Home

Gregorius, the Chosen One

Feature Film / Comedy / 90 min / 2026

Czech Republic / Poland / Romania

Director: Tomasz Mielnik
Production: Background Films, Mozaika Films, deFilm, Magic Lab
DoP: Jan Šuster

Co-production

An absurd comedy loosely based on Thomas Mann’s novel The Holy Sinner. A wandering storyteller recounts the life of Gregorius, a child of sin who spends seventeen years chained to a rock and ends up as pope.

• Karlovy Vary IFFSpecial Screenings2026 Official Selection

Bára Basiková

Documentary / Music / 98 min / 2026

Czech Republic

Director: Helena Třeštíková
Production: Negativ, Czech Television
DoP: David Cysař

A time-lapse documentary following Czech rock singer Bára Basiková over some thirty years, contrasting her media image with her private and professional struggles.

• Karlovy Vary IFFPrávo Audience Award2026 Winner

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Feature Film / Period Crime Drama / 112 min / 2026

United Kingdom

Director: Tom Harper
Production: Garrison Drama, Nebulastar, BBC Film
Studio / Network: Netflix
DoP: George Steel, Ben Wilson
Editor: Mark Eckersley
Production VFX Supervisor: Theo Demiris
Production VFX Producer: Lisa Renney
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

186 VFX shots for the feature film continuation of the series, delivered alongside One of Us and House of Good Vibes.

During the 1940 Birmingham Blitz, Tommy Shelby comes out of isolation to confront a Nazi plot to flood Britain with counterfeit money, a plot his estranged son Duke has been drawn into.

Lone Wolf

Docudrama / War / 94 min / 2026

Czech Republic / Poland

Director: Ondřej Veverka
Production: Rolling Media, Czech Television
DoP: Kryštof Tichý
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

VFX for the aerial combat sequences, together with QQ Studio Ostrava.

A docudrama about Josef František, the Czechoslovak fighter pilot who flew with the Polish 303 Squadron and became the top-scoring foreign pilot of the Battle of Britain.

The Crystal Planet

Animated Feature / Family Adventure / 97 min / 2026

Czech Republic / Croatia / Slovakia

Director: Arsen Anton Ostojić
Production: Alkay Animation Prague, Filmosaurus Rex, BFILM, Czech Television
DoP: Tomáš Sysel
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Michal Křeček

VFX

After a family tragedy, eleven-year-old Rea moves with her father to a newly colonised crystal planet, where she protects a rare creature and uncovers a threat to a hidden underground ecosystem.

• Pula FFSpecial Golden Arena2026 Winner
• Zlín Film FestivalFeature Competition2026 Official Selection

Everything As It Should Be

Feature Film / Romantic Drama / 101 min / 2026

Czech Republic

Director: Bohdan Karásek
Production: Beginner’s Mind, Czech Television, Magic Lab
DoP: Tomáš Uhlík

Co-production

Monika, a pregnant doctor, meets her ex-husband Petr for coffee to tell him about the baby. The afternoon turns into a long evening about what might have been and what could still be.

• Karlovy Vary IFFSpecial Screenings2026 Official Selection

Change My Mind

Documentary / Road Movie / 100 min / 2025

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Ukraine

Director: Robin Kvapil
Production: Punk Film, Czech Television, Magic Lab
DoP: Prokop Souček, Stanislav Adam

Co-production

A director takes three Czechs who sympathise with Putin’s Russia on a road trip through war-torn Ukraine to test their beliefs against what is happening on the ground.

• Czech LionBest Documentary2026 Nominee
• Czech Film CriticsBest Documentary2026 Nominee
• Ji.hlava IDFFCzech Joy2025 Official Selection

Father

Feature Film / Drama / 103 min / 2025

Slovakia / Czech Republic / Poland

Director: Tereza Nvotová
Production: DANAE Production, Moloko Film, Lava Films
DoP: Adam Suzin
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

VFX

After a tragic lapse of memory leaves his infant daughter in a hot car, a father is consumed by guilt and faces prison, while his marriage is tested by an unbearable loss.

• Venice IFFOrizzonti2025 Nominee
• Zurich FFGolden Eye2025 Winner
• CamerimageGolden Frog, Debuts2025 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Feature Film2026 Winner
• Antalya Golden OrangeBest Director2025 Winner
• Stockholm IFFBronze Horse2025 Winner

Nepela

Feature Film / Biopic / 100 min / 2025

Slovakia / Czech Republic / Poland

Director: Gregor Valentovič
Production: Punkchart Films, Cinetim Film, IN Film Praha
DoP: Adam Suzin
Editor: Roman Kelemen
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

140 VFX shots, DI and colour grading. Sun in a Net Award 2026 for Best Visual Effects.

After winning Olympic gold in 1972, figure skater Ondrej Nepela is celebrated by fans but pressured by the Czechoslovak regime to keep competing, while he searches for a place where he can be himself.

