They survived the Nazi’s killing machine and are forced to fight for their existence and civil rights today. Europe and the Roma – a search for clues that’s full of sadness and absurd humour.
Helena Třeštíková observed the seemingly ordinary marriage of Ivana and Václav for more than three decades. Until we realise that “ordinary” exists only for the casual observer.
Optimizing humans, from the beginnings to the Third Reich to contemporary genetic research. Brilliantly animated archive images in a depressing essay on insanity.
Prague Spring, Soviet tanks: the starting points of a family history intersecting with contemporary history set between the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Russia.
After years in Israel the filmmaker returns to Nabbin in the Czech Republic, the place where she grew up, and to the people who surrounded her then.
Hypnotic songs which accompany and outlast an artist’s life that ends in tragedy. A city between social stagnation and pulsating energy. Beach and desert.
Art, parties and politics merge in the life of the Prague dissidents around Vaclav Havel. A tightly woven image of the time and a portrait of his wife that tells of the lightness of resistance.
The diary of a Czech family man from 1974 till today: children are born and grow up, nations are disbanded, and men flies into space – always accompanied by Karel Gott’s songs.
Michal and Karel live a wild life between freedom and neglect at the Czech periphery. More than one fire is burning on the edges of childhood and youth.
Valentina Voronina worked in the greenhouse of what’s today the “Expocenter of Ukraine” in Kiev for 45 years, her whole working life. Now she’s let go – the end of an era.
A long-term observation of a Czech Roma musician who makes the charts with his band but continues to fail in his own community and due to the ethical stigma attached to him.
