Dear friends of documentary fi lms,

This catalogue and its online version at www.czechdocs.net contain the profi les of the most recent and upcoming documentaries in Czech production or co-production. Almost 20 of them have already had their premiere, the rest of them are in various stages of production and will be released by the end of 2018.

In 2016, Czech documentaries were doing really well within the local distribution, 23 of them premiered in cinemas, and also abroad, as many of them were successfully presented and awarded at prestigious international fi lm festivals. Among the Czech docs screened abroad there were for example two fi lms by Helena Třeštíková: Mallory (at Hot Docs in Canada and Hong Kong IFF) and Doomed Beauty (Busan IFF). Other successful Czech representatives on the international scene were the co-production fi lm Under the Sun by Vitaly Mansky or 5 October by Martin Kollár (screened in Rotterdam). The Normal Autistic Film by Miroslav Janek, the Czech winner from Jihlava IDFF 2016, had its international premiere at DOK Leipzig, managed to get a sales agent and sell the rights to the U.S. distributor.

Both Czech Film Center and Institute of Documentary Film continually make efforts to make Czech documentaries visible on the international scene. Czech documentaries are being presented at East Doc Platform in Prague within the Czech Docs… Coming Soon event, or at key international markets abroad – at IDFA, in Cannes, at Berlinale, in Clermont-Ferrand, or at goEAST within the delegations led by IDF and CFC representatives.

Moreover, Czech Film Center becomes part of State Cinematography Fund, the main institution supporting the development and production of Czech fi lms in general. Along with the fi nancial support for Czech documentaries from the Fund being on the raise, we believe that this institutional change will also open new opportunities for Czech documentaries to cooperate with international partners.

Bojan Schuch Executive Director Institute of Documentary Film

Markéta Šantrochová Head of Czech Film Center

INTRODUCTION 3

In Development

6 33 Is Enough / 33 fi lmů a dost 7 Bismillah – In the Name of Allah / Bismillah – Ve jménu Alláha 8 Burned / Spálená 9 Construction of Reality, Reality of Construction (working title) / Konstrukce reality, realita konstrukce (pracovní název) 10 Diana. Lonely Mother of Moldova 11 Don’t Gaze Long into the Abyss / Nehleď dlouze do propasti 12 Elkea: Borders of Self-control / Elkea: Hranice sebeovládání 13 Epic’s Ways / Cesty epopeje 14 For Health for Glory and for Money – a Cycling Case Study / O zdraví, o slávu a o peníze na případu cyklistiky 15 Fugue / Fuga 16 Impossible Voyage, The / Cesta do nemožna 17 Life Brutality and Fantasy Cynicism of Vratislava Effenberger / Surovost života a cynismus fantazie Vratislava Effenbergera 18 Life in Hell / Život v pekle 19 Mike’s Dream from Aleppo / Michaelův sen z Aleppa 20 Satanic Girls 21 Sound Is Innocent, The 22 Testosterone Story 23 Through the Viewfi nder of AK 47 / V Hledáčku AK 47 24 Understanding of Context / Vědomí souvislosti 25 What’s the News? UA/CZ 2018 110’

director Pavel Sandul producer Galyna Yerko Inspiration Films (UA)

co-producer Tatyana Detkina 33 Is Enough – Hruška a Krys 33 fi lmů a dost

Mr. Florian makes living from gardening and selling vegetables. One day he loses his memory and fi nds himself in the hospital, where is questioned by police. He admits to murder, blackmail and other crimes: according to his testimony, for years mafi a has been operating under the nose of Chisinau inhabitants. Investigators are searching for dead bodies in the places indicated by the arrested one, but fi nd nothing. Police decides to show the arrested on TV hoping that gangsters will expose themselves. After broadcasting the man was identifi ed. A young man comes to the hospital with an intention to help Mr. Florian to escape.

contact Galyna Yerko Inspiration Films genre +38 0971 024 596 Docu Fiction, [email protected] Experimental, Society

6 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2018 80’

director Francesco Montagner

producer Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce

script Bismillah – In the Name Francesco Montagner DOP of Allah Prokop Souček sound Bismillah – Ve jménu Alláha Dominik Dolejší

fi nancial support State Cinematography In a small bucolic village in the middle of the Bosnian mountains, Fund Czech Republic a humble shepherd Ibrahim Delić’s preaching reaches beyond the walls of the local mosque, instigating Balkan and European Muslims to join the ISIS ranks. In the rural areas all around Bosnia young people are embracing the Jihadism, leaving their houses to become foreign fi ghters. The fi lm is a portrait of contemporary Bosnia, giving glimpses of the everyday lives of several families, amongst them Ibrahim Delić and his radicalized children. Through their conversations and encounters within the intimate setting of their homes, we perceive the ambiguities and complexities of a Bosnia struck by economic impoverishment and religious extremism.

contact Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce genre +420 605 256 190 Current Affairs, [email protected] Religion, Society www.nutprodukce.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 7 CZ/CH 2018 70’

director Fiona Ziegler producer Kristýna Květová Cinémotif Films

co-producer Aline Schmid Burned – Intermezzo Films (CH) fi nancial support Spálená BAK – Federal Offi ce of Culture (CH)

My grandmother, Heidi-Auer, met writer Ingeborg Bachmann through Swiss author Max Frisch. They became friends. After Bachmann’s separation from Frisch their friendship even deepened. In the following years, Bachmann had written more than 20 personal letters to my grandmother. These documents that have never been published before carry an exceptional insight of an uncommon friendship between the two women. Having found these letters two generations after they were written, I feel bounded with Ingeborg’s precise and fragile voice, burning for an emancipated life in the 1960s without making any compromises. It’s a personal journey, leading through the last stages of Ingeborg Bachmann’s life and revealing the secrets behind their friendship.

contact Kristýna Květová Cinémotif Films +420 731 203 715 genre kristyna@ Personal view, Portrait, cinemotiffi lms.cz Arts and Culture, Gender, www.cinemotiffi lms.cz Philosophy, History

8 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2018 85’

director Tomáš Bojar

producer Tomáš Bojar Cinema Arsenal

DOP Construction of Reality, Jiří Chod Reality of Construction editor (working title) Šimon Špidla sound Václav Flegl Konstrukce reality, realita fi nancial support konstrukce (pracovní název) State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic

Regular weekday. Three fi lm crews are deployed at three news desks: one on television, another one on the radio, third in the newspaper. There is no foreknowledge of what will happen on that particular day: whether the terrorists will attack, whether there will be fl oods, whether the government will fall apart, or on the contrary, whether there will be relative peace in our country and in the world. Either way, the news fl ow on that day won’t stop. But where do the news come from? On what basis can an event become a news? Who and how decides what is and what is not worthy of our attention? And how is the “attention-worthy” shaped into specifi c news? The purpose of proposed fi lm is to highlight these questions through vivid, authentic situations and show fi rst hand how at three different news desks, three different images of the world are being created one same day.

contact Tomáš Bojar Cinema Arsenal genre +420 604 472 934 Society, Creative, [email protected] Philosophy www.cinemaarsenal.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 9 CZ/NL 2018 76’/54’

director Andrea Culková, Kim van Haaster producer Andrea Culková Duracfi lm

co-producer Kim van Haaster Diana. Lonely Mother – Kim Films (NL)

of Moldova

There is a country with almost no women. They left to support their families working abroad. The whole country is facing the enormous scandal of money laundering and defrauding of billions of dollars. Through Diana’s political, social and journalistic work, and her very personal rise and falls, we are getting to know the totally absurd situation of a small country. Diana has many obstacles to overcome in the oligarchic political system. She is a woman, divorced and a single mother and she came back with many years of experiences in Western Europe. Ilinca, her 12 year old daughter just left her because she wanted to live a better life in France with her dad. There seems to be no hope. Is it time to leave the country again? Presidential election will have a huge impact on her decision.

contact Andrea Culková Duracfi lm +420 777 18 45 20 genre culkovaandrea@ Docu drama, Portrait, gmail.com Current Affairs, www.duracfi lm.cz Social Issues

10 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2018 80’

director Mohammadreza Farzad

producer Radovan Síbrt, Viktória Hozzová Pink Productions

script Don’t Gaze Long into Mohammadreza Farzad fi nancial support the Abyss State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic Nehleď dlouze do propasti

Don’t Gaze Long into the Abyss is a feature-length love-and-hate story, a story of one beatnik’s fascination with the exotic East and an epic drama of an adventurous life and dream shattered by two political events: the Prague spring and Islamic revolution of 1978. It is a fi lmmaker’s journey into the dark mind and in the steps of adventurous and tragic life of a Czech spoilt genius never made, never released, never believed. A meditative poem on confi nement, freedom, mystique, fate and exile. On the mysticism of a Czech artist through the Eastern, oriental eye.

contact Viktória Hozzová Pink Productions genre +420 608 666 007 Creative, viktoria@ Experimental, pinkproductions.cz Personal View, Portrait www.pinkproductions.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 11 CZ/NO 2018 60’

director Hana Nováková producer Kateřina Traburová co-producer Ondřej Šejnoha Elkea: Borders – Studio FAMU, Johnny Holmvåg – Flimmer Film (NO) of Self-control

DOP Františka Chlumská Elkea: Hranice sound Sandra Klouzová sebeovládání

fi nancial support State Cinematography Elkea: Borders of self-control puts two seemingly incomparable Fund Czech Republic entities next to each other, the Moose (Alces alces) and the Man (Homo sapiens). On the crossroads of highways with bio-corridors, on artifi cially erected borderlines of national states and national parks, the migrating giant serves as a mirror to humans’ need to use, explore, describe and name everything. Native Americans perceive the moose as a symbol of water, sub-consciousness, femininity and motherhood. The soil and water-elements that are plundered by us the most, are also the representatives of the female principle. In our fi lm, the man and the moose are being looked at as symbols of eternal clash of male, transformative and dominant energy with the more intuitive passive and feminine yin power.

genre contact Creative, Kateřina Traburová Environmental, +420 731 712 686 Philosophy, Society, [email protected] Nature, Personal View

12 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2017 50’/70’

director Jan Strejcovský

producer Jakub Wagner GPO Platform

DOP Epic’s Ways Filip Marek

editor Cesty epopeje Michal Böhm

fi nancial support Prague City Hall

Is The Slav Epic truly “a child who died at birth”? On the background of a journey of the twenty magnifi cent paintings fi lm investigates in several thematic lines phenomena associated with a perception of the majestic legacy of Alphonse Mucha and his own – in many ways contradictory – personality. Art historians, philosophers, politicians, heirs, Japanese visitors, Czech parvenus and American philanthropists dispute and complement each other on various tableaux vivants, weaving a tissue of refl ection which – although not easily fathomable – soundly proves The Slav Epic to be a baby still bloody alive.

contact genre Jakub Wagner Current Affairs, Arts GPO Platform and Culture, Youth +420 776 329 183 Documentary, Creative, [email protected] Politics, Philosophy www.gpoplatform.com

IN DEVELOPMENT 13 CZ 2018 85’

director Helena Všetečková producer Helena Všetečková

co-producer Martin Kohout For Health, for Glory and for – GPO Platform, Kamila Zlatušková Money – a Cycling Case Study script Helena Všetečková O zdraví, o slávu a o peníze DOP na případu cyklistiky Dalibor Fencl, Helena Všetečková, Helena Papírníková Documentary essay about cycling and money and snails. We will see this on eating. A cyclist must eat the best food to be the fastest and editor to have the best endurance. What do cyclists eat today and what did Adam Patyk they use to eat? “When I used to race, I met Vendy. She used to be overtaken by the whole peloton at the fi rst pitch, but her philosophy sound allowed her to enjoy the race all the same: she would admire the Martin Kuhn behaviour of snails on a wet road.” We’ll have a dish prepared from snails by a famous chef and we will invite for lunch Zdenek Bakala, fi nancial support a Czech billionaire. We will meet Martina Sablíková and her couch, State Cinematography why she wasn´t allowed to start in Rio even though President Zeman Fund Czech Republic interceded on her behalf? What exactly does a sport lobby do? And advertising...

contact genre Helena Všetečková Creative, Philosophy, +420 607 793 471 History, Sport, Arts and [email protected] Culture, Health