• Sun in a NetBest Visual Effects2026 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Editing2026 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Costume Design2026 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Feature Film2026 Nominee

The Czech Film Project

Documentary / 82 min / 2025

Czech Republic

Directors: Marek Novák, Mikuláš Novotný
Production: Xova Film, Background Films, KVIFF Events, Magic Lab, Studio BEEP
DoP: Martin Pokorný

Co-production

Inspired by Wim Wenders’ Room 666, twenty-nine Czech directors are filmed one by one in a single room of Hotel Thermal in Karlovy Vary and asked what makes Czech cinema Czech.

• Karlovy Vary IFFSpecial Screenings2025 Official Selection

Do the Mæth

Feature Film / Crime Comedy / 99 min / 2025

Czech Republic

Director: Marty Pohl
Production: Bratři, ZNK Productions, Magic Lab
Studio / Network: Netflix
DoP: Marek Brožek

Co-production

A young economist who moves to northern Bohemia falls in with the sons of a notorious meth cook, and his business know-how helps the family expand its illegal trade.

• Czech LionFilm Fans' Award2026 Winner
• Czech LionBest Film Poster2026 Nominee

Vyšehrad: Dvje

Feature Film / Comedy / 110 min / 2025

Czech Republic

Directors: Martin Kopp, Jakub Štáfek
Production: Gangbang Production
DoP: Jan J. Filip
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Michal Křeček

VFX

Washed-up footballer Lavi gets a move to an English club, but it quickly collapses. Back home he gets one last chance at a village club and tries to rebuild his career.

Summer School, 2001

Feature Film / Drama / 105 min / 2025

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Dužan Duong
Production: nutprodukce, Czech Television, Magic Lab
DoP: Adam Mach

DI · Co-production

In 2001, seventeen-year-old Kien returns from Vietnam to his family’s market stall in Cheb after ten years apart and faces an estranged father, a worn-out mother and a defiant younger brother.

• Czech LionBest Screenplay2026 Winner
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2026 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Screenplay2026 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsDiscovery of the Year2026 Winner
• Czech LionBest Film2026 Nominee
• Karlovy Vary IFFSpecial Screenings2025 Official Selection

Anorgasmia (all the things we do to survive)

Feature Film / Drama / 92 min / 2025

Iceland / Canada / Czech Republic

Director: Jón Einarsson Gústafsson
Production: Artio Films, Great Canadian Film Factory, BFILM
DoP: Graeme Dunn
Magic Lab VFX Producers: Michal Křeček, Andrea Shaffer

VFX

After a failed hostel hook-up in Reykjavík, Sam and Naomi are stranded in Iceland when a volcanic eruption grounds all flights, and set off together into the highlands to film it.

• Warsaw IFFMain Competition2025 Official Selection

Hunger Strike Breakfast

Feature Film / Drama / 85 min / 2025

Lithuania / Czech Republic / Latvia

Director: Karolis Kaupinis
Production: M-Films, Background Films, Tasse Film
DoP: Simonas Glinskis
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

VFX

In January 1991, after Soviet troops seize Lithuanian Television, a small group of dismissed staff begin a hunger strike in a trailer outside the station.

• Silver Crane AwardsBest Costume Design2026 Winner
• Silver Crane AwardsBest Make-up2026 Winner
• Warsaw IFF1-2 Competition2025 Official Selection
• Black Nights FFBaltic Competition2025 Official Selection

Living Large

Animated Feature / Comedy / 80 min / 2024

Czech Republic / Slovakia / France

Director: Kristina Dufková
Production: Barletta, Novinski, Novanima Productions, Czech Television, RTVS, Magic Lab
Producers: Matej Chlupáček, Agata Novinski, Marc Faye
DoP: Václav Fronk

Co-production, 900 VFX shots, DI and colour grading.

A twelve-year-old boy bullied for his weight tries to turn his life around by dieting and winning over the girl of his dreams.

• Annecy IAFFContrechamp Jury Award2024 Winner
• Czech LionBest Animated Film2025 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Animated Film2025 Winner
• European Film AwardsAnimated Feature Film2024 Nominee
• Locarno FFLocarno Kids2024 Official Selection
• Karlovy Vary IFFHorizons2024 Official Selection

Supersisters

Feature Film / Superhero Fantasy / 105 min / 2024

Poland

Director: Maciej Barczewski
Production: Aurum Film
Studio / Network: Netflix
DoP: Cezary Stolecki

250 VFX shots highlighting superpowers such as antigravity and electricity. The climactic scene shows a massive dam being destroyed.

