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} -- ></style> </head> <body class="homeBack"> <table width="772" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="167" valign="top"> <div class="contentLeft"> <div class="textHighlight"> Film list:</div> <br /> <br /> <a href="#WeAreNotLikeThem" class="regularLink">We Are Not Like Them</a> <br /> (2009)<br /> <br /> <a href="#Rene" class="regularLink">René </a> <br /> (2008)<br /> <br /> <a href="#Bahrtalo" class="regularLink">Bahrtalo! (Good&nbsp;Luck!)</a> <br /> (2008)<br /> <br /> <a href="#Beetle" class="regularLink">The Beetle KFZ  1348 </a> <br /> (2008)<br /> <br /> <a href="#Return" class="regularLink">The Return </a> <br /> (2008)<br /> <br /> <a href="#LostHoliday" class="regularLink">Lost Holiday</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#Hermitage" class="regularLink">A Town called Hermitage</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#TheMinoxwasmyLife" class="regularLink">Walter Zapp - The Minox was my Life </a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#movie" class="regularLink">Movie</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#huddersfield" class="regularLink">Huddersfield</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#tomorrow-morning" class="regularLink">Tomorrow Morning</a> <br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#beyond" class="regularLink">Beyond the Forest</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#happiness" class="regularLink">Happiness and Freedom</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#in-a-shadow" class="regularLink">In a Shadow</a> <br /> (2007)<br /> <br /> <a href="#mitumba" class="regularLink">Mitumba</a> <br /> (2005)<br /> <br /> <a href="#zavis" class="regularLink">Zavis</a> <br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#industrial-elegy" class="regularLink">Indutrial Elegy</a> <br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#marcela" class="regularLink">Marcela</a> <br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#go-west" class="regularLink">Go West</a> <br /> (2005)<br /> <br /> <a href="#the-rules-of-lies" class="regularLink">The Rules of Lies</a> <br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#other-worlds" class="regularLink">Other Worlds</a> <br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#the-art-of-selling" class="regularLink">The Art of Selling</a><br /> (2006)<br /> <br /> <a href="#half-past-three" class="regularLink">Half Past Three</a><br /> (2006) <br /> <br /> <a href="#honeymoon" class="regularLink">Honeymoon</a><br /> (2006) <br /> <br /> <a href="#one-love" class="regularLink">One Love</a><br /> (2006) <br /> <br /> <a href="#czech" class="regularLink">Czech Dream<br /> </a>(2004)<br /> <br /> <a href="#gravehopping" class="regularLink">Gravehopping<br /> </a>(2005)<br /> <br /> <a href="#source" class="regularLink">Source<br /> </a>(2005)<br /> <br /> <a href="#shukta" class="regularLink">The Shutka Book of Records<br /> </a>(2005) <br /> <br /> <a href="#cooking-history" class="regularLink">Cooking History</a><br /> (2007)  in production <br /> <br /> <span class="boldText">TV DOCS</span><br /> <br /> <a href="#justice" class="regularLink">Justice Unseen<br /> </a>(2004)<br /> <br /> <a href="#voices" class="regularLink">Russia / Chechnya Voices of Dissent<br /> </a>(2005) </div> </td> <td width="435" class="contentFilmstripBack"> <div class="contentLogoAlign"> <img alt="" src="img/site/contentlogo.gif" width="314" height="89"> </div> <table width="433" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <div class="contentMenuBack"> <a href="index.htm" class="menuLink">HOME</a> &nbsp;::&nbsp; <a href="news.htm" class="menuLink"> NEWS</a> &nbsp;::&nbsp; <a href="films.htm" class="menuLink">Films</a> &nbsp;::&nbsp; <a href="about.htm" class="menuLink">About Us</a><br /> <br /> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="sectiontitle"> FILMS</div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="WeAreNotLikeThem"></a>We Are Not Like Them (2009)  IN PRODUCTION</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Cory Taylor</span><br /> <br /> <img alt="We Are Not Like Them" align="right" border="1" height="120" src="img/content/we-are-not-like-them/we-are-not-like-them.jpg" width="160" /> USA, 90 <br /> <p> The Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought an inspired end to communist tyranny in the Czech Republic and catapulted an outlaw playwright into the presidency. The film examines the struggle for human rights and emancipation in communist Czechoslovakia, focusing on the role of dissidents between 1968 and 1989. What was life like for this blacklisted minority, in contrast to the