Jan Hrebejk

Based on a true story, this film is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War. (Sony Pictures Classics)

In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers discover their truckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby behind. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. (imdb)

Artist Baedrich Mara (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fabera (Jiri Pecha) begins working on a piece about Baedrich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions of the historian's writing. (All Movie Guide)

Beauty in Trouble explores a young woman's romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set against the back drop of the recent floods in Prague, Beauty in Trouble is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising and paradox ending. (menemshafilms.com)

The film follows a trio of married couples, exploring the lives of their relationships: Jirka (Jiří Macháček) and Vanda (Táňa Vilhelmová) have a young daughter, but their love has started to erode; Roman (Roman Luknár) and Anna (Aňa Geislerová) appear to be happily married, trying to conceive, but infidelity will come between them (expats.cz)

Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is singled out to receive a "Memory of the Nation" medal, however, it transpires that this reputedly morally irreproachable dissident once collaborated with state security agencies, informing on a former friend of his wife, Borek, and ultimately being responsible for the latter's forced emigration. Josek's family and close friends try to come to terms with these new facts. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)

Oskar is a television weatherman. Like many fortysomethings, he tries to ward off his midlife crisis and his increasingly dissatisfying marriage with a steady stream of affairs. When he manipulates a weather report for the sake of flirting, the repercussions arequick to follow: Oskar finds himself jobless and wifeless. His carefree bachelor lifestyle interlaced with lovers of varying ages is not, however, idylilic.

The marital love between reputed doctor Tomᚠ(Ondřej Vetchý) and his wife Milada (Zita Morávková), who together with their teenage daughter live with the latter's father, Mr. Walters (Luděk Munzar), and sister Lída (Aňa Geislerová), in apparent familial harmony is cast into doubt in the form of a 14-year-old teenage patient Olinka (Anna Linhartová), who claims to have a love affair with the doctor. (ceskapozice.cz)

Two ostensibly ordinary middle-aged couples, Marie and Vitek, and Dita and Ondra, are linked by more than just a lifelong friendship, a shared house in a small town and same-aged adolescent children: they are linked by love. Both men, Ondra and Vitek, who are work colleagues, sincerely love their wives, but they both also harbour a secret yearning for the other's wife. (mubi.com)

The arrival of an uninvited guest casts a shadow over an idyllic wedding celebration in this wonderfully fraught meditation on guilt and forgiveness, directed by prolific Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk (The The Holy Quaternity). (tiff.net)

In early 1980s Czechoslovakia, a terrifying instructor, who heads the local Communist party, uses her pupils to manipulate their parents for her own personal benefit. (variety.com)

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named Baby (Martin Dejdar) who causes a local rebellion by bringing rock'n'roll to a Communist neighborhood raised on swing.