A teenager finds herself pursued by the military after she discovers she can manipulate gravity.

The Editorial Office

Feature Film / Drama / 126 min / 2024

Ukraine / Germany / Slovakia / Czech Republic

Director: Roman Bondarchuk
Production: Moon Man, Elemag Pictures, Silverart, MasterFilm, South Films
Producer: Darya Bassel
DoP: Vadym Ilkov

Colour Grading · VFX

While searching for a marmot thought to be extinct, young biologist Yura witnesses arson on the Kherson steppe. His attempt to expose it pulls him into a sensationalist local news portal and an absurd web of politics and media.

• Kinokolo AwardsBest Screenplay2024 Winner
• BerlinaleForum2024 Official Selection
• Sarajevo FFCompetition2024 Official Selection

Azrael

Feature Film / Action Horror / 85 min / 2024

United States

Director: E. L. Katz
Production: Traffic., C2 Motion Picture Group
Studio / Network: IFC Films, Shudder
DoP: Mart Taniel
Magic Lab VFX Producers: Michal Křeček, Andrea Shaffer

VFX

In a post-Rapture world where speech is forbidden, a young woman captured by a silent cult and offered as a sacrifice to demonic creatures escapes and fights back.

• SXSWMidnighters2024 Official Selection
• Sitges IFFOfficial Fantàstic2024 Official Selection
• Fantasia IFFOfficial Selection2024 Official Selection

Oxygen Station

Feature Film / Biographical Drama / 106 min / 2023

Ukraine / Czech Republic / Sweden / Slovakia

Director: Ivan Tymchenko
Production: Svitlofor Film, Silk Films, HOBAB, Flying Colors Pictures
DoP: Thomas Stokowski

Colour Grading · VFX

USSR, 1980. Crimean Tatar activist and political prisoner Mustafa Jemilev is exiled to Siberia, where he works at an oxygen station. Three people cross the vast country to reach him, one to meet him, one to destroy him and one to protect him.

• Black Nights FFMain Competition2023 Official Selection

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

Animated Feature / Family / 82 min / 2023

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Hungary

Director: Filip Pošivač
Production: Nutprodukce, Czech Television, RTVS, Kouzelná animace, Filmfabriq
Producers: Jakub Viktorín, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
DoP: Denisa Buranová
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček

600 VFX shots, DI and colour grading. The visual effects won the Sun in a Net award for Best Visual Effects.

Eleven-year-old Tony was born glowing and spends his days hidden at home dreaming of a friend. When a peculiar girl named Shelly moves into his building before Christmas, the two set out to find the source of the mysterious darkness that is draining the light from their house.

• Annecy IAFFContrechamp Jury Award2023 Winner
• Czech LionBest Animated Film2024 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Visual Effects2024 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Animated Film2024 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsAudiovisual Achievement2024 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Cinematography2024 Winner

Endless Borders

Drama / 111 min / Thriller

Iran / Czech Republic

Producer: Kaveh Farnam, Farzad Pak
Director: Abbas Amini
DoP: Saman Loftian
Edit: Hayedeh Safiyari

VFX, Color Grading

A teacher befriends a Hazara refugee family from Afghanistan, but his own prejudices are challenged as he realizes the impact of dogma on their lives. When he decides to help a forbidden love, he risks dire consequences for everyone involved.

• IFFR 2023VPRO Big Screen Award

Jules au pays d’Asha

Feature Film / Family Adventure / 89 min / 2023

Canada

Director: Sophie Farkas Bolla
Production: Luminous Beasts, Terre Innue, Coop Vidéo de Montréal
DoP: Simran Dewan
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

VFX

In 1940, Jules, a boy with a rare skin condition, moves to a settler village in northern Quebec. Following his runaway dog into the forest, he meets Asha, a young Indigenous girl.

• Giffoni FFCONAI Special Award2023 Winner
• Zlín FFChildren's Films2024 Official Selection

Scarborn

Feature Film / Historical Drama / 120 min / 2023

Poland / Sweden / Germany

Director: Paweł Maślona
Production: Aurum Film
DoP: Piotr Sobociński Jr.
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

150 VFX shots including heavy historical retouches, set extensions, muzzle flashes and CG enhancements.

In 1794, General Tadeusz Kościuszko returns to Poland with his companion Domingo to start an uprising against Russia, hunted by a Russian cavalry captain.