14 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ/AT/FR/AR 2018 90’

director Artemio Benki

producer Artemio Benki, Petra Oplatková Artcam

co-producer Fugue Arash T. Riahi – Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH (AT), Fuga Rebecca Houzel – Petit à Petit Production (FR), Sergio L. Pra – Lomo Cine (AR)

script Artemio Benki Martin P. is a young Argentinian piano virtuoso and composer, who is since his breakdown four years ago a patient of El Borda, the largest, DOP most notable but also controversial psychiatric hospital in Latin Diego Mendizabal America. A child prodigy and most promising talent of his generation is now fi nancial support trying to fi nd a way how to overcome his mental disease and come State Cinematography back to life outside the walls of asylum and on concert stages, while Fund Czech Republic working on his new composition Enfermaria. Fugue tells unique, yet universal story about the obsession with perfection and creation, narrating the evolution of a human being who draws his strength from his own fragility.

contact Petra Oplatkova Artcam genre +420 775 619 641 Creative, Portrait, petra.oplatkova@ Society, Music, Arts artcam.cz and Culture, Health www.artcam.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 15 SK/CZ 2018 80’

director Noro Držiak producer Michael Kaboš Media Film (SK), KABOS Film & Media

co-producer KABOS Film & Media The Impossible Voyage script Michal Balaž Cesta do nemožna

DOP Michael Kaboš editor Michal Kondrla Milan Rastislav Štefánik’s life resembles an ancient drama. A young, fi nancial support noble, and romantic hero dies a tragic death, which is still veiled State Cinematography by a hate of mystery and conspiracy. He was a very complicated Fund Czech Republic, personality – fascinating, and full of contradictions. The Slovak Audiovisual “impossible” in the fi lm title does not refer only to his great goals Fund, Ministry of Culture that he had achieved or the places he had visited. Main characters of the Slovak Republic of the fi lm, narrators, Louise Weiss and Otakar Kubánek, meet in Kubánek’s cutting room and discuss and investigate the great unknown – Milan Rastislav Štefánik. We have decided to approach Štefánik differently in the form of an animated mockumentary and tell a story about a man who wants to fulfi ll his dream despite personal as well as historical obstacles.

contact Michael Kaboš Media Film +420 775 243 743 genre kabos.michael@ Animated, gmail.com Mockumentary, www.mediafi lm.sk History, Portrait

16 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2018 90‘

director David Jařab

producer Viktor Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague

co-producer Life Brutality and Fantasy Petr Kubica Cynicism of Vratislava – Czech Television DOP Effenberger Jakub Halousek editing Surovost života a cynismus Jan Daňhel sound fantazie Vratislava Richard Müller Effenbergera fi nancial support State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic Effenberger was captivated by the two reality opposite poles, incorporated in the name of the fi lm. Concept of this documen- tary will be built on an inference of a fi ction and reality, acted and documentary parts, poetry and refl ection theory, exaggeration and intimate confession. Concept will at many places allow to switch directly between written script segments and situational takes of documentary characters. It will also permit to create several partial stories. At some places both levels (documentary and acted) be present at the same time and will be distinguished only by working with focus and sound. This will be a tool to accent or suppress either one. All fi lm locations will directly relate to Vratislav Effenberger or his screenplays.

contact genre Viktor Schwarcz Experimental, Culture, Cineart TV Prague Philosophy, History, +420 777 220 364 Portrait, Arts and Culture [email protected]

IN DEVELOPMENT 17 CZ/SK 2018 80’

director Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi producer Vít Janeček D1fi lm

co-producer Maroš Berák Life in Hell – Ultrafi lm ltd. (SK) script Život v pekle Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi DOP Zuzana Piussi

fi nancial support 23 percent of working Czechs has been suffering from various form State Cinematography of bullying in their work. Surprising percentage of these cases Fund Czech Republic, concern public sector. Very often this happens in connection with Slovak Audiovisual Fund whistleblowing on violations of law or proper processes within the (SK) organization. The fi lm is going to open the theme through stories and situations.

contact Vít Janeček genre D1fi lm Anthropology, +420 603 164 232 Current Affairs, vit@D1fi lm.com Human Rights, www.d1fi lm.com Society, Social Issues

18 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2018 80’

director Jarmila Štuková

producer Dagmar Sedláčková MasterFilm

DOP Mike’s Dream from Andrej Štuk editor Aleppo Šimon Hájek fi nancial support Michaelův sen z Aleppa State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic

Mike was forced to leave his hometown of Aleppo, Syria at 16. He couldn’t imagine seizing a weapon in fi ght against Bashar’s regime at such a young age. Besides, he could never pursue his dream in a Muslim country. He’s always wanted to become a tattoo artist and Islam prohibits body modifi cation. Mike converts to Christianity, gets married and opens a tattoo studio in Tbilisi, Georgia. No one really goes there, as Georgians have little faith in the young Arab’s skills and consider him a terrorist. He plans to move to Europe. After three failed attempts at immigration and losing all his money, he is back to Georgia, defeated. Reality pushes out naivety. However, Mike isn’t ready to give up on his childhood dream just yet.

contact genre Dagmar Sedláčková Current Affairs, Human MasterFilm Rights, Personal View, +420 733 579 107 Politics, Religion, dagmar@masterfi lm.cz Social Issues www.masterfi lm.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 19 CZ 2017 80’

director Bohdan Bláhovec producer Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, Anna Herza Tydlitátová nutprodukce

script Eliška Svobodová, Satanic Girls Bohdan Bláhovec editor Šimon Hájek

fi nancial support State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic In the 1960 Irena Hurdová and her sister formed a band that started out as a Dixieland orchestra performing. During their tour of Bulgaria, they heard about the developments surrounding the Prague Spring and decided not to return to Czechoslovakia and over the next few years performed in Europe under the name Satanic Girls. Than they met their manager, Roland Fernebor, who sent them to Argentina with the aim of turning the band into a star in the South America. The band never returned to Europe. The most important phase of their music career was their stay in Chile, where they performed as Las Satánicas and rapidly rose to fame. The band broke up due to personal differences, the details of which have remained shrouded in mystery to this day.

contact Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce genre +420 605 256 190 Society, [email protected] Ex Oriente Music, Gender, www.nutprodukce.cz Film 2016 Arts and Culture

20 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ/FR 2017 70’

director Johana Švarcová

producer Kristýna Květová Cinémotif Films

co-producer The Sound Is Innocent Jean-Laurent Csinidis – Films de Force Majeure (FR)

script Johana Švarcová, Lukáš Jiřička

DOP Šimon Dvořáček The pioneers of early electronic music have made a deep imprint on magnetic tape, as Neil Armstrong did on the Moon´s surface. editor At the same time, in several different places in Europe, electronic Zuzana Walterová music started maturing from different ideological and technological backgrounds. But techno-optimism was common to artists and sound engineers on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Radio studios in Adam Voneš Czechoslovakia, GRM in France and Dutch PhillipsNatLab – three countries, their music studios and composers will reveal to us fi nancial support different backgrounds of early days of electronic music with all its State Cinematography secrets. Fund Czech Republic But none of that would happen without the tape recorder. The machine, which was initially used for the army. Does it mean that the war infl uenced the outset of music revolution, which changed the music forever?

contact Kristýna Květová Cinémotif Films genre +420 731 203 715 Music, Docu fi ction, kristyna@ cinemotiffi lms.cz Experimental, History, Ex Oriente Arts and Culture, Society Film 2016 www.cinemotiffi lms.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 21 CZ 2018 82’

director Andrea Culková producer Miroslav Novák Duracfi lm, Jakub Pinkava GURU Film

co-producer Tereza Polachová Testosterone Story – HBO Europe editor Thomas Ernst sound Petr Čechák

fi nancial support State Cinematography There’s a pool in the heart of Europe. But you won’t see fast moves, Fund Czech Republic, pushed-to-the-limit paces, or fl ips. Here the water is almost stag- Creative Europe – MEDIA nant, afl oat with the clumsy limbs of those dancing with death. Kladruby is a unique overfl ow chamber and incubator where those who inhabit it are given a lucky hard fi ve months to reassess their goals and relationships. Five months to accept the fact that, though the world will never be as fast and full of tension as before the kiss of death, it is still a victory. Five months to come to terms with the fact that joy is just being able to open your eyes and fi nd yourself having arrived at the next day.

contact Andrea Culková Duracfi lm +420 777 18 45 20 culkovaandrea@ gmail.com www.duracfi lm.cz

Jakub Pinkava GURU Film genre +420 724 509 295 Current Affairs, Creative, jakub@gurufi lm.cz Ex Oriente Health, Social Issues, www.gurufi lm.cz Film 2016 Society

22 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ 2018 90’

director Karel Koula

producer Martin Hůlovec Punk Film

co-producer Through the Viewfi nder Věra Krincvajová – Czech Television of AK 47 script Karel Koula, V Hledáčku AK 47 Věra Krincvajová DOP Radka Šplíchalová

According to American Photo Magazine, Antonín Kratochvíl is one editor of the 100 world’s most important photographers. He payed for Zdeněk Smrčka success and glory not only by hard work in places everybody want to leave. He had left home his fi rstborn son and has only seen him sound twenty years after emigrating. The different lives on opposite sides Petr Neubauer of the iron curtain divides them till this day. They look and talk the same, but the difference is remarkable between Antonín, the globe- fi nancial support trotter and his son Michael who prefers to work home in his atelier. State Cinematography Their mutual efforts to converge are the fi lm’s main storyline. Many Fund Czech Republic, Foto Škoda of an unsaid issue could be revealed as they travel together to the biggest refugee camp in Jordan. Family and colleagues will support the testimony about a father and a son, divided by history.

contact Martin Hůlovec Punk Film genre +420 608 977 930 Portrait, Personal View, martinhulovec@ Arts and Culture, Social punkfi lm.cz Issues, Docu drama www.punkfi lm.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 23 CZ/FR 2018 70’

director Jakub Felcman, Tomáš Michálek producer Tomáš Michálek MasterFilm

co-producer Jasmina Sijerčič Understanding – Bocalupo Films (FR) DOP of Context Jaroslav Kučera editor Vědomí souvislosti Jiří Brožek

fi nancial support State Cinematography The Understanding of Context – through archive materials – tells Fund Czech Republic, the story of a small central european country – Czechoslovakia Creative Europe – MEDIA – distraught by events and ideals of postwar european society. The story of its cinematography which they nationalized on the basis of pre war idealistic projects, that were mostly abused by totalitarian power but yet gave birth to a climate, which was determining for cinematographical progress in the whole region. Above all, this fi lm tells the story of an extraordinary cinematographer Jaroslav Kučera, the creator of one of the most signifi cant visual styles in the history of European cinematography. The Story of Author of Daisies, Fruit of Paradise, Diamonds of the Night or All My Compatriots.

contact Tomáš Michálek MasterFilm genre +420 602 630 466 Experimental, History, tomas@masterfi lm.cz Portrait, Society, www.masterfi lm.cz Arts and Culture

24 IN DEVELOPMENT CZ/DE 2018 90’

director Farid Eslam

producer Kryštof Šafer Bullfi lm

co-producer What’s the News? Tanja Georgieva- Waldhauer – Elemag Pictures GmbH (DE) script Farid Eslam DOP Prokop Souček

Our documentary fi lm “What’s the News?” will examine the process of news coverage and investigative journalism in established news outlets, the rising infl uence of alternative news media platforms and the motivations behind the creation of news. We will take a close look at the role of media in infl uencing opinions and social and democratic processes as well as threats that compromise the freedom of independent press and journalism in different parts of the world. We will follow several established journalists in different countries with different socio-political and economic backgrounds and show how they operate in today’s changing media environment.

contact Kryštof Šafer genre Bullfi lm Creative, Current +420 777 229 798 Affairs, Politics, Social [email protected] Issues, Society www.bullfi lm.cz

