Czech Fiction Films 2018-2019

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CZECH FICTION FILMS 2018–2019

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CZECH fiction FILMS 2018–2019 Published by Czech Film Fund.

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January 2019 marks the start of the Czech Film Fund’s seventh year in existence.

I would contend that in the last six years the fund has become a stable state institution and a partner of equal standing to similar institutions abroad.

Through stabilized, compound financing, support for all kinds of genres and formats, independence and transparency in grant adjudication, and not least through the high level of funding provided to minority (and other) co-production films over the last three years, the fund has been able to help Czech producers collaborate on attractive European projects.

For the third year now, the Czech Film Fund has included the Czech Film Center, which cooperates with international festivals, consults programmers about current Czech films, and recommends films for potential inclusion in programs. Hence, the Czech Film Center works with films that the fund has financed from the outset, from the initial screenplay, to development, and through to production.

The Czech Republic may be a small country, but it is a great one. And it is a country of great film talents: Miloš Forman, František Vláčil, Jiří Menzel, Věra Chytilová, Jan Švankmajer, Jan Svěrák, as well as many others. We are the country that made the most beautiful version of Cinderella, we are a country with a cinematic tradition, and with prospects for the future.

Over the last seven years I have tried on a daily basis to keep the fund ready to support the incredible talent we are gifted with. Thanks in particular to the increased financial resources available since 2016, it has been possible to give bigger grants to many uniquely interesting projects that await distribution this year, which I believe will bear out my hopes for wonderful talent our country has to offer.

Helena Bezděk Fraňková director of the Czech Film Fund

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introduction With the beginning of new year, we take a look back at the just finished year 2018, presenting an overview of what’s been dished up, as well as what’s cooking, in Czech cinema.

IN THEATRES Thirty-eight Czech fiction films vied for domestic eyeballs last year.

As in past years, the biggest box-office draws were comedies aimed at Czech audiences, while the films that represented the country at festivals abroad were not big commercial hits. Which films made it at home, which found success abroad, and what exciting projects are underway right now?

The top five rungs on the 2018 box-office chart, far above the competition, were pop and satirical comedies and children’s movies. The most successful Czech film of 2018 was the comedy What Men Long For, directed

by Rudolf Havlík. More than half a million people went to see this movie about a cynical chauvinist who one day wakes up in a woman’s body.

In second place, with 300,000 tickets sold, was the comedy Patrimony, by Jiří Vejdělek, the seasoned director of such popular films as Men in Hope and Women in Temptation.

Third and fourth spots went to “fairytale movies,” a phenomenon typical for the Czech Republic, with its long tradition of feature-length fiction films made for parents and children. Devilry, by controversial director Zdeněk Troška, who is known also for the pulp series Babovřesky, drew 270,000 viewers. The fourth most popular Czech film of 2018 was The Magic Quill, marking another big success for versatile director Marek Najbrt. Using nearly the same team of screenwriters, Najbrt also had a box-office hit with the political satire President Blaník, a featurelength version of the series Kancelář Blaník, which was originally made for the online platform Stream.cz.

International Achievements: Flies and Other Insects And which Czech films were best received in foreign markets and festivals? One of last year’s most successful films was a surrealist freak show, combining animation with feature film, from a master of the genre: Insect, by Jan Švankmajer. After premiering at the IFF Rotterdam, the film, which the director says will be his last, appeared at a number of other foreign festivals to a largely positive response. Another feature film that made a good impression at international festivals was the drama Winter Flies, the story of two boys coming of age, directed

by Czech young talent Olmo Omerzu. The film, which the Czech Republic put forward as its Oscar submission, won the award for Best Director at the Karlovy Vary IFF and screened at the Toronto festival, the BFI London, the Cinekid festival of children’s films, and others. Another talented young director who has seen significant success is Adam Sedlák, whose feature debut Domestique, a psychological thriller about a top cyclist, was selected for the main competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF. And Ondřej Novák and Jiří Havlíček saw their short directing debut, Reconstruction, introduced in the competitive section of the prestigious Locarno Festival, Pardi di domani section. Produced by Dagmar Sedláčková (MasterFilm), Reconstruction is the compelling story of a boy who has committed a terrible crime.

Coproductions: An Easier Way to Reach the World Coproductions, too, continued to thrive last year. The Romanian experimental drama Touch Me Not, which involved Czech producers from PINK, took the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, where the Slovak-Czech film The Interpreter, by director Martin Šulík, also screened. Jiří Menzel, the legendary director of the Czechoslovak New Wave, who won the Berlinale Kamera Award in Berlin, played one of the main roles.

Thanks to coproduction efforts, a Czech film also appeared in Cannes last year: Fugue, a drama by Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, coproduced by Czech producer Karla Stojáková (Axman Production), was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, while Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won a crystal globe at the Karlovy Vary IFF and was screened at many other international festivals.

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Czech Participation in Coproduction Markets Numerous Czech projects were presented at coproduction markets to favorable response. Two Czech projects have been selected for the coproduction forum When East Meets West, in Trieste: Caravan, by Zuzana Špidlová (produced by nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková), and Plague, by Jan Těšitel (produced by Sirena Film – Petra Oplatková, Artemio Benki).

Three Czech projects were presented to festival curators, film producers, sales agents, and distributors at the international industry event Meeting Point – Vilnius: By a Sharp Knife (Slovakia/Czech Republic), a political drama directed by Teodor Kuhn and produced by Jakub Viktorín together with Czech production nutprodukce; Domestique, the promising debut by director Adam Sedlák, working with producer Jakub Jíra (Shore Points); and Japan, by director and producer Pavel Ruzyak.

Also presented at the Venice Gap Financing Market were The Prague Orgy, by director Irena Pavlásková, based on the novel by Phillip Roth. The Prague Orgy depicts a 1976 journey to the capital of Communist Czechoslovakia by Roth’s alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. Apart from offering help to banned writers, Zuckerman is looking to rescue a Yiddish author’s unique collection of short stories and smuggle it out of the country.

Czech children’s narrative project Martin and the Forest Secret (director Petr Oukropec, produced by Peter Badač, BFILM.cz) was selected for the Warsaw Kids Film Forum and was also recognized at the Riga IFF Forum where the film got the postproduction award.

The Ugly Mandarine (directed by Piaoyu Xie, produced by Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer) presented in Cottbus, as did director Michal Blaško’s project Victim.

At the works in progress at Agora market in Thessaloniki, the project Cook, F**k, Kill by director Mira Fornay was presented, as was Oroslan by Matjaž Ivanišin.

Czech film project The Pack was selected for the Asian Project Market at the Busan International Film Festival.

Director Tomáš Polenský’s debut, produced by Julietta Sichel (8Heads Production) in coproduction with Ego Media from Latvia, was the first Czech project to be picked for this coproduction platform.

And last but not least, The Nightsiren by Tereza Nvotová, produced by Miloš Lochman (and Peter Badač from Slovakia), won the Eurimages award at the MIA coproduction forum in Rome.

In the Works: Narrative Projects Last year saw a number of promising projects in the development and production stages that received support from the Czech Film Fund. These were the three that received the most funding: Havel, a biographical work about a major figure in modern Czech history, to be filmed by director Slávek Horák (a Tvorba Films production), received support of € 557,692. Another biographical film, Zatopek, about the celebrated Czech runner, is being prepared by David Ondříček, with Lucky Man Films, and was awarded funding of € 576,923. The historical project Shadows Country sees veteran director Bohdan Sláma and producer Martin Růžička (Luminar Film) return to events on the Czech border after the end of World War II, and was funded with the amount of € 423,077.

Projects in the Making Noteworthy Czech films of all types have premieres approaching. Upcoming fiction films include the longawaited The Painted Bird from director and producer Václav Marhoul, based on Jerzy Kosinski’s controversial book of the same name about a Jewish boy enduring the horrors of war. Director Mira Fornay then offers an intimate family drama with the film Cook, F**k, Kill. Agnieszka Holland launched shooting of her new project Charlatan, made in Czech-Irish-Slovak coproduction. Petr Zelenka is working on his new film The Pilot, while Zdeněk Jiráský preps shooting of Kryštof.

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International Funding: Eurimages Seven feature films with Czech participation received grants from the Eurimages Fund in 2018.

The Disciple, by Ivan Ostrochovský (Slovakia/Ireland/Czech Republic/Romania, € 190,000); Pardon, by Jan Jakub Kolski (Poland/Czech Republic/Slovakia, € 270,000); National Street, by Štěpán Altrichter (Czech Republic/Germany, € 94,845); Old-Timers, directed by Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provaznik (Czech Republic/ Slovakia, € 190,000); The Deer, directed by Bogdan George Apetri (Romania/Czech Republic, € 130 000); In the Dusk, by Šarūnas Bartas (Lithuania/France/Czech Republic/Serbia/Portugal/Latvia, € 250 000); Power directed

by Mátyás Prikler (Slovakia/Hungary/Czech Republic, € 150 000).

Czech Film Awards – Czech Lions and Czech Film Critics’ Awards The 8th edition of the Czech Film Critics’ Awards 2017 conferred prizes to: Filthy, directed by Tereza Nvotová: Best Film, Innogy Discovery Award Little Crusader, directed by Václav Kadrnka: Best Director Ice Mother, directed by Bohdan Sláma: Best Script, Best Actress (Zuzana Kronerová) Masaryk, directed by Julius Ševčík: Best Actor (Karel Roden) 8 Heads of Madness, by Marta Nováková: Audiovisual Achievement At the 25th Czech Lion Awards, Ice Mother, directed by Bohdan Sláma and produced by Petr Oukropec and Pavel Strnad (Negativ), took home honors in six categories: Best Film (Oukropec and Strnad/Negativ), Best Director (Sláma), Best Screenplay (Sláma), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Zuzana Krónerová), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Pavel Nový), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Petra Špalková).

Barefoot, by Jan Svěrák, won four awards, including Best Cinematography (Vladimír Smutný) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Oldřich Kaiser). Filthy, by Tereza Nvotová, was honored for Best Editing, and Milada by David Mrnka won Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

The Magnesia Award for Best Student Film went to Michal Blaško for Atlantis, 2003.

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CONTENTS 2018 Released Films Alice in the World of Miracles Alenka v zemi zázraků

Backstage Backstage Bear With Us Chata na prodej Bille Bille Boys from the Mountains Kluci z hor Cellar Sklep Desperate Ladies Act Desperately Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci Devilry Čertoviny Doctor Martin: Doktor Martin: The Mystery of Beskydy Mountains Záhada v Beskydech Domestique Domestik Dukat Rock Dukátová skála Fugue Útěk Golden Sting Zlatý podraz “I Do Not Care If We Go Down „Je mi jedno, že se zapíšeme In History As Barbarians” do dějin jako barbaři“ Insect Hmyz Intimate Enemy Důvěrný nepřítel Into the Wind Do větru Jan Palach Jan Palach Jo Pepa Miss Hanoi Miss Hanoi Moments Chvilky Neptune Neptun Pardon Milost Patrimony Tátova Volha President Blaník Prezident Blaník Punk Never Ends!

Punk je hned Reconstruction Rekonstrukce Short Cut Na krátko Smiles of Sad Men Úsměvy smutných mužů Supervising the Meaning of Dreams Odborný dohled nad výkladem snu Talks with T. G. Masaryk Hovory s TGM Teambuilding Teambuilding The Hastrman Hastrman The Interpreter Tlumočník The Magic Quill Čertí brko The Night of the Agama Noc s Agamou The One Who Loved You Ten, kdo tě miloval The Secret Of The Two-headed Dragon Když draka bolí hlava Ticket to Torture Jak se moří revizoři Toman Toman Touch Me Not Touch Me Not Trash on Mars Mars Two Brides and One Wedding Dvě nevěsty a jedna svatba Unfaithfully Yours Věčně tvá nevěrná Via Carpatia Via Carpatia

What Men Long For Po čem muži touží Winter Flies Všechno bude

Jana Kristina Studničková, Otakáro Maria Schmidt Andrea Sedláčková Tomáš Pavlíček Inara Kolmane Tomáš Magnusek Igor Voloshin Filip Renč Zdeněk Troška Petr Zahrádka

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Adam Sedlák Ján Novák Agnieszka Smoczyńska Radim Špaček Radu Jude

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Jan Švankmajer Karel Janák Sofie Šustková Robert Sedláček Ján Novák Zdeněk Viktora Beata Parkanová Adéla Babanová Jan Jakub Kolski Jiří Vejdělek Marek Najbrt Juraj Šlauka Ondřej Novák, Jiří Havlíček Jakub Šmíd Dan Svátek Pavel Göbl Jakub Červenka Ján Novák Ondřej Havelka Martin Šulík Marek Najbrt Tomáš Janáček Jan Pachl Dušan Rapoš Eva Toulová Ondřej Trojan Adina Pintilie Benjamin Tuček Tomáš Svoboda Milan Cieslar Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon Rudolf Havlík Olmo Omerzu

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Postproduction A Certain Kind of Silence Tiché doteky a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i- JONESTOWN á-B-C-D-é-F-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN Amundsen Amundsen By a Sharp Knife Ostrým nožem City on the River Město na řece Cook, F**k, Kill Žáby bez jazyka Divine Sparks Božské jiskry First Action Hero První akční hrdina Freedom in the Air Narušitel Frontier Hranice Heads and Tails Panna nebo orel Humorist Humorista Inversion Inverze Let There Be Light Budiž světlo LOVEní LOVení Mitsu Mitsu My Grandpa Is an Alien Můj děda spadnul z Marsu

Old-Timers Staříci On the Roof Na střeše Oroslan Oroslan Parking Parking Snowing!

Sněží!

Terrorist Teroristka The Disciple Posel The Figurant Figurant The Glass Room Skleněný pokoj The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče The Play Hra The Prague Orgy Pražské orgie The Prize for Happiness Cena za štěstí Watchmaker‘s Apprentice Hodinářův učeň Women in Run Ženy v běhu

Michal Hogenauer Jan Bušta Espen Sandberg Teodor Kuhn Viesturs Kairišs Mira Fornay Vít Poláček Jan Haluza David Balda Damián Vondrášek Nicolae Constantin Tănase Michael Idov Lucia Kajánková Marko Škop Karel Janák Mark Ther Dražen Žarković, Marina Andree Škop Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník Jiří Mádl Matjaž Ivanišin Tudor Giurgiu Kristina Nedvědová Radek Bajgar Ivan Ostrochovský Jan Vejnar Julius Ševčík Václav Marhoul Alejandro Fernández Almendras Irena Pavlásková Olga Dabrowská Jitka Rudolfová Martin Horský

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production Break on Through Call Me Shorty Charlatan In the Dusk Kryštof Medieval National Street Piargy Power Shadows Country Taurofilia The Owners The Pilot The Silent Companion The Year Before the War Yangon Midnight Zatopek

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Prokopat se ven Já, Malkáč Šarlatán Za soumraku Kryštof Jan Žižka Národní třída Fašiangy Moc Krajina ve stínu Taurofilie Vlastníci Modelář Tichý společník Rok před válkou Půlnoc v Rangúnu Zátopek

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Marty Pohl Milan Šteindler Agnieszka Holland Šarūnas Bartas Zdeněk Jiráský Petr Jákl Štěpán Altrichter Ivo Trajkov Mátyás Prikler Bohdan Sláma Francesco Montagner Jiří Havelka Petr Zelenka Pavel Göbl Dāvis Sīmanis Aung Min David Ondříček

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development A Scream as a Beautiful Song A Summer Fair Arved Black Mill Bloody Bride Bloody Easter Body Bourák Brothers Caravan Confidentiality Don‘t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Entangled in War Erhart Fichtelberg Ghost School Grand Prix Gregorius, the Chosen One Havel Hornet in a Bottle Il Boemo Images of Love In the Pines Lost in Paradise Martian Ships Martin and the Forrest Secret Mistakes Money from Hitler Mountains in the Mist Nobody Likes Me Ordinary Failures Otel Prague Princess Goldenhair Restore Point Saving One Who Was Dead Silent Mail Sisters Snake Gas Summer School The Camp The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch The Last Race The Man Who Stood In the Way The Nightsiren The Pack The Plague The Rune of Life and Death The Ugly Mandarine The Word Thistle Three Women Town of No God Victim Wirbel Year of a Widow

Křik jako nádherná píseň Pouť v Modré Arvéd Černý mlýn Krvavá nevěsta Krvavá pomlázka Tělo Bourák Bratři Karavan Mlčenlivost Nehleď dlouze do propasti Účastníci války Erhart Fichtelberg Škola duchů Grand Prix Vyvolený Havel Sršeň v láhvi Il Boemo Obrazy lásky Lesní vrah Ztraceni v ráji Marťanské lodě Mazel a tajemství lesa Chyby Peníze od Hitlera Vrcholky hor Nikdo mě nemá rád Běžná selhání Otel Prague Zlatovláska Bod obnovy Zpráva o záchraně mrtvého Tichá pošta Sestry Dietlovy Hadí plyn Letní škola Tábor Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch Poslední závod Muž, který stál v cestě Světlonoc Smečka Mor Runa života a smrti Ošklivá Mandarínka Slovo Chmýří Tři ženy Město bez Boha Oběť Wirbel Rok vdovy

Viktor Tauš Erlend Hella Matre Vojtěch Mašek Mariusz Palej Andy Fehu Jan Bušta Natálie Císařovská Ondřej Trojan Tomáš Mašín Zuzana Špidlová Martin Ryšavý Mohammadreza Farzad Jan Vejnar Jan Březina Šimon Koudela Jan Bártek Jan Prušinovský Tomasz Mielnik Slávek Horák Vít Zapletal Petr Václav Tomasz Wiński Radim Špaček Fiona Ziegler Jan Foukal Petr Oukropec Jan Prušinovský Tomáš Mašín Agnieszka Smoczyńska Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb Cristina Groșan Zdeněk Viktora Václav Vorlíček Robert Hloz Václav Kadrnka Ján Sebechlebský Vojtěch Mašek, Michal Nohejl David Jařab Dužan Duong Marek Novák Alice Nellis Tomáš Hodan Ivan Fíla Tereza Nvotová Tomáš Polenský Jan Těšitel Milan Cieslar Piaoyu Xie Beata Parkanová Viktor Tauš Matěj Chlupáček Ivo Trajkov Michal Blaško Tomáš Hubáček Veronika Lišková

Contacts Facts and Figures Index of Directors Index of English Titles

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Alice in the World of Miracles Alenka v zemi zázraků

Czech Republic 2018 | 110 min | Czech directorS Jana Kristina Studničková, Otakáro Maria Schmidt Otakáro Maria Schmidt, Jan Mrzena JesuPrague Film CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jana Kristina Studničková, Otakáro Maria Schmidt DOP Jiří Strnad, Marek Jícha EDITOR Jana Kristina Studničková SOUND Ladislav Greiner MUSIC Vojtěch Komárek, Zdeněk Pololáník SET DESIGNERS Jana Kristina Studničková, Otakáro Maria Schmidt CAST Viktorie Stříbrná, Veronika Žilková, Boleslav Polívka, Jiří Dvořák

An unconventional paraphrase of the renowned novel, Alice in Wonderland, based on the book of Jana K. Studničková. A poetic story of little Alenka travelling through the magical land of her childhood, where the dreams and reality blend and legendary characters such as Little Prince, John of Nepomuk or Infant Jesus of Prague come back to life. The break point comes when Alenka‘s imaginary friend leaves and her childhood ends. However, thanks to a magical globe, she manages to find the centre of the labyrinth of her soul and gradually becomes an adult.

contact JesuPrague Film – Jan Mrzena jan.mrzena@jpfilm.cz +420 604 631 788

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Backstage minority co-production

Slovakia, Czech Republic 2018 | 90 min | Czech, Slovak director Andrea Sedláčková Silvia Panáková Arina CO-PRODUCTION Bontonfilm, Investito, Radio and Television Slovakia, love.FRAME PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Andrea

Sedláčková, Naďa Clontz DOP Tomáš Juríček, Tomáš Stanek EDITOR Adam Dvořák SOUND Juraj Baláž, Lukáš Moudrý MUSIC Jan P. Muchow, Viktor Hazard CAST Judit Bárdos, Roman Luknár, Ivana Chýlková, Kryštof Hádek

A story of a dance group that sneaks into a small town and dreams of a big world. When the door to the shiny world of show business really opens, the relationships and characters in the group become subject to a very hard test. Backstage is a film about dance, music, passion, and above all, it‘s a film about young people, their relationships, their lives, their dreams and the power of friendship. Backstage is a dance film where choreography and rhythm have the same meaning as a strong and pure story.

contact Bontonfilm – Ondřej Kulhánek ondrej.kulhanek@bontonfilm.cz +420 605 264 091

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Bear with Us Chata na prodej 2nd FILM

Czech Republic 2018 | 77 min | Czech director Tomáš Pavlíček Tomáš Michálek, Jakub Mahler MasterFilm CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Lucie

Bokšteflová, Tomáš Pavlíček DOP Jan Baset Střítežský EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Marek Poledna MUSIC Aleš Březina SET DESIGNER Zuzana Formánková CAST Ivana Chýlková, David Vávra, Tereza Voříšková, Jan Kačer

Misty autumn. A man and his wife are about to sell their family cottage. The wife is not sure about the sale and thinks the family should at least spend one last night in the house. Her husband doesn‘t like that idea. While Grandma hates the cottage, Grandpa isn’t really aware of reality anymore. Daughter lives in Germany with her boyfriend and Son was recently left by his girlfriend. But Mother insists, so in the morning of the All Souls Day, they all depart for the cottage.