• Gdynia FFGolden Lion2023 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsBest Director2024 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsBest Screenplay2024 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsSupporting Actress2024 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsBest Sound2024 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsBest Costume Design2024 Winner

Il Boemo

Feature Film / Historical Drama / 140 min / 2022

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Italy

Director: Petr Václav
Production: Mimesis Film, Dugong Films, sentimentalfilm, Czech Television, Magic Lab
DoP: Diego Romero

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading

In the second half of the 18th century, the young Czech composer Josef Mysliveček leaves for Italy to make his name at the heart of European opera. Talent, charisma and luck bring him fame and access to the highest circles of society, yet he dies poor and forgotten in Rome.

• Czech LionBest Film2023 Winner
• Czech LionBest Director2023 Winner
• Czech LionBest Costume Design2023 Winner
• Czech LionBest Makeup & Hair2023 Winner
• Czech LionBest Production Design2023 Winner
• San Sebastián IFFOfficial Competition2022 Official Selection

Butterfly Vision

Feature Film / Drama / 107 min / 2022

Ukraine / Czech Republic / Sweden / Croatia

Director: Maksym Nakonechnyi
Production: Tabor, MasterFilm, 4 Film, Sisyfos Film Production
Producers: Darya Bassel, Yelizaveta Smith
DoP: Khrystyna Lyzohub
Editors: Ivor Ivezić, Alina Gorlova
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

All shots of destroyed cities, bomb craters and the drone footage controlled by Lilia were created with VFX, together with the CG butterfly that appears in her dreams.

Aerial reconnaissance specialist Lilia returns home to Ukraine after months as a prisoner of war and discovers she is pregnant by one of her captors. She must face her trauma in a society that is not ready to accept her or the child.

• Odesa IFFBest Ukrainian Film2022 Winner
• Trieste FFCineuropa Prize2023 Winner
• CannesUn Certain Regard2022 Official Selection
• Karlovy Vary IFFHorizons2022 Official Selection
• Sarajevo FFIn Focus2022 Official Selection
• Palm Springs IFFNew Voices2023 Official Selection

PSH – Neverending Story

Documentary / Music / 70 min / 2022

Czech Republic

Director: Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
Production: Bionaut, Czech Television
Producers: Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček
Editor: Tomáš Elšík

Colour Grading

Orion, Vladimir 518 and Mike Trafik of the legendary Prague rap group PSH look back on graffiti, early rap, fame, excess, crises and comebacks. A candid triple portrait of three friends on the cusp of middle age.

• Karlovy Vary IFFPrávo Audience Award2022 Winner
• Karlovy Vary IFFSpecial Screenings2022 Official Selection
• Ji.hlava IDFFTV Documentaries2022 Official Selection

Kapr Code

Documentary / Opera / 91 min / 2022

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Lucie Králová
Production: Mindset Pictures, DOCUfilm Praha
Producers: Andrea Shaffer, Martin Řezníček
Libretto: Jiří Adámek
DoP: Tomáš Staněk, Adam Oľha, Petr Příkaský, Jakub Halousek, Martin Řezníček
Editor: Adam Brothánek
Music: Petra Šuško

Co-production · Colour Grading

A documentary opera about the contradictory life of composer Jan Kapr (1914 to 1988), a Stalin Prize laureate and prominent communist who was later banned in socialist Czechoslovakia, told through opera songs and his own never-before-seen amateur films.

• Krakow FFBest Music Documentary2022 Winner
• Ji.hlava IDFFBest Czech Documentary2022 Winner
• Czech LionBest Documentary2023 Nominee
• Czech Film CriticsBest Documentary2023 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Editing2023 Nominee
• Visions du RéelBurning Lights2022 Official Selection

Poslední závod

Feature Film / Historical Sports Drama / 102 min / 2022

Czech Republic

Director: Tomáš Hodan
Production: Punk Film, Czech Television, Magic Lab, innogy
Producer: Ondřej Beránek
DoP: Jan Baset Střítežský
Editor: Anna Johnson Ryndová

Co-production · Colour Grading · VFX

In 1913, a cross-country ski race in the Giant Mountains between Czech champion Bohumil Hanč and German-born athlete Emmerich Rath turns into a fight for survival. Based on true events, it is a story of friendship across national lines.

• Czech LionBest Cinematography2023 Winner
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2023 Nominee
• Karlovy Vary IFFHorizons2022 Official Selection

Vyšehrad: Fylm

Feature Film / Comedy / Sport / 105 min / 2022

Czech Republic

Directors: Martin Kopp, Jakub Štáfek
Production: Gangbang Production
DoP: Jan Filip
Editor: Tomáš Klímek

VFX · Colour Grading

Football star Lavi has finally started to prosper on the pitch and in love, but at his lavish wedding he learns that he has an eight-year-old son. Now he has to keep his bride, look after the boy and fight his way up from Vyšehrad.