IN DEVELOPMENT 25

In Production

28 150 Scenes of Life in Dissent in Time of New Establishment / 150 scén ze života disentu v novém establishmentu 29 Ark of Lights and Shadows, The / Archa světel a stínů 30 Bata – The First Global Entrepreneur / Baťa, první globalista 31 Batalives 32 Besiege of the City, The / Obléhání města 33 Central Bus Station 34 Circus Rwanda / Cirkus Rwanda 35 D Is for Division / Překročit hranice 36 Diamond Czech Style / Sluníčko jako čtvereček 37 eSACHERe 38 Following / Nejsledovanější 39 Gutter, The / Žumpa 40 Jidrich Streit – Sudetenland My Love / Jindřich Štreit – Sudety, má láska 41 Jiří Brdečka 42 Kibera Stories / Zítra bude líp 43 Kiruna 2.0. 44 Last of the Sacred Geometres, The / Poslední posvátný geometr 45 Libussa Unbound / Setkání s Libuší 46 Lust for Life / The Tap Tap – Postiženi muzikou 47 March or Die / Pochoduj nebo zemři 48 Mečiar 49 My Unknown Soldier / Můj neznámý vojín 50 Mystery of Regional Railways, The / Záhada lokálek 51 Passengers, The / Pasažéři 52 People from Nowhere / Lidé odnikud 53 Pepik the Czech Goes to Poland in a Quest for Love of God / Český Pepík jede do Polska poznat lásku k Bohu 54 Russian Job, The / Švéd v žigulíku 55 Sarcophagus for a Queen, A / Sarkofág pro královnu 56 Solo for One Arm / Sólo pro jednu ruku 57 Tomáš Halík – Paths and Memory (working title) / Tomáš Halík – cesty a paměť (pracovní název) 58 When the War Comes / Až přijde válka CZ 2018 100’

director Helena Papírníková, Helena Všetečková producer Jakub Wagner – GPO Platform, Helena Všetečková, Helena Papírníková

script Helena Papírníková, 150 Scenes of Life in Dissent Helena Všetečková in Time of New Establishment DOP Helena Papírníková, Helena Všetečková 150 scén ze života disentu editor v novém establishmentu Adam Patyk sound After 1989 we are in a period of history where the individual parts David Hysek of former dissent institutionalize themselves. Some of them fi nd their place, while others identify themselves against. Papírníková together with her friends provokes both within the old and newly established institutions, because it is the part of Czech society whose attitudes have always been deep and strong. She points her camera at her friends, heroes of dissent and underground: Stanislav Penc, Jim Čert, Milan Smrčka, Karel Schwarzenberg, Dáša Vokatá, Heryán Ladislav, Josef Cecil, František Stárek, Miroslav Skalický and others. The ease, with which she fi lms them, allows her to approach them very closely. They are captured with humor and understanding. The piece involves a possibility of philosophical interpretation.

contact genre Helena Všetečková Politics, Arts and Culture, +420 607 793 471 Music, Creative, Society, [email protected] Experimental

28 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2018 90’

director Jan Svatoš

producer Ivana Buttry, Jan Svatoš Art Francesco

co-producer The Ark of Lights Jana Škopková – Czech Television and Shadows DOP Romi Straková Archa světel a stínů editor Katarina Geyerová Buchanan

They met on Friday, getting married secretly on Sunday. They had to sound run away from home due to their parent’s wrath, so they rather spent Ladislav Krýsl their honeymoons among the cannibals in the South Seas. There they lost their illusions, camera and almost their lives. At the moment when fi nancial support many people would have abandoned fi lming, Martin and Osa Johnson State Cinematography had started building their career, which fascinated Charlie Chaplin, Fund Czech Republic Ernest Hemingway or British Royal family. The story of Martin and Osa is the story about cinematic wildlife, its birth and about disappearing its archetype. It is an authentic footprint of era when fi lming itself was more dangerous than lions or malaria, when to photograph meant to risk, at best failure, at worst your own life.

contact Ivana Buttry genre Art Francesco Portrait, Nature, Arts +420 724 128 344 and Culture, Archive, [email protected] Creative www.artfra.cz

IN PRODUCTION 29 CZ/FR/SK 2018 75’

director Peter Kerekes producer Kateřina Černá Negativ

co-producer Alena Müllerová Bata – The First Global – Czech Television, Madeleine Avramoussis – Arte France (FR), Entrepreneur Cedric Bonin – Seppia (FR), Peter Kerekes (SK) Baťa, první globalista DOP Martin Kollár

The fi rst feature-length documentary about the Czechoslovak entrepreneur, shoe king – the creator of world shoe empire, the mayor of Zlin (1923–1932). Along with his brother Antonín and sister Anna he established shoemaking Bata company in 1894 in Zlin and gradually has created a complex of production, trade, transport, services and fi nances. He was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of his time. The fi lm will refl ect his original methods of running production and trade and the system of staff motivation (Bata management system) and how he managed to affect many future economists.

contact Kateřina Černá Negativ +420 777 235 697 [email protected] genre www.negativ.cz Portrait

30 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 75’

director Petr Babinec, Karolína Zalabáková

producer Karolína Zalabáková Cinebonbon

co-producer Batalives Martina Šantavá – Czech Television

DOP Lukáš Gargulák

editor Libor Nemeškal

sound During the 1920s Tomáš Baťa began to build a completely new towns Jan Hála in the neighbourhood of his factories around the world to be able to successfully expand with his company. In the next few decades, he and his brother J.A. Baťa founded more than thirty satellites with unique social and architectural model. Only a few of them have been preserved until nowadays. The documentary fi lm presents the past and present of this project in fi ve selected Bata’s towns through the stories of people who live in them today. In the Dutch Batadorp, Indian Batanagar, Brazilian Bataiporã, Croatian Borovo, and also in Zlín, where it all started 80 years ago. What did the dream of golden future based on one idea of two ingenious megalomaniacs turned into after more than 80 years?

contact Karolína Zalabáková Cinebonbon +420 604 208 419 genre [email protected] History, Society, Reportage cinebonbon.com

IN PRODUCTION 31 CZ/SK 2018 90’

director Zuzana Piussi, Vít Janeček producer Vít Janeček D1fi lm

co-producer Maroš Berák The Besiege of the City – Ultrafi lm (SK) fi nancial support Obléhání města Slovak Audiovisual Fund

During the Middle Ages Kremnice profi ted from gold, a huge part of gold present in Europe came from this place. As it was a rich city, it was besieged several times, but never conquered. New methods have shown that gold can be extracted from the site close to the city still today. But the gold is just scattered on gold dust and getting it out is possible only for devastating conditions for the life of the city and its inhabitants. The time-lapse fi lm explores cohabitance of these two dramatically different perspectives.

contact Vít Janeček D1fi lm genre +420 603 164 232 Creative, Society, vit@D1fi lm.com Philosophy, Current Affairs, www.d1fi lm.com Politics, Human Rights

32 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 85’

director Tomáš Elšík

producer Jitka Kotrlová Frame Films

co-producer Central Bus Station Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU

DOP Tomáš Elšík, Ondřej Belica

editor Tomáš Elšík

Central Bus Station is one of the most pitiful bus stations in the world. sound It is the center of Tel Aviv’s ghetto, which consists of refugees from Dominik Dolejší around the world. Despite its unfi nished corridors create a maze, many different inhabitants of today’s world of war have found their home there and it has its guide as well – Yonathan. Everyday hustle and echoing languages resemble a modern Babylon. In the documentary the building is one of the characters. As well as the others and Yonathan himself, it’s its own story which Yonathan retells.

contact genre Jitka Kotrlová Current Affairs, Culture, Frame Films Religion, Human Rights, +420 774 131 613 Personal View [email protected]

IN PRODUCTION 33 CZ 2017 70’

director Michal Varga producer Marek Novák Xova Film

co-producer Alena Müllerová Circus Rwanda – Czech Television DOP Cirkus Rwanda Jakub Jelen

fi nancial support State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic

As a child Eliseé survived the Rwandan genocide. Today he leads an orphan acrobat group. He cares for the orphaned children and wants them to be happy, to have some sense of meaning in their lives. Rosta Novak built a worldwide-acclaimed circus group in Prague, which he successfully runs with fi rm, paternal hand, but with permanent dark circles under his eyes from the workload. The majority of Rwandese think that all people in Europe are fairy rich. On the other hand, many Europeans think that it is necessary to help Africa with everything. What happens, if we merge these two worlds in a fi lm, during the preparation of a joint circus performance? What does it tell us about the African-European relationship? And who helps whom, in the end?

contact Marek Novák Xova Film +420 607 240 966 genre [email protected] Ex Oriente Human Rights, Social www.xovafi lm.cz Film 2015 Issues, Arts and Culture

34 IN PRODUCTION LV/CZ 2017 75’

director Davis Simanis

producer Guntis Trekteris Ego Media (LV)

co-producer D Is for Division Radim Procházka – Produkce Radim Překročit hranice Procházka script Davis Simanis

DOP Aigars Sērmukšs

A Latvian woman, Hermine Purina, is shown on an archival black editor and white photograph, the fi rst victim of the Soviet invasion of Anna Johnson Ryndová Latvia in 1940 trying to save her son, Voldemärs, with her body. This photograph becomes an inspiration for contemplating over sound fi lm´s boundaries – geographical as well as metaphorical ones. Václav Flégl Russians and Latvians sense the import of historical realities, which the photograph captured, in a completely different way. One fi nancial support side associates it with liberation and the beginning of a soon-to- State Cinematography be achieved victorious war, for the other side it means the loss Fund Czech Republic, of freedom and the presence of occupiers. One side celebrates National Film Centre and the other grieves. A well-known Latvian author, Davis Simanis, of Latvia (LV) produces an explosive testament about the tension on European

Union´s eastern borders.

contact Guntis Trekteris Ego Media genre +37 129 219 373 Creative, History, Human [email protected] Rights, Politics, Society www.egomedia.lv

IN PRODUCTION 35 CZ 2017 80’

director Rudolf Šmíd producer Jarmila Poláková Film & Sociology

script Rudolf Šmíd Diamond Czech Style DOP Ferdinand Mazúrek Sluníčko jako čtvereček editor Lucie Haladová sound Vítězslav Jíra A documentary about a uniquely Czech depiction of the female fi nancial support crotch as a diamond with a vertical line in the middle. The original State Cinematography vulgarity painted on walls and in public toilets with its recorded Fund Czech Republic history reaching to the 17th century became a phenomenon that entered the highest levels of Czech art in the 20th century – be it drama, literature (Milan Kundera), visual art (Štyrský) or fi lm. At the same time, it left its humorous mark on the Czech population by giving it its „diamond perspective“. Paradoxically, the Czech diamond thus has become, though offi cially overlooked, an actual part of the Czech cultural heritage. The author will take a historical, cultural anthropological and sociological perspective on this graphic symbol.

contact Jarmila Poláková Film & Sociology +420 774 442 435 genre [email protected] Creative, Arts and www.fi lmasociologie.cz Culture, Personal View

36 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 64’

director František Brikcius

producer František Brikcius

DOP eSACHERe Pavel Lukáš editor František Brikcius

sound Ivan Horák

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Swiss composer and maecenas Paul Sacher, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich asked 12 composers (Beck, Berio, Boulez, Britten, Dutilleux, Fortner, Ginastera, Halffter, Henze, Holliger, Huber and Lutoslawski) to create dozen compositions for cello using theme from the name of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher (Es, A, C, H, E, Re). They were partially premiered in Zurich in May 1976. Decades later, Czech Cellist František Brikcius introduced this wonderful set of dozen compositions at the Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague. New music documentary fi lm eSACHERe explains the genesis of this unique music project.

genre contact Culture, Music, František Brikcius Arts and Culture [email protected]

IN PRODUCTION 37 CZ 2017 80’

director Jiří Sádek producer Jindřich Trčka COFILM

DOP Antoan Pepelanov Following editor Tomáš Klímek Nejsledovanější sound Ludvík Bohadlo, Jan Paul

Before there was a TV. And now, there is YouTube. The window for a hero of 21st Century – YouTuber. One of us, who is not afraid to become a public fi gure, public soul, through his creation. Person, who creates art of his own life just by showing it to the others. Full-length documentary fi lm Following watches the best YouTubers in Czech Republic for one whole year. Following is a social documentary feature that is interested in what it means to be a YouTuber. What are their motivations that make them show their opinions, face and soul to the public? Following is a social documentary, which sets up the goal to create a communication bridge between the parents used to watch television and children who have found new heroes, and are not interested by television.