The tensions within the family grow. When they wake up in the morning they find out Grandpa has disappeared. It is not clear whether there will be any sale taking place at all.

contact MasterFilm – Tomáš Michálek tomas@masterfilm.cz +420 602 630 466

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Bille 2nd FILM

minority co-production

Latvia, Czech Republic, Lithuania 2018 | 90 min | Latvian director Inara Kolmane PRODUCERS Marta Romanova–Jēkabsone, Jānis Juhņevičs PRODUCTION COMPANY Film Studio Devini CO-PRODUCTION MasterFilm, Magiclab, Studija 2 SCRIPT Arvis

Kolmanis, Evita Sniedze DOP Jurģis Kmins EDITORS Michal Lánský, Anna Johnson Ryndová SOUND Artūras Pugačiauskas MUSIC Pēteris Vasks SET DESIGNER Ieva Romanova CAST Rūta Kronberga, Elīna Vāne, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Guna Zariņa

The six-year-old Bille lives in a world where the rich and poor walk separate streets, and the most precious toy for kids is a stitched up rag doll. Bille has learned to put up with poverty but not with the constant lack of her mother’s love. Relatives take care of the girl but keep pointing out how oafish of a child she is and that nothing sensible could come out of her... It hurts Bille deeply and she holds a dream – to prove herself worthy and set herself free from the chains of inferiority.

contact MasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková dagmar@masterfilm.cz +420 733 579 107

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BOYS FROM THE MOUNTAINS Kluci z hor

Czech Republic 2018 | 91 min | Czech director Tomáš Magnusek PRODUCER

Tomáš Magnusek MagnusFilm

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan Jurek DOP Tomáš Drdácký EDITOR Matěj Brothánek SOUND Tomáš Oramus MUSIC Lukáš Černý, Veronika Zaňková Černá CAST Martin Dejdar, Jiří Lábus, Martin Huba, Ljuba Krbová

The story of mentally handicapped uncle and his nephew, who, by coincidence, end up living together in the mountains far from the big cities only to become the best friends for life. However, the strength of their relationship is tested by various people, who want to separate them for their own benefit. The film aims to portray the contrast between the two innocent men, who live their simple lives, and the ones who lost their innocence ages ago and are willing to sacrifice anything to get what they want.

contact MagnusFilm – Tomáš Magnusek magnusek@magnusfilm.cz +420 774 525 604

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Cellar Sklep

minority co-production

Slovakia, Russia, Czech Republic 2018 | 110 min | Slovak, Russian, English director Igor Voloshin Lívia Filusová Furia Film CO-PRODUCTION Gate Film, 8Heads Productions, Itafilm, Radio and Television Slovakia, Sleepwalker, UPP SUPPORT Eurimages PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

The marriage of Táňa and Milan is going through a crisis. Discontent and vigorous Táňa considers her husband, who avoids resolving any problems, a coward. Their 16-year-old daughter Lenka takes their alienation very hard. But one night during the summer holidays, their lives change. Milan leaves to play a concert with his band in a district town while Lenka is celebrating her birthday with her friends in a nearby village. However, Lenka doesn’t return home...

DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Alexey Slepoff SOUND Jan Paul, Ludvík Bohadlo, Vítězslav Jíra MUSIC Michal Rataj SET DESIGNER Miroslav Král CAST Jean-Marc Barr, Olga Simonova, Milan Ondrík, Dalibor Štofan

INTERNATIONAL SALES Starline Entertainment – Julie Delaney jd@starlineentertainment.co.uk

contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel julietta@8heads.com +420 602 292 971

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Desperate Ladies Act Desperately Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci

Czech Republic 2018 | 83 min | Czech director Filip Renč PRODUCERS

Igor Konyukov, Pavel Pásek Mojo Film

PRODUCTION COMPANY SCRIPT Halina

Pawlovská DOP Petr Hojda EDITOR Petr Svoboda SOUND Ivo Heger MUSIC Martin Krajíček, René Rypar SET DESIGNER Lucie Fejková CAST Klára Issová, Václav Vašák, Aneta Krejčíková, Lenka Vlasáková

Olga‘s life begins to suck already in the maternity ward, where she is born during New Year‘s Eve – but like one of the million, head first. As a rarity, she is admired not only by the head of the department but also her little son Míša. The encounter of the naked newborn and the prepubescent future obstetrician will, however leave a deep imprint on the unconscious mind of both children, who will be meeting in future in regular cycles and equally precarious situations.

contact Mojo Film – Igor Konyukov igor@mojofilm.cz +420 605 290 303

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Devilry Čertoviny

Czech Republic 2018 | 101 min | Czech director Zdeněk Troška PRODUCERS

Dana Voláková, Michaela Flenerová Fénix Film

PRODUCTION COMPANY SCRIPT Marek

Kališ, Zdeněk Troška DOP David Ployhar Dalibor Lipský SOUND Martin Ženíšek MUSIC Miloš Krkoška SET DESIGNER Jan Hoffmann CAST Jakub Prachař, Dominick Benedikt, Karel Dobrý, Sára Sandeva

EDITOR

One day devils in hell decide to clean their home.

Being extremely clumsy, they all move in a big swarm, standing in each other’s way, tripping over each other. Simply a madhouse. Two young devils use the situation to their benefit, purposely hampering the cleaning work even more. And then it happens: One devil stumbles and falls on the top of the other, turning over a jar with a sinner’s soul. The soul uses the opportunity and escapes through the accidentally open hell’s gate. Lucifer rages and decides to punish the young devils by sending them to the human world with the task to bring one sinner’s soul each back to hell. Only then they’d be forgiven.

contact Fénix Film – Dana Voláková dana@volakova.cz +420 602 369 033

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DOCTOR MARTIN: THE MYSTERY OF BESKYDY MOUNTAINS Doktor Martin: Záhada v Beskydech

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 97 min | Czech director Petr Zahrádka Vratislav Šlajer Bionaut CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Raketa, Radio and Television Slovakia PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Tomáš

Končinský DOP Miloslav Holman EDITOR Marek Opatrný MUSIC Andy Čermák SET DESIGNER Jan Vlček CAST Miroslav Donutil, Jitka Čvančarová, Robert Mikluš, Jiří Bartoška

The stories of the popular TV series Doctor Martin culminate in the feature film. Doctor Martin is to solve certain mysteries of personal life so far unknown for him, as well as a detective case. In a single day, he has to take care of his little child, settle his traditional misunderstandings with his partner Lída, and at the same time clarify a mystery from the deep past.

The ancient Beskydy mystery is almost forgotten but the discovery of a strange small skeleton brings it back again. This itself stirs up emotions in the small mountain town. But even more commotion is triggered when the policeman Topinka and Doctor Martin set to investigate the case.

contact Bionaut – Vratislav Šlajer vratislav@bionaut.cz +420 777 210 165

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Domestique Domestik 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 117 min | Czech director Adam Sedlák PRODUCER

Jakub Jíra

Shore Points Czech Television, sentimentalfilm, UPP, Soundsquare, Elekta Film

PRODUCTION COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

SCRIPT Adam

Sedlák DOP Dušan Husár EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Jakub Jurásek, Jan Šulcek MUSIC Vložte Kočku SET DESIGNER Ondřej Lipenský CAST Tereza Hofová, Jiří Konvalinka, Miroslav Hanuš, Tomáš Bambušek

international sales & Festivals Stray Dogs – Lison Hervé lison@stray-dogs.com +33 7 71 88 39 64

Roman is a top level cyclist recovering from an injury through hard work and strict regimen. To improve his performance, he even sleeps in an oxygen tent installed in his bedroom. That is a bitter pill to swallow for his wife, Šarlota, whose long-time wish is to conceive a child. And so they both brim with determination, get lost in their obsessions and improve their bodies to a point where they might even frighten each other. With each night they spend in the oxygen tent, their relationship changes. Will they be able to catch a breath again in this claustrophobic environment?

contact Shore Points – Jakub Jíra jakub@shorepoints.cz +420 602 846 925

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Dukat Rock Dukátová skála

Czech Republic 2018 | 110 min | Czech director Ján Novák PRODUCER

Ján Novák

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Look of the Film

SCRIPT Daniela

Choděrová, Ján Novák DOP Miroslav Souček EDITOR Michal Novák SOUND Martin Dušek CAST Martin Dejdar, Daniela Choděrová, Kristýna Kociánová, Filip Blažek

The story about a boy on a wheelchair, whose treatment is very costly, so he starts looking for the treasure hidden in the castle of Lukov. He asks his friends for help. Together, they discover an ancient parchment, which helps them finding a way to the treasure and opening the entrance inside the rock.

Their parents are looking for them in vain, as is the police. The tension among the parents is growing, but in the end they join forces and free the children.

contact Look of the Film – Soňa Mrázová mrazova@lotf.cz +420 608 725 534

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Fugue Útěk

2nd FILM

minority co-production

Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden 2018 | 103 min | Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska Agnieszka Kurzydło MD4 CO-PRODUCTION Axman Production, CommonGround SUPPORT Eurimages PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Gabriela

Muskała DOP Jakub Kijowski EDITOR Jarosław Kamiński SOUND Maria Chilarecka MUSIC Filip Míšek SET DESIGNER Jagna Dobesz CAST Gabriela Muskała, Łukasz Simlat, Małgorzata Buczkowska, Zbigniew Waleryś

international sales & Festivals Alpha Violet – Virginie Devesa virginie@alphaviolet.com +33 6 20 41 11 37 ­

Alicja, who suffers from memory loss, rebuilds her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her family and unwillingly resumes her role as wife, mother and daughter. Her estranged husband and son don’t recognize this woman who looks familiar, but behaves like a stranger. Feelings of alienation, love and revelations rekindle her interior flame. Fugue evokes the social taboos around motherhood and the pressure on women to accept maternity without hesitation or reflection, as though the biological capacity of giving birth means that every woman should be willing to be a mother.

contact Axman Production – Karla Stojáková karla@axmanproduction.com +420 603 553 915

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Golden Sting Zlatý podraz

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 106 min | Czech, French director Radim Špaček Jaroslav Bouček BUC-FILM CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Tipsport, Barrandov Studio, Punkchart films PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jakub Bažant, Jiří Závozda, Kristina Nedvědová DOP Vladimír Smutný EDITOR Anna Johnson Ryndová SOUND Marek Hart, Viktor Prášil MUSIC Jakub Kudláč SET DESIGNER Jiří Sternwald CAST Filip Březina, Patricia Volny, Zdeněk Piškula, Ondřej Malý

In 1938, young Czechoslovaks learn to play basketball from American Mormons at YMCA camp.

When the war starts, their coach is arrested and executed and the team is taken over by young lawyer Franta. After the liberation, Franta visits the prison where their coach died, picks up a handful of soil, puts it in a box and fasten it with tricolour stripe. The team carries this talisman to European Championship in Geneva and miraculously, they become the winners. However, everything changes again with the communist coup. The basketball players are persecuted, Franta is arrested. The weak team is still going to the championship in Paris. But will they succeed?

contact BUC-FILM – Jaroslav Bouček bucfilm@bucfilm.cz +420 777 223 539

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“I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians”

„Je mi jedno, že se zapíšeme DO DĚJIN jako barbaři” minority co-production

Romania, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria, Germany 2018 | 139 min | Romanian director Radu Jude

SCRIPT Radu

military reenactment – Hannah Arendt – show – 1941, “the year that keeps returning”, as seen from 2018 – quotations – firearms – archive footage – the Odessa massacre – 16 mm and video – the Military Museum – negationism – videomapping – burlesque – dialogues – fanfare – Isaac Babel – fragmented narrative – Wenn die Soldaten durch die Stadt marschieren – trivialization by comparison – script by Marshal Antonescu – fire – directed by Radu Jude – featuring Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan – barracks jokes – ordinary people - nunca más! – the present past, the past present.

international sales & Festivals Beta Cinema – Cosima Finkbeiner cosima.finkbeiner@betacinema.com +49 89 673496 823

contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný jiri@endorfilm.cz +420 602 358 373

Ada Solomon Hi Film Productions CO-PRODUCTION endorfilm, Les Films d‘Ici, KLAS FILM, Komplizen Film, TVR, ZDF/ARTE SUPPORT Eurimages PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Jude DOP Marius Panduru EDITOR Cătălin Cristu˛tiu SOUND Jean Umansky, Camille Barrat, Marco Peron SET DESIGNER Iuliana Vîlsan CAST Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan, Ilinca Manolache

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Insect Hmyz

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 98 min | Czech director Jan Švankmajer Jaromír Kallista Athanor CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Švankmajer DOP Adam Oľha, Jan Růžička Jan Daňhel SOUND Ivo Špalj SET DESIGNERS Jan Švankmajer, Václav Švankmajer CAST Jaromír Dulava, Jiří Lábus, Norbert Lichý, Kamila Magálová EDITOR

Local pub in a small town. It’s Monday and the bar is closed, chairs are turned up on the tables. The pub is empty except for six amateur actors sitting in a corner. They‘ve met to rehearse The Insect Play by the Čapek brothers. On a raised platform across the room we see a stage, set for Act II of the play.

As the rehearsal progresses, the characters of the play are born and die with no regard to time. The actors slowly become one with them, some of them experiencing frightening transformations. Bugs behave as human beings and people behave as insects. The screenplay extends this misanthropy further while also reflecting Franz Kafka and his famous Metamorphosis.

contact Athanor – Pavla Kallistová athanor@nextra.cz +420 603 499 828

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Intimate Enemy Důvěrný nepřítel

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 108 min | Czech, Slovak director Karel Janák PRODUCERS Ester Honysová, Ľubomír Slivka, Katarína Vanžurová PRODUCTION COMPANIES Bohemia Motion Pictures, Attack Film CO-PRODUCTION Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television

Andrej, a programmer, is developing a project of an intelligent home. To make his program perfect he moves with his wife Zuzana to a test house. He is striving to implement a bonus into the software, which is the care of his wife. Suddenly someone else, someone mysterious, takes control over the software.

Idyll of perfect life is changing into a nightmare and struggle for survival.

SCRIPT Karel

Janák, Ľubomír Slivka, Marek Epstein Martin Šácha EDITOR Alois Fišárek SOUND Roman Čapek MUSIC Ondřej Gregor Brzobohatý CAST Vojtěch Dyk, Gabriela Marcinková, Zuzana Porubjaková, Ondřej Malý

DOP

contact Bohemia Motion Pictures – Ester Honysová honysova@bohemiamp.cz +420 723 027 680

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Into the Wind Do větru 1st FILM

Czech Republic 2018 | 78 min | Czech, English director Sofie Šustková Lucie Gorovoj, Michal Nýdrle CARTEL productions CO-PRODUCTION i/o post, Studio BEEP PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Sofie

Šustková DOP Jan Pivoňka EDITOR Michal Reich SOUND Lukáš Moudrý MUSIC Mikuláš Růžička CAST Vladimír Polívka, Jenovéfa Boková, Matyáš Řezníček

A story of three young people on a summer cruise around the Greek Islands. Unrestrained siblings Matyáš and Natálie are the yacht’s crew. The boat owner’s son, documentary filmmaker Honza, joins them in the harbour. The growing fondness between Natálie and Honza interferes with the perfect coexistence of the siblings and suddenly a new reality surfaces to show their seemingly carefree voyage in a different light. An unusual love triangle taking place in an appealing yacht environment portrays, through the main heroes, the desires and concerns of today‘s young generation.

contact CARTEL productions – Elena Chvojková elena.chvojkova@thecartel.cz +420 775 603 536

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Jan Palach

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 124 min | Czech director Robert Sedláček Viktor Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague CO-PRODUCTION Arina, Radio and Television Slovakia, Up&Up production, Czech Television PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Eva

Kantůrková DOP Jan Šuster EDITOR Josef Krajbich SOUND Robert Slezák MUSIC Michal Rataj SET DESIGNER Martin Kurel CAST Viktor Zavadil, Zuzana Bydžovská, Denisa Barešová, Kristína Kanátová

Festivals Česká televize – Jitka Procházková jitka.prochazkova@ceskatelevize.cz +420 736 531 568

Jan Palach. The student, who burned himself in 1969 to protest against the Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia. An uncompromising young man who brought the ultimate sacrifice in a hope to rouse the nation from lethargy. His name is known to everyone in the Czech Republic. The film shows the last months of Palach’s life, his path from an affectionate son, a devoted friend, a sensitive and thoughtful philosophy student to the “Torch number 1”. Two other deaths by self-immolation followed in the occupied Czechoslovakia but the communist regime helped by Soviet tanks regained full control over its citizens for 20 more years.

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

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Jo Pepa

Czech Republic 2018 | 93 min | Czech director Ján Novák PRODUCERS

David Blümel, Jiří Tuček DonArt production

PRODUCTION COMPANY SCRIPT Ján

Novák, Jaroslav Sauer DOP Antonín Chundela EDITOR Michal Novák SOUND Pavel Dvořák MUSIC Václav Noid Bárta SET DESIGNER Adam Pitra CAST Michal Suchánek, Petra Špalková, Filip Blažek, Jakub Kohák

Jo, a fifty-year-old clerk, lives in an ordinary district town. At home, he is quite henpecked, not having much respect either from his wife, or his daughter.

Jo knows that something must change, and he even knows what it should be. But! The journey to the aim can be thorny. We follow a chain of tragicomic and more or less vain attempts of Jo, an outsider hero, to start living a real life. Will he succeed in finding the answer to the questions like: „Why are we here?

When does the real life start? When we are born, after school graduation, after first sex, the wedding or the birth of children? Or is it only after we are dead?“

contact DonArt production – David Blümel davidblumel@donart.cz +420 608 760 091

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Miss Hanoi 2nd FILM

Czech Republic 2018 | 90 min | Czech, Vietnamese director Zdeněk Viktora Zdeněk Viktora SCREENPLAY BY CO-PRODUCTION B3F Development PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Adéla Kabelková, Marek Grajciar, Zdeněk Viktora DOP Aleš Hart EDITOR Emil Pawinger, Jakub Voves SOUND Lukáš Moudrý MUSIC Jiří Hájek SET DESIGNER Anna Pospíšilová, Louis Traore CAST David Novotný, Ha Thanh Špetlíková, Chip Nguyen, Miroslav Hruška

International Sales KAFILMS – Javier Krause jkrause@kafilms.tv +41 78 696 89 09

In a small border town with a strong Vietnamese community, Vietnamese girl Hien was murdered by her classmates four years ago. Because the killers were minors, they were placed in a juvenile detention from where they were released after reaching the age of 18. Now, after their release, one of them is found dead. The other is on the run. At this moment, an experienced criminal investigator captain Kříž appears on the scene. A very stereotypical Czech man, he isn’t eager to co-operate with a local Vietnamese policewoman Anh, who is also experiencing pressure from the locals.

contact SCREENPLAY BY – Zdeněk Viktora zdenek@screenplayby.cz +420 604 915 363

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Moments Chvilky 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 95 min | Czech director Beata Parkanová PRODUCER

Viktor Tauš

HEAVEN‘S GATE Films, Czech Television, KFS Production, Radio and Television Slovakia SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA PRODUCTION COMPANY

CO-PRODUCTION Fog‘n‘Desire

SCRIPT Beata

Parkanová DOP Martin Douba EDITOR Alois Fišárek SOUND Klára Javoříková SET DESIGNER Adam Pitra CAST Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Finger, Lenka Vlasáková, Alena Mihulová

The contemporary family drama, structured around the character of young warm-hearted woman Anežka, who is always there for her family, tries to help everybody and keeps her promises. However, in the course of the story she learns that self-sacrifice should have its limits and that sometimes she also needs to fulfil her own dreams and longings.

Moments is a film about everyday life, primary emotions, family relations and desire for harmony that we all struggle for.

contact HEAVEN‘S GATE – Viktor Tauš viktor@heavensgate.cz +420 775 204 809

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Neptune Neptun SHORT

Czech Republic 2018 | 38 min | Czech director Adéla Babanová PRODUCER

Tomáš Vach

CO-PRODUCTION Adéla

Babanová, Bratři, Czech

Television SCRIPT Džian

Baban DOP Lukáš Hyksa EDITOR Hedvika Hansalová SOUND Michaela Patríková MUSIC Džian Baban CAST Jiří Vyorálek, Gabriela Míčová, Tomáš Petřík, Ladislav Hampl

In 1964, important secret Nazi documents were discovered in the South Bohemian Černé jezero lake. Years after, this turned out to be a part of the communist propaganda campaign codenamed Neptune. The interpretation key to these events is further manipulation and mystification. The secret Nazi archives “found” in the lake are in the film replaced by another mysterious content. The story demonstrates the mechanism of mass media propaganda. Film combines featured sequences with manipulated original documentaries, photos and animations.

contact Tomáš Vach tvach23@gmail.com +420 737 110 732

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Pardon Milost

minority co-production

Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 100 min | Polish, German, Russian director Jan Jakub Kolski PRODUCERS Jan Jakub Kolski, Pawel Kosuń, Agnieszka Janowska PRODUCTION COMPANIES Wytwornia Doswiadczalna, Centrala Film CO-PRODUCTION Mimesis Film, sentimentalfilm, TVP, Odra-Film, EC1 Łódź – City of culture SUPPORT Eurimages SCRIPT Jan

Jakub Kolski DOP Julian Kernbach EDITOR Konrad Śniady SOUND Ivan Horák SET DESIGNER Paulina Korwin-Kochanowska CAST Grażyna BłęckaKolska, Jan Jankowski, Michał Kaleta, Michał Kowalski

A story of a cursed soldier‘s parents told from the perspective of their 17-year-old grandson Janek. „Odrowąż” dies in 1946, Department of Security digs up his body four times to make sure that the enemy of the state is truly dead. The mother can’t bear the humiliation, she steals away the coffin with the body, forces the husband to travel to Pacławska Calvary to bury their son again. The journey is full of dramatic events. Travellers are joined by Jurgen, a fugitive from a prisoner-of-war camp. Film written into the dramatic history of post war Poland, that still remains universal in its story – a struggle of two parents to regain their dignity and balance in life after losing their child.

contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola jan@mimesis.cz +420 724 938 883

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Patrimony Tátova volha

Czech Republic 2018 | 90 min | Czech director Jiří Vejdělek Tomáš Hoffman Infinity Prague CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Innogy, CinemArt PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Iva

K. Jestřábová, Jiří Vejdělek DOP Vladimír Smutný EDITOR Ondřej Hokr SOUND Jakub Čech, Michal Pajdiak MUSIC Jan P. Muchow SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Eliška Balzerová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Martin Myšička, Boleslav Polívka

Unexpectedly, a costume designer Eva has become a widow. The surprises continue when an unknown child‘s drawing is discovered in her husband‘s possessions, and even though Eva would generously ignore the discovery, her daughter, whose life is falling apart at the seams, latches onto the idea of an estranged stepbrother. The mother and daughter set out in Ludvík‘s vintage Volga GAZ-21 car to follow the trails of Ludvík‘s former lovers and friends and find out more about the hidden family secret…

contact Infinity Prague – Tomáš Hoffman tomas@hoffman.cz +420 724 102 118

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PRESIDENT Blaník Prezident Blaník

Czech Republic 2018 | 85 min | Czech director Marek Najbrt Milan Kuchynka, Pavel Strnad Negativ CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Seznam.cz PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan Bartes, Marek Najbrt, Robert Geisler, Tomáš Hodan DOP Jan Baset Střítežský, Martin Štěpánek, Havel Parkán EDITOR Michal Hýka SOUND Jan Štindl, David Titěra MUSIC Midi Lidi CAST Marek Daniel, Halka Třešňáková, Michal Dalecký

The film is a sequel to the popular Czech online series and takes place against the background of the second direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic. Antonín Blaník is one of the most important lobbyists in the country. He works for various political parties and also for the president, but primarily he works for himself. One day, he decides it‘s time to step out of the political backstage and announces candidature for the president of the Czech Republic.

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

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PUNK NEVER ENDS! Punk je hned 1st FILM

MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Slovakia, Czech Republic 2018 | 75 min | Slovak director Juraj Šlauka Ivan Ostrochovský, Jordi Niubó Punkchart films, i/o post CO-PRODUCTION FTF VŠMU, Filmpark production, Admiral Films, kaleidoscope PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Juraj

Šlauka DOP Ivo Miko EDITOR Matej Beneš, Michal Reich SOUND Michal Džadoň, Richard Füllek MUSIC David Kollar CAST Pavol Kovačovský, Juraj Gerža, Mário Fribert, František Škorpík

Festivals kaleidoscope – Katarina Tomková katarina@kaleidoscope.sk +420 770 122 598

A film inspired by the closely observed life of punks, who spend their lives on the periphery of the city.

