráva o záchraně mrtvého
Czech Republic, France, Slovakia | 90 min | After father falls into a coma, his family Czech finds itself in an extreme life situation. director Václav Kadrnka The mother and her son quietly focus all their strength. They meekly accept PRODUCER Václav Kadrnka the diagnosis but defy the verdict. They PRODUCTION COMPANY Sirius Films decide to take action, to bring light into CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Bocalupo Films, Silverart the darkness and confront the silence COMPLETION DATE May 2021 with words.
SCRIPT Václav Kadrnka, Marek Šindelka, Jiří Soukup SET DESIGNER Jana Boháčková contact Sirius Films – Václav Kadrnka [email protected] +420 603 273 758
development 121 Silent Mail
T UR ES Tichá pošta FE A
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech, German, French Based on the novel of the same name by director Ján Sebechlebský Jiří Stránský, the film adapts a true story taking place at the end of WW2. The PRODUCER Viktor Schwarcz story of brave children who don‘t want PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart TV Prague to see and understand eventual horrific COMPLETION DATE December 2022 consequences of their actions; the story about brave parents who are aware of the SCRIPT Jiří Stránský horrific consequences and yet decide to risk the fate of their descendants in order contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz to save an injured pilot. Fear, bravery, [email protected] sadness and joy of every step taken +420 777 220 364 as well as constant presence of cruelty and death are the building stones of this story. Its simple style contributes to film’s credibility and authenticity.
Snake Gas Hadí plyn
Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia | Inspired by Joseph Conrad‘s unique 100 min | Czech, French, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian and for many hard to understand novel director David Jařab Heart of Darkness. Similarly, the film tells the story in two different levels: An PRODUCER Viktor Schwarcz adventurous journey and the real picture PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart TV Prague of the journey inside one’s soul and its CO-PRODUCTION Fantascope Films, Arina, Alex Production darkness. In order to take a peek inside COMPLETION DATE December 2021 the soul we must get close to the dark parts of it and win the feud with own evil. SCRIPT David Jařab DOP Marek Jícha EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Snake Gas is a film about a man‘s own Richard Müller MUSIC Jakub Kudláč SET DESIGNER Milan Popleka retrospect. He goes back to places where he was before, comes back to prior contact “dejavous” and tries to understand his Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz own behaviour. He also tries to overcome [email protected] +420 777 220 364 frustrations and worries of his most intern instincts and desires.
122 development So Far, So Close
Tak daleko, tak blízko T UR ES FE A
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Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Josef (40) lives with his 14-year-old son director Ondřej Erban Matěj in mountains, in seclusion. The boy hates this lonely life so deeply that he PRODUCER Jakub Jíra rather attempts suicide than to stay there PRODUCTION COMPANY Shore Points a single day longer. Josef saves Matěj, COMPLETION DATE January 2022 but by his suicidal attempt the boy does not give Josef a choice: they have to SCRIPT Ondřej Erban DOP David Hofmann come back to the city. It doesn’t take long and the reason why Josef left the city in contact Shore Points – Jakub Jíra the first place starts surfacing. So Far, So [email protected] Close is an intimate drama about human +420 602 846 925 weaknesses and about men, who don’t know how to talk to each other.
Stillborn Stále nestálá
2ND FILM minority co-production
Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic | A portrait of Ela, a woman of change, in 90 min | Polish a country in change. Poland, during the director Olga Chajdas political and social shift from communism into Solidarity becomes the playground to PRODUCERS Violetta Kaminska, Izabela Wojcik Ela’s pursuit of love, freedom and change PRODUCTION COMPANY Apple Film Production through her art, her essence and her CO-PRODUCTION Topkaki Films, moloko film mysticism. The story starts in October COMPLETION DATE March 2021 1987, during a moon eclipse and ends with Poland’s Free Elections in 1989. SCRIPT Lena Góra DOP Tomasz Naumiuk EDITOR Pavel Hrdlička Ela battles internally with her identities, her purpose, her art. The birth of Ela‘s contact daughter is the embodiment of her fears moloko film – Miloš Lochman and heaviness. [email protected] +420 603 477 707
development 123 Sunburn
T UR ES Úpal FE A
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Czech Republic, Croatia, Finland | 100 min | In a chaotic Croatian hospital, 15-year- English, Croatian, Czech, Finnish old Finnish girl Titty is waiting to see her director Štěpán Fok Vodrážka mother, Kaisa, recovering from smoke inhalation following a forest fire. Her father PRODUCER Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál Järvi is in a coma after suffering burns, his PRODUCTION COMPANY Bionaut entire body covered in bandages. A local CO-PRODUCTION Antitalent, Helsinki-filmi police inspector, Antun, talks to Titty, trying COMPLETION DATE November 2020 to piece the events together. News comes through that a charred corpse has been SCRIPT David Bloom found and we realize that something very bad has happened. A family on holiday contact in Croatia is forced to share their villa Bionaut – Vratislav Šlajer with a young local couple. Tensions rise [email protected] +420 777 210 165 under the hot sun as lies and secrets are uncovered, building to a violent, tragic climax.
Swing Times V rytmu swingu buší srdce mé
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Czech Republic | 110 min | English Based on the true story of the director Ondřej Havelka phenomenal Czech jazz pianist and composer Jiří „George“ Traxler. The PRODUCER Daniel Severa story of passion for jazz – and a femme PRODUCTION COMPANY Daniel Severa Production fatale – intertwined with the absurdity COMPLETION DATE December 2021 and cruelty of fascism and communism which dominated Czechoslovakia during SCRIPT Martin Vačkář, Ondřej Havelka SET DESIGNER Milan Býček and after WW2. The film is set mostly in Prague, starting in 1939 and ending in contact Daniel Severa Production – Daniel Severa 1950, when George emigrates to Canada [email protected] at the age of 38, after 11 years of swing +420 777 000 280 and secrecy, love and hate, trust and betrayal, fear and freedom.
124 development The Barbecue Party
Grilování T UR ES FE A
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Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech The most horrible secrets are often director Jaroslav Fuit hidden behind the fences of our gardens, in the walls of our houses, among our PRODUCER Viktor Schwarcz loved ones. Together with the college PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart TV Prague student Marek, we witness a traditional COMPLETION DATE November 2022 family barbecue party and get to know the closest family of his girlfriend SCRIPT Jaroslav Fuit, Petr Kolečko Veronika: her authoritarian, demagogic and cruel father Karel, her seemingly contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz devoted, but in reality broken mother [email protected] Olga, stubborn teenager Tomáš, loved +420 777 220 364 Terezka and especially Veronika, who has a plan to free her relatives from the circle of family violence. In her plan of revenge for all the wrongs her father committed towards the family, Marek unknowingly plays an important role.
