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346 articles available in total starting from 10/10/2005. Last article published on 18/09/2025.

Review: Kapr Code

Review: Kapr Code

Lucie Králová's documentary opera on Czech composer Jan Kapr is a multi-layered, accomplished work that sometimes struggles under the weight of its own ambition  

14/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022 | Burning Lights Competition

The Pop Up Film Residency Visegrad announces its selection

The Pop Up Film Residency Visegrad announces its selection

The second edition of the programme will take place in Budapest in June, welcoming four projects from the Visegrad countries  

14/04/2022 | Industry | Market | Czech Republic/Hungary/Poland/Slovakia

Lucie Králová • Director of Kapr Code

Interview: Lucie Králová • Director of Kapr Code

“We wanted to be as honest as possible and to find our own place in the story”

The Czech director’s documentary opera tells the life of composer Jan Kapr  

13/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022 | Burning Lights Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Visions du Réel title Kapr Code

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Visions du Réel title Kapr Code

Lucie Králová’s documentary explores the life of controversial Czech composer and prominent communist Jan Kapr  

08/04/2022 | Visions du Réel 2022

Servants director Ivan Ostrochovský revisits communist Czechoslovakia in follow-up drama The Spring

Servants director Ivan Ostrochovský revisits communist Czechoslovakia in follow-up drama The Spring

The period story from the award-winning Slovak director touches upon the subject of involuntary Roma sterilisations in 1980s Czechoslovakia  

07/02/2022 | Production | Funding | Slovakia/Czech Republic

SCANDI - Nordic Film Lesson takes the best Scandinavian cinema to the Czech Republic and Slovakia

SCANDI - Nordic Film Lesson takes the best Scandinavian cinema to the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The event will also host an online industry panel entitled “Why is Scandinavian cinema so successful in the world?”  

18/01/2022 | Festivals | Awards | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Abuse of power and sexual predation at the centre of Czech true-crime miniseries Guru

Abuse of power and sexual predation at the centre of Czech true-crime miniseries Guru

The series is an original production for local VoD service VOYO, which plans to pump in more original content in a bid for new subscribers amidst the streaming wars  

13/01/2022 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Czech project Broken Voices aims to tackle a sex-abuse scandal in all its complexity

Czech project Broken Voices aims to tackle a sex-abuse scandal in all its complexity

Filmmaker Ondřej Provazník has conducted a great deal of research into how to provide authentic perspectives on this controversial subject  

17/12/2021 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Ambitious Czech sci-fi detective film Restore Point starts shooting

Ambitious Czech sci-fi detective film Restore Point starts shooting

Robert Hloz’s feature debut takes place in the near future, where everybody has a constitutional right to have their life restored if they die an unnatural death  

10/12/2021 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland/Serbia

A child’s imagination meets wartime reality in Iveta Grófová’s World War II drama The Hungarian Dressmaker

A child’s imagination meets wartime reality in Iveta Grófová’s World War II drama The Hungarian Dressmaker

The Slovak filmmaker is currently shooting the movie with a Slovak-Czech-Hungarian film crew and with On Body and Soul’s Alexandra Borbély playing the lead role  

10/11/2021 | Production | Funding | Slovakia/Czech Republic/Hungary

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