One of the great cult classics of Czechoslovak cinema has just been digitally restored by the National Film Archive in Prague. New Yorker Nick Carter […]

This much loved comedy is Jiří Menzel’s third feature-length adaptation of a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, drawing from the legendary Czech author’s memories of childhood […]

Structurally reminiscent of Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour, this film from the celebrated pairing of Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos is based on Ladislav Mňačko’s […]

One of the great unsung films of the Czechoslovak New Wave has been digitally restored by the Slovak Film Institute. Superstition reigns in a mountain […]

Often dubbed “The First Lady of Slovak Theatre”, Emília Vášáryová is mesmerising in Marko Škop’s latest feature, a FIPRESCI prize-winner at the Toronto International Film […]

A collection of short films from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. If you go into the woods tonight, you’re sure to be in for a […]

16-year-old Laura is driven by two desires: to participate with the local parkourists – never mind that they’re all boys, and sceptical of her abilities […]

Renowned Czech writer-director Petr Zelenka’s latest film is variously a bizarre political black comedy, a clever slice of speculative historical revisionism, and its own ingenious […]

Often declared the greatest Czech film ever made, this adaptation of Vladislav Vančura’s novel is a hallucinatory medieval epic, pitting clan against clan and Christians […]

In one of the great anthology films, five leading lights of the burgeoning Czechoslovak New Wave – a dream line-up of Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, […]

Some have called Schmitke, Štěpán Altrichter’s engimatic debut feature, “the Czech Twin Peaks“, though the deadpan comedy of Roy Andersson is also an apt touchstone. […]

Tomáš (Noël Czuczor) holds down a peculiarly unglamorous job, but one well suited to his introverted and morbidly voyeuristic temperament: he’s on call to a […]

Let the games begin! In the late 1960s, Alain Robbe-Grillet, the screenwriter of Alain Resnais’ immortal arthouse classic Last Year in Marienbad, and one of […]

CaSFFA’s 2016 Opening Night film comes hot from the “East of the West” competition at Karlovy Vary. Jiří Sádek’s remarkable debut feature is an HBO […]

Popular Czech director Alice Nellis has tried her hand at the fantasy genre with this adaptation of a beloved fairy tale collected and published variously […]

Born in 1931, Zuzana Mináčová has long been an influential figure in Czech and Slovak photography, and is especially famous for her work snapping celebrities […]

A huge box-office hit in its homeland, veteran journalist-cum- filmmaker Radek Bajgar’s poignant debut feature is a tragicomic road movie concerning Jan (legendary Czech actor […]

Comic books and cinema, reality and dreams. All collide as never before in this extraordinarily inventive, zany, CinemaScope sci-fi comedy from director Václav Vorlíček, featuring […]