The Body Tělo
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Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech Young competitive diver Andrea is director Natálie Císařovská training for the Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996). Her sister Lucie is also a diver, PRODUCER Viktor Schwarcz but Andrea is better. She sacrifices PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart TV Prague everything for her sport career, seeing her CO-PRODUCTION Silverart body as an instrument of performance. COMPLETION DATE August 2022 After a serious injury ends her sport career, Andrea needs to start over and SCRIPT Aneta Honzková, Natálie Císařovská DOP Klára Belicová do things differently. She dives into the EDITOR Matěj Beran SOUND František Šec MUSIC Raphael Dumas porn industry and soon becomes famous SET DESIGNER David Dubenský and successful in this domain as well. This purely personal choice disrupts contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz relationships in her family, particularly [email protected] Lucie is disgusted and refuses to have +420 777 220 364 anything to do with her sister. It is Andrea‘s illness that finally reunites them, and all disagreements are forgotten. Andrea realises that her body might be more than just a body.
development 125 The Fragile Beauty of Masculinity
T UR ES Křehká krása mužství FE A
Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech, English, German Adam and Iva are together for over director Andrea Culková 15 years, married, with two girls. Everything in their lives would have been PRODUCERS Miroslav Novák, Viktoria Hozzová just ordinary if Adam wasn’t craving to PRODUCTION COMPANY Duracfilm satisfy his thirst for testosterone so often. SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA Over the course of their marriage, Iva has COMPLETION DATE 2022 learned to swim in this pool of aimless risks and macho gestures. She forgives SCRIPT Andrea Culková EDITOR Thomas Ernst SOUND Petr Čechák him everything. Even a nasty accident, that costs him one leg, even crazy winter contact Duracfilm – Miroslav Novák motorbike rally in Norway where he has [email protected] yet another almost deadly accident. +420 774 138 838 After a couple of months, he ends up in a rehabilitation facility where Iva works as a nurse. Unable to move, Adam starts to fall in love with Iva again, whereas Iva sees that her inner change is inevitable. When the shit hits the fan one more time, Iva with her newly gained freedom decides not to take any more chances.
The Man Who Stood In the Way Muž, který stál v cestě
Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia | 150 min | A story of the doctor and politician Czech, Slovak, Russian František Kriegel, who resisted the might director Ivan Fíla of the USSR and Brezhnev in 1968, brings to light long-hidden facts and PRODUCER Miloslav Šmídmajer events from the most tragic episode in PRODUCTION COMPANY Bio Illusion modern Czechoslovak history. František CO-PRODUCTION Insight Media Producing Center, Trigon Films, Kriegel – the only of 26 Czech politicians Czech Television refused to bow to Soviet pressure and COMPLETION DATE November 2021 sign the ignominious Moscow Protocol. In the early hours of 21 August, together SCRIPT Ivan Fíla DOP Vladimír Smutný SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák with five other top politicians, he was CAST Tomáš Töpfer, Miroslav Donutil, Taťjana Medvecká arrested and taken to Moscow, where he was interned, fully expecting to be sent to contact death in Siberia. Bio Illusion – Miloslav Šmídmajer [email protected] +420 602 440 753
126 development The Nightsiren
Světlonoc T UR ES FE A
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Czech Republic, Slovakia, France | 100 min | Charlotte (30) is returning to the wild Slovak Slovak mountains she escaped from as director Tereza Nvotová a child. Still full of self-hate, she wants to hide and be alone after a recent PRODUCERS Miloš Lochman, Peter Badač traumatic miscarriage. Instead, she is PRODUCTION COMPANIES moloko film, BFILM confronted by the locals with her past. CO-PRODUCTION Senorita Films The mystery surrounding the death of her COMPLETION DATE February 2021 little sister and the slim hope she might be still alive, makes Charlotte search for SCRIPT Barbora Námerová answers. Whatever she does though, only strengthens the villagers’ belief she is contact a witch from the woods, like the one who moloko film – Miloš Lochman supposedly murdered her sister years [email protected] +420 603 477 707 ago. To find the truth, Charlotte first needs to accept herself and finally face reality.
The Spring Man Pérák
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Czech Republic | 95 min | Czech, German The story takes place during the era director Jiří Havelka of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, precisely during the period PRODUCER Martina Štruncová from Heydrich‘s arrival to Prague till PRODUCTION COMPANY Silk Films the assassination attack on him. This COMPLETION DATE December 2021 period, during which Heydrich lived in Prague, serves as a platform for an SCRIPT Robert Geisler DOP Šimon Dvořáček SET DESIGNER Jan ironical mystification, following the real Bažant historical events. Through the mythical and legendary character of Czech contact Silk Films – Martina Štruncová superhero The Spring Man, we connect to [email protected] the elite fictional Czech resistance group +420 724 516 755 dedicated to defeat the Nazi Germany represented by Heydrich.
development 127 The Ugly Mandarine
T UR ES Ošklivá Mandarínka FE A
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Czech Republic | 80 min | English, Czech, Slovak, After five years of studying and making Chinese, French Prague her home, the 26-year-old Chinese director Piaoyu Xie sculptor Yiou will have to return to China. She has 30 days left to find a stay PRODUCERS Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer “purpose” for her visa. A job fell through PRODUCTION COMPANY Analog Vision and her Tunisian-French lover Ines is SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA returning to Paris soon, to her spouse. At COMPLETION DATE November 2021 a trip with friends, heartbroken Yiou meets Greta, who offers to pretend being Yiou’s SCRIPT Piaoyu Xie, Lucia Kajánková EDITOR Michal Reich partner so she can apply for the visa as the spouse of an EU citizen. Greta is in contact love with Yiou after only one night they Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová have spent together while Yiou views their [email protected] +420 724 148 114 arrangement very differently – however she is now dependent on Greta.
