Jan Kacer

After his father marries a teenage bride, 12-year-old Ondrej is banished from the household and sent to live and study with a strict religious order. It isn't long before the boy begins to reflect on existential matters and question his fundamental set of beliefs. Exploring the nature of faith and doubt, Czechoslovakian director Frantisek Vlacil's poetic rumination set during the Middle Ages packs a dramatic wallop. (Netflix)

The road show arrived to small village and after the play inhabitans are in some mysterious danger.

An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off.

Almost half-a-million widows older than 65 years lived in Czechoslovakia in late '60. Many of them spend the last years of their lives in the countryside. Their men died, children moved on, and they are left alone with their work and daily troubles, solitary with their fate, their beliefs, with memories of momentary happiness and past injustices, with wisdom and humility of age, as well as nature's simplicity which surrounds them all the time.

Discovering a mess and a lone earring at his remote cottage, rich philanderer Aksman (Jiri Bartoska, real-life head of the Karlovy Vary fest) begins to suspect son Artur (David Kraus) is involved in the disappearance and murder of dancer Marika (Barbora Seidlova). Meanwhile, a police task force led by determined Hrazdira (Martin Stropnicky) uncovers parents shielding kids who participated in a sex party that led to the killing. (variety.com)

"Everyday Courage" or "Courage for Every Day" is a beautifully made fllm of great poetic restraint about a young man living in Prague before the collapse of communism. It is best described as belonging to the school of realism which marked the Czech films of the sixties, and its director, Evald Schorm, was noted for his refusal to compromise the subject matter or style of his films with the regime which controlled the film studios. (www.surrealmoviez.info)

A documentary on the famous film director Frantisek Vlácil.

Based on novel L. Tolstoy. Filmed for Slovak TV. (KG)

The mind of a man whose life is apparently running smoothly but who attempts suicide is delved into in this sincere movie. The story catches up with him during his treatment at a mental health clinic which grants him short passes away, but to which he must return. (karagarga)

The story of a successful art historian who cannot decline anybody anything. As a result he starts making small lies and fake promises, but gets caught up in the net of them.

Agent W4C is a superspy sent to Prague to uncover a top secret microfilm hidden in a salt shaker. (.bonjourtristesse.net)

A boy is accidentally killed at an informal hunt somewhere on the border of two Central European countries. One of the people involved in the incident, Minister Berger, is the hot candidate for the influential international post of High Commissioner for Water Management, who will be tasked with finding the solution to increasing water shortages across Europe. The government hires secret agent Steiner to hush up the scandal.