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1462 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 18/12/2025.

Something Like Happiness

Combining quality cinema with festival acknowledgement and box office success is a tricky task. It seems that Bohdan Slama has got the recipe with that film regarded as the pleasant surprise of 2005  

24/11/2005 | Films | Reviews

Karlovy Vary prepares Short Films Festival in Prague

Prague’s efforts to have a competitive international film festival were always bound to fail since the country arguably already has a well established such occasion in Karlovy Vary. But it seems...  

18/11/2005 | Festivals | Czech Republic

Czechs rule, overall visits continue downwards trend

First is the good news. Czech productions continue unabated their domination of the national box office, as they have been doing for most of the autumn season. But there is also bad news: Czech...  

14/11/2005 | Box office | Czech Republic

Europeans for all tastes

For the second week running Europeans occupy the front seats in theatres across Czech Republic. Of the new six films released four are European, offering a variety of genres. While the next much...  

27/10/2005 | Releases | Czech Republic

Slama continues prize winning spree at Montreal

Bohdan Slama’s Czech film Something Like Happiness (Stesti) has continued its award winning dash by claiming the main prize for best film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, October...  

24/10/2005 | Awards | Czech Republic

Go East with IDF

The Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) and the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (JIDFF) are organising one of the biggest documentary film events focusing on Eastern European...  

24/10/2005 | Documentary | Czech Republic

Casino Royale bound for Barrandov shooting

The new James Bond, British actor Daniel Craig, will start his career in one of the industry’s most sought-after roles from Prague’s Barrandov Studios, according to reports. Stillking Films's...  

20/10/2005 | Production | Czech Republic

From Norrkoping to London

Czech film may be suffering from lack of sufficient state support at home, but this does little or nothing to harm their reputation abroad. Recently Petr Nikolaev’s A Little Piece of Heaven...  

20/10/2005 | Films | Czech Republic

A psychologist is Chytilová’s latest hero

A tragic comedy about how to avoid making illusions is Vera Chytilová latest film, Hezké chvilky bez záruky (no official working title in English), which starts filming in Prague 13 October. The...  

12/10/2005 | Production | Czech Republic

Sverak returns

Oscar winner Jan Sverak is to sit again behind the camera to direct a feature film, a comedy with the working title Returned Bottles (“Vratne lahve”). Filming should start in spring next year with...  

10/10/2005 | Production | Czech Republic

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