AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE On the eve of World War I, fifteen year-old Anka (Dana Droppová) arrives in Prague to work as a maid for a wealthy […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Every year, Liba has a simple birthday wish: to have her entire family together to celebrate. This year however, her son Petr has […]
VICTORIAN PREMIERE Set in an unsettlingly flaky near-future, Cristina Groșan’s second feature premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival, winning the ‘Best Director Under 40’ […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Inspired by true events, Big Dreams centres on 11-year-old Dom who spends much of his time daydreaming about Czech ice hockey legend Dominik […]
Presenting an expressively gritty and fearfully frenzied tale of human survival, Diamonds of the Night kicks off from the opening shots at break-neck speed, covering […]
10 year old Riki encounters a magical shining stone, one with lots of power and a mind of its own. Lured by its call, Riki […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Seeking inspiration for an upcoming film project, Zoja journeys to her family home in Southern Slovakia, her unexpected arrival causing a clash between […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In the proposed epoch of Eremocene, or The Age of Loneliness, natural life has taken a backseat to the virtual sphere. Here, Earth […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A large section of the sun has melted off and hurtles towards the planet, causing rolling heat waves where surface temperatures rise to […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Absurdities abound, as the quirkily diverse and desperate inhabitants of an apartment complex deal with relationships and familial trauma in Denis Šafarik’s hilariously […]
VICTORIAN PREMIERE Shot in crisp black-and-white, Ivo Trajkov’s melodrama Ballad of Piargy is a haunting tale that captures the tensions and moral dilemmas of a […]
This helter-skelter silent screwball comedy classic is a breathless mélange of assumed and mistaken identities, chase sequences, doppelgängers and fantasised murders. Anny Ondra (the original […]
Filmed in just a few weeks at Prague’s Barrandov Studios, this adaptation of the 1934 novel by Fan Vavřincová is considered one of Frič’s best […]
Death is just the beginning in this black comedy about a butcher who murders his wife and her lover. Literally told in reverse, it begins […]
Stars of Prague’s avant-garde Liberated Theatre, Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich wrote this Depression-era slapstick unionist comedy with director Frič and legendary screenwriter Václav Wasserman. […]
This madcap, sci-fi time-travel film set in the 1990s details a plot by neo-Nazis to journey back in time to furnish Hitler with the hydrogen […]
This bizarre, psychedelic take on the body-swap comedy sees Iva Janžurová (best known for her lead role in Juraj Herz’s Morgiana) play an assassin with […]