privileged lives of communist rulers and the vast majority of citizens who occupied the so-called grey zone between dissent and  collaboration. ? The film also uncovers alarming links between the attitudes and choices of parents living under communist dictatorship, on the one hand, and the disposition of their children who are now young adults, on the other. How do Czechs perceive their freedom nearly 20 years after the Velvet Revolution? Do the values for which dissidents sacrificed so much still exist in Czech society? </p> <p> The film is the first of six films being produced as part of an upcoming series entitled REVOLUTION taking place in different countries around the world. </p> <p> Watch the trailer: <a href="http://www.agoraproductions.org/trailer.html">http://www.agoraproductions.org/trailer.html</a> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="Rene"></a>René (2008)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Helena TYeatíková</span><br /> <br /> <img alt="René" align="right" border="1" height="110" src="img/content/rene/rene.jpg" width="160" /> Czech Republic, 90 <br /> <p>  Why has my shitty life turned out like this? No-one knows. Not even God. God s on holiday and he s reading porn  an excerpt from Diary of the Forgotten, the journal kept by die-hard criminal and imaginative writer René Pláail, the main protagonist in another of Helena TYeatíková s long-term documentaries. With raw authenticity, the director records the luckless fate of René over a period of twenty years as he yo-yos between prison and freedom. The life of René, who successfully stylises himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against a backdrop of important political events occurring in the CR and beyond its borders. The Velvet Revolution, the presidential election, 9/11 and the Czech Republic s accession to the EU. All this is  digested by René mostly from the confines of various prisons. The film also traces the director s intriguing relationship with her  subject of study , who sometimes feels like a prostitute selling his life story for filthy lucre, but for whom the visits from the film crew or his countless letters to Helena TYeatíková are often his only solace. </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="Bahrtalo"></a>Bahrtalo! (Good Luck!) (2008)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Róbert Lakatos</span><br /> <br /> <img alt="Bahrtalo! (Good Luck!)" align="right" border="1" height="120" src="img/content/bahrtalo/bahrtalo.jpg" width="160" /> Hungary, Austria, Germany, 80' <br /> <p> An original fiction documentary which follows a pair of Hungarian Borats on a journey across Europe. Lali, a moustached gypsy, and a bald guy named Lori come from Transylvania and are friends to the end. Though the failures of the charismatic duo have been many and their successes short-lived, their friendship manages to overcome all obstacles. It s a film full of sheer Eastern European poetry, effectively portraying the clash between the spontaneous East and the more reserved West. Encouraged by the director to play themselves, the actors deal with problems in their own, usually very peculiar way. Hovering on the border between documentary and fiction, the film always maintains its creative energy and pure spontaneity. </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="Beetle"></a>The Beetle KFZ  1348 (2008)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Gabriel Mascaro and Marcelo Pedroso</span><br /> <br /> <img alt="The Beetle KFZ  1348" align="right" border="1" height="110" src="img/content/beetle/beetle.jpg" width="160" /> Brazil, 81 + 55 <br /> <p> In 1965, a VW Beetle rolls off the production line in São Paulo. 40 years later, the same car with the license plate KFZ-1348 ends up in a scrapyard. The car s story through its eight owners paints a portrait of modern Brazil. The first owner is a prosperous young civil engineer from São Paulo. Over four decades, the car has had seven more owners from different social classes at different points in the history of Brazil. The film goes in search of their stories, with the car as the link between the various owners and their lives as unique windows on Brazilian society. </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="Return"></a>The Return (2008)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Jo Parkes and Sven O. Hill </span> <br /> <br /> <img alt="The Return (2008)" align="right" border="1" height="120" src="img/content/return/return.jpg" width="160" /> Cambodia, UK, Germany, 78 + 58 <br /> <p> Sathia lives through dance. As a child in Cambodia, she survives the brutal Khmer Rouge regime by dancing for the soldiers. After a road accident she is left in a wheelchair and accepts that she will never dance again, until she meets Katie, an English dancer, who wants her to return to the stage. </p> <p> Shot in Phnom Penh, with a soundtrack created with Cambodian master musicians, the film follows Sathia when she begins to dance again, struggling to reconnect with her body and to overcome her shame in a culture in which disabled people are often excluded from society. Will Sathia manage to make her debut as Cambodia s first professional disabled dancer? It is the story of an extraordinary friendship, following the pair in rehearsal, interview and daily life, intercut with atmospheric dance pieces shot on location in Cambodia.