Somewhere Over the Chemtrails

Feature Film / Comedy / Drama / 85 min / 2022

Czech Republic

Director: Adam Koloman Rybanský
Production: Bratři, FAMU, Czech Television, FreeSaM, Magic Lab
DoP: Matěj Piňos
Editor: Alan Sýs

Co-production · Colour Grading

When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Bronya is immediately convinced that it was an attack by an “Arab”. His colleague Standa sees things differently. A laconic film that explores the causes of racism.

• BerlinalePanorama2022 Official Selection
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2023 Nominee
• Czech Film CriticsDiscovery of the Year2023 Nominee

Citizen Miko

Documentary / 75 min / 2022

Czech Republic

Director: Robin Kvapil
Production: Silk Films
Producer: Martina Štrunc
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček

Data Management · Colour Grading · Deliverables & DCP

Over three years, the film follows truck driver Jaroslav Miko, co-founder of The Czechs Help initiative, as he prepares to house child refugees from Greek camps the Czech government refuses to take in.

• Ji.hlava IDFFCzech Joy2022 Official Selection
• Thessaloniki Doc FFIntl. Premiere2023 Official Selection

The Devil Conspiracy

Feature Film / Horror Thriller / 111 min / 2022

Czech Republic / United States

Director: Nathan Frankowski
Production: Czech Anglo Productions, Film Mode Entertainment, MBM3 Films
Studio / Network: Samuel Goldwyn Films
DoP: Milan Chadima
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer

VFX

A biotech company secretly run by a Lucifer-worshipping cult tries to free the Devil from Hell using the Shroud of Turin, and the Archangel Michael comes to Earth to stop them.

To the North

Feature Film / Drama / 122 min / 2022

Romania / France / Greece / Bulgaria / Czech Republic

Director: Mihai Mincan
Production: deFilm, Remora Films, StudioBauhaus, Screening Emotions, Background Films
DoP: George Chiper-Lillemark

VFX

In 1996, a devout Filipino sailor on a transatlantic cargo ship finds a Romanian stowaway on board and risks everything to hide him from the officers. Based on real events.

• Venice IFFOrizzonti2022 Nominee
• Gopo AwardsBest Debut Film2024 Winner
• Gopo AwardsBest Cinematography2024 Winner
• Karlovy Vary IFFHorizons2023 Official Selection

Women

Feature Film / Crime / Thriller / 92 min / 2021

Iceland

Director: Anton Sigurdsson
Producer: Anton Sigurdsson
DoP: Gunnar Auðunn Jóhannsson
Editor: Sharif M. Es. Ali

VFX

A small-town detective investigates a sociology professor when a mutilated body is found and women have gone missing from his class.

Dear Ones

Feature Film / Comedy Drama / 74 min / 2020

Poland / Czech Republic

Director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Production: MD4, Axman Production, EC1 Łódź
Producers: Karla Stojáková, Agnieszka Kurzydło
DoP: John Magnus Borge, Robert Lis
Editor: Krzysztof Komander

Piotr is looking for purpose and order in his life. When his estranged father calls to say that Piotr’s mother has disappeared, Piotr and his sister join the search and uncover a series of strange discoveries.

• Karlovy Vary IFFEast of the West2021 Nominee
• Gdynia FFMain Competition2020 Nominee

Cesta domů

Feature Film / Comedy / 91 min / 2021

Czech Republic

Production: Bontonfilm Studios, Czech Television, innogy, Vorelfilm
Producer: Ondřej Kulhánek
Director: Tomáš Vorel
DoP: Tomáš Vorel
Editor: Jakub Jurásek

The final part of Tomáš Vorel’s village trilogy, after Out of the City and Path in the Woods, completes the stories of three countryside families who live off homemade products while facing nature and the pressures of city life.

Leave No Traces

Feature Film / Historical Drama / 160 min / 2021

Poland / France / Czech Republic

Director: Jan P. Matuszyński
Production: Aurum Film, Les Contes Modernes, Canal+ Polska, Background Films
Producers: Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham
DoP: Kacper Fertacz
Editor: Przemysław Chruścielewski

VFX

Poland, 1983. High school student Grzegorz Przemyk is beaten to death by the militia. Based on true events, the film follows Jurek, the only witness to the beating, who overnight becomes the number one enemy of the state.