A thirty-year-old drug addict lives in a decaying sublet at a dump with his partner and two-year-old son. His “idyllic” world is suddenly threatened by a letter from the welfare. In fear of losing his child, the punk pulls himself together and attempts to resolve the situation. His impulsive behaviour, however, does not take any account of the consequences, and all the opportunities turn into a free fall.

contact i/o post – Jordi Niubó jordi@iopost.cz +420 604 703 308

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Reconstruction Rekonstrukce 1st FILM

SHORT

Czech Republic 2018 | 16 min | Czech directorS ONDŘEJ NOVÁK, JIŘÍ HAVLÍČEK PRODUCERS

Dagmar Sedláčková, Ondřej Novák MasterFilm

PRODUCTION COMPANY SCRIPT Ondřej

Novák, Jiří Havlíček DOP Šimon Dvořáček EDITOR Šimon Hájek SOUND Miroslav Chaloupka, Vojtěch Zavadil CAST Jaroslav Květoň, Simon Baláž

INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS Some Shorts – Wouter Jansen wouter@someshorts.com +31 622 076 717

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Olda (17) is an accused waiting for his trial in a detention centre for juveniles. He tries to fill the void and forget the recent past. The monotone prison life is slowly intertwined by testimonies about his brutal assault of a homeless man. It took one summer night for the holiday boredom to turn into a cruel fun that resulted in death. In prison, Olda reminisces about describing the violence he committed back then. Gradually he recalls pieces of the police reconstruction, when he had to replay the whole assault. However, his memory is just as imperfect and incomplete as the effort to understand the unreasonable violence.

contact MasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková dagmar@masterfilm.cz +420 733 579 107

Short Cut Na krátko 2nd FILM

Czech Republic 2018 | 104 min | Czech director Jakub Šmíd Viktor Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Petra

Soukupová DOP Vidu Gunaratna EDITOR Tomáš Vrána SOUND František Šec, Jiří Gráf MUSIC Martin Kyšperský CAST Jindřich Skokan, Petra Špalková, Marta Vančurová, Martin Finger

Festivals Česká televize – Jitka Procházková jitka.prochazkova@ceskatelevize.cz +420 736 531 568

Short Cut is a coming-of-age story about young Jakub. When he finds out that his entire life was a lie, he has no choice but to immediately grow up and deal with a loss of his illusions. Or things will take a wrong turn. Nobody can help him. Not his mother, who told him that his father sails the seas and thus can’t be with him. Neither his father, who in fact hasn’t shown any interest in him at all. At this point, he gets in touch, but only because his legitimate son does not care about him anymore. No matter what, he is no captain for sure. In addition, his sister Pavlína at the age of 16 finds out as well that her life is not what she imagined and that breaks her heart.

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

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Smiles of Sad Men Úsměvy smutných mužů

Czech Republic 2018 | 92 min | Czech director Dan Svátek Dan Svátek, Martin Gazda Holiday Films, IS Produkce CO-PRODUCTION Filmový uzel, Love Trouble PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Josef Formánek, Dan Svátek DOP Jakub Šimůnek EDITOR Alois Fišárek SOUND Petr Kapeller, Ondřej Muška MUSIC Endru, JeN Hovorka SET DESIGNERS Barbora Červenková, Ivo Návrat, Jan Gogola st. CAST David Švehlík, Jaroslav Dušek, Marika Šoposká, Ondřej Malý

A tragicomedy based on the best-selling novel by Josef Formánek, inspired by his real-life experiences.

The story follows four patients fighting addiction, who find themselves in the most difficult period of their lives. However, even under these circumstances, they manage to joke around and share a laugh.

Josef, the main character and narrator of the story, is a writer, who is undergoing treatment for the very first time. During his stay in the facility, Josef meets other people just like him and is confronted with their life stories. Josef’s perspective, words, actions and merciless sarcasm accompany us as we watch him embark on a journey to save his life. And help us uncover what made him pick up the bottle for the very first time.

contact Holiday Films – Barbora Červenková barbora.cervenkova@holiday-films.cz +420 608 981 756

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Supervising the Meaning of Dreams Odborný dohled nad výkladem snu

Czech Republic, Poland, Germany 2018 | 79 min | Czech, German, Polish director Pavel Göbl Tomáš Bělohradský, Přemysl Klimsza CZECH FILM CO-PRODUCTION Cine Art Studio, CollaboratorsFilms, Czech Television PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Pavel

Göbl DOP Jiří Zykmund EDITOR Krasimira Velitchkova SOUND Ivo Heger, Marek Deml, Tomáš Bělohradský MUSIC BYL PES CAST Vratislav Brabenec, Jiří Vymětal, Jozef Polievka, Nikol Fischerová

A story of three old friends – Musician, Thief and Circus Performer – former inmates of a communist prison – who live together in a house close to the Czech-German border. They share a need to pay revenge on someone who hurt them in the past – which is the topic of the previous film of the same director titled Sunrise Supervising. But because the one who had hurt them, the former state police officer, is currently the innkeeper at their village pub, the three men have nowhere else to go to drink their beer.

At least until the Thief finds out, that on the Polish side of the border, there is a pub, they can take a bus to.

And the new adventure can begin.

contact CZECH FILM – Tomáš Bělohradský tomas@czechfilm.cz +420 724 171 724

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Talks with T. G. Masaryk Hovory s TGM 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 80 min | Czech director Jakub Červenka Jakub Červenka Bedna Films CO-PRODUCTION Fantomas Production, Karel Janeček PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Pavel

Kosatík DOP Jan Malíř EDITOR Martin Palouš SOUND Josef Mašek SET DESIGNER Jan Šorm CAST Martin Huba, Jan Budař

Festivals Denisa Štrbová denisastrbova@gmail.com +420 774 060 336

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The film is a reconstruction of a 90-minute conversation of two very important men: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Karel Čapek – the president and a writer – two human symbols of the First Czechoslovak Republic. The former has just turned 78 and has reached everything a man can reach in his life. The latter is 38 and is regarded as one of the most talented authors of his country. Important thoughts the two men exchanged appeared in the book Čapek was writing about Masaryk at the time. The book brings up the basic questions of democracy – not as historically and contemporarily conditioned, but as timeless, eternal questions.

contact Bedna Films – Jakub Červenka jakub@bedna.tv +420 777 317 980

Teambuilding

Czech Republic 2018 | 83 min | Czech director Ján Novák PRODUCER

Ján Novák

PRODUCTION COMPANY SCRIPT Daniela

Look of the Film

Choděrová, Ján Novák DOP Miroslav Souček EDITOR Ján Novák, Rudolf Kudrnáček SOUND Marcel Weis, Martin Lonek, Martin Stýblo MUSIC Václav Noid Bárta CAST Miloslav Mejzlík, Alice Bendová, Martin Dejdar, Dana Morávková

Friday afternoon. The employees of a bank in a small town are heading for a three-day trip to the mountains for teambuilding. At first sight, the goal of the trip is the strengthening of the team spirit but in fact, it is primarily organized by the director of the bank in order to receive positive references from the employees for his promotion to the regional headquarters of the bank. Most of the employees have no idea what is about to happen during the weekend, when their boss needs to prove at any cost he is a good manager, who deserves the promotion.

contact Look of the Film – Soňa Mrázová mrazova@lotf.cz +420 608 725 534

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The Hastrman HASTRMAN 1st FILM

Czech Republic 2018 | 98 min | Czech director Ondřej Havelka Čestmír Kopecký První veřejnoprávní CO-PRODUCTION Barrandov Studio, Czech Television PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Ondřej

Havelka, Petr Hudský DOP Diviš Marek Jan Daňhel SOUND Jiří Melcher MUSIC Petr Wajsar SET DESIGNER Petr Pištěk CAST Karel Dobrý, Simona Zmrzlá, Jiří Lábus, David Novotný EDITOR

Spanning centuries, myths, and legends The Hastrman tells a tale of a strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. Despite looking like a human, the nobleman feels closer to animals. He is a Hastrman – a water spirit. Water is his element.

He loves it, understands it and communicates with it. He needs water not only to sustain his life, but also to gain superhuman strength and dexterity. In this romantic, fantastical, yet ironic story, love brings Hastrman unexpected happiness with an agonizing dilemma: whether to remain a wild creature or to cross the boundaries and get closer to become a human.

contact První veřejnoprávní – Čestmír Kopecký kopecky@cestmir.cz +420 602 666 676

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The Interpreter Tlumočník

minority co-production

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria 2018 | 113 min | Slovak, German director Martin Šulík Rudolf Biermann, Martin Šulík IN Film Praha, Titanic CO-PRODUCTION Coop 99, Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Marek

Leščák, Martin Šulík DOP Martin Štrba Olina Kaufmanová SOUND Klaus Kellerman, Pavel Rejholec MUSIC Vladimír Godár SET DESIGNER František Lipták CAST Jiří Menzel, Peter Simonischek, Zuzana Mauréry, Réka Derzsi EDITOR

International Sales & Festivals Celluloid Dreams – Nadine Rothschild nadine@celluloid-dreams.com +33 7 83 73 94 36

Eighty-year-old interpreter Ali Ungár comes across a book by a former SS officer, in which the author describes his wartime activities in Slovakia. Ali realises one of the passages probably recounts the execution of his parents. He sets out to visit the former SS-man living in Vienna. But instead of the murderer of his parents, Ali finds only the Nazi’s seventy-year-old son. Georg is a former teacher struggling with alcohol addiction, who had distanced from his father’s past throughout his entire life.

However, Ali’s visit stirs his curiosity, and he decides to find out who exactly his father was. And thus the two old men – the ascetic Ali and the bon-vivant Georg – embark on a journey to find surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy.

contact IN Film Praha – Pavla Lubovská produkce@infilm.cz +420 602 225 201

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The Magic Quill Čertí brko

CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA 2018 | 99 min | Czech director Marek Najbrt Ondřej Beránek, Martin Hůlovec Punk Film CO-PRODUCTION Barrandov Studio, Magiclab, Michal Bauer, Radio and Television Slovakia, Innogy, Czech Television SUPPORT Eurimages PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Robert

Geisler, Tomáš Hodan DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Pavel Hrdlička SOUND Jiří Melcher MUSIC Marek Doubrava, Viktor Ekrt SET DESIGNERS Henrich Boráros, Robert Smolík CAST Jan Cina, Judit Bárdos, Jan Budař, Ondřej Vetchý

Festivals Barbora Kyas kyas@juniorfest.cz +420 728 890 619

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For the sake of order in the world, each region has its hell, where a magic quill writes down human sins. When a sinners’ folder fills up, a devil squad comes to take them. Lucifer’s son Boniface is sent to bring a new quill to Pitchfork, but gets robbed by the greedy Mr. Slime who uses the quill not only to hide his sins, but to enslave the villagers and make them dig for a treasure he hopes to use to charm the beautiful innkeeper Margaret. Boniface is scared and slips a fake quill into hell. As it doesn’t work, devils grow lazy. Boniface meets beautiful Margaret and finally admits his mistake and decides to rectify them.

How things will turn out in the end? Will the Good triumph over the Evil?

contact Punk Film – Ondřej Beránek ondrejberanek@punkfilm.cz +420 777 952 066

The Night of the Agama Noc s agamou SHORT

Czech Republic 2018 | 33 min | Czech director Tomáš Janáček Mikuláš Novotný Background Films CO-PRODUCTION FAMU PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Tomáš

Janáček DOP Stanislav Adam EDITOR Mariana Kozáková SOUND Martin Kuhn MUSIC Ondřej Černohorský SET DESIGNER Stella Šonková CAST Johana Matoušková, Jan Hájek, Anežka Přikrylová

Prague, a bus station on a winter night. Radka, together with her little daughter, a suitcase on wheels and a gym bag, gets off a bus. Down the streets of the same city, Luděk is taking his time going home, aware that nobody is waiting for him there. For a couple of hours before dawn, what was meant to be a fateful connection with one purpose only might resemble a family. The Night of the Agama is about an encounter of people who rely on others’ help, yet they must primarily help themselves.

contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný novotny@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290

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The One Who Loved You Ten, kdo tě miloval

Czech Republic 2018 | 90 min | Czech director Jan Pachl Adam Dvořák Movie CO-PRODUCTION Innogy, Czech Television PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Pachl DOP Pavel Berkovič EDITOR Adam Dvořák SOUND Lukáš Moudrý MUSIC Tadeáš Verčák SET DESIGNER Lucie Fejková CAST Soňa Norisová, Pavel Řezníček, Hynek Čermák, Eva Holubová

Family comedy/detective drama infused with Christmas spirit and set in the spa town of Karlovy Vary. The detective, however, is not a member of a professional investigation team, rather the members of his family (his wife, his sons, his mother and a family doctor), use quite unorthodox ways to find out the truth and solve both his last case and his mysterious death. Detective Kalina himself is present as a ghost, always aware of what‘s happening in this world. In the course of the investigation they face unexpected, often hilarious, situations and accidental twists, complicating their attempt to find out the truth.

contact Movie – Adam Dvořák adam.dvorak@mac.com +420 608 979 718

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The Secret of the Two-headed Dragon Když draka bolí hlava

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 97 min | Czech, Slovak director Dušan Rapoš PRODUCER

Petr Šiška Petarda Production Filmpark production, Moravia Steel

PRODUCTION COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION SCRIPT Dušan

Rapoš, Petr Šiška DOP Ján Ďuriš EDITOR Dušan Milko SOUND Bohumil Martinák MUSIC Dušan Rapoš SET DESIGNER Jaroslav Šutara CAST Charlotte Ella Gottová, Karel Gott, Kamila Magálová, Miroslav Šimůnek

Barborka and Tomík are spending the summer holidays with their grandparents in the blacksmith’s shop ‘Under the Dragon Rock’, where the unusual helper, the two-headed little dragon Čmoudík works flat out. Would you like to know how dragons dance hip hop, how Christmas is celebrated in a dragon’s cave, what the magic power of a dragon’s tooth which has not been cleaned for 100 years is and why the dragon has got a headache?

contact Petarda Production – Petr Šiška info@petarda.cz +420 602 533 962

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Ticket to Torture Jak se moří revizoři

Czech Republic 2018 | 78 min | Czech director Eva Toulová PRODUCER Eva

Toulová

SCRIPT Eva Toulová DOP Tomáš Krejča EDITOR Tomáš Lénárd SOUND Jiří Pícha MUSIC Sebastian Urban, Vilém Urban CAST Petr Batěk, Dana Morávková, Ladislav Ondřej, Michaela Tomešová

A comedy about an ordinary small-town family.

The son Marko is becoming a successful criminal.

Unfortunately, his first victim is his own mother, which makes his path to a successful criminal career more complicated. The daughter Karin is a self-confident beautiful young woman, who uses her beauty to manipulate people around her. She is always dating more than one boy, pushing the boundaries of what men in her life can put up with. Their mother Anna is crazy about sales shopping and competitions of any kind, and their father is the most ordinary of all – a traffic inspector. Despite his ordinarity, the life coincidence is going to bring him a few moments of unexpected glory.

contact Eva Toulová toulovaeva@seznam.cz +420 605 171 159

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Toman

Czech Republic, Slovakia 2018 | 145 min | Czech, English director Ondřej Trojan PRODUCER

Ondřej Trojan

PRODUCTION COMPANY Total

Helpart T.H.A. Czech Television, Radio and Television Slovakia, Fortuna Film und TV, Barrandov Studio

CO-PRODUCTION PubRes,

A historical drama about the controversial Zdeněk Toman, the head of the Czechoslovak Department of Foreign Intelligence Agency. This institution significantly influenced the political development in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1948, and contributed greatly to the takeover of political powers and the government by the Communist Party.

SCRIPT Ondřej Trojan, Zdeňka Šimandlová DOP Tomáš Sysel EDITOR Vladimír Barák SOUND Jiří Klenka MUSIC Michal Novinski SET DESIGNER Tomáš Svoboda CAST Jiří Macháček, Kateřina Winterová, Kristýna Boková, Stanislav Majer

contact Total Helpart T.H.A – Ondřej Trojan total@tha.cz +420 602 327 165

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Touch Me Not 1st FILM

minority co-production

Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France 2018 | 125 min | English, German director Adina Pintilie PRODUCERS Adina

Pintilie, Bianca Oana film CO-PRODUCTION Rohfilm, PINK, Agitprop, Les Films de l’Étranger SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages PRODUCTION COMPANY Manekino

SCRIPT Adina

Pintilie DOP George Chiper EDITOR Andrei Gorgan SOUND Adrian Cristea CAST Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Beyerlein, Grit Uhlemann

International Sales & Festivals Doc & Film International – Théo Lionel t.lionel@docandfilm.com

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Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, the film follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tomas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.

Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defence mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. The film looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, and how to love another without losing ourselves.

contact PINK – Radovan Síbrt radovan@bypink.cz +420 777 161 552

Trash on Mars Mars

Czech Republic 2018 | 84 min | Czech, English director Benjamin Tuček Benjamin Tuček, Zdeněk Janáček Nyasa Films Production CO-PRODUCTION Soundsquare PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Benjamin Tuček, Tereza Nvotová DOP David Čálek, Nikolas Tušl EDITORS Evženie Brabcová, Pavel Hrdlička SOUND Ivan Horák, Marek Hart, Sandra Klouzová MUSIC Ondřej Ježek, Petr Marek, Prokop Holoubek, Tomáš Procházka SET DESIGNER Ondřej Doule CAST Jiří Havelka, Petra Nesvačilová, Halka Třešňáková, Tereza Nvotová

Festivals Petr Horák me@phorak.com +420 603 241 604

Budget cuts have stopped space conquest and flights to Mars have been cancelled. The robot, Bot, has been left in an abandoned station. He has an order to colonize Mars but nobody is coming. He is keeping the station in a standby mode and waiting for the new expedition. When the day finally comes, instead of scientists and technology, they are sending tourists. Each of them has their own idea how to fill the empty space. Shocked by the quality of people, Bot needs to find a new way how to finish his original mission. The only problem is that the tourists don’t understand the process of colonization. So he has to decrease his intelligence to the basic level of human needs. But is he capable of pretending to be a human?

contact Nyasa Films Production – Benjamin Tuček bentucek@gmail.com +420 606 651 713

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TWO BRIDES AND ONE WEDDING DVĚ NEVĚSTY A JEDNA SVATBA

Czech Republic 2018 | 92 min | Czech director Tomáš Svoboda Kamil Kožíšek, Milan Cieslar Flamesite, Happy Celluloid CO-PRODUCTION Fénix Film PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Marcel Bystroň, Tomáš Svoboda DOP David Ployhar EDITOR Milan Fireisler SOUND Martin Ženíšek, Michal Deliopulos MUSIC Jiří Hájek CAST Anna Polívková, Jan Dolanský, Ester Geislerová, Eva Holubová

Marie is a typical city single. Although she is a successful TV moderator, in the realm of relationships she has a talent to attract only losers.

On the contrary, her sister has already found the right man and they plan to get married. When Marie arrives to their home town to visit her family, she meets her old flame, Jiří. Soon it is clear that their mutual feelings are still alive. But the whole thing has a catch, as Jiří is the man her sister is about to marry.

contact Happy Celluloid – Milan Cieslar happycelluloid@gmail.com +420 602 218 960

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Unfaithfully Yours Věčně tvá nevěrná

Czech Republic 2018 | 92 min | Czech director Milan Cieslar PRODUCER Kamil

Kožíšek Flamesite CO-PRODUCTION Happy Celluloid PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Míka DOP Marek Jícha EDITOR Milan Fraisler SOUND Martin Ženíšek, Michal Deliopulos MUSIC Alex Tschallener CAST Lenka Vlasáková, Vilma Cibulková, Saša Rašilov, Jiří Lábus

Josef, a book publisher and his wife Miluška, an aerobic trainer, live together in a small town in a seemingly happy marriage. In the beginning of our story, Josef, a notorious dreamer, goes through a midlife crisis. His publishing house, suffering from lack of readers, is on the edge of bankruptcy and moreover, Josef falls in love with his young assistant, who he finds more attractive and passionate than his wife. Josef leads a double life. He makes up a story for his wife about his aunt Marta‘s sudden death and instead of attending the fictional funeral he has fun with his lover. What he doesn‘t know though is that in the meantime Marta, in the role of a marriage adviser, arrives to their town.

contact Happy Celluloid – Milan Cieslar happycelluloid@gmail.com +420 602 218 960

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Via Carpatia 1st FILM

minority co-production

Poland, Czech Republic, Macedonia 2018 | 75 min | Polish, English directorS Klara Kochańska, Kasper Bajon Agnieszka Kurzydło MD4 CO-PRODUCTION HEAVEN‘S GATE, Sektor Film, Chimney Poland, Sound Mind, Kijora Film PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Julia Kijowska, Kasper Bajon, Klara Kochańska, Paweł Borowski DOP Julian A. Ch. Kernbach, Zuzanna Kernbach EDITORS Barbara Fronc, Marcin Sucharski SOUND Michał Fojcik SET DESIGNER Justyna Suwała CAST Julia Kijowska, Piotr Borowski, Bajram Severdžan, Dorota Pomykała

International Sales & Festivals IKH Pictures Promotion – Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik iza@ikh.com.pl +48 514 254 490

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Piotr and Julia have been planning their holiday for months. Unfortunately, their plans are ruined by Piotr‘s mother: she wants to bring home Piotr’s father, who has been staying for months at one of the refugee camps on the Macedonian-Greek border. Despite his strong doubts Piotr agrees to take the challenge.

And so instead of an all-inclusive holiday, the couple embarks on a tiring journey to the South, during which they will have to answer some fundamental questions...

contact HEAVEN‘S GATE – Viktor Tauš viktor@heavensgate.cz +420 775 204 809

What Men Long For Po čem muži touží

Czech Republic 2018 | 105 min | Czech director Rudolf Havlík PRODUCERS Dana

Voláková, Michaela Flenerová Fénix Film CO-PRODUCTION Flamesite PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Radka

Třeštíková, Rudolf Havlík DOP David Ployhar EDITOR Boris Machytka SOUND Roman Čapek MUSIC Ondřej Konvička CAST Anna Polívková, Jiří Langmajer, Tatiana Pauhofová, Matěj Hádek

The film tells the story of Karel Král, at first sight a successful and charming man, who, however struggles in his personal life. He argues with his ex-wife all the time over their 17-year-old daughter, who hates him because of the way he lives his life.

