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Yung Michal
On Instagram, Michal presents himself as an aspiring rapper, who is just a step away from stardom. In reality, he is a fast-food worker in an unknown city. What he doesn't know yet is, that this afternoon, his dreams will come true.
Zatopek
His nickname was “Czech locomotive”. Eighteen world records holder, Emil Zátopek, is famous especially for three gold medals he won at Olympic Games in Helsinki. His success has never been repeated, and world athletics experts doubt it will ever be. Emil Zátopek´s grandiose success comes alive in…
Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk
An attempt to interpret the peculiarity of the modern era. Martin Heidegger introduces the concept “authentic existence,” i.e. the acceptance of responsibility for one’s own existence and concerns about that existence; the possible manner of those concerns are explained by Karel Vachek in his book…
Zelary
Set in a forgotten corner of war-torn Europe, this dramatic story engages the conflict between two different worlds, two human temperaments, in order to explore the relationship between fear and mistrust. Eliška works as a nurse in an urban hospital. She and her lover Richard, a surgeon, are part…
Zenith
When a runaway prisoner’s taste for power wipes out his mission to lead his fellow inmates to freedom, their path to a much-desired liberation steers them to a new kind of oppression. Zenith uses dance language to illustrate the power dynamics that have shaped the political landscape in recent…
Zero
N is the director of a honey bottling factory producing fake honey. One day, he tastes real honey and his entire life changes radically. He leaves his factory, settles down in a valley and starts breeding bees. But his bees get chased away and killed by the harmful effects of a nearby mobile phone…
Zóny nikoho
Year
2025
Duration
78
Genre
Documentary, Animation
A dystopian documentary about the state of solving ecological disasters in Central Europe, in three acts.
Zoo
The film is set in a train compartment. Runaway train doesn´t stop, one can´t just jump out and has to remain a part of it, until it stops. The familiar world remains outside, reflecting in the train´s windows. Meanwhile, inside a new temporarily independent ecosystem develops. It brings together…
Zuzana Michnová: Regarding Fame I Can´t Complain
Feature film about music composer, songwriter and singer Zuzana Michnová, lead vocalist of the currently reunited band Marsyas. At the age of 64, she‘s been touring around the Czech Republic and all the shows are sold out. The movie is a surrealistic cinematic poem with colourful pictures. The film…
Ženy a život
The main character of the film, Eliška, is a typical good girl. Probably too good. At work, she lacks sharp elbows, while in her relationships, she is too credulous – unlike her free-spirited, can-do-all sister Ilona. Together, the two girls throw themselves into building a family business that…