contact Jindřich Trčka COFILM genre +420 605 545 544 Culture, Society, Arts trcka@cofi lm.cz and Culture, www.cofi lm.cz Entertainment

38 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 80’

director Vít Janeček

producer Vít Janeček D1fi lm

co-producer The Gutter Petr Kubica – Czech Television Žumpa script Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi

DOP Zuzana Piussi

We started the fi lm with two fascinations. The Bloomberg has sound released a world list of addictions and drug consumptions, Jan Richtr researched within 52 countries of the World, in 2014. The Czech Republic is the champion. The second is fascinated research of fi nancial support gutters used for measuring of drug consumption by people. What State Cinematography is behind so high drug consumption? What is the economy of drugs Fund Czech Republic and its prevention? The fi lm of the gutter.

contact Vít Janeček genre D1fi lm Creative, Science +420 603 164 232 and Technology, Social Issues, vit@D1fi lm.com Environmental, Society www.d1fi lm.com

IN PRODUCTION 39 CZ 2018 78’

director Libuše Rudinská producer Libuše Rudinská Rudinska Film

script Libuše Rudinská Jidrich Streit – Sudetenland

DOP Libuše Rudinská My Love editor Jindřich Štreit – Sudety, Tomáš Vrána sound má láska Petr Šoltys The intention of the documentary is to create a complex portrait fi nancial support of the outstanding and internationally acknowledged Czech State Cinematography photographer, Jindřich Štreit, within the context of the Sudetenland, Fund Czech Republic where he has been living for all his life and to map his work, which is slowly coming to a close thus capturing his impact on the perception of the society. His photography focusing on the area where he has been living for all his life is rather complex and represents the best of his life work. It is understandable. The Sudetenland has been the topic of his work for fi fty years. One can feel the concentration and absorption by the topic, the understanding of the environment, compassion as well as the deep knowledge of the mood of the country.

contact Libuše Rudinská Rudinska Film +420 604 914 207 libuserudinska@ seznam.cz genre www.rudinska.cz Portrait

40 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 75’

director Miroslav Janek

producer Ondřej Zima Evolution Films

co-producer Jiří Brdečka Alena Müllerová – Czech Television

DOP Miroslav Janek

editor Tonička Janková

sound The fi lm celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiří Vladimír Chrastil Brdečka, a fi lmmaker who is lodged in the public consciousness as the author of the immortal Czech comedies Lemonade Joe fi nancial support (Limonádový Joe), Dinner for Adele (Adéla ještě nevečeřela) State Cinematography and The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (Tajemný hrad Fund Czech Republic v Karpatech). The documentary tells the story of Jiří Brdečka and his friends – people who confronted the horrors of history with creation, wit and beauty, rather than with calculations. That may be the reason why their work has survived despite their premature deaths. Such as that of Brdečka.

contact Ondřej Zima Evolution Films +420 736 751 010 genre ozima@evolutionfi lms.cz Portrait, Arts and Culture, Archive www.evolutionfi lms.cz

IN PRODUCTION 41 CZ 2018 75’/52’/6×26’

director Martin Páv producer Zuzana Kučerová Frame Films

DOP Petr Racek Kibera Stories editor Matěj Beran Zítra bude líp sound Adam Bláha

Kibera is the largest slum in Africa which is located in the centre of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Kibera’s population estimates reach up to hundreds of thousands people. Media depict slum as illegal dwellings of people without perspective. The project Kibera Stories presents the situation differently. It focuses on extraordinary people who did not allow hard living conditions to knock them down but transform the experience to activities which help the others. This is the clear evidence that slums are not just bad places how are pictured in Europeans minds but could be also a fertile soil for various talents. The fi lm follows fi ve characters whose stories are interwoven with a shop in the centre of Kibera. That is how we put their efforts and activities into the wider contex.

contact Zuzana Kučerová genre Frame Films Current Affairs, Docu Series, +420 776 600 278 Culture, Social Issues, [email protected] Personal View, Society

42 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2018 75’

director Greta Stocklassa

producer Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision

co-producer Kiruna 2.0. Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU DOP Stanislav Adam

sound Pavel Jan

We fi nd ourselves in the place where the New Kiruna is going to stand in a few years. It is an immense grey plain with two dilapidated towers on the border, a remains of a mine, that has been closed down in the 70s. Timo, a loud opponent of the relocation says, “There is a graveyard on one side, a junk yard on the other, and an industrial district on the third. We call it the Death Valley.” The place where Kiruna is relocating to is situated in the same direction in which the deposit is inclined. Timo says that, “We’ll have to demolish it here again in 50 years. We call it ‘the method of scooter tracks.’ We build, demolish, build, demolish...” adding, “Provided that we will continue mining here. Which I don’t think is going to happen.”

contact Veronika Kührová Analog Vision +420 724 148 114 genre [email protected] Current Affairs www.analog.vision

IN PRODUCTION 43 CZ 2018 55’

director Petr Tomaides producer Petr Tomaides DREAMin PICTURES

The Last of the Sacred Geometres Poslední posvátný geometr

What is this force that compels Ladislav Moučka to gauge Santini‘s construction, re-emerge and fi nding a hidden key inside of them? Why it makes and issues voluminous books? Autodidact, unstudied in architecture, but an admirable connoisseur geometry, Hebrew, Aramaic, history . What compels him to take again in hand pencil and ruler and incarnate in old masters architects? Into Santini himself? Without a computer, without the technical achievements. Only with a ruler, a compass and paper Form: mystical quest for knowledge – the effort to understand the hidden meanings of religious architecture and buildings Santini.

contact Petr Tomaides DREAMin PICTURES genre +420 607 135 707 History, Culture, Arts [email protected] and Culture, Philosophy, www.tomato22.net Religion, Portrait

44 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2018 70’

director Taťána Marková

producer Jarmila Poláková Film & Sociology

script Libussa Unbound Taťána Marková DOP Setkání s Libuší Dalibor Fencl, Nataša Dudínski

editor Šárka Sklenářová

sound Myths and legends know no borders. Travelling freely they tell Vojtěch Knot us something basic, archetypal and universal about ourselves, something we all can relate to, something we all share no matter fi nancial support where we live and how different we are. No wonder mythical fi gures Prague City Hall come alive in modern interpretations. Libussa, mythical prophetess who foresaw the glory of Prague, judge and ruler over men, lives a new life in the digital age also, thanks to spiritual seekers and contemporary artists. We can meet Libussa as the founder of school of witchcraft and wizardry in Poland, mascot of Czech bronies – fans of My Little Pony series, or contemporary Libussa priestesses. How can knowing Libussa enrich us? Why is this prophetess visionary still attracting fantasy lovers, feminists and neopagans?

contact Jarmila Poláková genre Film & Sociology Arts and Culture, +420 774 442 435 Creative, Gender, [email protected] Personal View www.fi lmasociologie.cz

IN PRODUCTION 45 CZ 2018 80’/52’

director Radovan Síbrt producer Radovan Síbrt, Viktória Hozzová Pink Productions

co-producer Tereza Polachová Lust for Life – HBO Europe script The Tap Tap – Postiženi Radovan Síbrt DOP muzikou Šimon Dvořáček, Radovan Síbrt sound The Tap Tap is a unique project. This band of students with physical Vítězslav Jíra, Jan Richtr disabilities has become so well known that it sells out big concerts, has traveled the world and their annual Christmas concert at fi nancial support the State Opera earned a live TV broadcast. And they want more. State Cinematography TTT shows how to beat the odds and, above all, how to have fun Fund Czech Republic with your life. They’re full of humor, no holds barred. But what lies behind this cheeky exterior and motivates TTT to go this route at all? Is it their inner motivation or pressure from their bandleader? The fi lm tells the intimate story of the band members and offers a peek behind the scenes of building TTT’s media image, revealing the positive (and negative) efforts of commercial entities to participate in this project, or just to make themselves visible.

contact Viktória Hozzová Pink Productions +420 608 666 007 genre viktoria@ Music, Culture, Human pinkproductions.cz Rights, Social Issues, www.pinkproductions.cz Portrait, Arts and Culture

46 IN PRODUCTION CZ/SK 2017 60’

director Michael Kaboš

producer Michael Kaboš KABOS Film&Media

co-producer March or Die Lenka Poláková – Czech Television Pochoduj nebo zemři DOP Michael Kaboš

script Ladislav Kudrna, Luděk Navara

Hundreds of young Czechs and Slovaks fought in Indochina in the ranks sound of the French Foreign Legion, others as soldiers of US Army in Vietnam Petr Provazník War. Deployment of Czechs and Slovaks in the French army was the biggest since the Second World War. Their stories were forgotten for fi nancial support many years; The French and the Americans lost the war in Indochina, State Cinematography although the communism in Czechoslovakia also didn’t won. And where Fund Czech Republic belong those who fought and survived; they are losers or winners? Or just confused adventurers who were directed by fate?

contact Michael Kaboš KABOS Film&Media +420 775 243 743 kabos.michael@ genre gmail.com History, Creative www.kabos.cz

IN PRODUCTION 47 SK/CZ 2017 90’

director Tereza Nvotová producer Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská PubRes (SK)

co-producer Pavel Strnad, Mečiar Kateřina Černá – Negativ, Tereza Polachová – HBO Europe

fi nancial support Slovak Audiovisual Fund, State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic Vladimír Mečiar was the fi rst Minister of Interior post Velvet revolution of 1989 and the threetime re-elected Prime Minister of Slovakia. Vladimír Mečiar was an undeniably charismatic politician “loved by the nation“ and his profound infl uence on the contemporary political climate of Slovakia cannot be doubted. His fi nal period in government 1994–1998, was marked by an authoritarian almost autocratic rule, misuse of power in the biggest privatisation causes and scandals and unauthorised activities of the secret services. It was this governance which ruled Slovakia out of the process of being accepted in the EU and NATO.

contact Zuzana Mistríková PubRes +421 908 777 540 genre [email protected] Archive, History, www.pubres.sk Politics, Society

48 IN PRODUCTION CZ/LV 2018 60’/52’

director Anna Kryvenko

producer Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision

co-producer My Unknown Soldier Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU, Sergei Serpuhov Můj neznámý vojín – Baltic Pine Films (LV)

script Anna Kryvenko

fi nancial support State Cinematography What does it mean to be an occupier? When in 1968 the armies of Fund Czech Republic, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia, not only Czechoslovak National Film Centre citizens were suffering, but also the occupiers, because often they of Latvia didn’t know the purpose of their mission. Almost after 50 years since the unfortunate moment of the European history we are discovering surprising humanity in the occupying soldiers. For the fi rst time we uncover stories of desperate personal sacrifi ces of those soldiers who committed suicide rather than to live with the guilt from what they caused, even though indirectly, as they were executors of someone else‘s will. This movie isn‘t about general justice or truth. This is a story about how one becomes an “occupier” without his or her own intention.

contact Michal Kráčmer genre Analog Vision Archive, Creative, +420 602 838 388 Experimental, History, [email protected] Human Rights, Personal View www.analog.vision

IN PRODUCTION 49 CZ 2017 75’

director Andrea Primusová producer Andrea Primusová

script Andrea Primusová The Mystery of Regional DOP Jan Daněk, Marek Lustyk Railways Dočekal editor Záhada lokálek Alice Nussbergerová sound Jiří Hloušek Thanks to intensive development of the local railways at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Czech Republic has one of the densiest network in the world. But since foundation of the independent republic in 1918 it has not been developing. Since the 1970´s there is a tendency to abolish local railways. Why? The answer to this question is searched in the movie by experts and common people, representatives of the country, regions and municipality have an opportunity to express themselves as well. In the context of historical development the protagonists´ responses accentuate the questions of railway in terms of service provided to inhabitants and in terms of cargo transportation possibilities. The speeches are supplied with actual shots and archive materials.

contact genre Andrea Primusová Docu Series, Creative, Current +420 606 243 685 Affairs, Environmental, [email protected] History, Society

50 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 80’

director Jana Boršková

producer Taťána Marková Film & Sociology

co-producer The Passengers Martina Šantavá – Czech Television Pasažéři script Jana Boršková

