The film Earth to Earth captures one working day of a group of gravel workers at the Kaliák gravel pit and dredgers and cutters at the Paskov mine in North Moravia. The workers are shown in an expressive way in tense moments of work, and in a civilian way in moments of rest and return from work. The movie marked the beginning of Ewald Schorm's collaboration with cinematographe...
Orion, Vladimir 518 and Mike Trafik are Peneri strycka Homeboye (a.k.a. PSH - Uncle Homeboy's Hoboes). Three lads from Prague, legendary rappers on the cusp of middle age, friends. It all started in the crazy nineties - graffiti, the first attempts at rap, parties, fame, booze and drugs. Sky-rocketing popularity (but well-earned), downfalls, crises and comebacks. And all this m...
It starts off with a petition. If there are enough signatures in support of same-sex marriage, the Czech parliament will have to debate making it law. But getting people to sign was the easy part; this film’s remarkable story lies in how the fight continues for this group of dedicated and earnest activists. Barbora Chalupová’s film details every moment of their struggle and kee...
Anny didn’t become a sex worker till she was 46, but since then, she’s kept returning to the streets of Prague, rain or shine, as cars pass by at a snail’s pace. Helena Tetíková’s film crew also kept returning to Anny in the years from 1996 to 2012. This is the modus operandi of the Czech director (star guest at IDFA in 2018): she follows ordinary people for years in what she...
A documentary look back on half a century of collaboration between a popular author's duo ... In 2017, Zdeněk Svěrák and Jaroslav Uhlí celebrated the 50th anniversary of their collaboration, not only symbolically, but also with a pair of spectacular concerts at Prague's O2 Arena, where thousands of spectators came to listen to their songs. Immortal, almost popular songs like S...
How Czechs learned to love television advertising. Their crazy nineties, when commercials became a new phenomenon in Czech society, are remembered by their directors, creators, creatives and clients ... A solitary documentary about films that were short as a slap, but influenced the generation of today's thirties and the whole Czech post-revolutionary society. The documentary f...