One day, the consequences of his behaviour finally appear. He loses his job, gets into a fight with his ex-wife and daughter again, a woman crashes his car and a young and beautiful woman is hired for his position of editor-in-chief. Karel and his best friend Čestmír decide to solve all the problems in a typical way – they get drunk. During the wild night Karel expresses a wish to become a woman and in the morning he wakes up in a female body.

contact Fénix Film – Dana Voláková dana@volakova.cz +420 602 369 033

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Winter Flies Všechno bude

Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia 2018 | 85 min | Czech director Olmo Omerzu Jiří Konečný endorfilm CO-PRODUCTION Cvinger film, Koskino, Punkchart films, Czech Television PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Petr

Pýcha DOP Lukáš Milota EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Daniel Němec MUSIC Šimon Holý, Monika Midriaková, Paweł Szamburski SET DESIGNER Antonín Šilar CAST Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková

International Sales & Festivals Cercamon – Sebastien Chesneau sebastien@cercamon.biz +33 621 713 911

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Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, and a story – before it ends at the police station – that tells of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don‘t exactly know what.

contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný jiri@endorfilm.cz +420 602 358 373

POSTPRODUCTION

A Certain Kind of Silence Tiché doteky 1st FILM

Czech Republic, LATVIA, NETHERLANDS | 102 min | English, Dutch, Czech director Michal Hogenauer PRODUCER Petr

Oukropec Negativ CO-PRODUCTION Tasse Film, Circe Films SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Czech young au pair Mia starts working abroad for a well-off family in a lavish villa. Mia looks after their ten-year-old son, having to follow many strange rules of the household. As a result of manipulation by a radical family community, she gradually begins to systematically disappear and abandon her humanity and her relationships with the child entrusted. Mia is suddenly able to expresses her love by a wooden rod.

SCRIPT Michal

Hogenauer, Jakub Felcman DOP Gregg Telussa EDITOR Michal Reich SOUND Richard Müller MUSIC Filip Míšek SET DESIGNER Laura Dislere CAST Eliška Křenková, Monic Hendricxs, Roeland Fernhout, Jacob Jutte

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

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a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i- JONESTOWN á-B-C-D-é-F-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN 1st FILM

EXPERIMENTAL

Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Jan Bušta Radim Procházka Produkce Radim Procházka COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Bušta DOP Michal Černý EDITOR Šimon Špidla SOUND Jan Balcar SET DESIGNER Petra Vlašimská CAST Jakub Kanhäuser

Fanatic sect leader’s never-ending flow of words culminates in the drinking of poison. A thousand faithful commit ritual suicide, the largest in modern times. These dramatic moments in 1978 were caught on tape which bore witness to the event. On that basis a film experiment came to pass in which the sect members are represented by children. In a “live broadcast” the film brings an electrifying experience of demagogy and manipulation, at the same time representing a cinephile tribute to film experiment milestones, “demagogically manipulating” with all elements of film narration and audience’s expectations.

contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161

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Amundsen minority co-production

Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic | 100 min | Norwegian director Espen Sandberg PRODUCERS Espen Horn, Kristian Strand Sinkerud, John M. Jacobsen PRODUCTION COMPANIES Motion Blur Films, Filmkameratene CO-PRODUCTION SF Studios, FILM KOLEKTIV COMPLETION DATE January 2019

How could Roald Amundsen, an unknown man from impoverished Norway, become the greatest polar explorer the world has ever seen? The answer is not just found in one single expedition, but in a dramatic and epic film about the life of a remarkable and fascinating man.

SCRIPT Ravn

Lanesskog DOP Pål Ulvik Rokseth Perry Eriksen, Martin Stoltz SOUND Baard H. Ingebretsen, Tormod Ringnes MUSIC Johan Söderqvist CAST Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck, Ida Ursin-Holm EDITOR

International Sales & Festivals SF Studios – Martin Ilievski martin.ilievski@sfstudios.se +46 72 003 21 75

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contact FILM KOLEKTIV – Pavel Berčík pavel@filmkolektiv.cz +420 777 932 957

By a Sharp Knife OSTRÝM NOŽEM 1st FILM

minority co-production

Slovakia, Czech Republic | 90 min | Slovak director Teodor Kuhn PRODUCER

Jakub Viktorín

PRODUCTION COMPANY nutprodukcia CO-PRODUCTION

Radio and Television Slovakia,

nutprodukce COMPLETION DATE

January 2019

SCRIPT Jakub

Medvecký, Teodor Kuhn DOP Denisa Buranová EDITOR Pavel Hrdlička SOUND Tobias Potočný MUSIC Michal Novinski SET DESIGNER Michal Lošonský CAST Miroslav Krobot, Roman Luknár, Ela Lehotská

INTERNATIONAL SALES WIDE – Danya Hannah dh@widemanagement.com, +33 7 61 57 96 86 festivals WIDE – Matthias Angoulvant festivals@widehouse.org, +33 7 70 07 64 04

Ľudovít lost his son in a ruthless neo-Nazi attack.

Because of a hole in the Slovak legislation, the attackers are soon released and Ľudovít is faced with the absurd injustice. He struggles with the apathetic police force, the opportunistic judge, but also with the fact that he was never close with his own son.

The more he blames himself for his son’s death, the more he becomes distant from his wife Zuzana and the younger daughter Janka, and the more he tries to influence the investigation. When he learns that the attack was not an accidental neo-Nazi incident, but involved an organized crime gang, he realizes that he is facing an enemy beyond his powers. He tries at least to save the little he has left – his own family.

contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková pavla@nutprodukce.cz +420 605 256 190

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City on the River Město na řece

minority co-production

Latvia, Czech Republic, Lithuania | 100 min | Latvian director VIESTURS KAIRIŠS PRODUCER Guntis

Trekteris EgoMedia CO-PRODUCTION 8Heads Productions, ARTBOX COMPLETION DATE February 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Tragicomedy about the ultimate triumph of human virtues in the face of systematic, institutional inhumanity tells its story through the eyes of a somewhat naive, yet inherently wise soul – a lowly sign-painter/artist. The sweeping backdrop of the complex history of serial totalitarian occupation puts the story in a global and extremely relevant context.

SCRIPT Viesturs Kairišs DOP Gints Berzins SOUND Ludvík Bohadlo, Robert Slezák CAST Davis Suharevskis, Brigita Cmuntová, Agnese Cirule, Gundars Abolins

contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel julietta@8heads.com +420 602 292 971

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Cook, F**k, Kill Žáby bez jazyka

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech, Slovak director Mira Fornay Viktor Schwarcz, Mira Fornay Cineart TV Prague, Mirafox CO-PRODUCTION Radio and Television Slovakia, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages COMPLETION DATE July 2019 PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

One day in the life of a perpetrator of domestic violence, Jaroslav K. (45) who is handsome and seemingly good-natured son, father and decent husband. In reality, Jaroslav K. is pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka and very much afraid one day she’ll leave him together with their three children.

Jaroslav K. doesn’t hesitate to employ violence, deceit and terror against others, what ultimately leads to a family tragedy.

SCRIPT Mira

Fornay DOP Tomáš Sysel EDITOR Mira Fornay, Urszula Lesiak SOUND Jan Čeněk SET DESIGNER Jana Boháčková CAST Jaroslav Plesl, Regina Rázlová, Jan Doman, Petra Fornay

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

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Divine Sparks Božské jiskry short

Czech Republic, Belgium | 20 min | Czech, Flemish, German, English director Vít Poláček PRODUCER Mikuláš

Novotný Background Films CO-PRODUCTION Skladanowsky COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Vít Poláček DOP Ondřej Belica EDITOR Matěj Sláma SOUND Ivo Broum CAST Mercedes Meyers, Vojtěch Decker, Anne Meyers, Matyáš Vašák

A chance encounter at a German highway rest stop sparks youthful attraction between a thirteen-yearold Czech boy and a Belgian girl. In the short time between lunch and their departure, they try to get together. With the help of an Arab truck driver and a man who looks like an African footballer, they overcome language barriers and avoid their families to spend a few minutes together. In this unassuming location, they share an experience that is unique to modern Europe.

contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný novotny@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290

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First Action Hero První akční hrdina 1st FILM

short

Czech Republic | 30 min | Czech director Jan Haluza Radim Procházka Produkce Radim Procházka COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Haluza DOP Radim Střelka EDITOR Marek Opatrný SOUND Jan Duben CAST Jiří Mádl, Kryštof Hádek, Lenka Jurošková, Jiří Vyorálek

A young writer of cultural column discovers that in his efforts to free the love of his life he becomes an unintentional participant of an action film shooting led by a mercurial Director. In the spirit of genre rules he must overcome the people who control him.

And of no use to him is violence but only his own intelligence, ingenuity and determination. A short action film is an original interpretation of genre rules of such action films.

contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161

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Freedom in the Air Narušitel 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 86 min | Czech director David Balda PRODUCER David

Balda

PRODUCTION COMPANY Actoress COMPLETION DATE

Production

January 2019

SCRIPT David

Balda, Petr Kult DOP David Balda Martin Kirov SOUND Marek Bert Fuchs, Ondřej Coufal MUSIC Jiří Janouch, Michal Hrůza CAST Pavel Neškudla, Jiří Dvořák, Petr Kostka, Stanislav Zindulka EDITOR

Strong and thrilling story of a Czech pilot and the endless love for flying. The life of army soldiers of socialist Czechoslovakia before 1989 was filled with moments of freedom in the air, but largely destroyed by the State security, its persecution and informers.

Four friends and their flight mentor serve at the border for years. The death of a former RAF pilot in 1974 after his attempt to fly westward because of being persecuted by the communist regime changes everything.

contact Actoress Production – David Balda balda@actoressproduction.cz +420 728 646 660

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Frontier Hranice SHORT

Czech Republic | 27 min | Czech, English director Damián Vondrášek Martina Netíková Background Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Damián

Vondrášek, Lukáš Csicsely DOP Filip Marek EDITOR Jakub Podmanický SOUND Luka Šuto SET DESIGNER Stella Šonková CAST Marian Mitaš, Raed Rarhat, Viktor Zavadil

During a routine check, the commander of a Czech customs unit discovers a group of immigrants in the freight space of a van. An underage youth uses the chaos and escapes to the darkness of the nearby woods. According to the command, the group should be detained till the boy is found. The boy’s father, however, boycotts the search and the unit members start to behave aggressively towards the immigrants.

The commander tries to solve the situation regularly, but gradually he falls into an inner conflict and hesitates whether he should follow the command or his own conscience. The night shakes his faith in the system he represents.

contact Background Films – Martina Netíková netikova@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290

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Heads and Tails Panna nebo orel 2nd FILM

minority co-production

Romania, Czech Republic | 80 min | Romanian director Nicolae Constantin Tănase PRODUCER Anamaria

Antoci 4 Proof Film CO-PRODUCTION Xova Film COMPLETION DATE February 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

Laurentiu gets a serious head injury in a fight at a bar.

He refuses to get any treatment, as he is determined to wait at home for his brother’s return from Germany, where he works. He needs to confess something important. We intimately glimpse into his last living day, picking up the puzzle pieces of Laurentiu’s life, his fears and the decision that brought him to this ending.

SCRIPT Nicolae

Constantin Tănase, Raluca Manescu Daniel Kosuth EDITOR Ion Tănase MUSIC Tomáš Procházka CAST Alex Călin, Iulia Ciochină

DOP

contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966

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Humorist Humorista 1st FILM

minority co-production

Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic | 90 min | Russian director Michael Idov Artem Vassiliev Metra Films CO-PRODUCTION Tasse Film, Sirena Film SUPPORT Eurimages COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Michael

Idov, Lily Idova DOP Alexander Šurkala EDITOR Michal Lánský, Dasha Gladysheva SOUND Michael Deliopulos MUSIC David David Mason CAST Aleksey Agranovich, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Alisa Khazanova

International Sales & Festivals m-appeal – Yvonne Andreas ya@m-appeal.com +49 30 61 50 75 05

In 1984, the USSR’s most famous and beloved standup comedian Boris Arkadiev is slowly becoming unhinged. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships. This time, the eternal battle between the Artist and the State will be fought on the unexpected level of insult humour routines and jokes. Humorist is a psychological drama raising timeless issues: is talent an excuse for unprincipled behaviour; can someone working in the “low genre” of comedy be considered an artist; what is the value of success achieved at the cost of endless compromise.

contact Sirena Film – Artemio Benki artemio.benki@sirenafilm.com +420 602 332 793

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Inversion Inverze 1st FILM

short

Czech Republic | 20 min | Czech, Slovak director Lucia Kajánková PRODUCERS Michal

Kráčmer, Veronika Kührová Analog Vision COMPLETION DATE January 2019

A trio of teen “BFF” girlfriends from a competitive swimming team is inseparable. Until one freezing autumn night, when two of them lock the third one by the outdoor pool.

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Lucia

Kajánková DOP Klára Belicová EDITOR Anna Kryvenko SOUND Viktor Krivosudský SET DESIGNER Zuzana Mazáčová CAST Cyril Dobrý, Martina Jindrová, Barbora Horčičková, Anna Poláková

contact Analog Vision – Michal Kráčmer michal@analog.vision +420 602 838 388

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Let There Be Light BUDIŽ SVĚTLO

MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Slovakia, Czech Republic | 90 min | Slovak director Marko Škop Marko Škop Artileria CO-PRODUCTION Negativ, Czech Television SUPPORT Eurimages COMPLETION DATE March 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Milan (40), a guest-worker in Germany, discovers that back home in Slovakia his teenage son has become involved with home guards when accused of bullying and killing a classmate. The father starts searching for the truth about what happened, the truth about himself...

SCRIPT Marko

Škop DOP Ján Meliš EDITOR František Krähenbiel SOUND Jan Čeněk CAST Milan Ondrík, František Beleš, Zuzana Konečná

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

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LOVEní

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Karel Janák PRODUCERS Martin Palán, Ondřej Kulhánek, Vojtěch Frič PRODUCTION COMPANIES Bontonfilm Studios, love.FRAME COMPLETION DATE March 2019

Left at the altar by her fiance, 35-year-old Eliška moves to a young peculiar stranger, who breeds bees on the roof, because she has no other place to go. Her friend advices her to look for love through an online dating site. But soon she gets to understand that getting a partner for life is not just about pushing the right icon on the phone.

SCRIPT Jan

Potměšil, Karel Janák DOP Martin Preiss Vojtěch Frič SOUND Lukáš Moudrý SET DESIGNER Martina Hladíková CAST Ester Geislerová, Jakub Prachař, Eva “Evelyn” Kramerová, Veronika Žilková, Ondřej Malý, Jaroslav Plesl, Martin Písařík, Jana Švandová EDITOR

contact Bontonfilm – Ondřej Kulhánek ondrej.kulhanek@bontonfilm.cz +420 605 264 091

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Mitsu short

EXPERIMENTAL

Czech Republic | 15 min | German, Japanese director Mark Ther Mikuláš Novotný Background Films COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Mark

Ther DOP Lukáš Milota EDITOR Zuzana Walter SOUND Sandra Klouzová SET DESIGNER Matěj Sýkora CAST Petr Holý, Yoshimi Yokoyama, Naoko Igusa

Countess Mitsuko Maria Thekla Coudenhove-Kalergi was the first Japanese female to come to Europe at the turn of the 19th century. She lived mostly in the area of the Bavarian border and administered the Poběžovice Castle, an estate of her deceased husband, Count Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi. She was a strong and well educated woman, never left by the nostalgia for her home. The film is loosely inspired by historical sources, relying on the unique imagination of Mark Ther and his proven feel for the narrative of the untold.

contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný novotny@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290

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My Grandpa Is an Alien Můj děda spadnul z Marsu MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

CROATIA, LUXEMBOURG, NORWAY, CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | 75 min | Croatian directorS DRAŽEN ŽARKOVIĆ, Marina Andree ŠKOP PRODUCER Darija

Kulenović Gudan Dim CO-PRODUCTION Wady Films, Filmbin, MasterFilm, Artileria, Senca Studio, Fabrika, Hrvatska radiotelevizija, Magiclab SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY Studio

Bajsić Brazzoduro, Branko Ružić DOP Sven Pepeonik EDITOR Marina Andree Škop SOUND Daniel Angyal CAST Lana Hranjec, Nils Ole Oftebro, Petra Polnišová, Ozren Grabarić

In a single moment, the entire life of a girl Una is turned upside down; her grandpa is abducted by aliens and her mum collapses and ends up in a hospital. Una, in her basement, discovers that her grandpa is an alien himself whose spaceship hit the planet some time ago, and there‘s still his pilot, a small grumpy robot. Una and the robot have less than 24 hours to find and rescue her grandpa. This extraordinary adventure will lead to a new friendship, the rational robotic logic will be replaced by emotions and Una‘s selfless love will save her partly alien family.

SCRIPT Pavlica

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contact MasterFilm – Dagmar Sedláčková dagmar@masterfilm.cz +420 733 579 107

Old-Timers Staříci 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 85 min | Czech directorS Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník Jiří Konečný endorfilm CO-PRODUCTION sentimentalfilm, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages COMPLETION DATE May 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Martin

Dušek, Ondřej Provazník DOP Lukáš Milota EDITOR Jana Vlčková SOUND Václav Flégl SET DESIGNER Antonín Šilar CAST Jiří Schmitzer, Ladislav Mrkvička

„Nobody fucks with the truth“ says Vlastimil Reiner, retired and immobile 90-year-old army colonel, as his friend Tonda helps him with his personal hygiene.

The two men are about to embark on the last mission of their lives: to find and kill the former communist prosecutor who used to send the elite of the nation to their deaths. His crimes remain unpunished, denied and forgotten. Now the two former resistance fighters who used to battle a totalitarian society must battle their old age, their loved ones, and an era they no longer understand.

contact endorfilm – Jiří Konečný jiri@endorfilm.cz +420 602 358 373

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On the Roof Na střeše 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 95 min | Czech director Jiří Mádl PRODUCER Monika

Kristlová Dawson Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, Barrandov Studio, Innogy, Hitchhiker Cinema, Investito, Radio and Television Slovakia SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jiří

Mádl DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Jakub Vansa SOUND Marek Hart, Klára Javoříková MUSIC René Rypar SET DESIGNER Adam Pitra CAST Alois Švehlík, Duy Anh Tran, Mária Bartalos, Vojtěch Dyk

Situated in Prague – while the same story may easily happen in any city in Europe or North America that attracts immigrants and is big enough to shelter stories we never get to know. Song, 20-year-old Vietnamese, hoped for a better future in Europe but now, in a Vietnamese district in Prague, he is trapped in a marijuana grow house and has life of a modern slave. Police crushes in. Song runs away on the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district where he breaks down. Mr. Rypar (75) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in a strong opposition to modern world. Rypar goes up on the roof and meets Song standing on the very edge of the roof crying.

contact Dawson Films – Monika Kristlová monika@dawson.cz +420 602 430 420

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Oroslan 1st FILM

minority co-production

Slovenia, Czech Republic | 78 min | Slovenian director Matjaž Ivanišin Miha Černec, Jordi Niubó i/o post COMPLETION DATE March 2019 PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES Stragara,

SCRIPT Nebojša Pop Tasič DOP Marko Brdar EDITOR Miloš Kalusek CAST Vladimir Vlaškalič, Miki Roš

On hearing the news about his brother‘s death, Dušan Zrim heads off to his home village. At the wake there he sings together with the village people and tells stories about death. But when we talk about death, we talk about life, and stories gradually get livelier and rollicking while the line between reality and fantasy, the present and the past, the alive and the dead, gets blurred.

contact i/o post – Jordi Niubó jordi@iopost.cz +420 604 703 308

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Parking MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Romania, Spain, Czech Republic | 112 min | Spanish, Romanian director Tudor Giurgiu PRODUCER Bogdan

Craciun

PRODUCTION COMPANY Libra

Film Productions Tito Clint Movies, Evolution Films SUPPORT Eurimages COMPLETION DATE February 2019 CO-PRODUCTION

SCRIPT Tudor

Giurgiu, Marin Malaicu Hondrari DOP Marius Panduru EDITOR Fernando Franco Garcia SOUND Lukáš Moudrý MUSIC Julio de la Rosa CAST Mihai Smarandache, Belen Cuesta, Luis Bermejo

Adrian is a Romanian poet, who immigrated illegally to Spain in 2002. Rafael, a second-hand car dealer offers him a night guard job at his auto dealership.

During the rituals of the magical night of San Juan, Adrian meets Maria, a Spanish woman, bass player in a jazz band, married to Javier. They fall in love and Adrian never tells Maria he is married back home in Romania. Rafael is torn between bankruptcy and divorce, when he finds a new girlfriend, MariaEugenia. Adrian and Maria-Eugenia become good friends and together they try hard to prevent Rafael’s drifting. They all run for love and understanding. They all make mistakes.

contact Evolution Films – Pavel Berčík pbercik@evolutionfilms.cz +420 777 932 957

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Snowing!

Sněží!

1st FILM

CZECH REPUBLIC | 76 min | Czech director Kristina Nedvědová Jitka Kotrlová Frame Films CO-PRODUCTION Barrandov Studio, Bystrouška Audio, SoundMice, i/o post, love.Frame COMPLETION DATE February 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Kristina

Nedvědová DOP Klára Belicová Tomáš Elšík SOUND Ivan Horák CAST Petra Nesvačilová, Hana Vagnerová, Vanda Hybnerová, Monika Pošívalová

EDITOR

Tereza (30) and her sister Petra (29) attend their father’s second wedding. Tereza is accompanied by František, her ex-boyfriend. They didn’t tell anyone about their breakup. After the wedding all three go to visit the sister’s mother Ester who has lived with their grandma since the divorce. While visiting grandma’s house, Tereza decides she would take care of grandma and the house from now on. The film pictures one complicated small family whose members softly balance between their expectations and illusions.

contact Frame Films – Jitka Kotrlová jitka@framefilms.cz +420 774 131 613

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Terrorist Teroristka 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech, Slovak director Radek Bajgar PRODUCER Petr

Erben

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Logline Production Television, Radio and

CO-PRODUCTION Czech

Television Slovakia May 2019

COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Radek

Bajgar DOP Lukáš Hyksa EDITOR Jan Mattlach SOUND Radim Hladík, jr. SET DESIGNER Jan Vlček CAST Iva Janžurová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Pavel Liška, Eva Holubová

“Beware of old people, they have nothing to lose.”

The story of a retired teacher, who gets angry at the whole world. She doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life with a sense of being a victim, who always has to surrender. She buys an illegal gun, learns to shoot, and then points it at a man who seems to be omnipotent and non-punishable. “Are you threatening me with life imprisonment? It will not be a long sentence. In addition, jail and retirement house are not so different.”

contact Logline Production – Petr Erben petr.erben@logline.cz +420 602 244 544

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The Disciple Posel

MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ireland | 90 min | Slovak, Latin director Ivan Ostrochovský Ivan Ostrochovský Katarína Tomková PRODUCTION COMPANY Punkchart films CO-PRODUCTION POINT FILM, Negativ, Film & Music Entertainment SUPPORT Eurimages COMPLETION DATE March 2019 PRODUCER

DELEGATE PRODUCER

In 1980, two friends, Michal and Juraj, apply for the studies at the Roman Catholic seminary so they can escape the moral devastation of the society. The initial excitement wears off as they discover that the Seminary is now controlled by Pacem in terris, an organisation of clerics collaborating with the communist regime.

