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Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment system fails, the film will see passengers forced to face the horror of being bored.

A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

The screenplay (Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder inspired a theatre production by Dusan David Parízek. The screenplay and the production in turn inspired the film ODPAD MESTO SMRT (Waste, City, and Death) by Jan Hrebejk. Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete breakdown. One day Romi is addressed by a property speculator referring to himself as a "wealthy Jew" (Martin Finger). He does not demand any sexual services of her. He satisfies himself with Romi telling him stories, for which he lavishly rewards her. However, no one shares the sudden happiness with Romi. Her work-mates and current clients turn their backs on her, as does Franz, with whom Romi is in love. The whole story takes place in the setting of a dilapidated city, during the clean-up of which politicians openly split their profit with speculators and lobbyists, all under protection from the police.

The documentary feature Czech Architecture 58-89 is the first film that comprehensively maps Czech architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Brutally beautiful, though brutally neglected. Besides the grey flood of prefabricated blocks of flats, the second half of the twentieth century also saw the creation of exceptional, spiritual and timeless buildings that attracted attention even in the West. In his unique feature-length documentary based on the original idea of Vladimir 518, Jan Zajícek makes an expedition into the pre-revolutionary Czech architectural scene. With accounts of leading architects and theorists and impressive shots of the most interesting Czech (and to lesser extent Slovak) post-war buildings, he creates a plastic portrait of an era where a brave, modern and inspiring spirit flourished alongside the official and the structured.

When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join.

The secret world of Egyptian mythology and religion, interweaving Egyptian history with that of the museum, which was founded in 1824 and is the oldest in the world devoted to Egyptian culture.

Helena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The tragic story of a girl named Katka who believes that joy and happiness can be applied through a hypodermic needle. All she is left with is despair. We first meet Katka at a rehab clinic in Nemcice, still full of optimism and faith in a drug-free future. The film tries to draw attention to the drug problem from a somewhat different point of view.

The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani social trap," which is racism, the society's prejudices, exclusion from opportunities to obtain legal work, the lack of necessary qualifications, difficult communication with officials, debts and the miserable life conditions connected with the environment, lifestyle and traditional values of their ethnicity. David wants to protect his family, even at the expense of committing a crime. But Zaneta finds inner strength to defy the unfavorable situation in a different way. Will they overcome the existential problems that start to take apart their relationship? Is it worthwhile for them to continue to Honor their own values and family traditions? And will their "way out" be only another "escape" for them, or a promise to change their lives?

Czech, Slovak and Polish adventurers travel through South America on Vintage communist vehicles.

To the Woods is a sequel to Vorel's successful Out of the City (2000). Having abandoned city life long ago, the Marak's live in a quaint cottage on the outskirts of a small rural village. Honza earns a very modest living as a forest laborer, while his wife Marketa works as a masseuse and alternative healer. Anyna, their nymph-like, pubescent daughter, explores the verdant landscape by night, communicating with the stags that still make the endangered woodland their home. It is in these wanderings that Anyna makes the acquaintance of locally born-and-bred forest ranger and hunter, Ludva. Meanwhile her parents are persecuted by local authorities, with her mother being taken into custody for her popular magic mushroom séance. As their financial situation becomes increasingly dire, a solution emerges following an unexpected life change.

The story of a fifteen-year old girl who finds herself referred to a re-education centre as a result of her love affair. She is desperate to love but this is denied her. Despite all the restrictions imposed on her, she is determined to live her life to the full.

Documentary about world-renowned Czech opera mezzo-soprano Sona Cervená.

Always Together is a documentary directed by Eva Tomanova on a Czech family with nine children living on a meadow in the mountains far from civilization.

Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on thing in common: Jirí Brdecka. The Screenwriter, writer and cartoonist Brdecka was known in Czechoslovakia for his cooperation with Jirí Trnka, Jan Werich or Oldrich Lipský, and became a worldwide famous and respected director of animated films. But who was he in reality? Where did he seek inspiration and where did his rich inner world come from? How did he fight the non-free political regime and manage to show the world his free and timeless creation? Director Miroslav Janek gradually penetrates the interior of one of the most prominent personalities of Czech film and presents to the audience a miraculous world of animated paintings, graphics, oils, watercolors, frescoes and mosaics. On Christmas Eve in 2017, Jirí Brdecka would celebrate his 100th birthday.

Silvie Dymáková's raw documentary uncovers the manipulation, humiliation and pressure that exist behind the closed doors of "product demonstration excursions for seniors" in the Czech Republic. The sad heroes of her film show us the non-functional saucepans, unused vacuum cleaners, "wool" blankets and bio-lamps they bought during such excursions for tens or even hundreds of thousands of crowns... and that is the best-case scenario. In exchange for their ID cards, confiscated by sellers, many have signed loan contracts. Despite their shocking experiences, the elderly repeatedly take part in these events in a bid to escape their loneliness or because they can't say no to the offers. Dymáková succeeded in smuggling a hidden camera into product presentations and, with a psychologist and a lawyer, analyzed the high-pressure methods employed. Even while being completed, her documentary sparked a deserved uproar when it became clear that dozens of Czech firms were abusing seniors' inexperience, credulity and certain dependencies.

THE GREATEST WISH The seemingly simple question, "What is your greatest wish?" provokes the respondents to formulate their value system. The heroes of this film are young people born towards the end of the communist regime or shortly after the Velvet Revolution. They have never known political repression, are relatively well-off and are the first generation of adults shaped by a free society. The Greatest Wish loosely follows up the eponymous classics of Czech documentary filmmaking by Jan Spata from 1964 and 1989. In these films Jan Spata mapped the dreams and attitudes of young people at key times of the totalitarian era. On 17 November 1989 the student demonstration on National Avenue, which led to Czechoslovakia gaining its freedom and democracy, was filmed and included in second instalment of The Greatest Wish. At that time his daughter Olga was five years old. Twenty years on, the twenty-five year-old director has picked up where he left off, shooting the feature-length documentary The Greatest Wish as an insight into her own generation. LOVE, FAMILY, SUCCESS, FREEDOM are enduring values shared by all three of the last generations. Even though the social and political situations are different, many of the protagonists appearing in these three films have tried to define and express their idea of happiness. The director chose schools, prisons, institutions, demonstrations, the city and the countryside as vantage points from which to examine this topic; the film's scope takes in birth and death. Social outcasts, ambitious professionals, people in love, civic activists and absolutely ordinary people open their hearts in the film. The Greatest Wish is an essay about people at the start of their life's journey; about their hopelessness and also their will to find meaning in life, the ubiquitous longing for love, and youthful ideals that will not be silenced. It is an inspiration for the protagonists' contemporaries and a message to those no longer young that the up-and-coming generation harbours a surprising and admirable sense of hope.