</p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="LostHoliday"></a>Lost Holiday (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Lucie Kralova </span> <br /> <br /> <img alt="Lost Holiday (2007)" align="right" border="1" height="110" src="img/content/lost-holiday/lost-holiday.jpg" width="160" /> Czech Republic, 84 <br /> <p> A DOCUMENTARY DETECTIVE STORY</p> <p> What would you do if you found a suitcase containing 22 rolls of undeveloped film in a Swedish dumpster? This gripping detective documentary follows the fascinating journey of a Czech film crew, who on developing the negatives, put their own identity on hold to discover those of the six unknown Chinese tourists captured in the 756 snapshots. Three years later, the story becomes part of the Chinese TV industry viewed by more than 300 000 000 Chinese citizens. </p> <p> How difficult is it to find 6 men in a country of 1.3 billion people? Every picture truly does tell a thousand words. A documentary about culture and identity, about memory and images, about deception and reality, the film shows that nothing is ever lost.</p> <p> <strong>Awards:</strong><br /> Best Documentary, Banja Luka International Film Festival 2008<br /> Crystal Globe for Best Documentary at IFF Karlovy Vary 2007<br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="Hermitage"></a>A Town called Hermitage (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Ondrej Provaznik + Martin Dusek </span> <br /> <br /> <img alt="A Town called Hermitage (2007)" align="right" border="1" height="110" src="img/content/hermitage/hermitage.jpg" width="200" /> Czech Republic, 74 + 52 <br /> <p> After World War II almost all of the local inhabitants, Sudeten Germans, were expelled from Dolní Poustevna (Upper Hermitage), a small town on the Czech side of the Czech-German border. During the following six decades new people have settled there. They have come from various corners of the world and built new lives in a place which is essentially without roots: A Vietnamese teenager who spends most of her time working at her family s stall and dreams of returning to the country of her birth; a Sudeten German pensioner, who is the last of Hermitage s pre-war inhabitants, having only been allowed to stay because the Czechs valued her skills as a maker of artificial flowers; a young Dutchman, who escaped with his family from the urban clamour of Western Europe in order to live closer to nature; a 50-year-old German engineer, who lost both his work and his family after the reunification of Germany and for whom the bars, markets and brothels of Hermitage have become a second home. Meanwhile, the mentally handicapped Luboa and his friends, who live at one of several local institutions, are ever-present fixtures in the unusual town. The film s characters reflect Hermitage s unexpectedly diverse community; for some of them the town is paradise, for others something closer to hell. They do not live together but alongside one another, in some respects rather like hermits. </p> <p> <strong>Awards:</strong><br /> Best documentary of 2007 in the Czech Republic, Czech Joy Award at Jihlava Documentary Film Festival 2007 <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="TheMinoxwasmyLife"></a>Walter Zapp - The Minox was my Life (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Kurt Widmer </span> <br /> <br /> <img alt="Walter Zapp - The Minox was my Life (2007)" align="right" border="1" height="160" src="img/content/minox/minox.jpg" width="120" /> Latvia, 52 <br /> <p> Photography enthusiasts know that Walter Zapp is the father of Minox, the first and revolutionary miniature camera of which more than one million copies have been sold since its invention in 1935. Because of its small size, the Minox became a legendary and sought after object for generations of spies - much to the displeasure of its inventor.