• Venice IFFGolden Lion2021 Nominee
• Gdynia FFSilver Lion2021 Winner
• Cottbus FFBest Director2021 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsSupporting Actor2022 Winner
• Ostend FFLOOK! Best Film2022 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsBest Film2022 Nominee

Bird Atlas

Feature Film / Drama / 92 min / 2021

Czech Republic / Slovenia / Slovakia / France

Director: Olmo Omerzu
Production: endorfilm, Czech Television, Cvinger Film, Punkchart Films, Melocoton Films
DoP: Lukáš Milota
Editor: Jana Vlčková

VFX · Colour Grading

An ageing owner of a technology company, played by Miroslav Donutil, has dedicated his whole life to his work, so it comes as a big blow when things suddenly start to fall apart at the seams.

• Karlovy Vary IFFMain Competition2021 Official Selection
• Czech LionBest Film2022 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Director2022 Nominee

My Sunny Maad

Animated Feature / Drama / 85 min / 2021

Czech Republic / France / Slovakia

Director: Michaela Pavlátová
Production: Negativ, Sacrebleu Productions, BFILM
Producers: Petr Oukropec, Kateřina Černá, Ron Dyens
Magic Lab Post-production Supervisor: Michal Křeček

Colour Grading · Deliverables & DCP

Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, and moves with him to Kabul, where she lives with his family in a country changing after the fall of the Taliban.

• César AwardsBest Animated Film2023 Winner
• Annecy IAFFJury Award, Features2021 Winner
• Golden GlobesBest Animated Feature2022 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Animated Film2022 Nominee

A Vanishing Fog

Feature Film / Drama / Fantasy / 76 min / 2021

Colombia / Norway / Czech Republic

Director: Augusto Sandino
Production: Schweizen Media Group, Magic Lab
DoP: Gio Park
Editor: Augusto Sandino

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading

In Colombia’s sacred Sumapaz Páramo, the world’s largest high-altitude tundra and a lawless criminal backroad, mountain guard F defends the land with his father and other natives. A mystical portrait of life’s end and beginning.

• SXSWZEISS Cinematography2022 Winner
• Black Nights FFMain Competition2021 Official Selection
• Málaga FFZonazine2022 Official Selection

The Man with Hare Ears

Feature Film / Comedy / 104 min / 2020

Slovakia / Czech Republic

Director: Martin Šulík
Production: Titanic, IN Film Praha, RTVS, Czech Television
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Marek Šulík

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Josef, a sixty-year-old writer who thinks nothing can surprise him anymore, answers a phone call one evening and is caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside down.

• Warsaw IFFBest Director2020 Winner
• Warsaw IFFEcumenical Jury Award2020 Winner
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2022 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Actor2022 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Supporting Actor2022 Winner
• Czech LionBest Film2022 Nominee

Je Suis Karl

Feature Film / Drama / 126 min / 2021

Germany / Czech Republic

Production: Pandora Film Produktion, Negativ
Director: Christian Schwochow
DoP: Frank Lamm
Editor: Jens Klüber

Somewhere in Berlin. But not just any time, this is here and now. A postman delivers a parcel and, soon afterwards, everything changes. A terrorist attack rocks a family to the core.

• German Film AwardsBest Feature Film2021 Nominee
• German Film AwardsBest Actress2021 Nominee
• German Film AwardsBest Actor2021 Nominee
• BerlinaleSpecial Gala2021 Official Selection

Scumbag

Feature Film / Political Thriller / 100 min / 2020

Slovakia / Czech Republic

Directors: Mariana Čengel Solčanská, Rudolf Biermann
Production: In Film, Magic Seven, CinemArt
DoP: Ivan Finta
Editor: Ondřej Azor

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

In a small country run by criminals, politicians, police and big business, a teenage addict abused at a re-socialisation centre is turned away by the police. She turns to a journalist who uncovers a web of crime, corruption and blackmail reaching the very top of power.

• Warsaw IFFCompetition 1-22020 Nominee

Meky

Documentary / Music / 80 min / 2020

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Šimon Šafránek
Production: Negativ, PubRes
Co-production: Miro Agency, Czech Television, RTVS
Producers: Kateřina Černá, Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Colour Grading · DCP

An intimate portrait of singer Miroslav Žbirka, known to everyone as Meky, combining his own candid account with footage from a recent London concert and archive material.

• Karlovy Vary IFFKVIFF at Your Cinema2020 Official Selection

The Pack

Feature Film / Sports Drama / 94 min / 2020

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Latvia

Director: Tomáš Polenský
Production: 8Heads Productions, Furia Film, Ego Media, Magic Lab
DoP: Andrejs Rudzāts

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

David, a talented 16-year-old goalie recently diagnosed with diabetes, joins a new ice hockey team, the Wolves. He soon becomes an outsider and the target of escalating bullying.