DOP David Šachl

editor Young people from a children´s home look for love and Blanka Kulová understanding only to fi nd frustration. They desperately try to drive their lives, but fail every time. Why is it like that? Is it the lack of fi nancial support a basic framework for life they have never learned? Is there a way State Cinematography out? A touching and intimate portrait of young adults, who grew up Fund Czech Republic, in a children’s home, was fi lmed over four years. The fi lm Passengers expresses itself mainly through truthfulness, rawness and authenticity. It is a story of young people who grew up without love, responsibility or positive models.

contact Taťána Marková genre Film & Sociology Social Issues, +420 774 440 393 Current Affairs, [email protected] Human Rights www.fi lmasociologie.cz

IN PRODUCTION 51 LV/EE/CZ/DE 2017 90’

director Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grūbe producer Antra Gaile Mistrus Media (LV)

co-producer Jaak Kilmi – Pimik (EE), People from Nowhere Jörg Bundschuh – Kick Film (DE), Julietta Sichel – 8Heads Lidé odnikud Productions, Markéta Štinglová – Czech Television script Gints Grūbe, Jaak Kilmi In 1978, Ieva Lesinska was a university student in Soviet Latvia with DOP dreams of becoming a writer. She had just spent a heady month in Aigars Sērmukšs New York visiting her father, Imants Lesinskis, a Soviet translator working at the United Nations. He was an employee of the KGB editor and a member of the Communist Party. During her trip to the US, Carmen Kirchweger Ieva’s father informed her that he and his wife Rasma were about to defect. He offered her a blunt choice: take a taxi to the Soviet sound Embassy and denounce him as a traitor, or stay with him and never Jan Paul, Ludvík Bohadlo see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. She chose to stay.

contact Antra Gaile Mistrus Media +371 291 958 76 antra.gaile@ mistrusmedia.lv genre www.mistrusmedia.lv Creative, History, Portrait

52 IN PRODUCTION CZ/PL/SK 2017 90’

director Vít Klusák & Filip Remunda

producer Jana Brožková, Zdeněk Holý Vernes

co-producer Pepik the Czech Goes to Poland Joanna Plesnar, Maria Krauss – Plesnar & Krauss in a Quest for Love of God Films (PL), Peter Kerekes – Peter Kerekes (SK), Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák Český Pepík jede do Polska – Hypermarket Film, Alena Müllerová – Czech poznat lásku k Bohu Television script In the middle of Europe, two nations coexist side by side, close Vít Klusák & Filip Remunda to one another in many ways and yet worlds apart. The Czechs are dedicated atheists, while the Poles are born as baptized DOP Catholics. Czechs shake their heads in disbelief at Polish piety, Vít Klusák, Martin while Poles hold Czechs in contempt for living without God. A Czech Matiášek, Martin Tokár documentary crew sets out on a summertime pilgrimage across Poland in order to investigate through the camera the concrete editor situation regarding the notion of Czech atheism vs. Polish religion. Janka Vlčková fi nancial support Creative Europe – MEDIA, State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Polish Film Institute, Krakow Film Foundation, Miejskie Centrum Kultury w Bydgoszczy

contact Jana Brožková Vernes +420 776 650 778 genre [email protected] Docu drama www.vernes.cz

IN PRODUCTION 53 CZ 2018 76’

director Petr Horký producer Martin Jůza Krutart

co-producer Kateřina Ondřejková The Russian Job – Czech Television DOP Švéd v žigulíku Milan Bureš editor Filip Veselý sound Jan Hála Deep inside Russia on the mighty Volga river lies the largest factory in the country. It is the home of Lada, the legendary soviet car. On fi nancial support the outside the plant is still standing, but in reality it loses billions State Cinematography of roubles every year. In order to save it, the Russian government Fund Czech Republic hires a Swedish supermanager and a handful of European industry experts to turn the situation around. They have a vision. They have an incredible drive to make changes. And there will be changes. Thousands will lose jobs. But it is the soviet mentality that will be the hardest nut to crack. What happens if you wake the Russian bear?

contact Martin Jůza Krutart +420 732 341 149 [email protected] www.krutart.cz

contact/sales Rise And Shine World Sales genre +49 30 473 729 80 Society, History, Portrait, [email protected] Politics, Current Affairs, www.riseandshine-berlin.com Creative

54 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2017 75’

director Pavel Štingl

producer Pavel Štingl K2

co-producer A Sarcophagus Kateřina Ondřejková – Czech Television for a Queen DOP Miroslav Janek Sarkofág pro královnu fi nancial support State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic

Longitudinal documentary on the making of a unique work of art by Danish sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard. After a long and arduous journey the sarcophagus commissioned by Denmark’s royal court for a chapel at Roskilde Cathedral is set to be manufactured by Zdeněk Lhotský’s Melted Glass Studio in the Czech town of Železný Brod. The creation of this unique glass sarcophagus, whose transparent shell will hold the two human bodies, is a captivating and dramatic story for an artistic documentary fi lm. Nothing as large and unpredictably complicated has ever been produced by any glass works anywhere in the world...

contact Pavel Štingl genre K2 Arts and Culture, +420 602 321 750 Creative, Longitudinal, pavel@k2fi lms.cz Culture www.k2fi lms.cz

IN PRODUCTION 55 CZ 2018 26’

director Pavel Jurda producer Jan Hubáček GNOMON Production

co-producer Martin Polák Solo for One Arm – Czech Television DOP Sólo pro jednu ruku Jiří Zykmund, Jiří Strnad editor Jiří Fiala sound Jiří Kubík The central theme of the fi lm is the story of the one-armed pianist Otakar Hollmann, who was repeatedly wounded into his right arm in the trenches of the fi rst world war. After the war a large number of musicians had to leave their career because of war injuries. However, some of them reached virtuosity despite this handicap. Hollman’s passion for music convinced Leoš Janáček to compose a unique piece for left arm pianists which also became an antiwar manifesto. The documentary fi lm is based on the unpublished biography of Otakar Hollmann and his correspondence with Leoš Janáček. Beside the historical storyline, narrated through animations, the fi lm will also feature contemporary artists including Japanese musician Yasuya Segawa, who also plays with one arm only.

contact Jan Hubač GNOMON Production genre +420 776 861 119 Music, Society, Arts jan@gnomonfi lm.com and Culture, Health, www.gnomonfi lm.com Animated, History

56 IN PRODUCTION CZ 2018 90’

director Veronika Korčáková

producer Patrick Diviš Czech Television, Martin Hůlovec Punk Film

DOP Tomáš Halík – Paths Miroslav Janek, Jan Šuster (working title) and Memory editor Tomáš Halík – cesty a paměť Kateřina Krutská Vrbová sound (pracovní název) Václav Flégl

The documentary fi lm is portraying Tomáš Halík as a citizen, while it is also concentrating on the present spiritual state of the Czech society. In other words, the story of Tomáš Halík, his life now and in the past, his memories and the values important for him and for the people around him, are presented in a historical, psychological, social and political context. Our aim is to create a complex portrait of Tomáš Halík´s personality far away from his current media picture. It is important for us to see the personality of Tomáš Halík in a broader context and to look for his concrete infl uence in the people who surround him.

contact Martin Hůlovec Punk Film genre +420 608 977 930 Current Affairs, Travel, martinhulovec@ Philosophy, History, punkfi lm.cz Portrait, Society www.punkfi lm.cz

IN PRODUCTION 57 CZ/HR 2017 80’/52’

director Jan Gebert producer Radovan Síbrt, Viktória Hozzová Pink Productions

co-producer Tereza Polachová When the War Comes – HBO Europe, Dana Budisavljević – Hulahop Film & Art Production (HR) Až přijde válka script Jan Gebert

DOP Lukáš Milota Peter drives a new white SUV, has a nice girlfriend and recently editor enrolled at university. Yet his real life is elsewhere: in the mountains Janka Vlčková and in the forests, with his own militia Slovenskí branci (Slovak Recruits) of four hundred young people, mostly teenagers, sound with units all around Slovakia, one of the largest paramilitary Vítězslav Jíra, Jaroslav organizations in Eastern Europe. Five years ago Peter took a military Jehlička, Jan Richtr course with the Cossacks in Russia, and pursued the same training as the Ukrainian separatists. Now he is the one giving orders. He fi nancial support believes Europe is headed for an inevitable clash of civilizations and State Cinematography he is not only determined to defend it with a gun, but also plans to Fund Czech Republic, someday protect it as a big-shot politician. Institute of Documentary Film, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

contact Viktória Hozzová Pink Productions +420 608 666 007 viktoria@ genre pinkproductions.cz Current Affairs, Society, www.pinkproductions.cz Portrait, Politics

58 IN PRODUCTION 59

In Postproduction

62 Bye Bye Children’s Home / Sbohem děcáku 63 Červená 64 Children Online / Děti online 65 Death over Gold / Smrt nad zlato 66 Empire Builders / Budovatelé 67 Healing Me / Let viny 68 Let Misik Sing! / Nechte zpívat Mišíka! 69 Non Parents / Nerodič 70 Nothing Like Before / Nic jako dřív 71 Second Life of Jitka K, The / Druhý život Jitky K 72 Show Me the War / Ukažte mi válku 73 University and Freedom / University a svoboda 74 White World According to Daliborek, The / Svět podle Daliborka 75 Who’s the Bad Egg? / Kdo je tady parchant? 76 Wilder than Wilderness / Planeta Česko 77 With Mom on the Outside / S mámou na svobodě CZ 2017 90’

director Hana Ludvíková Muchová producer Hana Třeštíková Production Trestikova

co-producer Alena Müllerová Bye Bye – Czech Television fi nancial support Children’s Home State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic Sbohem děcáku

The documentary uses a time-lapse method to follow the stories of four mainly Roma youth who had lived in a children’s home for most of their lives and had to leave it after reaching the age of eighteen. They have no home, no family, and no idea where to stay and how to make money for living. Lukáš wants to become a hip-hop star, Simona plans a sex change surgery; Jarda wishes to have a big family. The documentary captures the reality of institutional child care in the Czech Republic, which belongs to countries with the highest number of children placed in institutional care in Europe; it also covers the topic of racism and Roma identity, as well as identity in general.

contact Hana Třeštíková Production Trestikova +420 603 581 674 genre hanka@ Longitudinal, Social produkcetrestikova.cz release date Issues, Society, Youth www.produkcetrestikova.cz 05/2017 Documentary

62 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 90’

director Olga Sommerová

producer Pavel Berčík Evolution Films

co-producer Č ervená Alena Müllerová – Czech Television DOP Olga Špátová

editor Jakub Hejna

sound The artistic career of the world famous singer Červená spans over 100 Petr Provazník roles in fi ve thousand performances across the stages of 5 continents. In Czechoslovakia she performed in hundreds of shows in musicals, numerous roles in the Brno Opera house, fi lms, recordings and concerts. Unfortunately, the communist power has placed her amongst enemies of the state and she was banned from the Prague National Theater. She therefore used the invitation of the State Opera in Berlin, where she was honored with the prestigious award of The Chamber singer – “Kammersängerin”. Her precedence was the remarkable colour of her voice, fl awless preparation, absolute devotion to the stage and complete reliability of her performance. It was therefore natural that she was also approached by Herbert von Karajan.

contact Pavel Berčík Evolution Films genre +420 777 932 957 Music, Culture, Portrait, pbercik@ Docu drama, Politics, release date evolutionfi lms.cz Arts and Culture 05/2017 www.evolutionfi lms.cz

IN POSTPRODUCTION 63 CZ 2017 52’

director Kateřina Hager producer Kateřina Hager Bohemian Productions

co-producer Alena Müllerová Children Online – Czech Television script Děti online Kateřina Hager

DOP Jakub Šimůnek editor Šárka Sklenářová Most children today learn to use a computer before they learn how to tie their shoes or ride a bike. All around the world a new sound generation of children is growing up spending more time in the Vojtěch Komárek virtual world than playing at their local playground. This fi lm provides three stories from three young protagonists; a twelve year- old talented youtuber riding the highs and lows of overnight internet fame, a thirteen year-old boy passionate about computer games, and a young girl who falls prey to an internet sexual predator. The documentary exposes the unique attraction of the Internet for youth while also drawing attention to some of the risks children encounter in cyberspace.

contact Kateřina Hager Bohemian Productions +420 604 216 830 katerina@bohemian genre -productions.cz Creative, Social www.bohemian release date Issues, Society, Youth -productions.cz 03/2017 Documentary

