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- Lena is seventeen years old and is on the threshold of entering adult life, but her growing up is brutally interrupted by a horrific event. Devastated, she goes into her shell and is scared to share her experience with others.
- Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
- On New Years Day, two innocent 12-year-old boys in a small town buys vodka for a young female teacher, Katerina's (Natálie Rehorová) and two other men (David (Martin Pechlát), her boyfriend, and his friend Stepanand (Jirí Cerný). They are invited to the house. Here they experience their first encounter with sexuality. The children lose track of time. They were expected home long ago. They drink, throw up and are intoxicated by love and "the shameless, unbridled and licentious" world in which David, Katerina and Stepán live.
- Zawana is confronted with several paths that open out defiantly before him, and he has to choose which one to take as the next step on his life's journey. The youth enters a small village monastery somewhere in Burma, led by its superior U Dahma. Zawana and the other novices are, as befits their age, playful and disobedient, and they find it hard to abide by the laws of the monastic robe. However, when U Dahma, who hasn't been running the monastery with a particularly firm hand, falls ill, the young man realizes that perhaps it's time to step out resolutely onto one of the paths and surrender to the school of life - and not only because his superior's death could mean the closure of the monastery.
- Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however does not exist and is not meant to. The advertising campaign includes radio and television ads, posters, flyers with photos of fake Czech Dream products, a promotional song, an internet site, and ads in newspapers and magazines. Will people believe in it and show up for the grand opening?
- Jabir, Usama and Useir are three young Bosnian brothers, born into a family of shepherds. They grew up in the shadow of their father, Ibrahim, a strict, radical Islamist preacher. When Ibrahim gets sentenced to two years in prison, for war participation and terrorism, the three brothers are suddenly left on their own.
- What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world? On the backdrop of a moving city, the citizens of the New Kiruna are fighting their own battles. We follow the teacher Timo, a local activist against the moving, the teenage Sami girl Maja who is discovering her family roots and cultural heritage as well as Abdalrahman, a teenage boy from Yemen, who came to the town as a refugee and slowly realizes that it takes more than just a paper to become a Swede. The seemingly very different characters are facing the same questions as the city is looking for its place. They are starting their personal search for identity, values and a greater future. Kiruna - A Brand New World is a portrait of a utopian and dystopian town as well as a hard-hitting reflection of today's society.
- The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.
- A romantic story about becoming the projections of ourselves in order to gain the knowledge of own identity. A lyrical parable about first love and role conflict takes place between the decaying autumn and the first manifests of winter in the vanished village of Maria Stock.
- Tereza is a sculptor and her husband Adam is a film director. She is suffocating in the relationship, she has no space and cannot concentrate on her work. The stagnant waters of this vicious situation only move when Adam's brother Majky shows up.
- A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family's break-up but also trying to understand.
- Colleagues, friends, and other close acquaintances all give their account of the man who led strife-torn Yugoslavia from German occupation in World War II and walked her down a political tightrope for 40 years, begrudgingly gaining the respect and admiration of both the Soviet and Western superpowers.
- It's April the 1st and Sylvia has made a fatal error. Abandoned by her boyfriend she sets out to the streets of Prague to win his love back.
- When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Brona is immediately convinced that it is an attack perpetrated by an "Arab". His colleague Standa sees things differently. A laconic film that explores the causes of racism.
- Like many others, Daniil has decided to leave his native Georgia and move to Prague in search of better pay. Originally a teacher, he finds a job with Ukrainian laborers controlled by a Russian boss and thus becomes a cog in the machinery that takes advantage of the work of illegal immigrants.
- A boy misses his mother. A husband misses his wife. A father misses his daughter. Three men grieve, in their distinct ways, the unbearable absence of someone they loved, to the detriment of loving each other.
- Elder brother Lukás (Josef Láska) and his teenage sister Nela, (Andrea Danková) begin to feel something other than a sibling relationship to each other.
- Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city, Prague, from their small home town. The euphoric dreams each had for themselves have not materialized and they are all starting to feel trapped in different ways. They all seem to know one thing: what they don't want in life. At a party back in their home town they reminisce over one of their early dreams: to buy a farm, live together and, most importantly, have fun with their lives. In the weeks that follow, each of them is faced with a crisis that brings this old dream into sharper, more sober focus. Can they make it a working reality? Do they really want to?
- When boarding a train Boy meets a Girl. He is immediately fascinated by her and watches her during the whole ride, thus becoming a witness to a burdensome moment in which the Girl is sexually harassed by two incoming strangers. The Boy would love to help her but gets overwhelmed by fear and doesn't step in. What follows is the development of an elusive yet vivid relationship. A game with a dark side of domestic violence at which end the Boy comes to a point in which he finally faces his fears.
- A vivid encounter with former three time Czech National Boxing Champion. Experience the rise and fall in the career of a female fighter.
