It is rare indeed that a documentary should prove to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year, yet such was the […]

In this satirical and even subversive take on the Thirty Years’ War, which preoccupied much of Europe between 1618 and 1648, Karel Zeman’s continuing innovations […]

This astonishing Expo ’58 Grand Prix winner was steampunk long before the term was coined. Drawing on Facing the Flag (1896) and other Jules Verne […]

The first fiction feature film from award-winning documentarist Jaroslav Vojtek, Children is a poetic omnibus compiling four stories of strained parent-child relations, each set in […]

Virginal 25-year-old Daniel studies at the literary academy in Prague, where his output caused friends to wonder whether he mightn’t be a paedophile. Through the […]

With the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and all that she has been training for, looming large, 18 year old sprinter Anna (Judit Bardós) is […]

Tomáš Hodan’s documentary, only recently to have premiered in Karlovy Vary, is a fitting testament to the homespun ingenuity of visionary filmmaker, animator and special […]

Pre-dating Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park by nearly 40 years, Karel Zeman’s first feature to synthesise live action with animation is equal parts delightful boys’ own […]

In this ribald biopic-come-cautionary tale, Karel Roden enjoys himself immensely in the role of the unapologetically profligate Jan Saudek (b. 1935), an internationally renowned photographer […]

Voted in 2000 by Slovak critics as the best Slovak film of all time, Dušan Hanák’s second feature film is an outstanding documentary that was […]

A selection of family-friendly shorts on the Big Screen in Federation Square. Please note that this compilation will screen on the Big Screen again on Sun […]

A selection of family-friendly shorts on the Big Screen in Federation Square. Please note that this compilation also screens on the Big Screen on Fri 18 Sep […]

This seldom-seen silent film concerns a legend about Petr Parléř (1330-99), architect to Charles IV, entrusted with the task of building the Gothic Saint Vitus […]

CaSFFA’s 2015 Closing Night film is a superb documentary on Marta Kubišová, an icon of the Prague Spring and the most popular singer in Czechoslovakia […]

Jules Verne’s 1892 novel The Carpathian Castle is given a Pythonesque treatment in this very funny, star-studded, sci-fi-horror romp directed by comedy specialist Oldřich Lipský […]

During World War II, a Polish deserter and organ virtuoso hides from the fascists in a Slovak monastery. Masquerading as “Brother Felix”, he lands in […]

Inspired by Gustave Doré’s engravings in the 1862 edition of Gottfried August Bürger’s book, Karel Zeman’s peerless Munchausen adaptation is a witty and beautiful succession […]

CaSFFA’s 2015 Opening Night film is a terrific, blackly comic social drama plucked from the Main Competition at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, […]

Žaneta and David are a young, downwardly spiralling Romani couple in an unglamorous Czech town where societal and bureaucratic attitudes to Romani people range from […]

Like in a fairy tale, all that the father and son team of Zdeněk and Jan Svěrák touches turns to gold. Following up from hits […]

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963, this forgotten gem is one of the most inventive, magical – and subversive – family-friendly […]