• Black Nights FFJust Film Youth2020 Official Selection
• Zlín Film FestivalYouth Competition2020 Official Selection

Charlatan

Feature Film / Biographical Drama / 118 min / 2020

Czech Republic / Ireland / Slovakia / Poland

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Production: Marlene Film Production, Film & Music Entertainment, Madants, Furia Film, Czech Television, Magic Lab
Producers: Šárka Cimbalová, Kevan Van Thompson
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Pavel Hrdlička

Co-production · VFX

The story of Jan Mikolášek, a gifted and almost forgotten Czech healer who treated millions of people while living under both Nazi and Communist rule.

• BerlinaleSpecial Gala2020 Official Selection
• Czech LionBest Film2021 Winner
• Czech LionBest Director2021 Winner
• Czech LionBest Actor2021 Winner
• Czech LionBest Cinematography2021 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Actor2021 Winner

Anatomy of a Czech Afternoon

Short Film / Drama / 22 min / 2020

Czech Republic

Director: Adam Martinec
Production: Breathless Films, FAMU
DoP: David Hofmann
Magic Lab Post-production Producers: Michal Křeček, Andrea Shaffer

Post-production

On a crowded beach at a Czech lake, a mother searches for her two missing sons. As the unthinkable happens, the bathers slowly understand, then leave as if it were not their concern.

• Czech LionBest Short Film2021 Winner
• Czech LionBest Student Film2021 Winner
• CILECT PrizeBest Fiction Film2021 Winner

City on the River

Feature Film / Tragicomedy / 110 min / 2020

Latvia / Czech Republic / Lithuania

Director: Viesturs Kairišs
Production: Ego Media
Producer: Guntis Trekteris
Co-production: 8Heads Productions, Artbox, Magic Lab
DoP: Gints Bērziņš

Co-production · Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Set in a small Latvian town in the 1930s and 1940s, this tragicomedy follows a naive yet wise young sign painter caught in a dangerous love triangle, as successive brutal regimes sweep through his country and his life.

• Lielais KristapsBest Screenplay2020 Winner
• Lielais KristapsBest Leading Actor2020 Winner
• Lielais KristapsBest Supp. Actress2020 Winner
• Lielais KristapsBest Sound2020 Winner
• Black Nights FFCompetition2020 Official Selection
• Lielais KristapsBest Film2020 Nominee

Karel Svoboda: Šťastná léta

Documentary / 75 min / 2019

Czech Republic

Director: Petr Klein Svoboda
Production: Goodmind
Producers: Lucia Klein Svoboda, Petr Klein Svoboda
Co-production: Czech Television
DoP: Jan Kadeřábek, Petr Klein Svoboda
Editor: Michal Novák

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading

The happiest and most productive years of Czech composer Karel Svoboda, seen through the eyes of his son Petr and the people from Czech pop culture who worked with him. The documentary combines archive material with private family footage.

Two Roads

Documentary / 80 min / 2019

Czech Republic

Director: Radovan Síbrt
Production: PINK, HBO Europe
Producers: Karel Poupě, Alžběta Karásková, Hana Kastelicová
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček, Radovan Síbrt, Lukáš Milota
Editors: Tomáš Elšík, Jorge Sánchez Calderón

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Are today’s bands still about sex, drugs and rock’n’roll? The documentary Two Roads (Postiženi muzikou) follows the extraordinary musicians of The Tap Tap, a Czech band whose members live with disabilities.

• Ji.hlava IDFFAudience Award2019 Winner
• Czech LionBest Documentary2021 Nominee

Son-Mother

Feature Film / Drama / 102 min / 2019

Iran / Czech Republic

Director: Mahnaz Mohammadi
Screenplay: Mohammad Rasoulof
Production: Europe Media Nest, Filminiran
DoP: Ashkan Ashkani
Editor: Mohammadreza Muini

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Ever since Leila’s husband died, she has had to take care of her 12-year-old son Amir and his little sister on her own and earn a regular income without support. When the kind-hearted widowed bus driver Kazem proposes to her, she and her son face a serious decision, because the new marriage is tied to an impossible condition.

• Alice nella CittàSpecial Jury Award2019 Winner
• Istanbul FFAudience Award2020 Winner
• FebiofestAmnesty Int. Award2020 Winner
• Zurich FFInt. Feature Film2019 Nominee
• Toronto IFFDiscovery2019 Official Selection
• AFI FestWorld Cinema2019 Official Selection

Vlastníci

Feature Film / Comedy / Drama / 97 min / 2019

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Jiří Havelka
Production: CinemArt
Producer: Marek Jeníček
Co-production: Czech Television, CinemArt SK
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Editor: Otakar Šenovský

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

The owners of flats in an old tenement house gather for a residents’ meeting to decide the future of their building. Idealists, pragmatists, manipulators and the quietly overlooked try to find common ground and achieve the impossible.