The Word Slovo
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Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia | 90 min | A portrait of the common life of Václav Czech and Věra, their family and immediate director Beata Parkanová surroundings, between the summer of 1968 and 1969. Václav and Věra differ in PRODUCERS Vojtěch Frič, Ondřej Kulhánek temperament, intellect and expressions of PRODUCTION COMPANIES love.FRAME, Bontonfilm Studios empathy. Nevertheless, or maybe precisely CO-PRODUCTION KIJORA Film, DNA production for this reason, they are spouses, riding COMPLETION DATE December 2020 a roller coaster of life together. Through intensive insights into several moments of SCRIPT Beata Parkanová DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Alois Fišárek their common life, the film aims to capture MUSIC Jan P. Muchow CAST Martin Finger, Gabriela Mikulková various situations and the protagonists’ attitudes as accurately, intimately and in contact detail as possible. love.FRAME – Vojtěch Frič [email protected] +420 603 169 237
128 development Thinking David
Mít rád Davida T UR ES FE A
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Czech Republic | 95 min | Czech, English Secular Jewish boy David is coming out. director Šimon Holý What society perceives as a milestone, can for a gay person actually take the PRODUCERS Pavla Klimešová, Barbora Bajgarová whole life. Thinking David is an intense PRODUCTION COMPANY Helium Film trip to turbulent years of finding oneself COMPLETION DATE March 2022 in an adult world where nothing is for free. Moments of happiness in Israel, SCRIPT Šimon Holý DOP Jana Hojdová MUSIC Šimon Holý disappointment and misunderstanding back home in the Czech Republic, with contact Helium Film – Pavla Klimešová hope in the end. [email protected] +420 737 454 912
This Is Not Bob Dylan Toto není Bob Dylan
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Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech A man believes a conspiracy theory director Josef Heřmánek which says that a famous American musician was abducted in the 1960s and PRODUCER Lukáš Hrdý placed in a psychiatric ward in former PRODUCTION COMPANY MovieHero communist Czechoslovakia, where, to this COMPLETION DATE 2021 day, he awaits his rescue.
SCRIPT Josef Heřmánek contact MovieHero – Lukáš Hrdý [email protected] +420 776 642 999
development 129 Three Weeks Under The Sea
T UR ES Tři týdny pod mořem FE A
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Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland | 105 min | Misha returns to his hometown to settle Czech, Russian, Spanish the affairs after his father’s death, only to director Martin Kuba find out that the funeral has been faked. Trying to uncover who set the whole thing PRODUCER Miloš Lochman up, he starts drowning in his Russian PRODUCTION COMPANY moloko film father’s past of former military attaché CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, Apple Film Production in Czechoslovakia. Misha gets involved COMPLETION DATE February 2022 with his old friends who now operate as a group of the Russian mafia in the Czech SCRIPT Martin Kuba, Marek Grajciar border town and his restless heart makes him fall for local girls too easily too. The contact fragile atmosphere of the days before moloko film – Miloš Lochman Christmas begins to crumble, as Misha [email protected] +420 603 477 707 reveals his father’s past involvement in a big scale theft of military equipment at the withdrawal of the Soviet Army from Czechoslovakia. Misha realizes that the role he plays in the events might be much bigger than he can carry.
Three Women Tři ženy
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Czech Republic | 120 min | Czech, Portuguese Loose adaptation of a narrative triptych by director Matěj Chlupáček the legendary author Robert Musil taking place in the 1970s, 1990s and in the PRODUCERS Matěj Chlupáček, Maja Hamplová present day. Three chapters, titled Grigina, PRODUCTION COMPANY Barletta Tonka and The Portuguese Lady, tell COMPLETION DATE January 2022 a story of a man confronted with various types of relationships, death and his own SCRIPT Lukáš Valíšek family.
contact Barletta – Matěj Chlupáček [email protected] +420 776 710 887
130 development Traffic Jam
Kolona na D1 T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic | 105 min | Czech A comedy with drama elements focusing director Robert Sedláček on the development of several persons’ behaviour in a critical situation. All of PRODUCER Jan Schwarcz them travel from Prague to Brno down PRODUCTION COMPANY Up&Up production the highway D1 during the New Year’s COMPLETION DATE November 2022 Eve. Their plans are thwarted by being stuck in a traffic jam for several hours. SCRIPT Beata Parkanová DOP Martin Douba SET DESIGNER Jan In a detailed view, we can see what the Vlček increasing nervousness and tension do to people, how it changes their relationships contact Up&Up production – Jan Schwarcz and their behaviour. [email protected] +420 775 705 842
Twins Sestry Dietlovy
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Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Shortly after the Velvet Revolution, two directorS Vojtěch Mašek, Michal Nohejl friends in their late fifties, Věra Dietlová and Josefa Hubačová, are sitting in Café PRODUCERS Artemio Benki, Petra Oplatková Dubrovnik in the residential neighbourhood PRODUCTION COMPANY Sirena Film of Zaratan. They both struggle with feelings COMPLETION DATE October 2021 of dissatisfaction and disobedience. Josefa no longer wants to watch her SCRIPT Vojtěch Mašek DOP Tomáš Sysel husband‘s alcoholic self-destruction and decided to leave him. Věra is suffocated contact Sirena Film – Artemio Benki by her twin sister Veronika. A few hours [email protected] later, Věra is found in a local park with her +420 602 332 793 face cut-off and Josefa is missing. The criminal investigation led by Capt. Hynek Hoffman and his colleague Zinner starts, revealing unsettling and disturbing facts not only about the twins, but also about the neighbourhood, its residents and even about the detectives investigating the case themselves.
development 131 Victim
T UR ES Oběť FE A
1ST FILM minority co-production
Slovakia, Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech Irina is a Ukrainian single mother living director Michal Blaško in a small border town in the Czech Republic. She loves her 13-year-old son PRODUCER Jakub Viktorín Igor and wants to give him better life than PRODUCTION COMPANY nutprodukcia she used to have. Igor, unlike his mother, CO-PRODUCTION nutprodukce is fully integrated into Czech society SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA and as a young gymnast has a great COMPLETION DATE May 2021 future. One day, Irina learns that Igor was attacked and almost killed. After surgery SCRIPT Jakub Medvecký, Michal Blaško DOP Adam Mach and waking up from narcosis, Igor admits SET DESIGNER Stella Šonková that the attackers were Roma. Irina is fighting for justice and wakes up the whole contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková of Czech society to act and punish the [email protected] culprits. However, over time she starts +420 605 256 190 to be aware of certain inconsistencies in Igor‘s story, until one day Igor shamefully admits he made up the assault. But Irina finds out too late.
Waltzing Matylda Tancuj Matyldo
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Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech A story of Karel Jaroš, an emotionally arid director Petr Slavík man, whose mother suffers from Alzheimer disease. It is not love, but the sense of PRODUCER Nataša Slavíková duty that stops him from sending his CO-PRODUCTION Virus Film mother to a mental institution. On the other COMPLETION DATE October 2021 hand, this way he can finally connect with her. And not just with her but also with his SCRIPT Petr Slavík, Nataša Slavíková CAST Karel Roden, Regina teenage son and with himself. Rázlová, Ingrid Hrubaničová
contact Nataša Slavíková [email protected] +420 602 660 575
132 development Waves
Vlny T UR ES FE A
Czech Republic | 110 min | Czech Czechoslovakia, 1968. The police director Jiří Mádl brutally break up a student march, but it’s clear the ice is beginning to thaw in PRODUCER Monika Kristl totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Tomáš (30) PRODUCTION COMPANY Dawson Films is the son of political prisoners. With his COMPLETION DATE November 2021 father dead and his mother somewhere in the West, he takes care of his younger SCRIPT Jiří Mádl DOP Martin Žiaran brother Pavel. He does not want Pavel to get involved in any pro-democracy contact Dawson Films – Monika Kristl movements, but Tomáš is himself [email protected] recruited under strange circumstances to +420 602 430 420 the international section of Czechoslovak Radio, headed by Milan Weiner, the leading light in the endeavour to reach greater freedom in the country. Tomáš has to collaborate with the secret police, without his colleagues being aware of it.