64 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 80’

director Petr Šprincl

producer Marek Novák Xova Film

script Death over Gold Matyáš Dlab DOP Smrt nad zlato Jiří Havlíček

editor Michal Böhm

sound Ladislav Mirvald Ondrej Jajcaj has been obsessed with death since childhood. Starting as a tomb raider, he became self proclaimed scientist/philosopher, fi nancial support focused on the dental remnants of the dead. State Cinematography Jajcaj’s goal is to liberate society from fearing death. To accomplish Fund Czech Republic this, Jajcaj and his few followers set on a journey with his mobile caravan of death, moving from village to village and confronting people with the phenomenon of death. The journey destination is Vienna, where Jajcaj wants to return the dental remnants of Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms. The remnants, which he took from their graves himself. Majorettes juggle with femur bones and Jajcaj’s caravan moves to another village. The journey doesn’t end, but loops into infi nity.

contact Marek Novák genre Xova Film Creative, Travel, Docu +420 607 240 966 Fiction, Experimental, release date [email protected] Mockumentary 05/2017 www.xovafi lm.cz

IN POSTPRODUCTION 65 CZ 2017 50’

director Andran Abramjan producer Ondřej Šejnoha Studio FAMU

DOP Matěj Piňos, Empire Builders Andran Abramjan editor Budovatelé Andran Abramjan sound Radim Lapčík

They say we live in post-factual times when events are not driven by facts but by emotions, recently often related to events such as Islamic terrorism and mass immigration. Some see it as a symptom of the decline of our civilization and decide to stop it by entering politics. Through a quirky cameraman of a right-wing populist movement, we follow a docu-fi ction story of how our worlds we worked so hard to build struggle not to collapse under their own weight.

contact Ondřej Šejnoha Studio FAMU +420 234 244 402 ondrej.sejnoha@ genre studiofamu.cz release date Current Affairs, Docu Fiction, www.famu.cz 03/2017 Creative, Politics, Society

66 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 85’

director Tereza Tara

producer Tereza Tara

DOP Healing Me Gyuri Lásló editor Let viny Ilona Malá

fi nancial support Maitrea

The fi lm discovers journey of fi lm director Tereza Tara to fi nd the treasure of health. Few years ago, she had problems with her kidneys. She went to hospital, but they didn’t fi nd anything. They recommended her a painkiller. So she decided to heal herself. She healed her body, her kidneys, her relationships. This fi lm is a medicine for body and soul.

contact genre Tereza Tara Creative, release date +420 774 623 374 Gender, Health 11/2017 [email protected]

IN POSTPRODUCTION 67 CZ 2017 100’

director Jitka Němcová producer Viktor Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague

co-producer Věra Krincvajová Let Misik Sing! – Czech Television DOP Nechte zpívat Mišíka! Diviš Marek editor Boris Machytka sound Lukáš Moudrý Feature documentary about legendary Czech rocker Vladimír Mišík. Listening to Misik’s music was an expression of an anti-government fi nancial support attitude during the communist era. People made Misik a legend of State Cinematography anti-Bolshevik movement despite the fact he had not sing protest Fund Czech Republic songs nor was he an “underground” singer. The movie is about a search for words, things, people and memories with elements of acting mixed with archive clips and amazing Misik’s music. It takes place on imaginary planet Misik, 5 kilometers in diameter, situated at the Edge of a Solar System. Movie will be demanding as well as Misik’s songs are. It will be adventurous as we search in his past, funny as it usually is in a musician’s life and poetical in its story.

contact Viktor Schwarcz genre Cineart TV Prague Music, Culture, Portrait, +420 777 220 364 release date Arts and Culture, Human [email protected] 03/2017 Rights, Entertainment

68 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 80’

director Jana Počtová

producer Daniel Tuček Golden Dawn

co-producer Non Parents Věra Krincvajová – Czech Television Nerodič DOP Ferdinand Mazúrek, Petr Koblovský

editor Adéla Špaljová

Recently my friend came to me saying she has begun to seriously sound consider having her eggs frozen. A few days later, I read an article Ivan Horák about a woman who gave birth at sixty. She received an egg from a younger donor and she implanted the egg inside herself. Another fi nancial support friend got divorced after he and his wife successfully completed State Cinematography artifi cial insemination. Another friend after three months of Fund Czech Republic relationship got married when she was already pregnant... Does she know him well enough to start a family and raise a child with him? Another friend has just given birth; she is thirty-fi ve and the father is sixty. They are a wonderful couple. Only the father will probably not celebrate the son´s eighteenth birthday... The world is changing.

contact Daniel Tuček genre Golden Dawn Current Affairs, Creative, +420 775 605 907 Gender, Personal View, release date [email protected] Social Issues, Society 07/2017 www.goldendawn.cz

IN POSTPRODUCTION 69 CZ 2017 90’

director Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská producer Tomáš Hrubý, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce

co-producer Tereza Polachová Nothing Like Before – HBO Europe script Nic jako dřív Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská DOP Lukáš Kokeš editor Nothing Like Before is a documentary stylized view into the life of Klára Tasovská, present day teenagers living on Czech-German border – geographic Lukáš Kokeš and social periphery in the middle of Europe. The fi lm portrays daily lives of 3 youngsters, brought together in one particular high sound school, and witnesses their transformation into mature individuals. Dominik Dolejší, To what extent are they prisoners of their surrounding environment, Adam Levý family prototypes and the educational system and to what extent are they capable of becoming autonomous creators of their own fi nancial support fates? Nothing Like Before depicts two years of the main characters State Cinematography lives, following them through a number of transformations, which Fund Czech Republic prepare them – or perhaps not – for future adult life.

contact Tomáš Hrubý nutprodukce +420 731 163 041 genre [email protected] release date Society, www.nutprodukce.cz 09/2017 Social Issues

70 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 53’

director Vojtěch Kopecký

producer Ondřej Trojan Total HelpArt

co-producer The Second Life of Jitka K Martina Šantavá – Czech Television Druhý život Jitky K script Vojtěch Kopecký

DOP Tomáš Sysel

editor We see the fi rst symptoms of the disease, what else went wrong for Vojtěch Kopecký Jitka at the time and how she was able to deal with it. We learn how the serious condition was diagnosed, meet the doctors and witness sound the entire therapy process, from chemotherapy to bone marrow Marek Musil transplant. Additional narrators of Jitka’s story are her friends, her sister and her mother. We get to see how friends and family can help overcoming a disease, what surprising activities they come up with to get Jitka back among healthy people again. This fi lm also serves such education. Both for people who come into contact with leukaemia and for people who are not aware how much they could help by registering as bone marrow donors.

contact Ondřej Trojan Total HelpArt genre +420 267 073 007 Health, Social Issues, Society, release date [email protected] Personal View, Current Affairs 01/2017 www.tha.cz

IN POSTPRODUCTION 71 CZ 2016 40’

director Zdeněk Chaloupka producer Ondřej Šejnoha Studio FAMU

DOP Zdeněk Chaloupka Show Me the War editor Ilona Malá Ukažte mi válku sound Miroslav Chaloupka

Some journalists need a bit of advice when working in the war – where to go or rather do not, where is be the best view on the ruins of the airport, how to pass through all the checkpoints to the desired place. Fortunately, in every confl ict appear also local guides who are happy to provide all the service that journalists need. Media called those people “fi xers”. The fi lm is a war road movie in eastern Ukraine following the fi xer Ruslan accompanying Colombian television crew that wants one thing – to see the war.

contact Ondřej Šejnoha Studio FAMU +420 234 244 402 genre ondrej.sejnoha@ Current Affairs, studiofamu.cz release date Youth Documentary, www.famu.cz 03/2016 Reportage, Creative

72 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 79’

director Vít Janeček

producer Vít Janeček D1fi lm

co-producer University and Freedom Petr Kubica – Czech Television

script University a svoboda Vít Janeček

DOP Zuzana Piussi

editor The topic of higher education in the Czech Republic has become Hedvika Hansalová a central social issue several years ago when the government tried to introduce tuition fees – this question was eventually relegated, sound but others remain. Film essay seeks to explore idea of the university Jan Richtr and its manifestations today, mainly in connection with crucial theme of freedom. fi nancial support State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic

contact Vít Janeček genre D1fi lm Social Issues, +420 603 164 232 Society, Current release date vit@D1fi lm.com Affairs, Creative 09/2017 www.d1fi lm.com

IN POSTPRODUCTION 73 CZ/UK/DK 2017 109’

director Vít Klusák producer Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda Hypermarket Film

co-producer Jiřina Budíková The White World – Czech Television, Jess Search – BRITDOC Foundation (UK), According to Daliborek Peter Engel – Wingman Media (DK) Svět podle Daliborka script Vít Klusák

DOP Dalibor K. lives in Prostějov, a small town in Moravia, has a job Adam Kruliš painting gardening machinery, makes amateur horror movies and writes angry songs. He is a radical neo-Nazi, although he has never editor physically assaulted anyone. Approaching 40, he has never had Janka Vlčková a real relationship, as he still lives with his mother Věra (63). He hates his job, his boss, the Gypsies, refugees, homosexuals, Angela sound Merkel, spiders and dentists. He hates his life, but he has no idea Richard Müller how to change it. Presenting a tragicomic insight into the world of “ordinary, decent fi nancial support people” living here and now, in the centre of Europe in 2016, and yet State Cinematography hankering for Adolf Hitler, the fi lm unfolds over a period of one year Fund Czech Republic, (spring, summer, autumn, winter). Creative Europe – MEDIA

contact Filip Remunda Hypermarket Film genre +420 603 180 312 Politics, History, fi [email protected] release date Human Rights, www.hypermarketfi lm.cz 05/2017 Portrait, Society

74 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 60’

director Karolína Peroutková

producer Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU

DOP Who’s the Bad Egg? Karolína Peroutková editor Kdo je tady parchant? Ilona Malá

sound Karolína Peroutková

The boy’s head is hidding under his jumper. You recognize only a bright eyes and a cigarette in his mouth. If you are watching at him for a long time, he says to you: Your mum smells faul. Buzz off! The small town. Two brothers. Locals say: He is bad egg, you ignore him. But who is a bad egg? The rascal or people, who always calls “he will be always just a rascal“? Everybody must have a chance for a change. This citizen’s conviction put a social blanket for this boys. The boys grow up without a friendship with other kids. All people are afraid of them. So they scream and destroy foreign property in their gang of young vandals. Is there any key to solution their diffi cult life? Does have this one their mum und father? Help the social worker or the police?

contact genre Karolína Peroutková Youth Documentary, +420 739 411 016 Drama doc, Portrait, release date karolinaperoutkova@ Social Issues 10/2017 gmail.com

IN POSTPRODUCTION 75 CZ 2017 83’

director Marián Polák producer Radim Procházka Produkce Radim Procházka

co-producer Petr Kubica Wilder than Wilderness – Czech Television, Jordi Niubó – i/o post Planeta Česko script Marián Polák, Jan Hošek, Marek Sklář

DOP Jiří Petr, Marián Polák, Hugo Habrman, Within the environment of open cast brown coal mines and spoil tips Antonín Nevrlý which is a reminder of a lunar landscape, one fi nds paradoxically a true tale of an impregnable wild countryside. For most people it editor is a symbol of an ecological catastrophe, same as the abandoned Tomáš Doruška industrial complexes, former army training ranges or dense woods gobbled up by the bark beetle. But for nature they are untamed sound spots that bring with them a process of recuperation and self- Václav Flégl preservation. Just beyond our backyard we see everyday dramas of animals and plants taking place that tend to fascinate us in fi lms fi nancial support that come from the far reaches of our planet. Swamps, jungles and State Cinematography deserts can all be found here. The fi lm crew is setting out on a two Fund Czech Republic, years expedition in order to explore central european wildlife. EEA Grants

contact Radim Procházka Produkce Radim Procházka +420 603 862 161 radim@ genre radimprochazka.com release date Nature, Environmental, www.radimprochazka.com 04/2017 Personal View

76 IN POSTPRODUCTION CZ 2017 80’

director Veronika Jonášová

producer Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce

co-producer With Mom on the Outside Alena Müllerová – Czech Television S mámou na svobodě script Veronika Jonášová