SCRIPT Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marek Leščák, Ivan Ostrochovský DOP Juraj Chlpík EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Tobias Potočný CAST Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovič, Milan Mikulčík, Vladimír Strnisko

Festivals kaleidoscope – Katarina Tomková katarina@kaleidoscope.sk +421 908 281 407

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

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The Figurant Figurant SHORT

Czech Republic, France | 15 min | Czech, French director Jan Vejnar PRODUCER Kamila

Dohnalová Silk Films CO-PRODUCTION Origine Films COMPLETION DATE March 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

A group of workmen have come for daywork in an industrial area on the outskirts of Prague. Among them is a man whose determination not to fall behind the others is soon diminished by an unsettling premonition. What follows is the description of a struggle during which his dignity, common sense and, ultimately, his life are gradually led into uncertainty.

SCRIPT Jan

Vejnar DOP Šimon Dvořáček EDITOR Jakub Vansa SOUND Michaela Patríková MUSIC Jan Vysozky SET DESIGNER Pavel Svoboda CAST Denis Lavant, Michal Kern, Petr Jeništa, Petr Vršek

contact Silk Films – Kamila Dohnalová kamila@silkfilms.cz +420 777 068 712

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The Glass Room Skleněný pokoj

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 115 min | English director Julius Ševčík Rudolf Biermann IN Film Praha CO-PRODUCTION Investito, Czech Television, JOJ TV SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Andrew

Shaw DOP Martin Štrba EDITOR Jaroslaw Kaminski MUSIC Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz, Rupert Vokmann CAST Carice van Houten, Hanna Alström, Claes Bang, Karel Roden, Alexandra Borbély

INTERNATIONAL SALES & FESTIVALS Vanessa Biermannová vanessa.biermannova@gmail.com +421 911 952 707

The film, based on the famous novel of the same title

by British author Simon Mawer, nominated for Man Booker Prize in 2009, tells a story of love, friendship and important life choices; its main heroines are Liesel Landauer and her girlfriend Hana, who were bound together in a lifelong relationship and to one extraordinary house that was built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor. The story is inspired by the iconic modernist Tugendhat villa in Brno designed by the famous German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

contact IN Film Praha – Pavla Lubovská produkce@infilm.cz +420 602 225 201

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The Painted Bird Nabarvené ptáče

Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia | 168 min | Czech, German, Russian director Václav Marhoul Václav Marhoul Silver Screen CO-PRODUCTION Directory Films, PubRes, Czech Television, Eduard Kučera, Innogy, Richard Kaucký SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE February 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

A little boy is sent by his parents to live with a foster mother in a village somewhere in Eastern Europe in an attempt to save him from the mass extermination of the Jews. The foster mother unexpectedly dies, however, and the little boy is forced to make his way all alone in an unfriendly world where only local rules, prejudice and superstition prevail. His attempts to survive after the war are replaced by a different kind of struggle. A struggle with himself, a struggle for his soul, for his future...

SCRIPT Václav

Marhoul DOP Vladimír Smutný EDITOR Luděk Hudec SOUND Pavel Rejholec, Jakub Čech MUSIC Petr Ostrouchov SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák CAST Petr Kotlár, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgaard, Udo Kier

contact Silver Screen – Václav Marhoul silverscreen@oasanet.cz +420 602 202 811

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The Play Hra

CZECH REPUBLIC, CHILE, FRANCE, SOUTH KOREA | 95 min | Czech director Alejandro Fernández Almendras PRODUCERS Veronika Finková, Bruno Bettati, Augosto Matté, Guillaume de Seille PRODUCTION COMPANIES Film & Roll, Jirafa, Arizona Productions CO-PRODUCTION Magiclab, Sleepwalker, Inti Briones, Jeonju Cinema Project COMPLETION DATE January 2019 SCRIPT Alejandro

Fernández Almendras DOP Inti Briones EDITOR Alejandro Fernández Almendras SOUND Klára Javoříková, Lukáš Ujčík MUSIC Pablo Vergara SET DESIGNER Hynek Dřízhal CAST Jiří Mádl, Elizaveta Maximová, Marika Šoposká, Ondřej Malý

The world of the young theatre director Petr in a small Czech town crumbles after he decides to realize his dream: to adapt an overly ambitious play based on Euripides’ classic Fedra. He loses his two main actors during rehearsals and the municipality threatens to cut funding due to the play’s political content. Petr falls for young actress Karolína, who plays the lead. Tensions at his home grow; he is not much of a present husband and a father. Shortly before the premiere both women leave him. His wife has had enough and Karolína simply disappears.

Petr attempts to save his masterpiece, but the play is a fiasco. Devastated, he tries to regain last pieces left of his life. But isn’t it far too late?

contact Film & Roll – Veronika Finková finkova@filmandroll.com +420 603 865 157

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The Prague Orgy Pražské orgie

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | English, Czech director Irena Pavlásková Viktor Schwarcz Prague Movie Company CO-PRODUCTION Analog Vision, Arina, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE May 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Irena

Pavlásková DOP Alexander Šurkala Jiří Klenka MUSIC Jiří Chlumecký SET DESIGNER Jiří Sternwald CAST Jonas Chernick, Ksenia Rappoport, Pavel Kříž

SOUND

Festivals Analog Vision – Michal Kráčmer michal@analog.vision +420 602 838 388

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The famous American writer Philip Roth based his book partially on his authentic experiences in 1970’s when he used to visit Prague after the Soviet occupation in 1968 in order to help the banned Czechoslovak writers. Despite the political oppression, the social life, full of amusement and open relationships, was rampant in Prague. The greater pressure of the regime was, the more people would resort to their free private intimate worlds.

The story of The Prague Orgy depicts a journey of the famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman who arrives in Prague in 1976. He carries out a mission to save a unique collection of brilliant tales written in Yiddish by smuggling them across the border.

contact Prague Movie Company – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

The Prize for Happiness Cena za štěstí 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 92 min | Czech director Olga Dabrowská PRODUCERS David

Blümel, Jiří Tuček DonArt production COMPLETION DATE January 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Olga Dabrowská DOP Diviš Marek EDITOR Zuzana Staregová SOUND Pavel Dvořák MUSIC Jan P. Muchow SET DESIGNER Petr Pištěk CAST Ivana Chýlková, Vanda Hybnerová, Klára Pollertová Trojanová, Tomáš Hanák

Who pays for our mistakes? Ordinary human happiness comes in many forms. Some obvious, some unexpected. Where can you find it and what must you sacrifice to attain it? The film presents the stories of people who have lost the trail on their search for happiness and are now trying to find it again.

Relationships, love, power, and, of course, children – they bring us hope and joy but must often atone for our mistakes. The film’s several independent storylines focus on individual characters whose paths gradually intersect to create one grand story of life. A tangle of parents, children, and partners that you might chance to meet on any given day.

contact DonArt production – David Blümel davidblumel@donart.cz +420 608 760 091

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WATCHMAKER‘S APPRENTICE Hodinářův učeň

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech director Jitka Rudolfová Pavel Berčík Evolution Films CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television, PubRes COMPLETION DATE August 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jitka

Rudolfová DOP Ferdinand Mazurek Jakub Hejna SOUND Richard Müller MUSIC Michal Novinski CAST Václav Neužil, Pavlína Štorková, Jaroslav Plesl, Viktor Preiss EDITOR

A famous Watchmaker takes in an orphan, Urban, raises him, teaches him his craft and after years even betroths him to his daughter Laura. And yet it is not Christian charity that drives him. He believes a prophetic vision – that on the day of his marriage, Urban is destined to receive inestimable wealth. And the Watchmaker wants in on his riches. But shortly before the wedding, a mysterious Beggarwoman issues a prophecy: the day of their marriage will be the Watchmaker’s last. What now, when Urban and Laura love one another and can’t wait to say “I do”?

The terrified Watchmaker decides to get rid of Urban once and for all. He sends him on a pilgrimage from which he can never return…

contact Evolution Films – Pavel Berčík pbercik@evolutionfilms.cz +420 777 932 957

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Women on the Run Ženy v běhu 1ST FILM

Czech Republic | 93 min | Czech director Martin Horský PRODUCER Tomáš

Hoffman

PRODUCTION COMPANY Infinity

Prague

CO-PRODUCTION CinemArt COMPLETION DATE January

2019

SCRIPT Martin Horský DOP Jan Drnek EDITOR Ondřej Hokr SOUND Viktor Prášil, Michal Pajdiak SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Jenovéfa Boková, Tereza Kostková, Veronika Khek Kubařová, Zlata Adamovská

Věra has lived a wonderful life with Jindřich, and she is fully determined to fulfil his last wish – running a marathon! She and her daughters would split up the route into four parts, and they‘d overcome the over 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay team. There‘s three months left until the start, and trainer Vojta has prepared a great fitness plan. The daughters aren‘t rushing to start running, however.

They‘re dealing with a different sort of problems altogether. What applies to running applies to life as well. It‘s important to persevere and not give up when the finish line is just beyond reach...

contact Infinity Prague – Tomáš Hoffman tomas@hoffman.cz +420 724 102 118

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PRODUCTION

Break on Through Prokopat se ven 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech director Marty Pohl PRODUCER Petr

Koza Bio Art Production March 2020

PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE

SCRIPT Marty Pohl, Tomáš Belko, Samir Hauser, Pablo de Sax DOP Diviš Marek EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Radim Hladík jr. MUSIC Jan P. Muchow

Four short stories about freedom, in a musical tragicomedy. The first one starts in 2009 when the Bunkr Rock Club gets rebuilt into a police station.

A group of Ukrainian labourers finds the body of the drug addict Hans in a fire hydrant. It is Hans who, as a narrator, connects all four short stories. At the very end of the film, the audience learns why Hans has ended like he did.

contact Bio Art Production – Petr Koza petr.koza@bioartproduction.cz +420 737 520 099

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Call me Shorty Já, Malkáč

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech, Slovak director Milan Šteindler PRODUCER

Petr Koza

Bio Art Production PRODUCTION COMPLETION DATE September 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

CO-PRODUCTION GRIMALDI

Ironic bittersweet comedy about family and life, where the main role is played by a boy who tries to find happiness within the wild love of his parents.

Everyone wants to love and be loved, even when travelling between cities in captivity circle of family antics, even within the walls of socialist Czechoslovakia.

SCRIPT Ľubomír SOUND

Feldek DOP Diviš Marek, Martin Štrba Radim Hladík, Jiří Klenka

contact Bio Art Production – Petr Koza petr.koza@bioartproduction.cz +420 737 520 099

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Charlatan Šarlatán

Czech Republic, Ireland, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech director Agnieszka Holland PRODUCERS Šárka

Cimbalová, Kevan van Thompson Film Productions CO-PRODUCTION Film & Music Entertainment, Furia Film, Czech Television, Barrandov Studio, Radio and Television Slovakia COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY Marlene

SCRIPT Marek

Epstein DOP Martin Štrba EDITOR Pavel Hrdlička SOUND Radim Hladík Jr. MUSIC Antoni Lazarkiewicz SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan

Few true stories tread the thin line of good and evil as precariously as that of Jan Mikolášek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer whose great success masked the grimmest of secrets. Mikolášek won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for diagnosis.

But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell – his assistant, František. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan’s dichotomies are put to a final test, with the fate of his life’s only love in the balance. A personal tale as replete with twists as the century itself, and a reflection on the price one pays for the privilege of genius.

contact Marlene Film Productions – Šárka Cimbalová sarka@marlenefilm.com +420 602 314 776

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In the Dusk Za soumraku

MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Lithuania, France, Czech Republic, Serbia, PORTUGAL, LATVIA | 90 min | Lithuanian, Russian director Šarūnas Bartas Šarūnas Bartas, Janja Kralj Studija Kinema, KinoElektron CO-PRODUCTION Sirena Film, Biberche Production, Terratreme, Mistrus Media SUPPORT Eurimages COMPLETION DATE October 2019 PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Lithuania, 1948. The war is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal terms, but this desperate struggle will determine the future of the whole population. At the age of discovery of life and love, Untė will also be confronted with violence and betrayal. The lines are blurred between the burning passion of his youth and the cause for which he is fighting. He is ready to commit himself to the fullest, at the risk of loosing his innocence…

SCRIPT Šarūnas Bartas, Ausra Giedraityte DOP Eitvydas Doskus SOUND Fabrice Osinski SET DESIGNERS Jurģis Krāsons, Aivars Zukovskis CAST Elijas Martynenko, Arvydas Dapšys, Alina ŽaliukaitėRamanauskienė, Vita Šiaučiūnaitė

contact Sirena Film – Artemio Benki artemio.benki@sirenafilm.com +420 602 332 793

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Kryštof

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 110 min | Czech, Slovak director Zdeněk Jiráský PRODUCERS Olga

Raitoralová, Marian Urban Fulfilm, ALEF FILM&MEDIA CO-PRODUCTION Czech Television COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Kristián Suda DOP Michal Černý SOUND Michal Džadoň SET DESIGNER Milan Býček CAST Mikuláš Bukovjan, Alexandra Borbély, Stanislav Majer, Vladimír Javorský

Kryštof, a youth approaching adulthood, is living as a new postulant before taking his vows in a community of monks somewhere in Czech Šumava mountains. Not only does he share with the brothers their world of contemplation, but also their role as a link in the long chain smuggling fugitives from the Communist regime across the border to Bavaria.

Kryštof once wanted to flee from the world into a monastery, but instead he has to flee to save his very life and to understand it is his last chance to revolt against the brutal political power and save a loved person.

contact Fulfilm – Olga Raitoralová olga@fulfilm.cz +420 732 420 450

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Medieval Jan Žižka

MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

United States, Czech Republic, United Kingdom | 120 min | English, Czech director Petr Jákl Cassian Elwes, Petr Jákl Elevated Films, WOG FILM CO-PRODUCTION Double Tree Entertainment, KBernhardt, Trebor Productions SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE November 2019 PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

The story takes place in the Kingdom of Bohemia at the dawn of the 15th century. It is loosely inspired by the life of Jan Žižka of Trocnov before he became one of seven Generals in history to never lose a battle, who always fought for the rights of his common man.

This film tells the story of the brutal and merciless mercenary before all that – who fought for pay instead.

SCRIPT Petr

Jákl DOP Jesper Tøffner SET DESIGNER Jiří Sternwald CAST Ben Foster, Matthew Goode, Michael Caine, William Moseley

International Sales Highland Film Group – Arianne Fraser arianne@highland.film +1 310 271 8400

contact WOG FILM – Petr Jákl jaklpetr@jbj-film.cz +420 608 702 079

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National Street Národní třída 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Germany | 95 min | Czech director Štěpán Altrichter PRODUCER Pavel

Strnad Negativ CO-PRODUCTION 42film, Czech Television, ZDF/ARTE SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA, Eurimages COMPLETION DATE June 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jaroslav

Rudiš, Štěpán Altrichter DOP Cristian Pirjol EDITOR Jakub Hejna SET DESIGNER Jan Novotný CAST Hynek Čermák, Kateřina Janečková, Jan Cina, Václav Neužil

This used to be a deep dark forest, now it‘s a housing estate of prefabricated apartment buildings. The home of the protagonist, a manual worker painting roofs, whom everyone just calls Vandam. He lives alone in a housing estate apartment in the suburbs of Prague, working out every day to stay in shape.

The evenings are spent drinking beer with his chums at the local pub, the North Star. Vandam‘s chums from the North Star dub him their “national hero”.

According to a local legend, Vandam took part in the demonstration on the National Street in Prague on 17 November, 1989, where – according to the legend – he set history into motion by dealing the first blow.

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

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Piargy Fašiangy

MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Macedonia | 100 min | Slovak director Ivo Trajkov Silvia Panáková Arina CO-PRODUCTION i/o post, Storyscope production, Radio and Television Slovakia COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Ivo

Trajkov, Jana Skořepová DOP Peter Bencsik Michal Reich SOUND Juraj Baláž MUSIC Kiril Dzajkovski CAST Judit Bárdos, Attila Mokos, Jana Kvantíková, Kryštof Hádek EDITOR

The story is narrated in two time-lines. In the present line (spring of 1939) priest Balaz is called in by the bishop from Banská Bystrica to investigate a mystery of the Antichrist, buried under the avalanche that few weeks ago covered the village of Piargy. But Johanka, the only living witness of this tragedy, is not willing to talk about it although these secrets torture her mind.

The second time-line takes place a year earlier and unfolds the story of Julisa. After her marriage with the son of Rohac, the richest farmer in the village, she becomes a part of a tragic love triangle.

contact i/o post – Jordi Niubo jordi@iopost.cz +420 604 703 308

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Power Moc

2nd FILM

minority co-production

SLOVAKIA, Hungary, Czech Republic | 100 min | Slovak director MÁTYÁS Prikler PRODUCERS Zora

Jaurová, Mátyás Prikler MPhilms CO-PRODUCTION Proton Cinema, Negativ SUPPORT Eurimages COMPLETION DATE January 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Mátyás

Prikler, Marek Leščák DOP Gergely Pálos EDITOR Matej Beneš SOUND Dušan Kozák, Tobias Potočný

During an informal hunting in southern Slovakia, attended by Slovak and Hungarian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, an 18-year old hunter is shot by mischance. The Slovak minister currently aspires to a high post of EU Commissioner in Brussels. Media start to search for the connection between the death of a young man and the presence of the minister at the hunt. To cover up the scandal, the case is entrusted to an ex-secret agent Steiner. The minister, unable to face the situation anymore, escapes to his cottage out of the city. He meets Steiner who promises to take care of everything.

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

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Shadows Country Krajina ve stínu

Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovakia | 120 min | Czech director Bohdan Sláma Martin Růžička Luminar Film CO-PRODUCTION Nepenthe Film, Filmpark production, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCER

PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Ivan Arsenjev DOP Diviš Marek SOUND Michal Holubec SET DESIGNER Jiří Novotný CAST Magdalena Borová, Stanislav Majer, Pavel Nový, Barbora Poláková

A young, good-looking city girl, Marie, marries into a small Austrian town of Schwarzwald. A little vain for a small-town woman, she likes to dress up and make her own clothes. The town is by Austrian borders in an area, which was forcibly annexed by Czechoslovakia in 1920. Most of the Czech-speaking citizens chose German nationality at the beginning of the WW2. While peaceful during the war, the area is swept by violence right after the war. A group of malicious neighbours force 14 wealthiest town inhabitants in front of the people’s court and they are murdered. Marie and her two children have to cross the border into the woods, where they build a temporary shed of branches.

contact Luminar Film – Martin Růžička martin@luminarfilm.cz +420 777 885 565

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Taurofilia Taurofilie short

EXPERIMENTAL

Czech Republic | 18 min | No Dialogue director Francesco Montagner PRODUCERS Veronika

Kührová, Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision CO-PRODUCTION FAMU COMPLETION DATE November 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Francesco

Montagner DOP Patricia Santos Nunez EDITOR Jorge Sanchéz

In Spain, in an empty arena under the bear sun, a black bull presents itself in full glory before facing man. Suffering to be entrapped in the metaphysical corrida, the animal shows its fury and power before at last it succumbs, collapsing into a cloud of sand. In a basement a gaunt, middle-aged man meticulously studies the motionless flesh of the black carcass. As though in a morgue, he begins opening the body with absolute care and explores the flesh of the animal as if it would of a human being. He takes out the interiors and slowly starts skinning the animal. This work is sometimes delicate, sometimes not; but it‘s always gory as the ancient ritual of slaughtering the bull.

contact Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová veronika@analog.vision +420 724 148 114

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The Owners VLASTNÍCI 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech director Jiří Havelka PRODUCER

Marek Jeníček

PRODUCTION COMPANY CinemArt CO-PRODUCTION

Czech Television June 2019

COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Jiří

Havelka DOP Martin Žiaran EDITOR Otakar Šenovský SOUND Ludvík Bohadlo CAST Stanislav Majer, Kryštof Hádek, Vojtěch Kotek, Tereza Voříšková

Mrs. Zahrádková plans to convince residents of the house she lives in to renovate it. Newlywed Bernášek couple have just moved in and are surprised by the inability of others to agree on anything. Mrs. Roubíčková strictly controls the process of their meetings, not allowing any deviation of rules. Mrs. Horváthová doesn’t understand the subject much, but comments upon everything.

Naive Mr. Švec represents his mother and is quite lost without her. Mrs. Procházková with her business partner Novák are looking for new ways to increase the property value.

contact CinemArt – Marek Jeníček marek.jenicek@cinemart.cz +420 777 464 792

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The Pilot Modelář

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia | 100 min | Czech director Petr Zelenka PRODUCERS Petr

Zelenka, Martin Sehnal 0,7km films CO-PRODUCTION Punkchart films, Fabula, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE September 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Petr

Zelenka DOP Alexander Šurkala EDITOR Vladimír Barák SOUND Michal Holubec SET DESIGNER Nikola Tempír CAST Jiří Mádl

Pavel has worked for a number of years as a chemist in Israel and witnessed several terrorist attacks. After his return to the Czech Republic, he is approached by an old friend to help him with film commercials, flying a drone. Pavel enjoys working with the drone, but he realizes that life around him is dissatisfying – there is a lot of tension among the people, but none is able to take direct action or to see a bigger picture. So Pavel sets out to “do the right thing”. He goes straight to the top, choosing to eliminate Dick Cheney, the controversial American politician and businessman, on his upcoming visit to Prague. It’s not too difficult for Pavel, an ex-chemist, to build a homemade explosive. The question is – can he succeed?

contact 0,7km films – Petr Zelenka petrzelenka@yahoo.com +420 724 047 443

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The Silent Companion Tichý společník

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Pavel GÖBL Tomáš Bělohradský, Přemysl Klimsza FILM CO-PRODUCTION WetCat Pictures COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCERS

PRODUCTION COMPANY CZECH

The inhabitants of a small mountain village face a problem. The village cemetery is almost full and there is no free land left in its neighbourhood. Majority of the people are Catholics, so funeral urns are not the right solution. Local tramp, the gravedigger Malina has an idea – to place coffins to the grave vertically, so there would be a lot more space in them.

SCRIPT Pavel Göbl DOP Jan Horáček SOUND Tomáš Bělohradský MUSIC Antonín Veselka SET DESIGNER Roman Švejda

contact CZECH FILM – Tomáš Bělohradský tomas@czechfilm.cz +420 724 171 724

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The Year Before the War Rok před válkou MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION

Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic | 90 min | Latvian, Russian, German, French director Dāvis Sīmanis PRODUCER Roberts

Vinovskis Locomotive Productions CO-PRODUCTION Studio Uljana Kim, Produkce Radim Procházka COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

The film, whose stylization reminds of a silent cinema, connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. A mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.

