Czech That Film

ICE MOTHER (BÁBA Z LEDU)
Friday, August 24 at 7:00pm | Sunday, August 26 at 7:00pm
Director: Bohdan Sláma | Narrative | 2017

Winner of the best screenplay award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, sixty-year-old Hana is unexpectedly given the impulse to break out of her routine when she meets her contemporary Brona.

8 HEADS OF MADNESS (8 HLAV ŠÍLENSTVÍ)
Friday, August 24 at 9:30pm
Director: Marta Nováková | Narrative | 2017

8 Heads of Madness follows the life of the talented Russian poet Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to the help of her poetry, hope for better days, and passionate love for a woman named Valentina.

MILADA
Saturday, August 25 at 4:00pm
Director: David Mrnka | Narrative | 2017

Milada is a historical drama based on the true story of Milada Horáková, a woman executed on the basis of fabricated charges of conspiracy and treason in a political show trial by the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia.

BAREFOOT (PO STRNIŠTI BOS)
Saturday, August 25 at 7:00pm
Director: Jan Sverák | Narrative | 2017

Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, a young boy named Eda opens up a world of trouble when he inadvertently reveals that his father has been listening to resistance broadcasts from London.

ACCUMULATOR 1 (AKUMULÁTOR 1)
Saturday, August 25 at 9:30pm
Director: Jan Sveráke | Narrative | 1994

In this sci-fi drama, Olda suffers from a total lack of energy and falls into a coma until a natural healer tries to rejuvenate him. In doing so, he learns that Olda has an “alter ego” inside the TV that sucks the energy from Olda every time he tunes in.

A PROMINENT PATIENT (MASARYK)
Sunday, August 26 at 1:00pm
Director: Julius Ševcík | Narrative | 2016

Winner of 12 of the prestigious Czech Lion Awards, A Prominent Patient is based on the true story of Czech diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, the son of Czechoslovakia’s founding father Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, as he desperately tries to save his homeland from Nazi occupation.

GARDEN STORE: FAMILY FRIEND (ZAHRADNICTVÍ: RODINNÝ PRÍTEL)
Sunday, August 26 at 4:00pm
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Narrative | 2017

Three young women and two children await the return of their imprisoned husbands and fathers from Nazi concentration camps. A family friend and doctor named Jiri watches over the women forced into a family union by the war.

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