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1387 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

Bogna Kowalczyk • Director of Boylesque

Interview: Bogna Kowalczyk • Director of Boylesque

“I like to say that you can steal your film, or your protagonist can give it to you”

The Polish director zooms in on drag queen Lulla La Polaca, asking: if you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?  

29/04/2022 | Hot Docs 2022

David Jařab starts shooting the Heart of Darkness-inspired Snake Gas

David Jařab starts shooting the Heart of Darkness-inspired Snake Gas

The Czech filmmaker is shooting a “river movie” parable that draws on Joseph Conrad’s novella  

27/04/2022 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest honours Ukrainian cinema and branches out to cover interactive VR

Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest honours Ukrainian cinema and branches out to cover interactive VR

The Czech gathering, which starts tomorrow, has prepared a line-up of 90 recent features across its competitive and non-competitive sections  

27/04/2022 | Febiofest Prague 2022

The 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival gears up to host original talents

The 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival gears up to host original talents

The gathering is launching a new initiative called KVIFF Talents and will host the work-in-progress programme of the 13th Odesa Film Festival, which was unable to take place because of the war  

26/04/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022

Nejc Gazvoda returns with Role Model

Nejc Gazvoda returns with Role Model

The Slovenian writer-director has started shooting his third feature, about a bullied boy and his mother, a school psychologist who has an enemy of her own  

26/04/2022 | Production | Funding | Slovenia/Czech Republic/Italy

Documentary The Killing of a Journalist to premiere at Hot Docs

Documentary The Killing of a Journalist to premiere at Hot Docs

Matt Sarnecki pays tribute to slain Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, while simultaneously following a story about rampant corruption  

25/04/2022 | Production | Funding | USA/Denmark/Czech Republic

Football satire Vyšehrad: Fylm resuscitates the Czech post-pandemic box office

Football satire Vyšehrad: Fylm resuscitates the Czech post-pandemic box office

Jakub Štáfek and Martin Kopp's movie, revolving around a foul-mouthed footballer, dominated the local box office during its opening weekend  

25/04/2022 | Box Office | Czech Republic

Tomáš Klein’s Czech road movie A Sensitive Person starts shooting

Tomáš Klein’s Czech road movie A Sensitive Person starts shooting

The emerging filmmaker is readying his feature debut, based on the book of the same name by Jáchym Topol  

21/04/2022 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Personal stories and social taboos abound in this year’s dok.incubator projects

Personal stories and social taboos abound in this year’s dok.incubator projects

The rough-cut training workshop has revealed the creative documentaries that have been selected for its 2022 edition  

20/04/2022 | Industry | Market | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Ex Oriente Film 2022 extends its deadline for submissions

Ex Oriente Film 2022 extends its deadline for submissions

The training initiative for Central and Eastern European creative documentary films and docuseries will be accepting new projects until 25 April  

20/04/2022 | Industry | Market | Czech Republic

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