DOP Jarmila Štuková

editor Stories of the three women, our fi lm is observing, start in the prison in Jakub Hejna Světlá nad Sázavou. Management of this women’s prison has decided for an unusual social experiment – to create a specialized ward where fi nancial support mothers can start their imprisonment together with their children. State Cinematography This ward has been open since 2002 and is unique within the Czech Fund Czech Republic prison service. Mothers can serve their sentences together with their offsprings – instead of cells, they live in colourful rooms and the main activity of their days is taking care of the children. We have been following our protagonists since 2010 capturing their imprisonment as well as their preparations for leaving the prison, their release, and the way they handle life outside of prison.

contact Pavla Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce genre +420 605 256 190 Social Issues, release date [email protected] Society 07/2017 www.nutprodukce.cz

IN POSTPRODUCTION 77

Completed Feature Length Docs

80 Blind Gulliver / Slepý Gulliver Brother Karel / Bratříček Karel 81 Czech Allah / Český Alláh De Potentia Dei 82 Don’t Take My Life / Exekuce Epidemic of Freedom / Epidemie svobody 83 H*ART ON Helena’s Law / Zákon Helena 84 A Hole in the Head / Diera v hlave In the Child’s Best Interests / V nejlepším zájmu dítěte 85 Little Mole & Laozi / Krtek a Lao-c’ Living Space, A 86 Love Me If You Can / Miluj mě, jestli to dokážeš Marriage Story, A / Strnadovi 87 My Name Is Hungry Buffalo / Jmenuji se Hladový Bizon RINO – The Spy Story / RINO – Příběh špióna 88 Teaching War / Výchova k válce Traces, Fragments, Roots / Stopy, střepy, kořeny CZ | 2016 Blind Gulliver Blu-ray/DCP | 104’ Slepý Gulliver director Martin Ryšavý producer Klára Žaloudková, Radim Procházka Background Films One of the most striking contemporary Czech directors, in receipt of fi nancial support literary awards, Martin Ryšavý, plays the central role in his new fi lm. State Cinematography In order to continue in his fi lm director´s career travelling around Fund Czech Republic faraway lands he must allow a Prague optician to treat his eyesight.

The course of the examination and discourse with the optician serves as a framework for the fi lm´s narration which is interrupted by entrées to the Ukraine and Russia.

contact Klára Žaloudková Background Films +420 774 689 278 zaloudkova@ backgroundfi lms.cz national premiere genre www.backgroundfi lms.cz 10/2016 Creative, Travel, Philosophy

CZ/PL | 2016 Brother Karel HDCAM/Digi Beta | 90’ Bratříček Karel director Krystyna Krauze producer Hana Třeštíková Production Trestikova co-producer Documentary capturing the dramatic fate of the most famous Czech Barbara Lawska – Studio bard, Karel Kryl. The fi lm introduces many of his best-known songs, Filmowe Kronika (PL), as well as the less well-known ones. Alena Müllerová Another important line of the fi lm is the search for the copy of – Czech Television Andrzej Zajączkowski’s fi lm, who in 1969 as a student at FAMU, shot

a fi lm about Karel Kryl´s song Morituri te salutant. His documentary had then been hidden by an employee of Czechoslovak Film Archive and it has still not been found.

contact Hana Třeštíková Production Trestikova +420 603 581 674 hanka@ produkcetrestikova.cz genre www.produkcetrestikova.cz Portrait

80 COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS Czech Allah CZ | 2017 DCP | 90’ Český Alláh director Zuzana Piussi

producer Petr Kubica Czech Television

Czech Republic has only accepted a small number of refugees. In co-producer this respect, it belongs to the most intolerant countries in Europe. F. Remunda, V. Klusák Made over the course of two years, this story-driven time-lapse – Hypermarket Film, documentary explores the impact of the refugee simulacrum on the V. Janeček, Z. Piussi – D1fi lm collective imagination and real society. The fi lm analyses the rise of the Czech version of Germany’s Pegida – the transformation of fear into politics and vice versa. It is also a love story of a female volunteer and a Muslim man...

contact Wanda Kaprálová D1fi lm +421 905 991 322 genre festivals@d1fi lm.com Society, Current Affairs www.d1fi lm.com

De Potentia Dei CZ | 2016 MXF | 66’

director Ondřej Vavrečka

producer Ondřej Vavrečka

Kazimir Malevich wanted to burn all his paintings and created black square from the ashes instead. The black square did not appear here by an accident. Where are its roots? Is not a square a circle in its core, the return of Everything? The entire journey of the radically free documentary musical is driven by songs. The fi lm sings about me, about you, about itself. It searches the place on Earth, tries to have a terrestrial touch. The movie resurrects the Malevich’s footprint.

genre contact Arts and Culture, Creative, Ondřej Vavrečka Philosophy, Religion, +420 775 256 260 Experimental, Personal View [email protected]

COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS 81 CZ | 2016 Don’t Take My Life DCP | 64’ Exekuce director Andrea Culková producer Petr Kubica Czech Television co-producer One day, documentary fi lmmaker Andrea Culková unexpectedly Filip Remunda, had to face attachment of her assets because of a minor error Vít Klusák that she learned about too late. She thus became one of the many – Hypermarket Film people to fi nd themselves caught in a debt trap. In her fi lm, Culková

delves into examination of the phenomenon of debt, debt recovery, and debt payments in Czech society from a personal as well as investigative viewpoint. Part of the Czech Journal series.

contact Petr Kubica Czech Television +420 774 101 657 petr.kubica@ ceskatelevize.cz national premiere genre www.ceskatelevize.cz 10/2016 Society, Social Issues, Creative

CZ | 2017 Epidemic DCP | 67’ of Freedom director Tereza Reichová, Epidemie svobody Hynek Reich Štětka producer Alice Tabery Cinepoint This creative documentary explores the controversial and complex co-producer topic of vaccinating young children, and its possible side effects. Kamila Zlatušková The fi lm looks at the issue from a very personal perspective – the – Czech Television, directors themselves have a daughter, and so they try to fi nd a clear Ondřej Šejnoha and well-founded answer to the entire problem. And that is not – Studio FAMU exactly easy.

contact Alice Tabery Cinepoint genre +420 732 883 260 Human Rights, Personal View, [email protected] Society, Youth Documentary, Health

82 COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS H*ART ON CZ | 2016 DCP | 73’

director Andrea Culková

producer Miroslav Novák, Pavlína Kalandrová Duracfi lm How do you fi nd meaning in everyday fear, love, sex and loneliness? H*ART ON dives off into the deep end of modern art. A fi lm about co-producer the yearning to create, to mold everyday emotions into a meaningful Petr Kubica – Czech Television life and, most of all, to live beyond one’s death. A struggle that gets to the existential core of each of us. Premiered at DOK Leipzig 2016 Next Masters Competition.

contact/sales Aleksandar Govedarica Regional Director – Europe Syndicado +421 949 635 890 aleksandar@ syndicado.com genre international premiere www.syndicado.com Arts and Culture, Society, History 11/2016 www.hartonfi lm.com

Helena’s Law CZ | 2016 Blu-ray/DCP/DVD | 78’ Zákon Helena director Klára Žaloudková

producer Klára Žaloudková Background Films

The fi lm focuses on police detective, Helena Káhnová, who in co-producer the 1990´s managed to send to prison several dozen people in P. Kubica – Czech the so-called Berdych Gang case – including Berdych himself. Television, O. Šejnoha The policewoman, as an extra work bonus, received 10 000 Czech – Studio FAMU crowns (370 4EUR) and a promotion which was revoked soon fi nancial support afterwards. What motivates a woman police offi cer to stand up State Cinematography to a mafi a and what motivates a young documentary fi lm-maker Fund Czech Republic to make contact with this mafi a and shoot a fi lm about them?

contact Klára Žaloudková Background Films +420 774 689 278 genre zaloudkova@ Creative, Portrait, Politics, national premiere backgroundfi lms.cz Society, Current Affairs 10/2016 www.backgroundfi lms.cz

COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS 83 CZ/SK | 2016 | DCP | 90’ A Hole in the Head director Robert Kirchhoff Diera v hlave producer Barbara Janišová Feglová Hitchhiker Cinema (SK) co-producer M. Šantavá – Czech Television, S. Komová Little is known about the tragedy of the Roma and Sinti during – Radio and Television of the Second World War. They were murdered by the tens, hundreds Slovakia (SK), R. Kirchhoff and thousands; in concentration camps, by the edges of mass – atelier.doc (SK) graves and roadsides, by rifl e butts, hammers or gas. Silence fi nancial support surrounds them. For years they existed and still exist on the edge of Slovak AV Fund, Intern. society. They survived and keep their memory and scars as proof. Visegrad Fund, Ministry In the world where fascism is once again prevalent, they are among of Culture of Slovakia, the last living witnesses to the Holocaust. Bratislava Region contact Barbara Janišová Feglová Hitchhiker Cinema world premiere +421 905 858 808 10/2016 genre [email protected] national premiere History, Human Rights, www.hitchhikercinema.sk 03/2017 Social Issues, Society

CZ | 2016 In the Child’s Best DCP | 60’ Interests director Linda Kallistová V nejlepším zájmu Jablonská dítěte producer Petr Kubica Czech Television This fi lm compares the fates of two newborns, whose parents either co-producer could not or did not want to care for them. Whilst one is placed Vít Klusák, into a temporary guardian’s care immediately after birth, the other Filip Remunda is sent to a residential care home for infants. The documentary – Hypermarket Film explores the system in place for handling unwanted newborns. At the same time, it also raises several controversial issues. Part of the Czech Journal series.

contact Petr Kubica Czech Television +420 774 101 657 petr.kubica@ genre ceskatelevize.cz national premiere Social Issues, www.ceskatelevize.cz 10/2016 Creative

84 COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS Little Molle & Laozi CZ | 2016 HDCAM | 64’ Krtek a Lao-c’ director Filip Remunda

producer Petr Kubica Czech Television

In one episode of Czech Journal, Filip Remunda focuses on the co-producer Chinese president’s visit to the Czech Republic and launches into Vít Klusák, confrontational discussions with the citizens of a country that Filip Remunda violates human rights and where people are imprisoned for their – Hypermarket Film opinions, but whose population proudly voices their allegiance to their prospering country. Footage of the protests held by the Czech public, and in the opposite situation, when the Chinese greet the president with joy, as well as interviews with a Chinese dissident and with a Czech teacher, are interspersed with the saying of Laozi and footage of Leonid Brezhnev’s visit to Prague in 1978. The fi lm thus contact opens the question as to with whom the Czech president is fostering Petr Kubica warm international relations. Part of the Czech Journal series. Czech Television +420 774 101 657 petr.kubica@ genre national premiere ceskatelevize.cz Creative 10/2016 www.ceskatelevize.cz

A Living Space CZ | 2017 DCP | 52’

director Jakub Jahn

producer Jozef Pavleye Pavleye Artist Management A unique exploration of The Laboratory for Performance - Watermill and Production Center where each year the visionary theater director and artist Robert Wilson gathers young artists from all over the world giving fi nancial support them the opportunity to collaborate with a selection of art world State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic celebrities such as Jim Jarmusch, CocoRose, Philip Glass and Daniel

Liebeskind. Film documents the 50 days of the Watermill Summer Program including interviews with Robert Wilson, invited artist and participants as well as footage from rehearsals, offering a glimpse of the exceptional creative ferment and the relentless force of contact / sales expression underlying all Wilson’s works. Jozef Pavleye Pavleye Artist Management and Production +420 731 151 121 genre [email protected] Arts and Culture, Creative, www.aLivingSpace Experimental, Personal View, Music CZ Movie.com

COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS 85 CZ | 2016 Love Me If You Can DCP | 63’ Miluj mě, jestli to director Dagmar Smržová dokážeš producer Petr Kubica Czech Television

A tragicomic documentary about three heroes and their intractable journey in search of physical love. Sexual assistance for disabled people is an established concept in some countries, but in the Czech Republic it is only just starting to exist. The author of the fi lm follows three handicapped men and a trained sexual assistant in everyday situations. The fi lm explores a subject that, although it is a serious social issue, the public has either ignored or fi nds controversial. Above all, however, it offers a sensitive look at the intimate lives of people living with disabilities. contact Veronika Slámová Czech Television veronika.slamova@ genre ceskatelevize.cz national premiere Creative, Portrait, www.ceskatelevize.cz 10/2016 Social Issues, Health

CZ | 2017 A Marriage Story DCP/Blu-ray | 100’ Strnadovi director Helena Třeštíková producer Kateřina Černá Negativ co-producer Ivana and Václav got married at the Prague Old Town Hall in 1981. Alena Müllerová The fi lm follows their marriage from the wedding day until today. – Czech Television In the beginning, we see two students of architecture with their modest plans for the future in the socialistic Czechoslovakia. After the political turnover in 1989 they started a furniture business, together they have raised fi ve children and went through ups and downs in their relationship. Now, when they are turning sixty, they start looking back at their lives.