Wirbel
1ST FILM
Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech, German Burned out Martin buys a random directorS Tomáš Hubáček abandoned house in a remote borderland. Thanks to a mysterious mute girl he PRODUCER Jan Macola accidentally learns his house is a part PRODUCTION COMPANY Mimesis Film of a dilapidated baroque composition COMPLETION DATE June 2021 inscribed in the surrounding country. While he step by step uncovers a secret SCRIPT Tomáš Hubáček DOP Alan Soural MUSIC Tomáš Hubáček concept, which was built over the centuries, he crosses paths of those with contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola the same interests but bad intentions. At [email protected] the same time, he observes the landscape +420 724 938 883 is critically ill. The water dries out from wells, the earth is shaking, and the time is getting short…
development 133 Year of a Widow
T UR ES Rok vdovy FE A
1ST FILM
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland | 90 min | After a fatal health collapse of her Czech husband, Petra overnight becomes director Veronika Lišková a widow. As she soon finds out, her grief and loneliness are not the only PRODUCERS Petra Oplatková, Artemio Benki challenges she has to face. Unexpectedly PRODUCTION COMPANY Artcam Films demanding are also countless practical CO-PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes Film, Telemark and administrative tasks that a person’s SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA death brings in the 21st century. The COMPLETION DATE May 2021 fiction debut of an awarded documentary director draws an intimate and minimalistic SCRIPT Eugen Liška, Veronika Lišková drama that touches a taboo topic and captures a clash between a person‘s contact individual perception of a situation and the Artcam Films – Petra Oplatková reality. [email protected] +420 775 619 541
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2019 RELEASED FILMS TS Figurant SHO R
Czech Republic, France | 14 min | Czech, French A man follows a group of workers coming director Jan Vejnar for daywork in an industrial area. Soon he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, PRODUCER Kamila Dohnalová dressed in a military uniform and armed. PRODUCTION COMPANY Silk Films His determination not to fall behind CO-PRODUCTION Origine Films the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events. SCRIPT Jan Vejnar DOP Šimon Dvořáček EDITOR Jakub Vansa SOUND Michaela Patríková, Rémi Durel, Julie Tribout MUSIC Jan Vysocký SET DESIGNER Pavel Svoboda CAST Denis Lavant, Michal Kern, Petr Jeništa, Petr Vršek
contact Silk Films – Kamila Dohnalová [email protected] +420 777 068 712
First Action Hero První akční hrdina
Czech Republic | 30 min | Czech A young writer of cultural column director Jan Haluza discovers that in his efforts to free the love of his life he becomes an unintentional PRODUCERS Radim Procházka, Jan Bušta participant of an action film shooting PRODUCTION COMPANY Produkce Radim Procházka led by a mercurial Director. In the spirit of genre rules, he must overcome the SCRIPT Jan Haluza DOP Radim Střelka EDITOR Marek Opatrný people who control him. And of no use SOUND Petr Kapeller CAST Jiří Mádl, Kryštof Hádek, Lenka to him is violence; what counts here Haluzová, Jiří Vyorálek is his own intelligence, ingenuity and determination. contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka [email protected] +420 603 862 161
136 2019 RELEASED FILMS Mitsu TS SHO R
EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic | 15 min | German, Japanese Countess Mitsuko Maria Thekla director Mark Ther Coudenhove-Kalergi was the first Japanese woman to come to Europe at PRODUCER Mikuláš Novotný the turn of the 19th century. She lived PRODUCTION COMPANY Background Films mostly in the area of the Bavarian border and administered the Poběžovice Castle, SCRIPT Mark Ther DOP Lukáš Milota EDITOR Zuzana Walter SOUND an estate of her deceased husband, Sandra Klouzová SET DESIGNER Matěj Sýkora CAST Petr Holý, Count Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi. She Yoshimi Yokoyama, Naoko Igusa was a strong and well-educated woman, never left by the nostalgia for her home. contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný [email protected] +420 777 910 290
FESTIVALS Background Films – Martina Netíková [email protected] +420 721 366 113
Switched Shifts Vyměnila jsem si směnu
Czech Republic | 33 min | Czech A story of a female foreign worker, director Luboš Kučera working in a printing house. A boy, along with other men, longs for her, but their PRODUCERS Anneta Furdecká, Luboš Kučera qualities are not satisfactory even for PRODUCTION COMPANY Actress Film the girl‘s low demands. First man, her CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, FAMU previous boyfriend, cheated on her, her new devotee at work, the boy, is currently SCRIPT Luboš Kučera DOP Tomáš Pavelek EDITOR Michal Böhm homeless, and the third man probably SOUND Martin Kuhn MUSIC Marek Mrkvička SET DESIGNER Zuzana lies. Bošková CAST Anita Gregorec, Martin Motl, Rudolf Skopec, Martin Šesták contact Actress Film – Anneta Furdecká [email protected] +420 728 416 352
2019 RELEASED FILMS 137 SHORT FILMS
postproduction development A Prince Came TS
Passing By SHO R Po víkendu
minority co-production
Romania, Czech Republic | 20 min | Romanian During an acting workshop, Alex (16) director Cristina Groșan and Vicky (19) start bonding. By dawn, Alex gets tipsy. Vicky helps him to his PRODUCER Anamaria Antoci room and takes their bonding one step PRODUCTION COMPANY Tangaj Productions too far. Alex awakes in the midst of the CO-PRODUCTION Xova Film sexual act. In shock, he sends her off. COMPLETION DATE January 2020 Either cheered or blamed for, the next day everyone has a strong reaction. But SCRIPT Marek Novák, Cristina Groșan DOP Marius Apopei EDITOR neither him nor his entourage realize he’s Alexandra Jonášová SET DESIGNER Andrada Chiriac CAST Cristian a victim of unconsented sexual relations. Robe, Silvana Mihai, Lászlo Mátray, Una Toma
contact Xova Film – Marek Novák [email protected] +420 607 240 966
Anatomy of a Czech
o du ction Afternoon Anatomie českého odpoledne
Czech Republic | 21 min | Czech Crowds of people are laying on top of director Adam Martinec each other at the beach of a Czech swimming lake. A mother is looking PRODUCER Matěj Paclík for her two boys. A search with an PRODUCTION COMPANY Breathless Films uncertain end starts and gradually all CO-PRODUCTION FAMU the participants realize the burden of COMPLETION DATE March 2020 the whole situation. The unimaginable becomes reality. A huge crowd is leaving SCRIPT Adam Martinec DOP David Hofmann EDITOR Matěj Sláma the premises with a feeling that what SOUND Michael Kocáb SET DESIGNER Aneta Grňáková CAST Jakub happened doesn’t relate to them. Špalek, Simona Peková, Matouš Borecký, Adam Kyznár