- A young couple is enjoying a wild ride in their cabriolet, but, while they're only interested in each other, they crash into another car. The man ends up in hospital, paralysed and in company of a nurse that tries her best to console him. The only thing he has left is the passion he experienced with the girl in the car.
- Czechia demands Poland close a coal mine "Turow" because of its harmful impact on the environment. Thousands of Poles are afraid of losing their jobs. One of them - Teresa - decides to fight with the Czechs - In the potato salad contest.
- A little bloody Christmas tale - based on a true story of a carp.
- She's fifteen. She's the best in everything. Most of all tennis. At least in the district. For now.
- There are as many stories in the world as there are people, and Vasek, a timid guard at a gallery who becomes a reluctant painting thief, hears plenty of them on his train trip to Rome. This multilevel comedy road movie (on a train) and quest for the meaning of life is director Tomasz Mielnik's feature debut.
- The caretaker exhausted of everything. His frustrated wife. Totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to some absurd events, because sh_t happens all the time.
- YALLAH! follows today's most important and progressive underground artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel through years of rapid change from 2009 to 2014.
- Mom didn't ask me anything. She just took granny in. Now she lays in the middle of my room. And I have to take care of her. All the time.
- It's one bad day for Rudolf, a lonely 77-year old retired linguist, when he finds himself tailed by a dog he can't get rid of on his way to the post office. This encounter eventually leads to a complete and unexpected change in his life.
- The young writer rewrites the same story over and over again, trying in vain to come to a happy ending.
- Documentary film about the Large Hadron Collider in the world (LHC), which is located under the French - Swiss border.
- When you slowly stop believing that he will ever appear and even exist. Santa Claus? Maybe. Eva with her children and her new boyfriend spending Christmas, when there suddenly Eve's secret past comes to visit. Children are looking forward to him because they have stopped believing that He will ever appear again. But what about adults?
- Natural landscapes and folklore bring along fairy-tale magic and beauty, but also harsh reality. A young woman lives her life in harmony with the cycles of the mountain countryside. Will she have the courage to face her destiny? When it comes to fatal love, time becomes a relative quantity and the boundaries between reality and dream disappear.
- A nurse lives in a secret relationship with a married doctor. Samanta is a young Gypsy from a settlement, pregnant with her husband Milan, who is unfaithful to her. Both girls meet at a gynecological clinic. Gypises dance from joy but also from sadness. In this the dance it symbolizes the desire to learn how to live and not to be afraid. A piece of coal on a white cloth. That's what the nurse sees when Samanta, a young pregnant Gypsy from a nearby settlement, is standing in her health centre. The nurse is tangled in an unpromising relationship with a married doctor, which Samanta helps her to get out of. The road movie takes us into the corners of a wild settlement in eastern Slovakia, where the nurse sees herself through Samantha. A sad fairy-tale story reveals that only a woman who suffers, can really love.
- Constance, a gifted Carmelite novice, must make a choice: to pursue her vocation and obey, or to defy the lost hopes of all the other Sisters regarding her dying Superior.
- This bittersweet film was Roman Vávra's feature debut. The film consists of three independent stories, all connected through the motif of a field of grain. In 'Awn' a young couple takes a summer stroll in the country, in 'The Haystack' a gang of boys have an adventure with an older girl, and 'The Journey' recounts the tragicomic homecoming of a pair of aging newlyweds. For only the second time in the nineties Czech star Iva Janzurová appeared on the silver screen.
- A humorous love story that reflects the similarities between bird and human life.
- Temperatures are rising and crowds of people are spending their time at lakes like thirsty animals. Summer hits blasting from the speakers are silenced by an announcement that two boys went missing. We can witness a tragedy or lay down into the shadows with a feeling that it's not our problem.
- Doctors Ondrej and Katerina look after their patients to the best of their ability, but they can't prevent their death. Nevertheless, the inevitability of the end isn't the hardest thing they have to face as heads of palliative care at Prague's General University Hospital. A pilot project has emerged at a time when countless options are available to prolong human life; death is a social taboo and everyone has to confront his own mortality. Aware that a classic profile of the hospital would fall short, Adéla Komrzý submits a profoundly humanistic meditation on the ethics of palliative care. Betraying her special brand of empathy, she documents intimate conversations between doctors and their patients which demonstrate that, while there's no good or bad way to die, there's always a means to improve patients' quality of life.
- When Alma gets her first period, secrets arise in the family of three women.
- Suzie loves going with her parents to the garden settlement outside the city, where she discovers a magical secret painted on glass in vibrant oil colors, a world full of small wonders and natural beauty emerges.
- The memories of a Nazi soldier's romance unfold fifteen years after the end of WWII. The mystery of the consequence of an unbearable outrage to be revealed as syphilis turns into the nurse's payback: a 'sweet medicine' that carries the same mercilessness of her rape's perpetrators.