Three shorts – “Suzie in the Garden” (2022), “Love, Dad” (2021) and “Red Shoes” (2021) – are brought together in this 40 minute program. Suzie […]

Capturing the imagination of audiences in our 2017 program, Iveta Grófová’s “Little Harbour” impressed crowds with an emotionally true coming-of-age drama, winning the Crystal Bear […]

Shredding conservative filmmaking into pieces, “Daisies” was banned in Czechoslovakia upon its release – ostensibly because of food wastage, but more likely because it puts […]

One is unlikely to forget this fantastical comedy from director Vojtěch Jasný, winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963. In a dual […]

Abetted by the brilliant Igor Luther’s grainy, overexposed black-and-white cinematography, Jakubisko’s inventive, existential, semi-autobiographical debut feature “signaled not only the birth of an exceptional talent, […]

This beautiful adaptation of a Brothers Grimm fairy-tale has become a staple of Slovak Christmases, notwithstanding its plentiful adult content, horrific elements and that it […]

“Happy New Year 2” is the rousing follow-up to the original, brightly toned “Happy New Year” (CaSFFA 2020). The story takes place on the last […]

After premiering at this year’s prestigious Visions du Réel, Lucie Králová’s ingenious “Kapr Code” appears here, for its Australian Premiere – tracing the life of […]

Mariana Čengel Solčanská’s’ “The Enchanted Cave” is awash in the genres of fantasy and fairytale, transporting audiences to a world of myths and legends. Hidden […]

Adam Ondra, the Czech climber and Olympic competitor, has broken a series of records in his career – whether as a mountaineer or a virtuoso […]

Four years on from his Karlovy Vary winning effort “Little Crusader” (2017), Václav Kadrnka returns with a film that plays like a spiritual journey – […]

This engaging KVIFF opener depicts the tremendous and turbulent journey of one of the 20th century’s finest athletes: Czechoslovak long-distance runner, Emil Zátopek. Václav Neužil […]

Jakubisko’s dreamlike, tragicomic final film to be made under the failing communist regime (albeit a West German co-production) dared to explicitly tackle – and, moreover, […]

Shot under highly straitened circumstances, and featuring astonishing cinematography from Igor Luther and a score by the great Zdeněk Liška, Jakubisko’s third feature, written with […]