contact Breathless Films – Matěj Paclík [email protected] +420 607 930 300
r postp d evelopment POSTPRODUCTION 139 TS Divine Sparks Božské jiskry SHO R
Czech Republic, Belgium | 17 min | Czech, Flemish, A chance encounter at a German German, English highway rest stop sparks youthful director Vít Poláček attraction between a 13-year-old Czech boy and a Belgian girl. With the help of PRODUCER Mikuláš Novotný an Arab truck driver and a man who looks PRODUCTION COMPANY Background Films like an African footballer, they overcome CO-PRODUCTION Skladanowsky language barriers and avoid their families COMPLETION DATE January 2020 to spend a few minutes together. In this unassuming location, they share an SCRIPT Vít Poláček DOP Ondřej Belica EDITOR Matěj Sláma SOUND experience that is unique to modern Ivo Broum CAST Mercedes Meyers, Vojtěch Decker, Anne Meyers, Europe. Matyáš Vašák
contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný [email protected] +420 777 910 290
Fibonacci
EXPERIMENTAL
Czech Republic | 15 min | No Dialogue Human swarm running through the land. director Tomáš Hubáček 13 performers in a drop-shaped formation create a single organism, controlled by PRODUCER Jan Macola a collective intelligence or intuition. It PRODUCTION COMPANY Mimesis Film spills over the land of geometric patterns, COMPLETION DATE February 2020 terrain waves, divides and re-connects. It stops at the horizon to rest and then SCRIPT Tomáš Hubáček DOP Alan Soural MUSIC Tomáš Hubáček runs on. The contrast between a lively SET DESIGNER Tereza Havlová movement and the still geometry of the land. contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola [email protected] +420 724 938 883
140 POSTPRODUCTION Francek TS SHO R
Czech Republic | 26 min | Czech A short docudrama in magic-realism style director Natálie Císařovská about the youth of the Czech painter František Kupka, spent in the environment PRODUCER Kateřina Traburová of the Czech countryside, in the foothills PRODUCTION COMPANY GURU FILM of the Orlické Mountains – region of CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television Spiritism and Braun‘s Baroque. Here his COMPLETION DATE January 2020 future artistic personality developed and formed. SCRIPT Vojtěch Bohuslav DOP Klára Belicová EDITOR Ilona Malá SOUND František Šec MUSIC Raphael Dumas SET DESIGNER Anna Forstová, David Dubenský CAST Vojtěch Hrabák, Tereza Hofová contact GURU FILM – Kateřina Traburová [email protected] +420 731 712 686
Frontier Hranice
Czech Republic | 29 min | Czech, English During a routine check, a commander director Damián Vondrášek of the Czech customs unit discovers a group of immigrants in the freight space PRODUCER Martina Netíková of a van. An underage youth uses the PRODUCTION COMPANY Background Films chaos and escapes to the darkness of the CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television nearby woods. The commander tries to COMPLETION DATE January 2020 solve the situation regularly, but gradually he falls into an inner conflict and hesitates SCRIPT Damián Vondrášek, Lukáš Csicsely DOP Filip Marek EDITOR whether he should follow the command or Jakub Podmanický SOUND Luka Šuto SET DESIGNER Stella Šonková his own conscience. CAST Marian Mitaš, Raed Rarhat, Viktor Zavadil contact Background Films – Martina Netíková [email protected] +420 721 366 113
POSTPRODUCTION 141 TS Inversion Inverze SHO R
Czech Republic | 20 min | Czech, Slovak A trio of teen ‘BFF’ girlfriends from director Lucia Kajánková a competitive swimming team is inseparable. Until one freezing autumn PRODUCERS Michal Kráčmer, Veronika Kührová night, when two of them lock the third one PRODUCTION COMPANY Analog Vision by the outdoor pool. CO-PRODUCTION FAMU COMPLETION DATE January 2020
SCRIPT Lucia Kajánková DOP Klára Belicová EDITOR Anna Kryvenko SOUND Viktor Krivosudský SET DESIGNER Zuzana Mazáčová CAST Cyril Dobrý, Martina Jindrová, Barbora Horčičková, Anna Poláková
contact Analog Vision – Michal Kráčmer [email protected] +420 602 838 388
Opponent Protihráč
Czech Republic | 20 min | Czech Until recently, Petr was a famous soccer director Ondřej Erban player, member of the Czech national team. But this is the past now. Currently, PRODUCER Jakub Jíra he is trying to restart his career in a small PRODUCTION COMPANY Shore Points regional club. His biggest enemies are CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Boogiefilms, Filmtalent Zlín, not the opponent players anymore, but PFX, Soundsquare, FAMU his own weaknesses – first and foremost COMPLETION DATE March 2020 his slot machine addiction.
SCRIPT Ondřej Erban DOP David Hofmann EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Miroslav Chaloupka SET DESIGNER Ondřej Lipenský CAST Kryštof Hádek, Martin Sitta
contact Shore Points – Jakub Jíra [email protected] +420 602 846 925
142 POSTPRODUCTION Taurofilia TS Taurofilie SHO R
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Czech Republic | 18 min | No Dialogue A man wants to dominate the bull, director Francesco Montagner embody its strength, subconsciously become the bull: a Minotaur. PRODUCERS Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer PRODUCTION COMPANY Analog Vision CO-PRODUCTION Filmtalent Zlín, FAMU COMPLETION DATE November 2020
SCRIPT Francesco Montagner EDITOR Jorge Sanchéz CAST Jose Luis Martín Moro contact Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová [email protected] +420 724 148 114
The Last Day Of Patriarchy Poslední den patriarchátu
Czech Republic, Slovenia, France | 15 min | This night will most likely be Ivo’s last Czech and he knows it. Behind the doors of the director Olmo Omerzu hospital room, his family members and friends are waiting. Ivo asks his grandson PRODUCERS Jiří Konečný, Rok Biček if he could see his pregnant girlfriend’s PRODUCTION COMPANY endorfilm, Cvinger Film breasts. In the hallway, the old physician’s CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Melocoton Films wish becomes a public affair. How will COMPLETION DATE June 2020 the family solve such a delicate situation? And is this truly Ivo’s last wish? SCRIPT Petr Pýcha, Olmo Omerzu DOP Lukáš Milota EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Julij Zornik MUSIC Monika Omerzu Midriaková SET DESIGNER Antonín Šilar CAST František Němec, Eliška Křenková, Vojtěch Vondráček, Lenka Vlasáková contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný [email protected] +420 602 358 373
POSTPRODUCTION 143 TS Plastic Igelit SHO R
Czech Republic | 20 min | Czech An anti-plastic activist and her director Tomáš Brožek straight-edge husband heedlessly pursue success under the influence of PRODUCER Jana Brožková unscrupulous friends. The finale is bizarre PRODUCTION COMPANY Vernes and tragic for everyone – a dead body, COMPLETION DATE May 2021 an entire apartment, pet fish, excrement, friendship, and society as a whole – all SCRIPT Tomáš Brožek DOP Marek Dvořák EDITOR Jakub Hejna end up wrapped in plastic.