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86 COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS My Name Is CZ/SK | 2016 Blu-ray/DCP/DVD | 83’ Hungry Buffalo director Jmenuji se Pavel Jurda

Hladový Bizon producer Radim Procházka Produkce Radim Procházka

Hungry Buffalo is blind and going deaf. He laps up books about co-producer Indians using braille writing and in one of them he comes across the Marek Šulík – fi lmotras Navajo medicine man Blackhorse, who agrees to perform a healing (SK), Jiří Strnad ritual to improve his hearing. “My name is Hungry Buffalo,” he – Filmium, Pavel Jurda introduces himself. The Indians fi nd it hard to understand him but fi nancial support laugh merrily, as his joy of life is infectious. Blackhorse is rather State Cinematography aloof at fi rst. He doesn´t believe in this European romantic palaver. Fund Czech Republic In the end, even he succumbs…

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RINO – The Spy CZ | 2016 DCP/Blu-ray | 96’ Story director RINO – Příběh Jakub Wagner

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A detailed look inside the mind and life of Karel Köcher, the most co-producer successful Czechoslovak spy of the Cold War, who infi ltrated Petr Kubica CIA during the 1970s, passing the classifi ed information to his – Czech Television homeland secret service and to the KGB. Now eighty years old, Karel speaks about his actions, motivations, and reviews his life story in general. What it takes for a seemingly ordinary man to become a high-profi le spy in a foreign country? And what does such decision make with man’s mind and soul, at the end?

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COMPLETED FEATURE LENGTH DOCS 87 CZ | 2016 Teaching War DCP | 70’ Výchova k válce director Adéla Komrzý producer Petr Kubica Czech Television co-producer The fi lm examines how a military spirit is slowly returning to our Filip Remunda, society. Attempts to renew military training or compulsory military Vít Klusák service and in general to prepare the nation for the next big war – Hypermarket Film go hand in hand with society’s fear of the Russians, the Muslims, or whatever other “enemies”. This observational fl ight over the machine gun nest of Czech militarism becomes a grotesque, unsettling military parade. Part of the Czech Journal series.

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CZ | 2016 Traces, Fragments, Blu-ray/DVD | 24’ Roots director Květa Přibylová Stopy, střepy, kořeny producer Ondřej Šejnoha – Studio FAMU

A personal and inner fi lm poem about the blending and ingrowth of the past and the present, the dead and the living. Traces are the imprints of the past in the present. Fragments are the result of the sudden change of state, the shattering of the continuity between the past and the present. Roots are the connection and the bond to the past.

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108 PROJECTS BY ENGLISH TITLE 33 fi lmů a dost 6 Let viny 67 Testosterone Story 22 150 scén ze života Lidé odnikud 52 Tomáš Halík – cesty a paměť disentu v novém Living Space, A 85 (pracovní název) 57 establishmentu 28 Mečiar 48 Ukažte mi válku 72 Archa světel a stínů 29 Michaelův sen z Aleppa 19 University a svoboda 73 Až přijde válka 58 Miluj mě, jestli to Vědomí souvislosti 24 Batalives 31 dokážeš 86 V Hledáčku AK 47 23 Baťa, první globalista 30 Mother of Moldova 10 V nejlepším zájmu dítěte 84 Bismillah – Ve jménu Nechte zpívat Mišíka! 68 Výchova k válce 88 Alláha 7 Nehleď dlouze What’s the News? 25 Bratříček Karel 80 do propasti 11 Záhada lokálek 50 Budovatelé 66 Nejsledovanější 38 Zákon Helena 83 Central Bus Station 33 Nerodič 69 Zítra bude líp 42 Červená 63 Nic jako dřív 70 Život v pekle 18 Český Alláh 81 Obléhání města 32 Žumpa 39 Český Pepík jede do Polska O zdraví, o slávu a o peníze poznat lásku k Bohu 53 na případu cyklistiky 14 Cesta do nemožna 16 Pasažéři 51 Cesty epopeje 13 Planeta Česko 76 Cirkus Rwanda 34 Pochoduj nebo zemři 47 De Potentia Dei 81 Poslední posvátný Děti online 64 geometr 44 Diana. Lonely Mother Překročit hranice 35 of Moldova 10 RINO – Příběh špióna 87 Diera v hlave 84 Sarkofág pro královnu 55 Druhý život Jitky K 71 Satanic Girls 20 Elkea: Hranice Sbohem děcáku 62 sebeovládání 12 Setkání s Libuší 45 Epidemie svobody 82 Slepý Gulliver 80 eSACHERe 37 Sluníčko jako čtvereček 36 Exekuce 82 S mámou na svobodě 77 Fuga 15 Smrt nad zlato 65 H*ART ON 83 Sólo pro jednu ruku 56 Jindřich Štreit – Sudety, Sound Is Innocent, The 21 má láska 40 Spálená 8 Jiří Brdečka 41 Stopy, střepy, kořeny 88 Jmenuji se Hladový Strnadovi 86 Bizon 87 Surovost života a cynismus Kdo je tady parchant? 75 fantazie Vratislava Kiruna 2.0. 43 Effenbergera 17 Konstrukce reality, Švéd v žigulíku 54 realita konstrukce Svět podle Daliborka 74 (pracovní název) 9 Tap Tap – Postiženi Krtek a Lao-c’ 85 muzikou, The 46

PROJECTS BY CZECH TITLE 109 Abramjan Andran 66 Peroutková Karolína 75 Babinec Petr 31 Piussi Zuzana 18, 32, 81 Benki Artemio 15 Počtová Jana 69 Bláhovec Bohdan 20 Polák Marián 76 Boršková Jana 51 Přibylová Květa 88 Brikcius František 37 Primusová Andrea 50 Chaloupka Zdeněk 72 Reichová Tereza 82 Culková Andrea 10, 22, 82, 83 Rudinská Libuše 40 Držiak Noro 16 Ryšavý Martin 80 Elšík Tomáš 33 Sádek Jiří 38 Eslam Farid 25 Sandul Pavel 6 Farzad Mohammadreza 11 Síbrt Radovan 46 Felcman Jakub 24 Simanis Davis 35 Gebert Jan 58 Šmíd Rudolf 36 Grūbe Gints 52 Smržová Dagmar 86 Haaster Kim van 10 Sommerová Olga 63 Hager Kateřina 64 Šprincl Petr 65 Horký Petr 54 Štětka Reich Hynek 82 Jablonská Kallistová Linda 84 Štingl Pavel 55 Jahn Jakub 85 Stocklassa Greta 43 Janeček Vít 18, 32, 39, 73 Strejcovský Jan 13 Janek Miroslav 41 Štuková Jarmila 19 Jařab David 17 Švarcová Johana 21 Jonášová Veronika 77 Svatoš Jan 29 Jurda Pavel 56, 87 Tara Tereza 67 Kerekes Peter 30 Tasovská Klára 70 Kilmi Jaak 52 Tomaides Petr 44 Kirchhoff Robert 84 Třeštíková Helena 86 Klusák Vít 74 Varga Michal 34 Kokeš Lukáš 70 Vavrečka Ondřej 81 Komrzý Adéla 88 Všetečková Helena 14, 28 Kopecký Vojtěch 71 Wagner Jakub 87 Korčáková Veronika 57 Zalabáková Karolína 31 Koula Karel 23 Žaloudková Klára 83 Krauze Krystyna 80 Ziegler Fiona 8 Kryvenko Anna 49 Ludvíková Hana 62 Marková Taťána 45 Michálek Tomáš 24 Montagner Francesco 7 Němcová Jitka 68 Nvotová Tereza 48 Papírníková Helena 28 Páv Martin 42

110 DIRECTORS Avramoussis Madeleine 30 Kotrlová Jitka 33 Šafer Kryštof 25 Benki Artemio 15 Kráčmer Michal 43 Šantavá Martina 31, 51, Berák Maroš 18, 32 Krauss Maria 53 71, 84 Berčík Pavel 63 Krincvajová Věra 23, 68, 69 Schmid Aline 8 Bojar Tomáš 9 Kubečková Janoušková Pavla Schwarcz Viktor 17, 68 Bonin Cedric 30 7, 20, 70, 77 Search Jess 74 Brikcius František 37 Kubica Petr 17, 73, 76, Sedláčková Dagmar 19 Brožková Jana 53 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, Šejnoha Ondřej 12, 33, Budíková Jiřina 74 87, 88 43, 49, 66, 72, 75, 82, Budisavljević Dana 58 Kučerová Zuzana 42 83, 88 Bundschuh Jörg 52 Kührová Veronika 43 Serpuhov Sergei 49 Buttry Ivana 29 Květová Kristýna 8, 21 Síbrt Radovan 11, 46, 58 Černá Kateřina 30, 48, 86 Lawska Barbara 80 Sichel Julietta 52 Csinidis Jean-Laurent 21 Malatinský Richard 87 Sijerčič Jasmina 24 Culková Andrea 10 Marková Taťána 51 Škopková Jana 29 Detkina Tatyana 6 Michálek Tomáš 24 Štinglová Markéta 52 Diviš Patrick 57 Mistríková Zuzana 48 Štingl Pavel 55 Engel Peter 74 Müllerová Alena 30, 34, Strnad Jiří 87 Feglová Janišová Barbara 84 41, 53, 62, 63, 64, 77, Strnad Pavel 48 Gaile Antra 52 80, 86 Šulík Marek 87 Georgieva-Waldhauer Niubó Jordi 76 Svatoš Jan 29 Tanja 25 Novák Marek 34, 65 Tabery Alice 82 Haaster van Kim 10 Novák Miroslav 22, 83 Tara Tereza 67 Hager Kateřina 64 Ondřejková Kateřina 54, 55 Tomaides Petr 44 Holmvåg Johnny 12 Oplatková Petra 15 Traburová Kateřina 12 Holý Zdeněk 53 Orechovská Ľubica 48 Trčka Jindřich 38 Houzel Rebecca 15 Papírníková Helena 28 Trekteris Guntis 35 Hozzová Viktória 11, 46, 58 Pavleye Jozef 85 Třeštíková Hana 62, 80 Hrubý Tomáš 70 Pinkava Jakub 22 Trojan Ondřej 71 Hubáček Jan 56 Piussi Zuzana 81 Tuček Daniel 69 Hůlovec Martin 23, 57 Plesnar Joanna 53 Tydlitátová Herza Anna 20 Janeček Vít 18, 32, 39, Polachová Tereza 22, 46, Vavrečka Ondřej 81 73, 81 48, 58, 70 Všetečková Helena 14, 28 Jurda Pavel 87 Polák Martin 56 Wagner Jakub 13, 28 Jůza Martin 54 Poláková Jarmila 36, 45 Yerko Galyna 6 Kaboš Michael 16, 47 Poláková Lenka 47 Zalabáková Karolína 31 Kalandrová Pavlína 83 Pra L. Sergio 15 Žaloudková Klára 80, 83 Kerekes Peter 30, 53 Primusová Andrea 50 Zima Ondřej 41 Kilmi Jaak 52 Procházka Radim 35, 76, Zlatušková Kamila 14, 82 Kirchhoff Robert 84 80, 87 Klusák Vít 53, 74, 81, 82, Remunda Filip 53, 74, 81, 84, 85, 88 82, 84, 85, 88 Kohout Martin 14 Riahi T. Arash 15 Komová Soňa 84 Rudinská Libuše 40

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