SCRIPT Dāvis DOP

Sīmanis, Uldis Tīrons, Tabita Rudzāte Andrejs Rudzāts EDITOR Anna Johnson Ryndová

contact Produkce Radim Procházka – Radim Procházka radim@radimprochazka.com +420 603 862 161

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Yangon Midnight Půlnoc v Rangúnu 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Myanmar, Germany | 90 min | Burmese director Aung Min PRODUCER

Vít Janeček

PRODUCTION COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION Third

D1film Floor Production, Jana Cisar

The minimalist story of the night Rangoon within period of social transformation. In uncertain times, yet powerful local police chief tries to find a balance between securing his personal life, which seems to be ruined and the new challenges, which call for new kind of responds…

Production COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Aung

February 2020

Min DOP Thaiddhi

contact D1film – Vít Janeček vit@d1film.com +420 603 164 232

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Zatopek Zátopek

Czech Republic, Finland | 110 min | Czech, English director David Ondříček PRODUCERS David

Ondříček, Kryštof Mucha Lucky Man Films CO-PRODUCTION Bufo, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Alice

Nellis, David Ondříček, Jan P. Muchow Štěpán Kučera SOUND Pavel Rejholec, Jakub Čech, David Titěra MUSIC Jan P. Muchow SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák CAST Václav Neužil, Martha Issová

DOP

His nickname was “Czech locomotive”. Eighteen world records holder Emil Zátopek is most famous for the Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he won three gold medals. Nobody has repeated his success and athletics experts doubt that anyone ever will.

Emil Zátopek’s grandiose success comes alive in the memories of his loved ones, friends and rivals.

1968: Ron Clarke, an Australian runner comes to see Zátopek. We are transferred to the past, during their dialogue, to the beginnings of Emil’s passion for running, his first success at the WCA in Berlin, his meeting with javelin thrower Dana, his future wife, but also learn about the increasing pressure of the communist regime.

contact Lucky Man Films – Daria Špačková daria@luckymanfilms.com +420 603 236 072

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A Scream as a Beautiful Song Křik jako nádherná píseň

Czech Republic, Bulgaria | 90 min | Czech, Bulgarian director Viktor Tauš PRODUCERS Viktor

Tauš, Pavla Klimešová HEAVEN‘S GATE CO-PRODUCTION Chouchkov Brothers COMPLETION DATE October 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Beata

Parkanová DOP Martin Douba EDITOR Krzysztof Komander SOUND Michal Fojcik MUSIC Petr Ostrouchov SET DESIGNER Jan Kadlec contact HEAVEN‘S GATE – Viktor Tauš viktor@heavensgate.cz +420 775 204 809

Šimon and Magda set off on a trekking trip around the Rila mountain range in Bulgaria. When they reach their goal, the Rila Monastery, they decide to part; Magda intends to stay in the monastery for a few weeks, Šimon plans a solo trip crossing another Bulgarian mountain range, Pirin. A Scream as a Beautiful Song is a highly personal film with an urgent and relevant multigenerational message. In the world where the number of inhabitants doubled during our parents’ lifetimes, where we communicate and create relationships through social sites which we mould to our own images, the archetypal confrontation and intimacy of two human beings become increasingly complex.

A Summer Fair PouŤ v Modré 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Finland, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech, English director Erlend Hella Matre PRODUCER Andrea

Shaffer Mindset Pictures CO-PRODUCTION Lucy Loves Stories, KFS Production COMPLETION DATE May 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Erlend

Hella Matre CAST Eliška Vavříková, Johana Matoušková, Leoš Noha, Jaroslav Dušek

contact Mindset Pictures – Andrea Shaffer andrea@mindsetpictures.com +420 602 343 717

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Eva (37) returns to her home town after a 20-year absence. Her father has died and the mayor of the town has expropriated a valuable piece of land, Eva claims is her legal heritage. The mayor reacts with aggression, but his daughter Sandra (21) takes a strange interest in Eva. Sandra and Eva both engage intimately with the young entomologist Karel (26). Mayor’s world is torn apart as Karel brings the two women together, not knowing they are, in fact, mother and daughter.

Arved Arvéd 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Vojtěch Mašek PRODUCERS Tomáš

Michálek, Kristýna Michálek Květová Cinémotif Films COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

A genius sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration with the totalitarian regime uses his extraordinary memory to denounce old friends, and summon the Devil.

SCRIPT Vojtěch

Mašek, Jan Poláček DOP Dušan Husár EDITOR Hedvika Hansalová MUSIC Ondřej Mikula (Aid Kid) SET DESIGNER Antonín Šilar CAST Michal Kern

contact Cinémotif Films – Kristýna Michálek Květová kristyna@cinemotiffilms.cz +420 731 203 715

Black Mill Černý mlýn 2nd FILM

minority co-production

Poland, Czech Republic | 90 min | Polish director Mariusz Palej PRODUCERS Andrzej

Papis, Maciej Sowinski

PRODUCTION COMPANY TFP CO-PRODUCTION 8Heads COMPLETION DATE

Productions May 2020

SCRIPT Magdalena

Nieć, Katarzyna Stachowicz-Gacek DOP Wojciech Sulezycki SOUND Ludvík Bohadlo, Jan Paul MUSIC Michal Rataj contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel julietta@8heads.com +420 602 292 971

Twelve-year-old Ivo doesn’t have an easy life. When he was four, he witnessed his father’s heroic death during the Black Mill fire. Since that horrible night, Ivo, together with his mum, have been looking after his disabled sister – Mela. The boy does it unwillingly, dreaming of an average teenager’s life with his friends. This summer the children can do whatever they want. Their holiday time passes by on biking excursions, swimming in the abandoned excavation and playing computer games together. But there is one thing they have to bear in mind – to keep away from the mysterious and dangerous Black Mill. One day, children break the rule and awaken evil powers living in the mill...

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Bloody Bride Krvavá nevěsta 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech director Andy Fehu PRODUCER Jakub

Ševčík Snake Catcher COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Andy

Fehu DOP Jakub Ševčík EDITOR Andy Fehu SOUND Jan Kalužný SET DESIGNER Ondřej Lipenský CAST Jan Komínek, Matěj Zrebný

contact Snake Catcher – Jakub Ševčík sevcik.kuba@gmail.com +420 776 204 502

Martin and Matyas are youtubers. They make videos in which they challenge the reality. One day, they get involved in a car accident nearby the Nine Crosses, a real place, where a ghost of murdered bride, disturbing other people’s lives, resides.

The boys are convinced they saw real ghosts. But nobody believes them. So they decide to go back to the place, to get irrefutable proof and create their masterpieces.

Bloody Easter Krvavá pomlázka 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 120 min | Czech, German director Jan Bušta PRODUCERS Veronika

Kührová, Lubomír Konečný, Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision CO-PRODUCTION Wandal Production COMPLETION DATE September 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Magdaléna

Bittnerová

contact Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová veronika@analog.vision +420 724 148 114

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The Sudetenland – shortly after the WW2.

The borderland was home to both Czechs and Germans for years. This fragile coexistence was shattered by the horrors of the war, which the local Germans helped to unleash. While the world is celebrating a much longed-for peace, here the last conflict is about to start. The roles are reversing: the German winners are now defenceless losers and their former victims have the chance to take revenge.

A Czech boy, Jirka, who must choose between his first love and his new best friend, decides to target the girl’s German family in pursuit of his personal vendetta.

Body Tělo

1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech director Natálie Císařovská PRODUCER Viktor

Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague CO-PRODUCTION Silverart COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Aneta

Honzková

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

Regional town of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 1995. Two sisters, Andrea (19) and Lucie (16), are both high divers, growing up far from their parents.

Andrea’s elite sport career is very promising as she spends most of her time training with ultimate and almost selfdestructive determination. Lucie is jealous of Andrea. Andrea is the star – she wins every competition, gains attention at the parties and many men admire her.

However, there is a strong sisterhood blood bond between them. Andrea finally becomes a multiple national champion and gets qualified to 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A serious injury at a crucial competition ends her professional sport carrier...

Bourák

Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Ondřej Trojan PRODUCER Ondřej

Trojan Total Helpart T.H.A. COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Petr Jarchovský, Evita Naušová DOP Tomáš Sysel EDITOR Vladimír Barák

contact Total Helpart T.H.A – Ondřej Trojan total@tha.cz +420 602 327 165

Your mother wastes away in front of your eyes, pretending to be oblivious, while your dad, hit by yet another attack of chronic puberty, shakes a leg with some twenty-year-old who looks like a model from an old American bra catalogue. Can you stand it anymore? The way your own parents lead their lives? Feeling ashamed of your dad while your mum pulls the wool over her own eyes? As their only daughter, you could do something about it. Would you? I did. And all of it ended with a few funerals and one beautiful wedding.

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Brothers Bratři

Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech, German director Tomáš Mašín PRODUCER Petr

Bílek FilmBrigade February 2020

PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Marek

Epstein

contact FilmBrigade – Petr Bílek bilek@filmbrigade.cz +420 777 733 256

In October 1953, five friends decide to leave communist Czechoslovakia and get to West Berlin. They manage to cross the guarded border, but are soon detected in East German territory. Unknowingly, they initiate the largest armed manoeuvre since WW2; twenty thousand German Police and Soviet Army members are mobilised, all because of five teenage boys. After an extensive hunt, two group members are caught and, when extradited to Czechoslovakia, executed.

The remaining three – the Mašín brothers and their injured friend, Milan Paumer – in the following weeks with no shelter, food or rest, finally make it to West Berlin. They save themselves but the regime will have its vengeance on their families.

Caravan Karavan 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech, Italian director Zuzana Špidlová PRODUCER Pavla

Janoušková Kubečková nutprodukce COMPLETION DATE April 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Zuzana

Špidlová, Kristina Májová DOP Lukáš Hyksa

contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková pavla@nutprodukce.cz +420 605 256 190

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Ester is turning 40 and nothing is going on in her life. That is, nothing more than caring for David (12), her mentally handicapped son. David can’t speak and has to be watched constantly – otherwise he runs away and destroys things. Ester loves David tremendously, but she’s worn out from the isolation, the routine, having to do everything herself. A friend who moved to Italy invites Ester over for a visit.

It’s her first chance ever to take a holiday.

Just before she’s about to leave, it turns out there’s no one to watch over her son.

So Ester decides to travel to the south, to the sea with her son. On a road trip through Italy, they find out that as long as they are on the road, they’re still alive.

Confidentiality Mlčenlivost 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Martin Ryšavý PRODUCER Viktor

Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague COMPLETION DATE June 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Martin

Ryšavý DOP Jan Šuster EDITOR Anna Johnson Ryndová SOUND Michaela Patríková MUSIC Pavel Kopecký SET DESIGNER Petr Pištěk CAST Gabriela Míčová, Jan Procházka, Tomáš Režný contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

After a revelation predicting the approaching end of the world, a rich woman decides to have a gigantic concrete fortress built, where she and her family could hide. When the mysterious voice leading her fades away – which means she is cured and sane again – she starts to feel an urge to find out why it all happened to her and what influence the fortress – the materialized symbol of the forthcoming end – has on the inhabitants in its neighbourhood. The loss of firm ground makes them react in certain way, and ironically, the apocalyptic prophecy somehow starts to materialize.

Don‘t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Nehleď dlouze do propasti 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech, Farsi, French director Mohammadreza Farzad PRODUCER Radovan

Síbrt PINK COMPLETION DATE September 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Mohammadreza

contact PINK – Radovan Síbrt radovan@bypink.cz +420 777 161 552

Farzad, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

Love-and-hate story of a beatnik fascination by an exotic East and an epic drama of an adventurous life and a dream shattered by two political events: Prague spring and Islamic revolution of 1978.

A meditative film poem about freedom, mysticism, fate and exile. The mysticism of a Czech artist seen through an eastern oriental eye.

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Entangled in War Účastníci války 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech director Jan Vejnar PRODUCER Kamila

Dohnalová Silk Films COMPLETION DATE October 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Vejnar

contact Silk Films – Kamila Dohnalová kamila@silkfilms.cz +420 777 068 712

Hundred years since the end of the WW1, a diverse group of Czech extras is rehearsing a scene on the set of a Hollywood war drama that is, due to the budgetary reasons, being shot in the Czech Republic. Over the course of the day, the antsy horde must be united and learn the military basics under the supervision of shady instructors, before the film star comes to perform his part.

The Czechs fight against each other in both German and American uniforms while their hired countrymen are cheating them on food and working conditions.

Eventually the compelling portrait of war despair is not captured, but only lived.

Erhart 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Jan Březina PRODUCER Marek

Novák Xova Film COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan SOUND

Březina DOP Jan Skriečka EDITOR Adam Brothánek Tomáš Oramus

contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966

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Erhart, a young energetic man in his twenties, returns to his hometown to take care of his unsound mother. With his young friend Bíba, who is secretly in love with him, they join theatre workshop led by a beautiful actress. Erhart tries to face the dark history of his family by staging an autobiographical play, which leads him to finally reconcile with his disdainful father.

Fichtelberg 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech, German director Šimon Koudela PRODUCER Viktor

Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague COMPLETION DATE June 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Šimon

Koudela DOP Matěj Cibulka EDITOR Jan Daňhel

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

Jizera Mountains, 1551. 20-year-old knight Henry has the Urbach village in his custody. Suddenly people start to disappear under suspicious circumstances. Locals suspect the mysterious Wallachians people, who settled in mountains nearby. When a young woman Alma disappears too, Henry decides to find her and rescue her from these demonic people. On the highest mountain, Fichtelberg, always covered with clouds, he discovers a real hell. Dirty labourers dig bones here and crush them to powder. Henry discovers a secret glass factory. Crushed bones are used as an ingredient to produce white glass, similar to porcelain. Long desired Alma is also present here, for sure not voluntary.

Ghost School Škola duchů 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 85 min | Czech director Jan Bártek PRODUCER Pavel

Berčík

PRODUCTION COMPANY Evolution

Films Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE June 2020 SUPPORT

SCRIPT Kristina

Dufková Májová DOP Tomáš Juríček SOUND Filip

Slavík contact Evolution Films – Pavel Berčík pbercik@evolutionfilms.cz +420 777 932 957

In order to get expelled from his new school, Marek (12) starts to damage the school premises. Vladimir, the ghost of a past janitor still trapped there, wants him to stop doing so and he decides to manifest before Marek. Since ghosts are not allowed to do that, a mysterious shadowy court appears and unites their destinies. Vladimir has a week to find his Key, the arcane object, which binds him with the world of the living. Marek must help him. If they don’t manage to do so, Vladimir’s soul will end up in the underworld and Marek will have to haunt the school instead of him.

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Grand Prix

Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech director Jan Prušinovský PRODUCER Ondřej

Zima Offside Men COMPLETION DATE February 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jan

Prušinovský

contact Offside Men – Ondřej Zima zima@offsidemen.cz +420 736 751 010

Emil is a shy, small-town guy. He has to take his medication – otherwise he tends to be aggressive. His world consists of cars, engines, and particularly Formula One. His big dream comes true when he wins two tickets to the Formula races in Barcelona in a TV contest. Roman is a seasonal alcoholic who feels completely unappreciated. He is well aware that Emil is barely willing to stick his head out the door and, taking advantage of the situation, he offers to take Emil to Barcelona. The trip through three EU states in a small van would probably go just fine if a certain third character would stay out of it. Slim simply has to get to Barcelona after getting involved with some local meth producers.

Gregorius, the Chosen One Vyvolený 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Tomasz Mielnik PRODUCER Mikuláš

Novotný Background Films COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Tomasz

Mielnik

contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný novotny@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290

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Medieval story of a sibling love offspring, who, guided by the firm hand of destiny, saves the kingdom, marries his own mother, gets shackled to a rock for seventeen years and becomes the first truly forgiving pope. An adaptation of the medieval legend of Holy Sinner as interpreted by Tomasz Mielnik.

Havel 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 128 min | Czech, Slovak director Slávek Horák PRODUCER Slávek

Horák

PRODUCTION COMPANY TVORBA

films

CO-PRODUCTION Novinski COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Slávek

May 2020

Horák, Rudolf Suchánek

contact TVORBA films – Slávek Horák slavek@sandalz.net +420 603 206 038

A drama inspired by the life and personal development of Václav Havel, prominent Czech playwright/ dissident/ president. The film focuses on Havel‘s transformation from successful – then banned – playwright of the late 60‘s into human rights fighter in the 70‘s leading to his presidency in late 80‘s. His transformation is the key here as this is not just descriptive biopic but drama of self-doubting intellectual torn between his passions and his self-imposed duties.

From careless bohemian Havel grows into mature man realizing that if he has the opportunity to free the whole nation then he must accept this responsibility.

Both for the greater good and to prove his worth – and to prove it above all to himself.

Hornet in a Bottle Sršeň v láhvi 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Vít Zapletal PRODUCERS Mikuláš

Novotný, Radim Procházka Background Films COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Vít

Zapletal, Radim Valak DOP Ondřej Belica

contact Background Films – Mikuláš Novotný novotny@backgroundfilms.cz +420 777 910 290

Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1972. Jan and Zdeněk, two young men without a future in the country, decide to emigrate. To avoid conscription, Jan takes shelter in a psychiatric clinic, whilst Zdeněk is meant to complete their preparations.

During a surprisingly long confinement, he is confronted by the fates of his fellow patients and reappraises his own situation. Zdeněk’s plan fails but he wants to flee at any cost. On their way to the border Jan tries to dissuade him from his tragic course of action but can he go against his free will?

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Il Boemo

Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia, France | 150 min | Italian director Petr Vaclav PRODUCER Jan

Macola

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Mimesis Film Television, Dugong Film, sentimentalfilm,

CO-PRODUCTION Czech

Les films d‘Ici Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE June 2020 SUPPORT

SCRIPT Petr

Vaclav SOUND Daniel Němec MUSIC Josef Mysliveček Servino CAST Egor Koreshkov, Karel Roden

SET DESIGNER Luca

contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola jan@mimesis.cz +420 724 938 883

Il Boemo is the story of Josef Mysliveček, who rejected his comfortable bourgeois destiny as the eldest son of a Prague master miller to pursue his dream of becoming a composer in Italy. It is a tale of ambition, identity and love. While Josef has no qualms about exploiting the passions his music arouses in women to advance his career, he finds the one woman he truly loves is beyond his grasp.

In the late 18th century, “Il Boemo” as he came to be known, was one of the most popular and prolific composers of Italian opera seria. He was also a friend and mentor of young Mozart.

Images of Love Obrazy lásky 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Tomasz Wiński PRODUCERS Radovan

Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková PINK COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Petra

Hůlová, Hana Vagnerová, Tomasz Wiński

contact PINK – Radovan Síbrt radovan@bypink.cz +420 777 161 552

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Hana and Petr run a mobile app development company. Facing a relationship crisis, they decide to open up their marriage. They are allowed to do whatever they please, on the condition of being honest to one another. Love turns into hostility and self-destruction.

At the same time they desperately try to keep the perfect image of love and happiness by posting photos and videos of their imaginary life on social media.

These images become so distant from their real life that they cannot say where the reality ends and where the lie begins.

In the Pines Lesní vrah

Czech Republic, Romania | 90 min | Czech director Radim Špaček PRODUCER Jana

Brožková Vernes CO-PRODUCTION Mobra Films COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Zdeněk SET DESIGNER

Holý DOP Oleg Mutu SOUND Viktor Prášil David Dubenský

contact Vernes – Jana Brožková jana@vernes.cz +420 776 650 778

Based on the true case of Viktor Kalivoda, the forest killer, who shot and killed 3 people in Czech forests in 2005, the film captures the last year of his life, before he was apprehended by the police. The story is framed by a pair of the main character’s suicide attempts, his unsuccessful attempt on the Žampach viaduct and the successful one in prison. We follow Kalivoda’s actions from his victory in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game show through the systematic degradation of his ethical inhibitions to the commitment of three murders, he refuses to reveal the motivation for. The film leaves us with a burning question, what led him to his actions.

Lost in Paradise Ztraceni v ráji 1st FILM

minority co-production

Switzerland, Czech Republic | 100 min | German, Czech director Fiona Ziegler PRODUCERS Rajko

Jazbec, Kristýna Michálek Květová Cognito Films, Cinémotif Films COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Fiona

Ziegler DOP Yvonne Teyslerová SET DESIGNER Ivana Kanhauserová CAST Dominique Jahn

contact Cinémotif Films – Kristýna Michálek Květová kristyna@cinemotiffilms.cz +420 731 203 715

After having built up, managed and lost his underground music club in Prague, the city his father emigrated from in the 1960s, bankrupted Evžen (39) shows up as a surprise guest at home in Switzerland. His initial plan to get a loan and come quickly back to Prague to save his dream will change shortly after his arrival. He has to face his family‘s life struggles. Apparently those didn‘t change much since he left to Prague many years ago.

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Martian Ships Marťanské lodě 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Norway | 95 min | Czech director Jan Foukal PRODUCERS Ondřej

Zima, Silvie Michajlova KOLEKTIV CO-PRODUCTION Storm Films COMPLETION DATE December 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY FILM

SCRIPT Zdeněk

Jecelín DOP Jan Šuster

Based on a story of the Květy group band-master, Martin Kyšperský, the film describes his relationship with Alenka Černá, their first encounter, shared happiness, their fight with pain, Alenka‘s choice to leave this world and Martin‘s effort to get over this great loss. He tries to understand why it all had to end that way.

contact FILM KOLEKTIV – Ondřej Zima ondrej@filmkolektiv.cz +420 736 751 010

Martin and the Forest Secret Mazel a tajemství lesa

Czech Republic | 75 min | Czech director Petr Oukropec PRODUCER Peter

Badač BFILM.cz COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Kateřina

Kačerovská DOP Tomáš Sysel

contact BFILM.cz – Peter Badač peter@bfilm.cz +420 776 451 425

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The kids from a scout club often spend summer vacation at a place hidden in mountains of the romantic Kralovka region. For three weeks they live like savages – sleeping in a tepee, washing in a creek, cooking their meals on fire and having fun in the woods around. This time, the club goes to Kralovka for the last time. Due to a plan to build a transmitter here, the wilderness will disappear forever.

Mistakes Chyby

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech, Slovak director Jan Prušinovský PRODUCERS Ondřej

Zima, Jan Prušinovský Men CO-PRODUCTION PubRes, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY Offside

SCRIPT Roman

Vojkůvka DOP Petr Koblovský EDITOR Michal Böhm Matěj Matuška, Michal Čech MUSIC Ondřej Anděra SET DESIGNER Jan Novotný CAST Jan Jankovský, Pavla Gajdošíková, Ondřej Kokorský, Tereza Marečková SOUND

contact Offside Men – Ondřej Zima zima@offsidemen.cz +420 736 751 010

Ema shot several porn videos when she was very young, but when she met her true love, an insulator Tomáš, she hadn’t done it for some time. They live together in a village house that Tomáš’s mother gave him. The situation changes when Tomáš discovers several internet videos with his beloved Ema. After a dramatic exchange, Ema explains that all this is the past and she was never unfaithful to him.

Tomáš has a hard time coming to terms with the situation. He confides to his best friend and colleague, the womaniser Igor, who spreads the information around to people in the village.