contact Vernes – Jana Brožková [email protected] +420 776 650 778
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INSTITUTIONS organizations Czech Film and Television Academy Creative Europe – MEDIA Actors‘ Association Karlovo náměstí 19 Národní 28 Senovážné náměstí 23 120 00 Praha 2 110 00 Praha 1 110 00 Praha 1 e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +420 221 105 210 tel.: +420 224 142 434 www.filmovaakademie.cz e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.mediadeskcz.eu www.hereckaasociace.cz FITES – Czech Film and Television Union Czech Film Fund APA – Czech Producers‘ Korunovační 8 Dukelských hrdinů 47 Association 170 00 Praha 7 170 00 Praha 7 Národní 28 e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +420 224 301 278 110 00 Praha 1 www.fites.cz e-mail: sekretariat@ e-mail: apa@ fondkinematografie.cz asociaceproducentu.cz Institute of Documentary www.fondkinematografie.cz www.asociaceproducentu.cz Film Štěpánská 14 Czech Film Fund – Czech Film ASAF – Association of Czech 110 00 Praha 1 Center Animation Film tel.: +420 224 214 858 Národní 28 Heřmanova 3 e-mail: [email protected] 110 00 Praha 1 170 00 Praha 7 www.dokweb.net tel.: +420 221 105 398 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.asaf.cz Union of Film Distributors www.filmcenter.cz náměstí Winstona Churchilla 2 Association of Czech 130 00 Praha 3 Czech Film Fund – Czech Film Cinematographers tel.: +420 222 713 001 Commission Karlovo náměstí 19 e-mail: [email protected] Národní 28 120 00 Praha 2 www.ufd.cz 110 00 Praha 1 www.ceskam.cz tel.: +420 221 105 254 e-mail: [email protected] Association of Directors www.filmcommission.cz and Screenwriters Karlovo náměstí 19 Ministry of Culture Czech 120 00 Praha 2 Republic – Media and e-mail: [email protected] Audiovision Department www.aras.cz Milady Horákové 139 160 41 Praha 6 Cinema Exhibitors Director: Artuš Rejent – Association [email protected] Politických vězňů 445 www.mkcr.cz 266 01 Beroun tel.: +420 311 625 307 Ministry of Culture Czech e-mail: [email protected] Republic – Eurimages www.prokina.cz Maltézské náměstí 1 118 00 Praha 1 National Coordinator: Elena Kotová – [email protected]
National Film Archive Malešická 12 130 00 Praha 3 www.nfa.cz
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 145 contacts film schools UMPRUM – Academy of Arts, training programmes Architecture & Design in Prague FAMU – Film and TV School – Studio of Film & TV Graphics ANOMALIA of Academy of Performing Arts nám. Jana Palacha 80 Budějovická 73 in Prague 116 93 Praha 1 140 00 Praha 4 Smetanovo nábřeží 2 tel.: +420 251 098 270 tel.: +420 731 612 803 116 65 Praha 1 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +420 234 244 311 www.umprum.cz www.anomalia.eu e-mail: [email protected] www.famu.cz Charles University / Faculty of dok.incubator Arts – Film Studies Department Bolzanova 1615/1 FAMO – Film Academy of nám. Jana Palacha 2 110 06 Prague 1 Miroslav Ondříček in Písek 116 38 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 241 046 Lipová alej 2068 tel.: +420 221 619 227 e-mail: [email protected] 397 01 Písek e-mail: [email protected] www.dokincubator.net tel.: +420 382 264 212 film.ff.cuni.cz e-mail: [email protected] MIDPOINT www.filmovka.cz Masaryk University / Faculty Ostrovní 126/30 of Arts – Department of Film 110 00 Praha 1 Prague Film School Studies and Audiovisual Culture tel.: +420 773 187 441 Pštrossova 19 Arna Nováka 1 e-mail: [email protected] 110 00 Praha 1 602 00 Brno www.midpoint-center.eu tel.: +420 257 534 013 tel.: +420 549 491 583 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.filmstudies.cz www.fav.phil.muni.cz
Tomas Bata University in Palacký University / Faculty of Zlín – Faculty of Multimedia Arts – Department of Theatre Communications and Film Studies Univerzitní 2431 Univerzitní 3 760 01 Zlín 771 80 Olomouc tel.: +420 576 034 205 +420 585 633 423 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.fmk.utb.cz www.kdfs.upol.cz
146 CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 distributors CinemArt DISTRIBUTION PROJECTS Národní 28 Aerofilms 110 00 Praha 1 Anifilm Distribution Milady Horákové 383/79 tel.: +420 224 949 110 distribution label of Anifilm festival 170 00 Praha 7 www.cinemart.cz Slezská 2191/134 tel.: +420 224 947 566 130 00 Praha 3 – Vinohrady e-mail: [email protected] Falcon e-mail: [email protected] www.aerofilms.cz Radlická 1c/3185 www.anifilmdistribution.cz 150 00 Praha 5 APK Cinema Service tel.: +420 224 422 244 Cinema Glok Politických vězňů 445/13 www.falcon.cz distribution label of Ostrava 266 01 Beroun Kamera Oko festival e-mail: [email protected] Fénix Distribution Vítězné náměstí 774/14 www.apkcs.cz Petra Rezka 1723/1a 160 00 Praha 6 140 00 Praha 4 e-mail: [email protected] Artcam Films www.fenixdistribution.cz www.cinemaglok.cz Rašínovo nábřeží 6 128 00 Praha 2 Film Europe KVIFF Distribution tel.: +420 221 411 619 V Jámě 1 distribution label of Karlovy www.artcam.cz 110 00 Praha 1 Vary IFF, Aerofilms and Czech e-mail: [email protected] Television Asociation of Czech Film Clubs www.filmeurope.cz e-mail: [email protected] Stonky 860 