</p> <p> During his life, Walter Zapp was often close to success, but circumstances always prevented the final break-through. The  Minox-scandal lead to him splitting from his own company at the end of the 1940 s and prompted his move to Switzerland where he lived and worked until his death in 2003 at the age of 97. </p> <p> To see him as just another gifted inventor and constructor who was a victim of history and circumstance would be too simple. He was much more than that: a loner, dogged and persistent throughout his life who, even when on camping holidays, would always walk around in a suit and tie. Who was this man who always built whatever his family needed himself, be it a caravan with a cooker or even the house that they lived in? </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="movie"></a>Movie (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Ivo Trajkov</span><br /> <br /> <img alt="Movie" align="right" border="1" height="110" src="img/content/movie/movie.jpg" width="160" /> Czech Republic, Macedonia - 84 <br /> <p> The Director is on the verge of catastrophe: the shooting of his film was cancelled, his production company has crashed and his long love relationship with a famous actress is shattered into pieces. Instead of paying back his debts, he buys an old 8mm camera, steals his former girlfriend s car and hits the road with a single purpose - to shoot the movie. On the road he meets The Hitchhiker, who becomes his companion on his journey. Together they meet The Girl, and soon they both find themselves attracted to her. </p> <p> Shot on 8mm, this unconventional road movie combines narrative and documentary images to create an independent filmmaker s manual, which results in an ironic introduction to the philosophy of auteur filmmaking. </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="huddersfield"></a>Huddersfield (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Ivan }ivkovic</span><br /> <br /> <img alt="Huddersfield" align="right" border="1" height="110" src="img/content/huddersfield/huddersfield.jpg" width="220"> Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 95 <br /> <p> An agitated <strong>Rasa</strong>, lives with his alcoholic father and tries to make ends meet by giving literature lessons to teenage girls and hosting a programme on the local radio. His regular morning of strong coffee and a smoke is interrupted by his neighbour, <strong>Ivan</strong>; a timid young man with a history of neurosis and involvement in various occult groups. His lover and sexy teenage student, <strong> Milla</strong> arrives for her private  class about Hamlet. Suddenly, the phone rings and Rasa is surprised to hear his close friend, <strong>Igor</strong>, is coming back to town after 10 years of living in a small town in England, Huddersfield. </p> <p> That evening, Rasa, Milla, Ivan and their friend <strong>Doole</strong>await the arrival of Igor. The get together starts of as a cheerful high school reunion that turns into an emotional roller coaster ride or reminiscing and grim soul searching. As their life stories are revealed we realize how the final decade of post-war Serbia has left on them and their entire generation. The question is, did they all take the right decisions for a brighter future? </p> <p> <strong>Awards:</strong><br /> <br /> Audience award at Banja Luka International Film Festival 2008<br /> Best actor - Nebojsa Glogovac, Nis Film Fest, 2007<br /> Award for Best Screenplay, Novy Sad, 2007<br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="tomorrow-morning"></a>Tomorrow morning (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Oleg Novkovic</span><br /> <br /> <img align="right" alt="Tomorrow morning" border="1" height="150" src="img/content/tomorrow-morning/tomorrow-morning.jpg" width="200"> Serbia, 84 <br /> <p> After twelve years in Canada, Nele returns to his native city Belgrade to get married. Memories of the past come back when he meets his old love, friends and parents again. They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. </p> <p>  Tomorrow morning is a story about love and friendship, about the need to bring back time and treasure the moment of happiness and being together, which happens only once and then never returns. </p> <p> <strong>Awards:</strong><br /> <br /> Karlovy Vary 2006 - EAST OF THE WEST AWARD /SPECIAL MENTION - Second award.<br /> Sopot - THE STATUE OF LIBERTY - Best film at the Festival.