České filmy 2018 – 2019

The story of Jan Palach is a story without any surprising ending, since it is impossible to conceal the outcome in the case of Palach. Everyone knows what he will do, how he will do it, when and why he will do it. There are no popular conspiracy theories surrounding Palach either, as his case was duly investigated by two regimes, the totalitarian and the current one. Tragedy constitutes the foundation of Jan Palach’s story. A young man dies and, what’s more, of his own volition. A human life dedicated to the awareness of the whole is thereby terminated at the beginning of its opportunities. However, it gradually transpires that even an absolute act can have relative consequences.

Festivals & Sales: CINEART TV Prague, Viktor Schwarz, 261711044@iol.cz

AIC database: http://www.aic.sk/slovak-films/22248.html

Screenings:
29. 6. 2019 13:00 Congress Hall
2. 7. 2019 19:30 Husovka Theatre
4. 7. 2019 14:00 Cinema B

Song (20), a young Vietnamese, was naive to believe he might find a better future in Europe but now he is in the Vietnamese district in Prague, locked in a marijuana laboratory, and he lives as a modern slave. The police raids the building. Song runs away across the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district where he breaks down. Mr. Retaf (75) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in strong opposition to the modern world. Retaf goes up onto the roof and meets Song standing on the very edge of the roof crying. Retaf intervenes…

Festivals & Sales: DAWSON films, Monika Kristl, reception@dawson.cz, www.dawson.cz

AIC database: http://www.aic.sk/slovak-films/22498.html

Screenings:
29. 6. 2019 10:30 Husovka Theatre
3. 7. 2019 18:30 Small Hall
5. 7. 2019 22:30 Cinema B

The Kite deals with the issue of death, but it does so in a simple metaphorical and symbolic way on the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa. The film explains that none of us are here forever and that all living creatures must die, but also shows that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

Festivals: BFILM, Alexandra Gabrižová, bfilm@bfilm.sk, www.bfilm.sk

Sales: Magnetfilm, Georg Gruber, georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

Screenings:
29. 6. 2019 9:00 Cinema B
3. 7. 2019 12:30 Small Hall
5. 7. 2019 16:30 Husovka Theatre

In 1938, young Czechoslovaks learn to play basketball from American Mormons at YMCA camp. When the war starts, their coach is arrested and executed and the team is taken over by young lawyer Franta. After the liberation, Franta visits the prison where their coach died, picks up a handful of soil, puts it in a box and fasten it with tricolour stripe. The team carries this talisman to European Championship in Geneva and miraculously, they become the winners. However, everything changes again with the communist coup. The basketball players are persecuted, Franta is arrested. The weakened team is still going to the championship in Paris. But will they succeed?

Festivals & Sales: BUC-FILM, Jaroslav Bouček, bucfilm@bucfilm.cz, www.bucfilm.cz

AIC database: http://www.aic.sk/slovak-films/23145.html

Screenings:
28. 6. 2019 11:30 Cinema B
30. 6. 2019 13:30 Husovka Theatre
4. 7. 2019 19:30 Lázně III Cinema