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- A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
- Some years later, Yobi's soul is released. Yobi becomes human and Geum-ee is probably a grow-up already. It is shown that Geum-ee's soul is blue, meaning that he loves Yobi. she may not understand love and friendship.
- This quirky student comedy tells the story of Petr Kovár (Filip Blazek), who gets the chance to return to the past for a while and he meets the love of his life, his classmate Eliska, again in June 1989. There is one hook: physically he is seventeen again (played by Jirí Mádl), but his mind remains that of a modern "forty-something". He returns to a different reality, forgetting that he will be tested again and how the school system was different back then. Thus the plot throws him several comical and provocative twists and through a surprising romantic entanglement it lets the audience see and recall the absurdity of the pre-revolution era.
- A comedy with an overlap into the issue of fake news.
- The physician and politician MUDr. Frantisek Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubcek, Cerník, Smrkovský, Spacek and Simon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- Lieutenant Commander Izidor Vlk and Lieutenant Commander Herkules Drátek are applying for the position of Criminal Service Commander. When Vlk fails due to his stupidity, his assistant is determined to help her chief to the post by cutting the brake lines of Drátek's car. However, the newly appointed crime chief orders Wolf to ride in the car with him, and the two end up crashing. The condition of both wounded is serious, and both need transplants. In the end, only Wire survives. A few months later, Major Prubner, Drátek's subordinate, is summoned with his team, his colleague Skálová and detectives Rorýs and Dymák to the murder case of Katerina Starablazková. Starablazková had an axe stuck in her head and a large sign on the furniture in her apartment said ATSMOP. However, Prubner and his people also found the same sign in the case of the suicide of Kozina Sladky, who jumped from the 123rd floor of a block of flats, and in the case of the murdered former head of the criminal police, Horváth. The perpetrator also put police psychologist Kmonícková into deep hypnosis. She too had a strange sign in her office.
- Two boys find a beautiful world of magic and wonder when they find a magic marble in an old lighthouse. There they meet Mari and can escape from the growing hardships of their home lives
- Tomas (12) gets a camera and begins making a film about his family. His enigmatic father (Ondrej Vetchý) works from home. By hiding a camera in his office, Tomas discovers that on Tuesdays and Thursdays his father leaves the house. When confronted with that fact, he denies it. On the pursuit of the great family secret Tomas reveals the hidden side of Haris, his best friend, who starts using a camera as the only way to get his mum and brother away from the hell of his violent father. Courage and profound friendship lead Tomas and Haris to the final revelation and an unpredictable conclusion. The whole film is shot and edited as if by a twelve-year-old boy. This technique allows us to perceive the world through the eyes of a child.
- Milan Kundera is shrouded in mystery. He has not given an interview in 30 years and doesn't appear in public, so we must learn about him from his work. His essays and philosophical discussions within his novels reveal a lot. Besides other, the film will ask: What in Kundera's work got him the status of a legendary author? What is so unique about his books? Helping us craft the story-line is a student who has a fantastic opportunity to do an interview with Kundera. After weeks of waiting in a cafe outside Kundera's house, reading his novels, the student soon starts to identify with some of the author's ideas. Through this, we are able to learn more about the message of Kundera's work, how and why his stories still move us and compel us not only to think about the protagonist, but about ourselves.
- In the last fifteen years Milos Forman's life has gone through a lot of big changes and he has even had certain reversals in his professional career. Milos Smídmajer has again returned to this exciting and larger-than-life character to catch a glimpse of his current life and way of thinking. Thanks to his personal relationships and contacts he has even managed to shed light on a few of the intimate corners of Forman's life which continue to give him inspiration for creating films with unusual depth and unexpected coherence.
- Continuation of story about two young guys, who like graffiti.
- This time the "poets" are waiting for a miracle. Stepán, Kendy and Karas remained friends even after 12 years. Their inexhaustible sense of humor and self-irony, now perhaps with a touch of skepticism, help them to cope with their chaotic lives. Kendy had enough of advertising business and wants to shoot a film, Karas decided to pamper his Blue dream car just virtually and Stepán fights with the stubborn hospital director Vendulka.