<br /> Herceg Novi - GRAND PRIX 20. HFF - GREAT GOLDEN MIMOSA - Best film<br /> Herceg Novi - GOLDEN MIMOSA for female lead role, Nada `argin<br /> Herceg Novi - GOLDEN MIMOSA for editing, Lazar Predojev<br /> Herceg Novi - GOLDEN MIMOSA for music, Miroslav Mitraainovi<br /> <br /> Nia - CARICA TEODORA, Nada `argin<br /> Nia - BEST EPISODE, Nebojaa Glogovac<br /> Nia - AUDIENCE AWARD, Lazar Ristovski<br /> <br /> IFF Alexandria - best screenwritter, MIlena Markovi<br /> IFF Alexandria - best actress, Nada `argin<br /> <br /> ICFF "BROTHERS MANAKI" Bitolj - Special mention, Director of photography - Miladin OLAKOVI<br /> <br /> Film Festival Cottbus 2006. - Main Prize for Best Film <br /> Film Festival Cottbus 2006. - FIPRESCI prize<br /> Film Festival Cottbus 2006. -  from cottbus to cinema  distribution support prize for a festival film <br /> <br /> Minsk 2006. - best screenwritter  Milena Markovi<br /> <br /> FIPRESCI prize awarded by Serbian critics to Oleg Novkovic as the best director in 2006<br /> FIPRESCI prize awarded by Serbian critics to Nada Sargin as the best actress in 2006 <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="beyond"></a>Beyond the Forest (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger</span><br /> <br /> <img align="right" alt="Beyond the Forest" border="1" height="200" src="img/content/beyond-the-forest/beyond-the-forest.jpg" width="150"> Austria  75 <br /> <p> An old man lives in a small Carpathian village in the countryside of Romania. He is a Saxon. Fifty kilometres away, a woman sits at her gravestone; she is Landleri and has already lived five years past the date of death that is engraved on her stone. <br /> <br /> The National Socialist regime turned both of them into perpetrators and into victims. Despite their difficult life stories marked by the Second World War, we can see two broken but humorous people, who witnessed the disappearance of their own culture. Their national pride forbade them to  mix with other people. Now both of them are old, alone, and they want to die. The best thing would be to simply  disappear from the world. <br /> <br /> The director, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, has been listening to both of them for six years. The result is a sensitive, yet humorous portrait of two people, which emotionally describes the history of the last century. Beautiful pictures of the Romanian landscape complete this portrait of a dying culture in Transylvania. <br /> <br /> </p> <p> <strong>Awards:</strong><br /> <br /> FIPRESCI Award at Transilvania International Filmfestival 2007<br /> Erasmus EUROMEDIA Sponsorship Award<br /> Best film at Saratov Sufferings Filmfestival, Russia, 2007 <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="happiness"></a>Happiness and Freedom (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: David Calek</span><br /> <br /> <img align="right" alt="Happiness and Freedom" border="1" height="133" src="img/content/happiness/happiness.jpg" width="200"> Czech Republic - 70 <br /> <p> Two courageous Czech women decide to set up an organization called Berkat (Happiness) with the aim of helping war victims, especially children. Jana Hradilkova and Petra Prochazkova discover the Sputnik camp on the Chechen-Ingush border, the home of 9,000 refugees, who live not only in fear and sadness but also with joy, dance, music and art. They discover the children's dance group Marsho (Freedom) whereby they decide to organize a trip abroad for them, so that they can proudly present their national dances and music. Their aim was to allow the children to experience something other than the horrors of war, but ordinary life in a warless country. Jana and Petra devote their love, time and effort and permit the children to meet new people, gain new experiences, but most importantly, to encourage their long-lasting passion of traditional dance; the only aspect from their destroyed homeland that remains with them and excitement for life in a free world. <br /> <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="in-a-shadow"></a>In a Shadow (2007)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir. Nemanja Bala</span><br /> <br /> <img align="right" alt="In a Shadow" border="1" height="150" src="img/content/in-a-shadow/in-a-shadow.jpg" width="200"> Serbia, USA - 75 <br /> <p> Stories of an immigrant, a businessman, a photographer and a detective intertwine on a New York City night that begins with a mysterious death on a subway platform. </p> <p> As we spend time with each character as a suspect, we witness their daily lives and learn how their status and profession create very different personal moralities in connection with the mysterious death. </p> <p> This atmospheric film lyrically integrates narrative and documentary images to paint an unsettling impression of contemporary New York City. </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="mitumba"></a>Mitumba (2005)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Raffaele Brunetti</span><br /> <br /> <img align="right" alt="Mitumba" border="1" height="260" src="img/content/mitumba/mitumba.jpg" width="200"> Italy  52 <br /> <p> The story about a T-shirt... and