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1454 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 07/11/2025.

Martina Buchelová is preparing her feature fiction debut Lover, Not a Fighter

Martina Buchelová is preparing her feature fiction debut Lover, Not a Fighter

The emerging Slovak writer-director’s urban tragicomic love story utilises a romantic narrative to convey the tribulations and passions of Gen Z  

21/07/2022 | Production | Funding | Slovakia/Czech Republic

The MIDPOINT Writers’ Room is awaiting its new participants

The MIDPOINT Writers’ Room is awaiting its new participants

Designed not only to train participants in specialised writing skills but also to offer practical knowledge about the organisation of a writers’ room, the programme’s submission deadline is 1 August  

20/07/2022 | MIDPOINT 2022

REPORT: Czech Film Foundation 2022

REPORT: Czech Film Foundation 2022

A drama on the intersection of capitalism and environmentalism, and a biopic about a controversial Czech actress are among the 2022 winners for the best unrealised script  

15/07/2022 | Festivals | Awards | Czech Republic

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

Interview: Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

"My film is not an anti-drugs movie; I’m trying to be more progressive and show that the manipulation and mixing of different drugs is dangerous"

We had a chat with the director, whose feature BANGER., filmed entirely on an iPhone, follows the odyssey of a young drug dealer and aspiring musician through Prague at nighttime  

14/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Beata Parkanová • Director of The Word

Interview: Beata Parkanová • Director of The Word

“We often forget what we thought but never what we felt”

The Czech director, whose film won two awards at Karlovy Vary, turns back time and gets inspired by the story of her own family  

14/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Competition

Lukas Sturm, Lila Schwarzenberg • Directors of My Father, The Prince

Interview: Lukas Sturm, Lila Schwarzenberg • Directors of My Father, The Prince

“It is never too late to have a conversation between father and daughter, parents and children”

Czech politician and statesman Karel Schwarzenberg is the subject of this highly personal documentary by his daughter Lila and Lukas Sturm  

13/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Šimon Holý • Director of And Then There Was Love...

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of And Then There Was Love...

"To me, the movie is about manipulation more than about the relationship between mother and daughter"

In his newest feature, the filmmaker explores the manipulative world of fortune-telling and easy solutions in life  

12/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

Interview: Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

"Thanks to the clear evidence, this case is a blueprint for how corruption works throughout the region, but maybe also around the world"

The director unpicks his investigative documentary that tackles the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Special Screenings

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

Interview: Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

"Maybe the Western, liberal, individualistic way of thinking has gone too far, and we’re too obsessed with the personal side of things"

The directors talk us through their Proxima Grand Prix winner, which was filmed over the course of one week during the entrance exams for the Prague Academy of Arts  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

Review: And Then There Was Love…

Review: And Then There Was Love…

Šimon Holý’s sophomore feature is a quirky, melancholic comedy about two generations struggling to understand each other  

11/07/2022 | Karlovy Vary 2022 | Proxima

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