Money from Hitler Peníze od Hitlera

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech, German director Tomáš Mašín PRODUCERS Silvie

Michajlova, Ondřej Zima FILM KOLEKTIV CO-PRODUCTION PubRes SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Lenka

Wimmerová

contact FILM KOLEKTIV – Silvie Michajlova silvie@filmkolektiv.cz +420 603 152 779

It‘s a hot summer day in 2005. Denis, a respected orthopaedic surgeon, has to attend an important meeting in his home village. His task is to protect his mother and unmarried sister from claims on their property made by Gita Lauschmannová, the daughter of its original German owners. Denis sees Gita as daughter of a German who collaborated with the Nazis, whereas she sees Denis as descendant of those who stole from her family and attempted to murder her upon her unexpected return from the concentration camp. She was sixteen, Jewish in the eyes of the Germans, and German in the eyes of the Czechs. The road to undoing the wrongs done in the past will be winding and full of unpleasant surprises.

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Mountains in the Mist Vrcholky hor

Czech Republic | 110 min | Czech director Agnieszka SMOCZYŃSKA PRODUCER Julie

Žáčková Unit and Sofa COMPLETION DATE 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Milada

Těšitelová

contact Unit and Sofa – Julie Žáčková julie@thesofa.cz +420 602 166 593

Ludmila is 22, she lives on a remote island and has just received an official letter. Like all other girls, she has been assigned a husband. Ludmila knows that tradition dictates that she will one day sacrifice her own life for him. The ultimate deed transforms married couples into doves, allowing them to fly off to the mountains beyond the sea. But Ludmila is worried about her older sister Sisi, who is now performing the sacrifice – locked inside her home for twelve days with her dead husband. Ludmila’s anxiety starts to get the best of her – what is really happening in that boarded-up apartment?

How does one even turn into a bird?

Once Ludmila discovers the grim secret of the island, she vows to escape to the mountains in the mist at any cost – but not as a dove.

Nobody Likes Me Nikdo mě nemá rád 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, France, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech directorS Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb PRODUCERS Petr

Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb, Vojtěch Frič Black Balance, love.FRAME CO-PRODUCTION Arizona Productions, Arina SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb DOP Josée Deshaies EDITOR Vojtěch Frič SOUND Petr Kapeller SET DESIGNER Alexandr Kozák

contact Black Balance – Petr Kazda blackbalancefilm@gmail.com +420 776 770 316

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Sara is an attractive 29-year-old single woman. She works as a secretary at the army headquarters in Prague. While she is constantly surrounded by strong young men at the army headquarters, she has not found a partner yet. Her authoritarian mother’s presence probably does not help either. Yet Sara enjoys solitude, and has come to terms with her position as a detached observer of other people’s lives.

When she meets the gallant, graceful, and soft-faced Martin, she is fascinated by him. Gradually, their connection grows, but when Sara wants to take their relationship to a deeper and more physical level, Martin shies away. He is hiding a deep secret.

Ordinary Failures Běžná selhání 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Cristina Groșan PRODUCER Marek

Novák Xova Film COMPLETION DATE November 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Klára

One day in the life of three women.

One city, struck by random mysterious explosions. Presage of an end and a new beginning in the chaos of postmodern world.

Vlasáková

contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966

OTEL PRAGUE

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany | 100 min | Czech, Russian director Zdeněk Viktora PRODUCER Zdeněk

Viktora SCREENPLAY BY CO-PRODUCTION Attack Film, Hildebrandt Film COMPLETION DATE November 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Marek

Grajciar, Zdeněk Viktora

contact SCREENPLAY BY – Zdeněk Viktora zdenek@screenplayby.cz +420 604 915 363

Tomáš (19), a Ukrainian of Czech origin – the descendant of Czech emigrants still living as an organized minority in Ukraine, still speaking old Czech language – is coming to Prague to reunite with his estranged mother Naďa, whom he hasn‘t seen for years. Naďa is a small time crook living in the streets of Prague, trying to fulfil her dream: to own cheap hotel in the city. That’s why she invited her son to come to Prague. In a first plan it‘s a story about son/mother relationship, in a second plan it‘s about being an immigrant in a foreign country, even if you speak the language. The film brings up the question: What really makes you a Czech? The language, the roots or something else?

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Princess Goldenhair Zlatovláska

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany | 90 min | Czech director Václav Vorlíček PRODUCER Boris

Krištof Three Brothers Production CO-PRODUCTION ALEF FILM & MEDIA, Filmproduktion Thomas Stein SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Lucie Konášová DOP David Ployhar SET DESIGNER Beatrice Brentnerová CAST Mario Adorf

contact Three Brothers Production – Kristýna Kamenická kristyna@historicalmovie.com +420 728 223 042

A classic story from the chest of Czech fairy tales. Royal esquire Jiřík is on the way to find Princess Goldilocks from the mysterious kingdom in the middle of a lake, as a bride for his cruel King. On his journey, Jiřík is accompanied by two friends of his – valet Štěpán and Lucky – a spotty doggie, whose life Jiřík once saved. His journey is full of adventure and surprise, as Jiřík has no idea about the deep envy and grudge Štěpán feels – he envies Jiřík his courage and ability to make friends – but most of all the love of Princess Goldilocks. His grudge is so bitter that Štěpán sends his friend under the executioner’s axe.

Restore Point Bod obnovy 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Czech director Robert Hloz PRODUCERS Jan

Kallista, Karla Stojáková FILM KOLEKTIV CO-PRODUCTION DNA Production, Czech Television SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE February 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Tomislav

Čečka DOP Marek Dvořák EDITOR Vladimír Barák Viktor Ekrt MUSIC Ondřej Anděra SET DESIGNER Jiří Matura CAST Emma Trochinowska, Matěj Hádek, Tomáš Maštalír, Chip Nguyen SOUND

contact FILM KOLEKTIV – Jan Kallista jan@filmkolektiv.cz +420 603 244 292

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Europe 2038. After stabilizing the first refugee crisis, which was followed by a number of terrorist attacks, the Free European Federation issues a new constitutional law that guarantees the citizens “one whole life to live”. Due to new technologies, everyone has the right of recovery in case of an unnatural death.

In such a society, an “absolute” murder is nearly impossible. Ambitious detective, Emma Trochinowska (27), is assigned with a murder case of a married couple. But the restoration team was able to bring only one of the spouses back to life. Together they attempt to shed light on the case and find out if the second chance isn’t just another easily exploitable instrument dealing with the consequences instead of the cause itself.

Saving One Who Was Dead Zpráva o záchraně mrtvého

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Václav Kadrnka PRODUCER Václav

Kadrnka Sirius Films COMPLETION DATE April 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Václav

Kadrnka, Marek Šindelka

After father falls into a coma, his family finds itself in an extreme life situation.

The mother and her son quietly focus all their strength. They meekly accept the diagnosis but defy the verdict. They decide to take action, to bring light into the darkness and confront the silence with words.

contact Sirius Films – Václav Kadrnka info@vaclavkadrnka.com +420 603 273 758

Silent Mail Tichá pošta

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech, German, French director Ján Sebechlebský PRODUCER Viktor

Schwarcz Cineart TV Prague COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jiří

Stránský

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

Based on the novel of the same name

by Jiří Stránský, the film adapts a true story taking place at the end of the WW2.

A story of brave children who don’t want to see and understand eventual horrific consequences of their actions. Story about brave parents who are aware of the horrific consequences and yet decide to risk the fate of their descendants in order to save an injured pilot. Fear, bravery, sadness and joy of every step taken as well as constant presence of cruelty and death are the building stones of this story.

Its style is very simple. Despite that, it does not become poor and empty. To the contrary, it becomes credible and authentic.

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Sisters

Sestry Dietlovy 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech directorS Vojtěch Mašek, Michal Nohejl PRODUCERS Petra

Oplatková, Artemio Benki Sirena Film COMPLETION DATE October 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Vojtěch

Mašek DOP Tomáš Sysel

contact Sirena Film – Petra Oplatková petra.oplatkova@sirenafilm.com +420 775 619 541

The film, based on a successful graphic novel by Vojtěch Mašek, takes place in Czechoslovakia of the early 1990‘s.

The democratic transformation is under way, though the spirit of totality is still pretty much alive. Twin sisters Vera and Veronika (50) are respected members of a prominent Prague residential neighbourhood, until one day Vera is attacked in a park by an unknown madman, who literally cuts her face off. The investigation begins to uncover unsettling facts not only about the sisters, but also about the whole community and even the detectives investigating the case.

Snake Gas Hadí plyn

Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia | 100 min | Czech, French, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian director David Jařab PRODUCER Viktor

Schwarcz

PRODUCTION COMPANY Cineart CO-PRODUCTION Fantascope, COMPLETION DATE

TV Prague Arina, Alex Production

July 2021

SCRIPT David

Jařab DOP Marek Jícha EDITOR Jan Daňhel SOUND Richard Müller

contact Cineart TV Prague – Viktor Schwarcz 261711044@iol.cz +420 777 220 364

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Inspired by Joseph Conrad‘s unique and for many hard to understand novel Heart of Darkness. Similarly the film tells the story in two different levels: An adventurous journey and the real picture of the journey inside one’s soul and its darkness. In order to take a peek inside the soul we must get close to the dark parts of it and win the feud with own evil.

Snake Gas is a film about a person‘s own retrospect. He goes back to places where he was before, comes back to prior „dejavous“ and tries to understand his own behaviour. He also tries to overcome frustrations and worries of his most intern instincts and desires.

Summer School Letní škola 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech, Vietnamese director Dužan Duong PRODUCER Jan

Syruček AZN kru COMPLETION DATE January 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Dužan

Duong

contact AZN kru – Jan Syruček jan@aznkru.com +420 728 707 978

A story takes place in Cheb, Czech Republic, during the so called Vietnamese summer school, the time when children of Vietnamese immigrants are tutored by a local Vietnamese teacher.

The characters of the film are kids, who don‘t fit into the society and are excluded because of their lack of interest in study or their sexual orientation. Looking at the reality from different perspectives, the film gradually reveals the „truth“.

The Camp Tábor 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 80 min | Czech director Marek Novák PRODUCER Marek

Novák Xova Film COMPLETION DATE November 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Adéla

Kabelková, Marek Novák, Klára Vlasáková

Summer scout camp is living its idyll of summer adventures. This easy life is seriously disrupted, when a deadly epidemic strikes the outer world. The group of teen and child campers is confronted not only with the external chaos, but above all, their own sense of humanity.

contact Xova Film – Marek Novák marek@xovafilm.cz +420 607 240 966

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The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch

Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovakia | 120 min | Czech, German director Alice Nellis PRODUCER Kateřina

Černá Negativ CO-PRODUCTION Epo-film, Departures Film, PubRes SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE December 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Alice Nellis DOP Matěj Cibulka EDITOR Filip Issa SOUND Johannes Doberenz MUSIC Johanes Repka, Roman Kariolou SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák

contact Negativ – Daniel Vadocký daniel@negativ.cz +420 777 697 543

At the end of the war, Gerta Schnirch, a mother of a small daughter, is together with other Germans displaced in the direction of Vienna. The exhausting journey ends in Pohořelice, where many deportees succumb to typhus and dysentery.

Gerta survives and after regaining the Czechoslovak citizenship, she returns to Czechoslovakia, this time to go through the turbulent events of the second half of the 20th century. Next to the painful questions of blame, revenge and forgiveness between Czechs and Germans, we witness an unusual relationship of mother and daughter, distorted by the limited space on the edge of society they as German women were pushed out to but also influenced by the generational clash.

The Last Race Poslední závod 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 90 min | Czech, German director Tomáš Hodan PRODUCER Ondřej

Beránek Punk Film CO-PRODUCTION D.N.A. Production COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Tomáš

Hodan DOP Jan Baset Střítežský EDITOR Anna Johnson Ryndová CAST Kryštof Hádek, Marek Adamczyk, Oldřich Kaiser

contact Punk Film – Ondřej Beránek ondrejberanek@punkfilm.cz +420 777 952 066

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The sports drama tells the true story of Bohumil Hanč and Václav Vrbata, two pioneers of Czech skiing, who perished in the Krkonoše mountains during a dramatic race in 1913. With his wife expecting a child, Hanč had promised never to race again. Unfortunately, he gave in to pressure from his friends and took on one last race. The third protagonist in this story was German skier Emmerich Rath who, on the brink of collapse himself, dragged Hanč back to their camp. Sadly, Rath was unable to save Hanč. From the archives, we can reconstruct the race almost minute by minute. However, what exactly happened when Hanč and Vrbata met at the Harrach stones in the middle of the storm will forever remain a mystery.

The Man Who Stood In the Way Muž, který stál v cestě

Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia | 150 min | Czech, Slovak, Russian director Ivan Fíla PRODUCER Miloslav

Šmídmajer Bio Illusion CO-PRODUCTION Insight Media Producing Center, Trigon Films, Czech Television COMPLETION DATE November 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Ivan CAST

Fíla DOP Vladimír Smutný SET DESIGNER Jan Vlasák Tomáš Töpfer, Miroslav Donutil, Taťjana Medvecká

contact Bio Illusion – Miloslav Šmídmajer smidmajer@bioillusion.com +420 602 440 753

A story of doctor and politician František Kriegel who resisted the might of the USSR and Breznev in 1968 brings to light long-hidden facts and events from the most tragic episode in modern Czechoslovak history. František Kriegel – the only of 26 Czech politicians refused to bow to Soviet pressure and sign the ignominious Moscow Protocol. In the early hours of 21 August, together with five other top politicians, he was arrested and taken to Moscow, where he was interned, fully expecting to be sent to death in Siberia.

The Nightsiren Světlonoc 2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min | Slovak director Tereza Nvotová PRODUCERS Miloš

Lochman, Peter Badač film, BFILM COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANIES moloko

SCRIPT Barbora

Námerová

contact moloko film – Miloš Lochman milos@molokofilm.com +420 603 477 707

Charlotte (30) is returning to the wild Slovak mountains she escaped from as a child. Still full of self-hate, she wants to hide and be alone after a recent traumatic miscarriage. Instead, she is confronted by the locals with her past.

The mystery surrounding the death of her little sister and the slim hope she might be still alive makes Charlotte search for answers. Whatever she does though, only strengthens the villagers’ belief she is a witch from the woods, like the one who supposedly murdered her sister years ago. To find the truth, Charlotte will first need to accept herself and finally face reality.

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The Pack Smečka 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Latvia | 90 min | Czech director Tomáš Polenský PRODUCER Julietta

Sichel 8Heads Productions CO-PRODUCTION Ego Media SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE February 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Tomáš

Polenský, Irena Kocí DOP Andrejs Rudzāts SOUND Robert Slezák, Jan Paul MUSIC Jekabs Nimanis

contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel julietta@8heads.com +420 602 292 971

David (16), a promising goalie, is placed in a new hockey team. The team doesn’t exactly welcome him with open arms.

David works hard and tries to stand up to the team’s unacceptance. Finally, the bullies’ brute aggression awakens his instinct of self-preservation. Grabbing his hockey stick, he strikes his competitor – a predator’s reflex more than anything else.

David is terrified of what he had done.

This wasn’t supposed to happen. He got what he wanted – he’s the starting goalie.

But at what price? There’s an inquiry.

David’s father wants to bribe the hearing committee; David, however, refuses to become part of his father’s world of bribery, and refuses to submit to the cruel rules of the team.

The Plague MOR

2nd FILM

Czech Republic, Italy | 90 min | Czech director Jan Těšitel PRODUCERS Petra

Oplatková, Artemio Benki Film CO-PRODUCTION Logicalbox, The Backyard COMPLETION DATE May 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY Sirena

SCRIPT Milada

Těšitelová

contact Sirena Film – Petra Oplatková petra.oplatkova@sirenafilm.com +420 775 619 541

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Rosa is 13 years old. She has two older brothers, despotic father and a mother, who’s been for many months in a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Alps. Mother is supposed to come back home, but she doesn’t. Meanwhile plague epidemic breaks out. Rosa with her brothers, father, dog Tony and the housekeeper remain trapped in quarantine in a claustrophobic environment of their apartment.

The Rune of Life and Death Runa života a smrti

Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, LATVIA | 110 min | Czech director Milan Cieslar

Historical drama about life meaning during the Crusade to Prussia of 1265.

PRODUCER Milan

Cieslar Happy Celluloid CO-PRODUCTION Argomedia, Aktis Film, Film Angels Production COMPLETION DATE October 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Vladimír

Körner, Milan Cieslar

contact Happy Celluloid – Milan Cieslar happycelluloid@gmail.com +420 602 218 960

The Ugly Mandarine Ošklivá Mandarínka 1st FILM

CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA | 90 min | English, Czech, Slovak, Chinese director Piaoyu Xie PRODUCERS Veronika

Kührová, Michal Kráčmer Analog Vision CO-PRODUCTION Hitchhiker Cinema COMPLETION DATE April 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Piaoyu

Xie EDITOR Michal Reich CAST Yiou Peng

contact Analog Vision – Veronika Kührová veronika@analog.vision +420 724 148 114

Yiou, a Chinese double bass player who is finishing her master degree in a music academy, and Greta, a Slovak radiologist, are an interracial couple living in Prague. The story starts 30 days before Yiou’s current visa would expire. If the commission won’t accept her partnership visa application, Yiou will have to go back to China right after her graduation concert. And with their relationship at stake, problems at school and the xenophobic sentiments in Czech Republic, Yiou starts to think it’s a lost battle but still doesn’t want to give up so easily. Making the decision of applying for the partnership visa for both of them seems to be a big step forward in their relationship...

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The Word Slovo 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Beata Parkanová PRODUCERS Vojtěch

Frič, Ondřej Kulhánek love.FRAME, Bontonfilm COMPLETION DATE December 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANIES

SCRIPT Beata Parkanová DOP Martin Žiaran SET DESIGNER Michaela Hořejší-Horáčková CAST Martin Finger, Gabriela Mikulková

contact love.FRAME – Vojtěch Frič info@loveframe.cz +420 603 169 237

A portrait of the life of Václav and Věra, their family and immediate surroundings, between the summer of 1968 and 1969.

Václav and Věra are people who differ in temperament, intellect or expressions of empathy, nevertheless, or precisely for this reason, they are spouses who go on roller coaster of life together. Through intensive insights into several moments of their common life, the film tries to capture the situations and their attitudes as accurate, daily, intimate and detailed as possible. It is not a primary challenge for the movie to tell a historical plot that took place in a given period. The primary challenge is to draw as accurately as possible the most intense individual moments from the defined period.

Thistle Chmýří

Czech Republic | 90 min | Czech director Viktor Tauš PRODUCERS Viktor

Tauš, Bára Kamarytová HEAVEN‘S GATE COMPLETION DATE December 2022 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Karolína

Litschová

contact HEAVEN‘S GATE – Viktor Tauš viktor@heavensgate.cz +420 775 204 809

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Mayor Janek is wise and just. The Earth gives the people what they need. But greed knows no boundaries. The villagers rob Janek of his magical sceptre. This breaks the promise to the Earth and Janek becomes a thistleman. His daughter Miriam (14) is not going to come to terms with the injustice. She therefore contacts the Wolf, who can help her to find the way towards the voice of the Earth. Stanislav becomes the new mayor, but he lacks the respect of the villagers. He decides to scare them so that they will finally value his generosity. But nobody knows how far he is willing to go. His son Viktor (14) is following Miriam on her journey. Fear fills the village almost as fast as the thistle fuzz. Miriam’s family is in danger. Will Miriam and Viktor save them in time?

Three Women Tři ženy 2nd FILM

Czech Republic | 120 min | Czech, Portuguese director Matěj Chlupáček PRODUCERS Matěj

Chlupáček, Maja Hamplová Barletta COMPLETION DATE January 2020 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Lukáš

Valíšek

A loose adaptation of a narrative triptych by legendary author Robert Musil taking place in the 1970’s, 1990’s and in the present day. Three chapters, called Grigina, Tonka and The Portuguese Lady, tell a story of a man confronted with various types of relationships, death and his own family.

contact Barletta – Matěj Chlupáček matej@barletta.cz +420 776 710 887

Town of No God Město bez Boha

Czech Republic, Macedonia, Slovakia | 110 min | Czech, Macedonian director Ivo Trajkov PRODUCER Julietta

Sichel 8Heads Productions CO-PRODUCTION Sektor Film, Punkchart films COMPLETION DATE September 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Laura

Siváková Paššová

contact 8Heads Productions – Julietta Sichel julietta@8heads.com +420 602 292 971

Eva (42), a Czech restorer, has no children and spends all her time working.

Isolated from the real world and its problems, she is finishing her restoration of a baroque church when a young man, Julijan (32), seeks her out. He wants her to restore an Orthodox chapel in a distant town located in Macedonia. At first, Eva turns him down. However, after finding out that her personal life has fallen apart, she rashly sets off for the unknown country…

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Victim Oběť

1st FILM

minority co-production

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine | 90 min | Slovak director Michal Blaško PRODUCER Jakub

Viktorín nutprodukcia CO-PRODUCTION nutprodukce, ESSE Production House COMPLETION DATE May 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Jakub Medvecký, Michal Blaško DOP Adam Mach SOUND Serhiy Stepanskiy SET DESIGNER Stella Šonková

contact nutprodukce – Pavla Janoušková Kubečková pavla@nutprodukce.cz +420 605 256 190

Irina is a Ukrainian single mother living in a small border town in the Czech Republic. She loves her 13-year-old son Igor and wants to give him better life than she used to have. Igor, unlike his mother, is fully integrated into Czech society and has a great future like a young gymnast.

One night Irina learns that Igor was attacked and almost killed. After surgery and waking up from narcosis, Igor admits that the attackers were Roma. Irina is fighting for justice and wakes up the whole of Czech society to act and punish the culprits, but over time she starts to be aware of certain inconsistencies in Igor‘s story, until one day Igor shamefully admits he has devised the whole assault. But Irina finds out too late.

Wirbel 1st FILM

Czech Republic | 100 min | Czech, German director Tomáš Hubáček PRODUCER Jan

Macola Mimesis Film April 2021

PRODUCTION COMPANY COMPLETION DATE SCRIPT Tomáš

Hubáček DOP Alan Soural MUSIC Tomáš Hubáček

contact Mimesis Film – Jan Macola jan@mimesis.cz +420 724 938 883

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Burned out real estate speculator buys a random abandoned house in a remote borderland affected by expulsion of the original inhabitants. Thanks to a mysterious mute girl he accidentally learns his house is part of a dilapidated baroque composition inscribed in the surrounding country. While he step by step uncovers a secret concept, which was built over the centuries, he crosses paths of those with the same interests but bad intentions. At the same time he observes the landscape is critically ill. The water dries out from wells, the earth is shaking and the time is getting short…

Year of a Widow Rok vdovy 1st FILM

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland | 90 min | Czech director Veronika Lišková PRODUCERS Petra

Oplatková, Artemio Benki Artcam Films CO-PRODUCTION Peter Kerekes Film, Telemark SUPPORT Creative Europe – MEDIA COMPLETION DATE May 2021 PRODUCTION COMPANY

SCRIPT Eugen

Liška, Veronika Lišková

contact Artcam Films – Petra Oplatková petra.oplatkova@artcam.cz +420 775 619 541

After a fatal health collapse of her husband, Petra overnight becomes a widow. As she soon finds out, her grief and loneliness are not the only challenges that she has to face. Unexpectedly demanding are also countless practical and administrative tasks that a person’s death brings in the 21st century. The fiction debut of an awarded documentary director draws an intimate and minimalistic drama that touches a taboo topic and also captures a clash between a person‘s individual perception of a situation and the reality.