how it travelled from the North of the South of the world. It is the inside-out story of a piece of clothing s first and second life and everything that happens in between. The tale is told by the people in volved in the second hand clothes trade and by the thoughts of a traveller. He starts out from Hamburg, Germany, shadowing a T-shirt that belonged to Felix, a 10-year old football fan. Four months later he arrives in Tanzania, at the village of Ilambilole, where the T-shirt finally reaches 9-year old Lucky, another football fan, who lives in a small village. Along the way he encounters an incredible number of people who had something to do with the T-shirt and whose livelihoods revolve around the buying and selling of second-hand clothes and shoes. Deals, people and places create the route of the used clothes trade (mitumba), a hidden and winding road that reveals a surprising reality.<br /> <br /> Mitumba is an entertaining yet objective documentary characterized by attractive images, an excellent screenplay and a rhythm that advances the narrative of a T-shirt as a metaphor for the relationship between north and south. What do you think will happen to your worn out clothes once you donate to charity?<br /> <br /> <strong>Awards:</strong><br /> <br /> Globo d oro 2004-2005 for best documentary<br /> Selected by Arte for Prix d Europe 2005<br /> Cinema del Reale - Award Cinema del Reale (Italia, 2006)<br /> Torino Cinema Ambiente - Award Legambiente (Italia, Turin 2006)<br /> Winner of the Napoli Film Festival (Naples, June 2007)<br /> <br /> <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="zavis"></a>Závia, the Prince of Pornofolk under the influence of Griffith s  Intolerance and Tati s  Monsineur Hulot s Holiday or The Establition and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918 - 1992)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Karel Vachek</span><br /> <br /> <img align="right" alt="Zavis" border="1" height="138" src="img/content/zavis/zavis.jpg" width="200"> Czech Republic  147 <br /> <p> A dog s funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a motorbike show. Its common denominator is the commercial interest of sponsors and big business, the ambivalent winners of privatization and participants of numerous corruption affairs. Vachek debates corruption and environmental disaster, but insists that there is an alternative. Against the mass of  pseudoevents is the independent techno-party CzechTekk, raided by the police despite the fact that it was entirely law-abiding, whose participants are Vachek believes to be the new  unionists . <br /> <br /> <a href="download/Vachek-retrospective.doc"> <img src="img/site/append.gif" style="border: none;" alt="Download the Retrospective of the Director Karel Vachek" />Download the Retrospective of the Director Karel Vachek</a><br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="industrial-elegy"></a>Industrial Elegy (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Daniela Gebova</span><br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/industrial-elegy/industrial-elegy.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right" alt="Marcela"> Czech Republic  70 <br /> <p> Beauty and ugliness, sadness and joy, unreality, weirdness, and colourfulness of the emarkable place, where time has draw up. Film tells a story of the old mining settlements in the Northern Moravia and their bizarre inhabitants who migrated to this area from all corners of Europe to get a job. Now the settlements are like a god-forsaken open-air museum of an old industrial architecture and a specific way of life. A multinational mixture of characters live here together - old farmer, repairman of vintage cars, former miners and intellectuals, madmen, Romanies, children and old ladies. The absurd situations of an everyday life raise both tears and smile. At the outskirts of a former industrial city we can feel an omen to its future downfall... <br /> <br /> An amazing documentary about the mines houses colony in Ostrava (coal miners town of the Czech Republic) and the life there after the mines were closed down. The director, Daniela Gebova, tried to catch the last opportunity to capture this disseapearing part of the world before the colony is knocked down completely. <br /> <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="marcela"></a>Marcela (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Helena Trestikova</span><br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/marcela/marcela.jpg" width="127" height="180" border="1" align="right" alt="Marcela"> Czech Republic - 82 <br /> <p> The life of Marcela, an ordinary Czech woman is explored throughout several decades of her life. The