www.kviffdistribution.cz 686 01 Uherské Hradiště Forum Film Czech tel.: +420 572 501 989 Arkalycká 951/3 Marienbad Film Distribuce e-mail: [email protected] 149 00 Praha 4 distribution label of Marienbad www.acfk.cz e- mail: [email protected] Film Festival www.forumfilm.cz Husova 212 Balkanfilm 353 01 Velká Hleďsebe Mládí 1191 Luna Studios e-mail: zuzana@ 755 01 Vsetín Uhelný trh 414/9 marienbadfilmfestival.com +420 776 840 386 110 00 Praha 1 www.marienbadfilmfestival.com/ e-mail: [email protected] marienbad-film-distribuce www.balkanfilm.cz Mirius Film Distribution V Jámě 1 Queer Kino Bioscop / AQS 110 00 Praha 1 distribution label of Mezipatra Na Klikovce 7 tel.: +420 602 648 882 Queer Film Festival 140 00 Praha 4 e-mail: [email protected] Francouzská 284/94 tel.: +420 221 436 100 www.miriusfd.cz 101 00 Praha www.bioscop.cz e-mail: [email protected] Pilot Film www.mezipatra.cz/queer-kino Bohemia Motion Pictures Donská 19 Všehrdova 560/2 101 00 Praha 10 118 00 Praha 1 e-mail: [email protected] www.bohemiamp.cz www.pilot-film.cz
Bontonfilm Vertical Entertainment Na Poříčí 1047/26 Soukenická 13 110 00 Praha 1 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 415 111 www.vertical-ent.cz e-mail: [email protected] www.bontonfilm.cz
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 147 contacts
VOD PLATFORMS Febiofest – Prague International Marienbad Film Festival Film Festival September 2020, Mariánské lázně Aerovod 19 – 27 March 2020, Prague e-mail: info@marienbadfilmfestival. Milady Horákové 383/79 e-mail: [email protected] com 170 00 Praha 7 www.febiofest.cz www.marienbadfilmfestival.com tel.: +420 224 947 566 e-mail: [email protected] Finále Plzeň Film Festival Ostrava Kamera Oko www.aerovod.cz 16 – 22 April 2020, Plzeň 12 – 27 September 2020, Ostrava Submission deadline: ostravakameraoko.com Doc Alliance Films 30 November 2019 Vodičkova 36 www.festivalfinale.cz Brno 16 – International Short 110 00 Praha 1 Film Festival tel.: +420 602 212 545 Academia Film Olomouc October 2020, Brno e-mail: [email protected] 28 April – 3 May 2020, Olomouc e-mail: [email protected] www.dafilms.com Submission deadline: 17 January www.brno16.cz 2020 e-mail: [email protected] Ji.hlava International SALES www.afo.cz Documentary Film Festival 27 October – 1 November 2020, AQS Kino na hranici Jihlava Na Klikovce 7 1 – 5 May 2020, Český Těšín Submission deadline: 31 May 2020 140 00 Praha 4 kinonagranicy.pl e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +420 221 436 100 www.ji-hlava.cz e-mail: [email protected] Anifilm www.aqs.cz 5 – 10 May 2020, Liberec Mezipatra Queer Film Festival Submission deadline: 5 January November 2020, Prague Filmotor 2020 e-mail: [email protected] Kaprova 14 e-mail: [email protected] www.mezipatra.cz 110 00 Praha 1 www.anifilm.cz tel.: +420 721 006 421 Juniorfest – International Film e-mail: [email protected] Zlín Film Festival – International Festival for Children and Youth www.filmotor.com Film Festival for Children and 6 – 12 November 2020, Plzeň, Youth Domažlice, Dobřany, Horšovský 29 May – 6 June 2020, Zlín Týn, Přeštice film festivals Submission deadline: 1 March e-mail: [email protected] 2020 www.juniorfest.cz Prague Short Film Festival e-mail: [email protected] 22 – 26 January 2020, Prague www.zlinfest.cz PAF – Festival of Film Animation Submission deadline: and Contemporary Art 30 September 2019/15 October Karlovy Vary International Film 3 – 6 December 2020, Olomouc 2019 Festival e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 3 – 11 July 2020, Karlovy Vary www.pifpaf.cz www.pragueshorts.com Submission deadline: 29 February 2020 (31 March 2020 for late One World – International submissions) Human Rights Documentary e-mail: [email protected] Film Festival www.kviff.com 5 – 14 March 2020, Prague Submission deadline: Summer Film School 1 September 2019/1 November 24 July – 2 August 2020, Uherské 2019 Hradiště www.oneworld.cz www.lfs.cz
148 CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 index of english titles
1260 103 In the Dusk 67 A Certain Kind of Silence 12 In the Pines 114 A Prince Came Passing By 139 Index of Directors 151 A Sensitive Man 104 Index of English Titles 149 A Summer Fair 104 Inversion 142 a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i- JONESTOWN 56 Karel, Me and You 20 Absence 57 Kryštof 68 Agnes 105 Leave No Traces 93 Alma and Oskar 105 Let There Be Light 21 Amnesty 13 Listen 22 Amundsen 14 Little Daughter 115 Anatomy of a Czech Afternoon 139 Loaded Eels 23 Arved 106 Lost in Paradise 69 Bikes 106 LOVEní 24 Bloody Easter 107 Martin and the Forest Secret 70 Blue box 89 Medieval 71 Bourák 58 Merican Chick 103 Breaking Point 90 Mistakes 94 Brothers 107 Mitsu 137 By a Sharp Knife 15 Money from Hitler 115 Caravan 108 Moravia, O Fair Land III. 25 Caruso - A Novel Live 108 My Grandpa Is an Alien 26 Charlatan 59 My Story 72 City on the River 60 National Street 27 Confidentiality 109 Night of the Whale 116 Contacts 145 Nikola Šuhaj 73 Cook F**k Kill 16 Nobody Likes Me 116 Daria 61 Occupation 95 Dear Ones 62 Old-Timers 28 Deer 63 On the Roof 29 Divine Sparks 140 Opponent 142 Don‘t Gaze Long