Jirí Lábus

A spirited ode to people of all ages. This Czech film is a celebration of living life to the fullest. (First Look Pictures)

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child. (imdb)

Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care... (imdb)

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel. (imdb)

Vaclav, the village loser, in his 40's bordering on autism, lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as the local fool, nothing but a constant pain for them, but there is a skeleton in the village closet concerning his father's death. He gets no mercy from his brother Frantisek either. The two forever compete for the attention of their mother, and now even for Frantisek's mistress Lida... (imdb)

A modern version of the medieval German legend about a rat-catcher who punishes the sinful and insolent town of Hammeln (Hamelin). The original legend serves only as a basis for a completely new piece from both the artistic and cinematic points of view. (bcdb.com)

An intimate ballad following the lives of a mother and daughter who go through topsy-turvy historical times. The plot is divided into four seasons set between 1939 and 1961. (imdb)

An intern who is rumored to be the son of a local communist dignitary arrives to work in a collective farm in Hostice, an ordinary Czechoslovakian village, and causes much unrest.

When asthmatic, six-year-old ONDRA is forced to throw away his scruffy, sawdust-stuffed teddy bear, KOOKY, he prays for the safe return of his friend. Kooky is about to be crushed in a rubbish dump when he suddenly comes to life, making his escape into a mysterious forest. The naïve, cuddly Kooky needs help to survive amongst the rough-and-ready creatures of the forest and he finds it when he meets the crotchety forest guardian HERGOT. (kukysevraci.cz/en/ofilmu.html)

Charming, strange and very talkative, Mr. Seman spends his days meeting and greeting the many people who pass by his ground floor apartment window. At different times he is a philosopher, preacher, or even therapist--influencing the individuals he stops while his placid demeanor conceals a darker reality. When he befriends a beautiful, young woman, life changes dramatically and the normally hidden side of his world begins to take over. (Amazon.com)

Hostice. A few days before Blazena's wedding, rumors are spread that his darling Venca has child in Prague. The wedding is canceled, but the mother of Blazena, will try to find a new and better husband for her daughter

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy". (imdb)

Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years... As they hesitantly agree to a reunion, they begin to find that the only way back to the top is through forgiveness. (themoviedb.org)

The invention "Superholografu" allows the flow of people between the real and the film world. It falls into the hands of unsuspecting comics and their trickster lookalikes, and they all become the target of interest five gangsters.

We are at a local pub in a small town. The pub is empty except for six amateur actors sitting in a corner. They've met to rehearse "The Insect Play" by the ?apek brothers. On a raised platform across the room we see a stage, set for Act II of the play. As the rehearsal progresses, the characters of the play are born and die with no regard to time. The actors slowly become one with them and some of them experience frightening transformations.

Based upon a novel by Miloš Urban A film full of Czech nature, wild passion and folklore poetics. Spanning centuries, myths, and legends The Hastrman tells the tale of a strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human. He is a Hastrman - a water spirit. Water is his element. (http://filmhastrman.cz/en)

Story about the friendship between a young villager Jemmy who arrives in medieval Prague, and his Goat. Jemmy falls in love with Katy - a street-wise girl from Prague. Goat is jealous, and starts to hate Katy. (imdb)

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Cat

Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition. (imdb)

Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets Petr Majer in the human world and falls in love with him. Spells, a magic ring, the crystal ball, a flying suitcase and magic things play a very important role in the series. (imdb)