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contacts INSTITUTIONS

organizations

Creative Europe – MEDIA Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 210 e-mail: media@kreativnievropa.cz www.mediadeskcz.eu

Actors‘ Association Senovážné náměstí 23 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 142 672 e-mail: herecka.asociace@cmkos.cz www.hereckaasociace.cz

Czech Film Fund Dukelských hrdinů 47 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 301 278 e-mail: sekretariat@ fondkinematografie.cz www.fondkinematografie.cz Czech Film Fund – Czech Film Center Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 398 e-mail: info@filmcenter.cz www.filmcenter.cz Czech Film Fund – Czech Film Commission Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 254 e-mail: info@filmcommission.cz www.filmcommission.cz Ministry of Culture Czech Republic – Media and Audiovision Department Milady Horákové 139 160 41 Praha 6 Director: Artuš Rejent – artus.rejent@mkcr.cz www.mkcr.cz

APA – Czech Producers‘ Association Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 105 310 e-mail: apa@asociaceproducentu.cz www.asociaceproducentu.cz ASAF – Association of Czech Animation Film Heřmanova 3 170 00 Praha 7 e-mail: info@asaf.cz www.asaf.cz Association of Czech Cinematographers Senovážné náměstí 23 112 82 Praha 1 www.ceskam.cz Association of Directors and Screenwriters Karlovo náměstí 19 120 00 Praha 2 e-mail: info@aras.cz www.aras.cz

Ministry of Culture Czech Republic – Eurimages Maltézské náměstí 1 118 00 Praha 1 National Coordinator: Elena Kotová – elpeka@seznam.cz National Film Archive Malešická 12 130 00 Praha 3 www.nfa.cz

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Cinema Exhibitors Association Politických vězňů 445 266 01 Beroun tel.: +420 311 625 307 e-mail: tajemnice@kinari.cz www.prokina.cz Czech Film and Television Academy Karlovo náměstí 19 120 00 Praha 2 e-mail: info@cfta.cz www.filmovaakademie.cz FITES – Czech Film and Television Union Korunovační 8 170 00 Praha 7 e-mail: produkce@fites.cz www.fites.cz Institute of Documentary Film Štěpánská 14 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 214 858 e-mail: idf@dokweb.net www.dokweb.net Union of Film Distributors náměstí Winstona Churchilla 2 130 00 Praha 3 tel.: +420 222 713 001 e-mail: ufd@ufd.cz www.ufd.cz

film schools FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Smetanovo nábřeží 2 116 65 Praha 1 tel.: +420 234 244 311 e-mail: famu@famu.cz www.famu.cz FAMO – Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek Lipová alej 2068 397 01 Písek tel.: +420 382 264 212 e-mail: famo@filmovka.cz www.filmovka.cz

UMPRUM – Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague – Studio of Film & TV Graphics nám. Jana Palacha 80 116 93 Praha 1 tel.: +420 251 098 270 e-mail: film@vsup.cz www.umprum.cz

training programmes

Charles University / Faculty of Arts – Film Studies Department nám. Jana Palacha 2 116 38 Praha 1 tel.: +420 221 619 227 e-mail: film@ff.cuni.cz film.ff.cuni.cz

dok.incubator Bolzanova 1615/1 110 06 Prague 1 tel.: +420 224 241 046 e-mail: info@dokincubator.net www.dokincubator.net

Prague Film School Pštrossova 19 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 534 013 e-mail: info@filmstudies.cz www.filmstudies.cz

Masaryk University / Faculty of Arts – Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture Arna Nováka 1 602 00 Brno tel.: +420 549 491 583 e-mail: fav@phil.muni.cz www.fav.phil.muni.cz

Tomas Bata University in Zlín – Faculty of Multimedia Communications Univerzitní 2431 760 01 Zlín tel.: +420 576 034 205 e-mail: dekanat@fmk.utb.cz www.fmk.utb.cz

Palacký University / Faculty of Arts – Department of Theatre and Film Studies Univerzitní 3 771 47 Olomouc tel.: +420 585 633 423 e-mail: kdfs@upol.cz www.filmadivadlo.cz

ANOMALIA Budějovická 73 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 731 612 803 e-mail: team@anomalia.eu www.anomalia.eu

MIDPOINT Ostrovní 126/30 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 773 187 441 e-mail: midpointcenter@amu.cz www.midpoint-center.eu

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contacts distributors A-Company Štefánikova 18/25 150 00 Praha 5 tel.: +420 257 315 540 e-mail: info@a-company.cz www.a-company.cz Aerofilms Milady Horákové 383/79 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 947 566 e-mail: info@aerofilms.cz www.aerofilms.cz APK Cinema Service Politických vězňů 445/13 266 01 Beroun e-mail: distribuce@apkcs.cz www.apkcs.cz Artcam Films Rašínovo nábřeží 6 128 00 Praha 2 tel.: +420 221 411 619 www.artcam.cz Asociation of Czech Film Clubs Stonky 860 686 01 Uherské Hradiště tel.: +420 572 501 989 e-mail: info@acfk.cz www.acfk.cz Balkanfilm Na Hrázi 1245 755 01 Vsetín +420 776 840 386 e-mail: distribuce@balkanfilm.cz www.balkanfilm.cz Bioscop / AQS Na Klikovce 7 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 221 436 100 www.bioscop.cz

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Blu Sky Distribution Sněmovní 9 118 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 222 398 e-mail: info@bluesky.pro www.blueskyfilm.cz

Mirius Film Distribution V Jámě 1 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 602 648 882 e-mail: info@miriusfd.cz www.miriusfd.cz

Bohemia Motion Pictures Všehrdova 560/2 118 00 Praha 1 www.bohemiamp.cz

Pilot Film Donská 19 101 00 Praha 10 e-mail: info@mimesis.cz www.pilot-film.cz

Bontonfilm Na Poříčí 1047/26 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 257 415 111 e-mail: info@bontonfilm.cz www.bontonfilm.cz CinemArt Národní 28 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 224 949 110 www.cinemart.cz Falcon Radlická 1c/3185 150 00 Praha 5 tel.: +420 224 422 244 www.falcon.cz Fénix Distribution Petra Rezka 1723/1a 140 00 Praha 4 www.fenixdistribution.cz Film Europe V Jámě 1 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 222 521 257 e-mail: info@filmeurope.cz www.filmeurope.cz Forum Film Czech Arkalycká 951/3 149 00 Praha 4 tel.: +421 249 113 119 e-mail: office@forumfilm.sk www.forumfilm.cz

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Vertical Entertainment Soukenická 13 110 00 Praha 1 www.freeman-ent.cz

VOD PLATFORMS Aerovod Milady Horákové 383/79 170 00 Praha 7 tel.: +420 224 947 566 e-mail: vratnice@aerovod.cz www.aerovod.cz Doc Alliance Films Vodičkova 36 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 602 212 545 e-mail: info@dafilms.com www.dafilms.com

SALES AQS Na Klikovce 7 140 00 Praha 4 tel.: +420 221 436 100 e-mail: sales@aqs.cz www.aqs.cz Filmotor Kaprova 14 110 00 Praha 1 tel.: +420 721 006 421 e-mail: michaela@filmotor.com www.filmotor.com

film festivals Prague Short Film Festival 23 – 27 January 2019, Prague Submission deadline: 30 September 2018/31 October 2018 e-mail: info@pragueshorts.com www.pragueshorts.com One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 6 – 17 March 2019, Prague Submission deadline: 15 September 2018/1 November 2018 www.oneworld.cz Febiofest – Prague International Film Festival 21 – 29 March 2019, Prague e-mail: info@febiofest.cz www.febiofest.cz Finále Plzeň Film Festival 11 – 16 April 2019, Plzeň Submission deadline: 30 November 2018 www.festivalfinale.cz Academia Film Olomouc 23 – 28 April 2019, Olomouc Submission deadline: 31 January 2019 e-mail: afo@afo.cz www.afo.cz

Anifilm 7 – 12 May 2019, Třeboň Submission deadline: 10 January 2019 e-mail: info@anifilm.cz www.anifilm.cz Zlín Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth 24 May – 1 June 2019, Zlín Submission deadline: 1 March 2019 e-mail: festival@zlinfest.cz www.zlinfest.cz Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 28 June – 6 July 2019, Karlovy Vary Submission deadline: 28 February 2019 (31 March 2019 for late submissions) e-mail: festival@kviff.com www.kviff.com Summer Film School 26 July – 4 August 2019, Uherské Hradiště www.lfs.cz

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 24 – 29 October 2019, Jihlava Submission deadline: 31 May 2019 e-mail: info@ji-hlava.cz www.ji-hlava.cz Mezipatra Queer Film Festival 7 – 14 November 2019, Prague Submission deadline: 15 June 2019 e-mail: info@mezipatra.cz www.mezipatra.cz Juniorfest – International Film Festival for Children and Youth 8 – 14 November 2019, Plzeň, Domažlice, Dobřany, Horšovský Týn, Přeštice e-mail: info@juniorfest.cz www.juniorfest.cz PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art 5 – 8 December 2019, Olomouc e-mail: info@pifpaf.cz www.pifpaf.cz

Brno 16 – International Short Film Festival 9 – 12 October 2019, Brno Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 e-mail: festival@brno16.cz www.brno16.cz

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FACTS & figures CZECH FIGURES 2018 Population

CINEMA RELEASES

10.6 mil 26 CZK 285 532 31

Czech Fiction Films

39

29

Exchange Rate 1 EUR =

Czech Documentary Films

Number of Theaters

Czech Animation Films

Number of Screens

Total Cinema Admissions*

Number of Multiplex Cinemas

Admissions to Czech Films* National Market Share*

2

14,4 mil 3,4 mil 23.5

FILM RELEASES IN CZECH CINEMAS 2013–2018 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018*

Admissions 11 057 559 11 558 586 12 958 099 15 621 923 15 233 432 14 446 804

Box Office / EUR 54 778 679 56 256 547 64 199 099 77 347 854 77 086 351 77 639 491

Share %* 24,1* 23,6* 18,1* 29,5* 22,2* 23,5*

Box Office / EUR* 12 195 214* 12 248 811* 10 834 347* 21 114 951* 14 785 982* 15 774 963*

AVG. Ticket Price / EUR 4,95 4,87 4,95 4,95 5,06 5,37

CZECH FILMS IN CINEMAS 2013–2018 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Czech Premieres 47 52 51 64 58 70

Admissions* 2 661 424* 2 725 985* 2 349 263* 4 606 865* 3 385 269* 3 392 814*

Share %* 22,3* 21,8* 16,9* 27,3* 19,2* 20,3*

market share (admissions)* Others 2.3% EU 17%

US 57.3% CZ 23.5%

* Data available by 30 November 2018

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top 20 in 2018* Rank

Original Title

English Title

Country

Distributor

1 2 3 4

Avengers: Infinity War Bohemian Rhapsody Po čem muži touží Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Venom Fifty Shades Freed Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Tátova volha The Incredibles 2 Deadpool 2 Čertoviny Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Coco Black Panther Peter Rabbit The Nun

Avengers: Infinity War Bohemian Rhapsody What Men Long For Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Venom Fifty Shades Freed Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Patrimony The Incredibles 2 Deadpool 2 Devilry Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Coco Black Panther Peter Rabbit The Nun

US GB, US CZ US

Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci The Grinch

Desperate Ladies Act Desperately The Grinch

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Admissions

Falcon CinemArt CinemArt Falcon

Date of Release 26/4/18 1/11/18 20/9/18 12/7/18

630 551 621 654 535 811 483 855

Box Office / EUR 3 817 933 3 846 844 3 078 251 2 624 365

US, ES

CinemArt

21/6/18

405 852

2 502 231

US US GB, US

4/10/18 8/2/18 15/11/18

386 957 360 442 352 401

2 418 335 2 115 857 2 243 454

CZ US US CZ US

Falcon CinemArt Vertical Entertainment CinemArt Falcon CinemArt CinemArt Falcon

8/3/18 2/8/18 17/5/18 4/1/18 21/12/17

347 825 346 520 341 381 317 079 296 969

1 667 570 1 913 248 2 053 047 1 370 684 1 661 804

US

CinemArt

19/7/18

294 170

1 668 692

US US US US

18/1/18 15/2/18 22/3/18 6/9/18

292 575 278 057 222 966 197 870

1 448 975 1 700 896 1 059 877 1 186 037

CZ

Falcon Falcon Falcon Vertical Entertainment Bioscop/AQS

18/1/18

189 855

993 740

US

CinemArt

8/11/18

189 164

1 042 024

Admissions 535 811 347 825 317 079 189 855

Box Office / EUR 3 078 251 1 667 570 1 370 684 993 740

czech films top 20 in 2018* Rank

Original Title

English Title

Country

Distributor

1 2 3 4

CinemArt CinemArt CinemArt Bioscop/AQS

CZ CZ CZ CZ

Falcon Bontonfilm Bontonfilm Bioscop/AQS

1/2/18 12/7/18 21/12/17 26/4/18

174 333 164 766 162 105 115 599

914 410 850 134 844 777 474 232

9 10 11

Věčně tvá nevěrná Chata na prodej Když draka bolí hlava

CZ CZ CZ, SK

112 802 99 022 92 050

569 532 464 457 436 970

Planeta Česko Toman Jan Palach Hastrman Ten, kdo tě miloval Pat a Mat znovu v akci Pat a Mat – Zimní radovánky Po strništi bos Backstage

Bioscop/AQS CinemArt Bohemia Motion Pictures Aerofilms Falcon CinemArt CinemArt Falcon Bioscop/AQS Bioscop/AQS Bioscop/AQS Bontonfilm

22/2/18 26/7/18 25/10/18

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

What Men Long For Patrimony Devilry Desperate Ladies Act Desperately President Blaník Smiles of Sad Men Špindl Two Brides and One Wedding Unfaithfully Yours Bear With Us The Secret Of The Two-headed Dragon Wilder Than Wilderness Toman Jan Palach The Hastrman The One Who Loved You Pat & Mat in Action Again Pat & Mat – Winter Fun Barefoot Backstage

CZ CZ CZ CZ

5 6 7 8

Po čem muži touží Tátova volha Čertoviny Zoufalé ženy dělají zoufalé věci Prezident Blaník Úsměvy smutných mužů Špindl Dvě nevěsty a jedna svatba

Date of Release 20/9/18 8/3/18 4/1/18 18/1/18

22/3/18 4/10/18 21/8/18 19/4/18 8/11/18 7/6/18 22/11/18 17/8/17 7/6/18

92 024 87 342 85 744 74 938 69 251 65 629 53 919 40 380 39 384

302 694 479 530 350 628 302 228 373 779 297 666 272 228 62 444 204 742

CZ CZ, SK CZ, SK CZ CZ CZ CZ CZ, DK, SK SK, CZ

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index of english titles A Certain Kind of Silence A Scream as a Beautiful Song A Summer Fair a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i- JONESTOWN Alice in the World of Miracles Amundsen Arved Backstage Bear With Us Bille Black Mill Bloody Bride Bloody Easter Body Bourák Boys from the Mountains Break on Through Brothers By a Sharp Knife Call Me Shorty Caravan Cellar Charlatan City on the River Confidentiality Cook, F**k, Kill Desperate Ladies Act Desperately Devilry Divine Sparks Doctor Martin: The Mystery of Beskydy Mountains Domestique Don‘t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Dukat Rock Entangled in War Erhart Fichtelberg First Action Hero Freedom in the Air

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60 112 112 61 12 62 113 13 14 15 113 114 114 115 115 16 94 116 63 95 116 17 96 64 117 65 18 19 66 20 21 117 22 118 118 119 67 68

Frontier Fugue Ghost School Golden Sting Grand Prix Gregorius, the Chosen One Havel Heads and Tails Hornet in a Bottle Humorist “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” Il Boemo Images of Love In the Dusk In the Pines Insect Intimate Enemy Into the Wind Inversion Jan Palach Jo Kryštof Let There Be Light Lost in Paradise LOVEní Martian Ships Martin and the Forrest Secret Medieval Miss Hanoi Mistakes Mitsu Moments Money from Hitler Mountains in the Mist My Grandpa Is an Alien National Street Neptune

CZECH FICTION FILMS 2018–2019

69 23 119 24 120 120 121 70 121 71 25 122 122 97 123 26 27 28 72 29 30 98 73 123 74 124 124 99 31 125 75 32 125 126 76 100 33

Nobody Likes Me Old-Timers On the Roof Ordinary Failures Oroslan Otel Prague Pardon Parking Patrimony Piargy Power President Blaník Princess Goldenhair Punk Never Ends!

Reconstruction Restore Point Saving One Who Was Dead Shadows Country Short Cut Silent Mail Sisters Smiles of Sad Men Snake Gas Snowing!

Summer School Supervising the Meaning of Dreams Talks with T. G. Masaryk Taurofilia Teambuilding Terrorist The Camp The Disciple The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch The Figurant The Glass Room The Hastrman The Interpreter The Last Race

126 77 78 127 79 127 34 80 35 101 102 36 128 37 38 128 129 103 39 129 130 40 130 81 131 41 42 104 43 82 131 83 132 84 85 44 45 132

The Magic Quill The Man Who Stood In the Way The Night of the Agama The Nightsiren The One Who Loved You The Owners The Pack The Painted Bird The Pilot The Plague The Play The Prague Orgy The Prize for Happiness The Rune of Life and Death The Secret Of The Two-headed Dragon The Silent Companion The Ugly Mandarine The Word The Year Before the War Thistle Three Women Ticket to Torture Toman Touch Me Not Town of No God Trash on Mars Two Brides and One Wedding Unfaithfully Yours Via Carpatia Victim Watchmaker‘s Apprentice What Men Long For Winter Flies Wirbel Women in Run Yangon Midnight Year of a Widow Zatopek

CZECH FICTION FILMS 2018–2019

46 133 47 133 48 105 134 86 106 134 87 88 89 135 49 107 135 136 108 136 137 50 51 52 137 53 54 55 56 138 90 57 58 138 91 109 139 110

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index of directors Altrichter, Štěpán Babanová, Adéla Bajgar, Radek Bajon, Kasper Balda, David Bartas, Šarūnas Bártek, Jan Blaško, Michal Březina, Jan Bušta, Jan Červenka, Jakub Chlupáček, Matěj Cieslar, Milan Císařovská, Natálie Dabrowská, Olga Duong, Dužan Dušek, Martin Farzad, Mohammadreza Fehu, Andy Fernández Almendras, Alejandro Fíla, Ivan Fornay, Mira Foukal, Jan Giurgiu, Tudor Göbl, Pavel Groșan, Cristina Haluza, Jan Havelka, Ondřej Havelka, Jiří Havlíček, Jiří Havlík, Rudolf Hella Matre, Erlend Hloz, Robert Hodan, Tomáš Hogenauer, Michal

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100 33 82 56 68 97 119 138 118 61, 114 42 137 55, 135 115 89 131 77 117 114 87 133 65 124 80 41, 107 127 67 44 105 38 57 112 128 132 60

Holland, Agnieszka Horák, Slávek Horský, Martin Hubáček, Tomáš Idov, Michael Ivanišin, Matjaž Jákl, Petr Janáček, Tomáš Janák, Karel Jařab, David Jiráský, Zdeněk Jude, Radu Kadrnka, Václav Kairišs, Viesturs Kajánková, Lucia Kazda, Petr Kochańska, Klara Kolmane, Inara Kolski, Jan Jakub Koudela, Šimon Kuhn, Teodor Lišková, Veronika Mádl, Jiří Magnusek, Tomáš Marhoul, Václav Mašek, Vojtěch Mašín, Tomáš Mielnik, Tomasz Min, Aung Montagner, Francesco Najbrt, Marek Nedvědová, Kristina Nellis, Alice Nohejl, Michal Novák, Ján

CZECH FICTION FILMS 2018–2019

96 121 91 138 71 79 99 47 27, 74 130 98 25 129 64 72 126 56 15 34 119 63 139 78 16 86 113, 130 116, 125 120 109 104 36, 46 81 132 130 22, 30, 43

Novák, Ondřej Novák, Marek Nvotová, Tereza Omerzu, Olmo Ondříček, David Ostrochovský, Ivan Oukropec, Petr Pachl, Jan Palej, Mariush Parkanová, Beata Pavlásková, Irena Pavlíček, Tomáš Pintilie, Adina Pohl, Marty Poláček, Vít Polenský, Tomáš Prikler, Mátyás Provazník, Ondřej Prušinovský, Jan Rapoš, Dušan Renč, Filip Rudolfová, Jitka Ryšavý, Martin Sandberg, Espen Schmidt, Otakáro Maria Sebechlebský, Ján Sedláček, Robert Sedláčková, Andrea Sedlák, Adam Ševčík, Julius Sīmanis, Dāvis Škop, Marko Škop, Marina Andree Sláma, Bohdan Šlauka, Juraj

38 131 133 58 110 83 124 48 113 32, 136 88 14 52 94 66 134 102 77 120, 125 49 18 90 117 62 12 129 29 13 21 85 108 73 76 103 37

Šmíd, Jakub Smoczyńska, Agnieszka Špaček, Radim Špidlová, Zuzana Šteindler, Milan Studničková, Jana Kristina Šulík, Martin Šustková, Sofie Švankmajer, Jan Svátek, Dan Svoboda, Tomáš Tănase, Nicolae Constantin Tauš, Viktor Těšitel, Jan Ther, Mark Toulová, Eva Trajkov, Ivo Trojan, Ondřej Troška, Zdeněk Tuček, Benjamin Václav, Petr Vejdělek, Jiří Vejnar, Jan Viktora, Zdeněk Voloshin, Igor Vondrášek, Damián Vorlíček, Václav Weinreb, Tomáš Wiński, Tomasz Xie, Piaoyu Zahrádka, Petr Zapletal, Vít Žarković, Dražen Zelenka, Petr Ziegler, Fiona

CZECH FICTION FILMS 2018–2019

39 23, 126 24, 123 116 95 12 45 28 26 40 54 70 112, 136 134 75 50 101, 137 51, 115 19 53 122 35 84, 118 31, 127 17 69 128 126 122 135 20 121 76 106 123

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Support for proDucerS Drama, animation and documentary films On the Roof (CZ, 2019)

DeveLopMeNt Sf Support for development of a slate of 3 – 5 projects intended for cinema, television or digital platforms.

Deadline: 20 february 2019

DeveLopMeNt Sp Support for development of single projects intended for cinema, television or digital platforms.

Deadline: 24 april 2019

tv proGraMMiNG Support for the production of TV programmes.

Deadline: 28 May 2019

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