- In this comedy fantasy, a royal wedding in the works. But a stubborn princess is up against an equally hard-headed prince: will there be a wedding, or a war?
- Lubos, who works in the Alps as a rescue worker, returns home to Prague much earlier than originally promised. His eight-year-old daughter Amálka is thrilled, so she refuses to go to school, Lubos has to go with her class to the Tatra mountains to please his daughter Amálka . Anna, is waiting for them at Grandad Pepík's cottage ...But a string of misunderstandings will prevent it.
- Famous Czech comics characters as movie stars! King Rudolf and his kingdom are in danger, the philosopher's stone is in the hands of the treacherous magician Kelly and the demon Zimozel is preparing an icy destruction for the whole world. Fifi, Myspulín, Bobík and Pinda face all this and more in this larger-than-life cinematic adventure in which their lives are on the line.
- Comedy tells the story of two men who are much alike but their temperament and life story are as different as day and night. They have never seen each other, they have no idea about each other's mutual existence and it would remain like that if faith had not put them together... And from now on it is a great comedy of confusion.
- Smídmajer's documentary film is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous bands in rock history. In the 1970s, Nazareth ranked in the music charts along with such prominent names as the Rolling Stones, Sweet, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Genesis. The founding members Dan McCafferty and Pete Agnew have known each other since school and have been playing together for over 40 years. These Scottish veterans of the music business still sell out concerts and their music still bursts with incredible energy. The film was shot in the Czech Republic, Scotland and Austria. The filmmakers followed the band on their 2011 tour, and even visited a recording session for Nazareth's album Big Dogz. Interviews with fans are also included to provide other interesting takes on this unstoppable band.
- A contemporary comedy continuing the highly popular Czech film franchise of the 1980s. After the death of his mother, Stepán (Pavel Kríz) tries to decide what to do with his life. He gets a new job, as a doctor riding with an ambulance service, but his personal life is falling apart. Then his best friend, Kendy (David Matásek), asks to move in after his wife kicks him out. The two men take this reversal of fortunes with good humor, and at first bachelorhood even has a certain appeal. But when Stepán meets Anna (Michaela Badinková) his life transforms. He is even given a shot at an administrative position at the local hospital, but is sitting behind a desk what he really wants. Perhaps the key to his happiness lies elsewhere.
- The comedy unfolds in the attractive environs of the never-ending filming of a TV series. The performance opens up with wonderful interplay of relationships, characters, situations, conflicts, big hopes and ambitious plans interwoven with a love motif. At the end of this bizarre story we are surprised by the harmony created from the discord of authentic human emotions.
- A loose continuation of the legendary television series from Fan Vavrincová. A new encounter with the family members from Taková normální rodinka (1971), who stole the hearts and emotions of millions of viewers in the 70's.
- Distinctive characters, a kind view of their dreams, worries, and transgressions, which none of us can avoid, an original plot... This is the prepossessing setting of a comedy that takes us to Zvestov, a picturesque Moravian village where the men like to re-enact a famous Napoleonic battle. They do it with such enthusiasm that they almost cause a tragedy and turn the romantic wedding of Tomas and a beautiful French girl, Claire, into bloodshed. In the end, everything is resolved with common sense and humor, but mostly with ordinary happiness and love, which drowns out all the sabre-rattling and is more powerful than dreams about fame.
- A unique documentary charting the creation of an invention that is designed to provide drinking water in the driest places on the Earth at almost zero cost and to create oases in deserts. As the EXPO exhibition is held on the Arabian Peninsula, Jirí Potuzník was thinking of how to make the desert more fertile and came up with an idea for a solution. He initiated a project to create a unit called S.A.W.E.R. Seven people are involved in assembling it and testing it in laboratories and then in desert conditions, and with each of them the director brings a small personal story - we find out how they live, how they work and how they think about the world. The story of the creation of S.A.W.E.R. is set in the larger context of the problem of water scarcity in many areas of the world. Let There Be Water. is the brainchild of award-winning writer and director Karel Zalud. The film is co-produced by the Czech Television and Komercní banka (which supports start-ups and research and development). The film was also supported by the Czech Film Fund.