documentary observes several important societal issues. We are engaged to struggle and fight back with Marcela as her tragic life unfolds before our eyes especially dealing with her daughter s unexpected death which almost drives her to suicide. However, the responsibility she feels for her retarded son gives her the will to survive. The making of Marcela was initially part of a six-part series on Czech television about the fate of six married couples but the events that happened throughout Marcela s life arose a wave of solidarity from the Czech public who sent her money and personal support. This was the reason why Helena TYeatíková decided to focus solely on a documentary about Marcela. The distressing destiny of Marcela s life and the act of human support from the Czech public was therefore, worthy to be expressed in this film. She is currently looking forward for a better future. <br /> <br /> <b>Awards:</b><br /> <br /> <strong>Grand Prize at CRONOGRAF Film Festival, Moldova 2008</strong><br /> <strong>Best documentary at Ismailia International Film Festival 2007</strong><br /> <strong>Best European documentary at Festival de Cine de Sevilla 2007<br /> </strong><strong>Honourable Mention Award at 36th Lubuskie Film Summer  Aagów 2007<br /> </strong><strong>Award for Best Czech Documentary 2007 at Finale Plzen Film Festival, Plzen, Czech Republic<br /> </strong> <br /> <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="go-west"></a>Go West (2005)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Ahmed Imamovic</span><br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/go-west/go-west.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right" alt="Go West"> Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia  97 <br /> <p> Gay lovers Kenan, a Muslim cellist, and Milan, a Serbian student, fight to survive the brutal inter-ethnic wars of early  90s in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their intimate and public life is marked by a growing aggression and hatred. The lovers decide to flee to Milan s home village and hide at Milan s father Ljubo.They want to get to Netherlands from there. With growing brutality of the Serbian units and their hatred against Muslims, Milan doesn t want to risk and convinces Kenan to dress up as a woman. He is presenting him as a his girlfriend Milena. Milan is called up which makes the situation unbearable for Kenan. Waitress Ranka, who is avoided by local village people, becomes Milena s only companion. It has fatal consequances for her... <br /> <br /> <b>Ahmed Imamovic</b> achieved worldwide success with his first film named <b>10 minutes</b>, which won the award for the <b>Best European Short Film</b>. <br /> <b>GO WEST</b> is his first feature, which premiered at <b>World Film Festival Montreal</b>. At <b>Thessaloniky</b> IFF the film received the <b>award of the audience for the Best Film</b>. At <b>Festival du Cinema Montpellier</b> the film received <b>Critics award</b> and <b>Audience award</b>. <br /> <br /> </p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="the-rules-of-lies"></a>The Rules of Lies (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Robert Sedlacek</span><br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/the-rules-of-lies/the-rules-of-lies.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right" alt=""> Czech Republic  119 <br /> <p> Twelve recovering drug addicts attempt to clean themselves up at a makeshift rehab center  a remote farmhouse in the middle of the countryside. They have committed every sin imaginable: they have lied, stolen, cheated, thought only of themselves, and one has even murdered. What should be long forgotten has returned, and a bomb is ticking beneath the community. Will the truth come out? If the truth is what people remember.... They fall in love and forgive, and seek out their better selves with only each other to rely on. But can a person completely stop lying and still survive among other humans? <br /> <br /> <b>CRITICS AWARD</b> for the <b>Best Czech Film of 2006</b><br /> <b>CZECH LION AWARD</b> for the <strong>Best script</strong><br /> <b>Kristian prize for the Best feature films at Febiofest 2007</b><br /> <strong>Film Culture Club Award</strong> at <strong>36th Lubuskie Film Summer  Aagów 2007</strong><br /> <br /> <br /> Pictures at the website: <a href="http://www.pravidlalzi.cz">www.pravidlalzi.cz</a><br /> To order a screener, please email: <a href="mailto:jarmila@taskovskifilms.com" class="regularLink"> jarmila@taskovskifilms.com</a></p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="other-worlds"></a>Other Worlds (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Marko `kop</span><br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/other-worlds/other-worlds.