Into the Abyss 109 Ordinary Failures 117 Dragon Girl 110 Oroslan 30 Droneman 64 Otel Prague 117 Dustzone 110 Owners 31 Enchanted Feather 17 Parking 32 Erhart 91 People of Blood 96 Eternal Peace 111 Perinbaba and The Two Worlds 74 Fibonacci 140 Piargy 97 Figurant 136 Plague 118 Fichtelberg 111 Plastic 144 First Action Hero 136 Polaris 118 Fork Ridge 112 Prince Mamma‘s Boy 119 Francek 141 Princess Lost in Time 75 Freedom in the Air 18 Prvok, Šampón, Tečka and Karel 98 Frontier 141 Přes prsty 33 Goodwill 112 Punk is Now! 34 Grand Prix 113 Queen of the Night 119 Gregorius, the Chosen One 113 Restore Point 120 Happiness is a Bliss 65 Resurrections 120 Havel 66 Román pro pokročilé 35 Heads and Tails 19 Saint Sebastian’s Cry 36 I Don‘t Like You Anymore 114 Sara 121 Il Boemo 92 Saving One Who Was Dead 121
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 149 index of english titles
Scent of Oranges 37 The Painted Bird 45 Scumbag 76 The Play 46 Servants 77 The Prague Orgy 47 Shadow Country 78 The Prize for Happiness 48 Shotgun Justice 38 The Report 83 Silent Mail 122 The Silent Companion 84 Snake Gas 122 The Spring Man 127 Snowing! 39 The Summer with a Gentleman 49 So Far, So Close 123 The Ugly Mandarine 128 Špindl 2 40 The Water Keeping Me Afloat 50 Stillborn 123 The Way Home 85 Sunburn 124 The Word 128 Swing Times 124 The Year Before the War 86 Switched Shifts 137 Thinking David 129 Taurofilia 143 This Is Not Bob Dylan 129 The Abstainer 41 Three Weeks Under The Sea 130 The Barbecue Party 125 Three Women 130 The Body 125 Traffic Jam 131 The Case of the Dead Deadman 79 Twins 131 The End of the World 99 Two Ships 101 The Fragile Beauty of Masculinity 126 V zajetí sítě 51 The Glass Room 42 Victim 132 The Grapes 3 80 Waltzing Matylda 132 The Humorist 43 Watchmaker‘s Appretice 52 The Last Aristocrat 44 Waves 133 The Last Day Of Patriarchy 143 Wirbel 133 The Last Race 100 Women at the Peak 53 The Man Who Stood In the Way 126 Women on the Run 54 The Man with Hare Ears 81 Year of a Widow 134 The Nightsiren 127 Zatopek 87 The Pack 82
150 CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 index of directors
Adam Libor 72 Jákl Petr 71 Adamec Jiří 49 Jakubisko Juraj 74 Almendras Alejandro Fernández 46 Janáček Tomáš 118 Altrichter Štěpán 27 Janák Karel 24 Apetri George Bogdan 63 Jaroszuk Grzegorz 62 Bajgar Radek 38 Jařab David 122 Balaš Radek 40 Jiráský Zdeněk 68, 114 Balda David 18 Kadrnka Václav 121 Bambušek Miroslav 96 Kairišs Viesturs 60 Bartas Šarūnas 67 Kajánková Lucia 142 Bebjak Peter 83 Karásek Bohdan 20 Berner Dieter 105 Karásek Jonáš 13 Blaško Michal 132 Kazda Petr 116 Brožek Tomáš 144 Kirchnerová Zuzana 108 Březina Jan 91 Klein Tomáš 104 Budař Jan 119 Klepikov Milan 99 Bušta Jan 56, 107 Knöpfel Dagmar 105 Červenka Jakub 103 Kny Lenka 53 Chajdas Olga 123 Kolečko Petr 33 Chlupáček Matěj 130 Komasa Jan 121 Císařovská Natálie 125, 141 Kopp Martin 80 Culková Andrea 126 Koudela Šimon 111 Cyroň Milan 36 Krátký Matěj 51 Dabrowská Olga 48 Křižka Emil 90 Daneshmand Kaveh 116 Kuba Martin 130 Dušek Martin 28 Kubík Petr 75 Erban Ondřej 123, 142 Kučera Luboš 137 Farzad Mohammadreza 109 Kuhn Teodor 15 Fíla Ivan 126 Laňka David 22 Fornay Mira 16 Launing Katarina 110 Foukal Jan 101 Lišková Veronika 134 Fuit Jaroslav 125 Mádl Jiří 29, 133 Giurgiu Tudor 32 Magnusek Tomáš 50 Göb Pavel 84 Machala Jakub 106 Groșan Cristina 117, 139 Marhoul Václav 45 Hájková Marie 89 Marinovová Zita 35 Haluza Jan 136 Martinec Adam 139 Hartl Patrik 98 Mašek Vojtěch 106, 131 Havelka Jiří 31, 127 Mašín Tomáš 107, 115 Havelka Ondřej 124 Matre Erlend Hella 104 Hendrychová Hana 72 Matuszyński Jan P. 93 Heřmánek Josef 129 Mielnik Tomasz 113 Hloz Robert 120 Michálek Vladimír 23 Hodan Tomáš 100 Montagner Francesco 143 Hogenauer Michal 12 Morávek Vladimír 73 Holland Agnieszka 59 Mosaffa Ali 57 Holý Šimon 129 Müller Martin 22 Horák Slávek 66 Nedvědová Kristina 39 Horský Martin 54 Nohejl Michal 95, 131 Hřebejk Jan 115 Novák Jiří Diarmaid 65 Hubáček Tomáš 133, 140 Nvotová Tereza 127 Hudeček Ondřej 112 Omerzu Olmo 143 Idov Michael 43 Ondříček David 87 Ivanišin Matjaž 30 Ostrochovský Ivan 77
CZECH FICTION FILMS 2019–2020 151 index of directors
Oukropec Petr 70 Strakatý Vojtěch 111 Parkanová Beata 128 Šulík Martin 81 Pavlásková Irena 47 Tănase Nicolae Constantin 19 Pichler Matěj 61 Tauš Viktor 103 Pokorný Ivan 37 Těšitel Jan 118 Poláček Vít 140 Ther Mark 137 Polenský Tomáš 82 Trajkov Ivo 97 Provazník Ondřej 28 Trančík Dušan 112 Prušinovský Jan 94, 113 Trojan Ondřej 58 Rudolfová Jitka 52 Troška Zdeněk 17 Ryšavý Martin 109 Uher Tomáš 36 Sandberg Espen 14 Václav Petr 92, 120 Sebechlebský Ján 122 Vejdělek Jiří 44 Sedláček Robert 131 Vejnar Jan 136 Ševčík Julius 42 Vigner David 41 Sīmanis Dāvis 86 Viktora Zdeněk 117 Škop Marina Andree 26 Vodrážka Štěpán Fok 110, 124 Škop Marko 21 Vondrášek Damián 141 Sláma Bohdan 78 Vorel Tomáš 85 Šlauka Juraj 34 Weinreb Tomáš 116 Slavík Petr 132 Xie Piaoyu 128 Šmídmajer Miloslav 79 Zafranović Lordan 108 Solčanská Mariana Čengel 76 Žarković Dražen 26 Špaček Radim 114 Zelenka Petr 64 Šprincl Petr 25, 89 Ziegler Fiona 69
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