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right" alt=""> Slovak Republic, Czech Republic  75 <br /> <p> Six heroes lead a different way of life than we know from television. They live traditions and follow customs and try to be faithful to the heritage of their ancestors. And yet, some of them long to become famous and be seen on TV. Even at this so-called end of the world, globalization changes their lives. Eastern Slovakia became a  melting pot of many religions, nationalities and cultures but in reality we live a different life than is presented by media nowadays. <br /> <br /> Audience and Special Jury Awards at 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006 Euro Media Award, Vienna, 2006 Prize of the Film Culture Club, 36the LLF Lagów, 2006 <br /> <br /> To order a screener, please email: <a href="mailto:jarmila@taskovskifilms.com" class="regularLink"> jarmila@taskovskifilms.com</a></p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="the-art-of-selling"></a>The Art of Selling (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik Estonia  86 &amp; 59 </span><br /> <br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/the-art-of-selling/the-art-of-selling.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right" alt=""> The young democracy explores the practices of the market economy. Eager for change, Raigo, a young student of theology and Mare, rather passive middle aged widow, together with several others try their luck in the selling business. All you need to do is follow the path of Peep, estonian star in motivation training, or Evelin, who in just a few years turned from a dull mother of twins into a happy, emancipated and successful bussiness woman. But is everything in life a matter of how you sell yourself? Can Evelin s motto  manipulate and be manipulated lead everyone to happiness? And does the church really sell God? <p> To order a screener, please email: <a href="mailto:jarmila@taskovskifilms.com" class="regularLink"> jarmila@taskovskifilms.com</a></p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="half-past-three"></a>Half Past Three (2006)</span> <br /> <span class="newsdate">dir:Tomáa Hodan</span> <br /> Czech Republic - 75 <br /> <br /> <img src="img/content/half-past-three/half-past-three.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" alt="" align="right"> Peculiar and unconventional people living in a peculiar and unconventional place. Get to know uneasy life of several individuals who weren t able to choose their destiny, but who refuse to grumble about it. Transcarpathia is a place where the flow of time has stopped, but it doesn t really bother anyone. If you don t have enough to buy milk you must find a cow. If your house burns down, you must build a new one. But if there is a holiday, one must make a vodka& <p> To order a screener, please email: <a href="mailto:jarmila@taskovskifilms.com" class="regularLink"> jarmila@taskovskifilms.com</a></p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="honeymoon"></a>Honeymoon (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Drazen Stader</span><br /> Slovenia - 58 <br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="img/content/honeymoon/honeymoon.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right">Paradise TV is a 24-hour sex driven live pay-tv channel in Japan. You can witness the making of one of their shows, more precisely the making of an interactive sex show named Honeymoon. We follow the ups and downs of a teenager named Ono, who dreams of becoming an adult video director and is directing this kind of show for the first time in his life. The main character beside him is a teenage actress Makoto, a wannabe adult video star, who is also appearing in this show for the first time. On top of that, the story is taking place on Christmas Eve. Explore the phenomenon of Japanese massive sexploitation. <br /> <br /> Best Adult Themed Documentary, NY Independent Film Festival, 2006 <p> To order a screener, please email: <a href="mailto:jarmila@taskovskifilms.com" class="regularLink"> jarmila@taskovskifilms.com</a></p> </div> <div class="newsarticle"> <span class="boldText"><a name="one-love"></a>One Love (2006)</span><br /> <span class="newsDate">dir: Petr Zahradka</span><br /> Czech Republic  79 <br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="img/content/one-love/one-love.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="1" align="right">The Rastafarians in Ethiopia have been celebrating the 73rd anniversary of the coronation of Ethiopia's last Emperor, Haile Selassie, whom they consider to be reincarnated God and the Messiah of the African people. The Rast