• Czech LionBest Screenplay2020 Winner
• Czech LionBest Actress2020 Winner
• Czech LionBest Supp. Actress2020 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Screenplay2020 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Actress2020 Winner
• Czech LionBest Film2020 Nominee

Hra

Feature Film / Comedy / Drama / 93 min / 2019

Czech Republic / Chile / France / South Korea

Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Production: Film & Roll, Jirafa, Arizona Productions
Producers: Veronika Finková, Augusto Matte, Bruno Bettati, Guillaume de Seille
Co-production: Magic Lab, Jeonju Cinema Project, Sleepwalker
DoP: Inti Briones
Editor: Alejandro Fernández Almendras

Co-production · Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Petr, a young theatre director in a small Czech town, sets out to stage an ambitious adaptation of Euripides’ Phaedra. As rehearsals fall apart and he falls for his lead actress, his marriage and the production both head for disaster.

• Torino FFFesta Mobile2019 Official Selection

Národní třída

Feature Film / Drama / 91 min / 2019

Czech Republic / Germany

Director: Štěpán Altrichter
Production: Negativ, 42film
Producers: Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec
DoP: Cristian Pirjol
Editor: Jan Daňhel

VFX

Vandam likes to get into fights. When a local man threatens to close down his favourite pub unless Lucka, the barmaid he loves, pays back her debts, Vandam has to fight for both the woman and the place.

• Czech LionBest Actor2020 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actress2020 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2020 Nominee
• Cottbus FFCompetition2019 Nominee

Hodinářův učeň

Feature Film / Fairy Tale / Fantasy / 102 min / 2019

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Jitka Rudolfová
Production: Evolution Films
Producer: Pavel Berčík
Co-production: PubRes, Czech Television, RTVS
DoP: Ferdinand Mazurek
Editor: Jakub Hejna

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

A fairy tale about Urban, an orphan taken in as an apprentice by a miserly watchmaker. To win the hand of the watchmaker’s daughter Laura, he sets out on a dangerous journey to find a watch that can warn its owner of Death.

• Czech LionBest Music2020 Winner
• Czech LionBest Stage Design2020 Nominee
• Czech LionCostume Design2020 Nominee
• Czech LionMakeup & Hairstyling2020 Nominee

The Glass Room

Feature Film / Historical Drama / 104 min / 2019

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Julius Ševčík
Production: IN Film Praha
Producer: Rudolf Biermann
Co-production: Czech Television, Slovenská produkčná, In Vestito
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Jarosław Kamiński

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Based on the novel by Simon Mawer, the film tells a story of love, friendship and important life choices. Its heroines Liesel and Hana are bound together in a lifelong relationship and to one extraordinary house, built by the architect Rainer von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor.

• Czech LionBest Cinematography2020 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Music2020 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Sound2020 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Stage Design2020 Nominee
• Czech LionCostume Design2020 Nominee
• Czech LionMakeup & Hairstyling2020 Nominee

My Grandpa is an Alien

Feature Film / Family / Sci-Fi Adventure / 79 min / 2019

Croatia / Luxembourg / Norway / Czech Republic / Slovakia / Slovenia / Bosnia and Herzegovina

Directors: Dražen Žarković, Marina Andree Škop
Production: Studio Dim
Co-production: Wady Films, Filmbin, MasterFilm, Senca Studio, Artileria, Fabrika, Croatian Radiotelevision, Magic Lab
DoP: Sven Pepeonik
Editor: Marina Andree Škop

Co-production · VFX – part of the team that won the Golden Arena for Best Visual Effects at the 2019 Pula Film Festival.

In a single moment, young Una’s life is turned upside down. Her grandpa is abducted by aliens and her mum ends up in hospital. Una discovers that her grandpa is an alien himself and, with the help of a grumpy little robot, has less than 24 hours to rescue him.

• Pula Film FestivalGolden Arena, Best VFX2019 Winner
• Pula Film FestivalGolden Arena, Best DoP2019 Winner
• Black Nights FFJust Film2019 Official Selection
• Zlín FFChildren's Films2019 Official Selection
• Warsaw IFFFamily Cinema2019 Official Selection
• Molodist Kyiv IFFTeen Screen2019 Nominee

The Good Death

Documentary / 83 min / 2018

Slovakia / Czech Republic / Austria / France

Director: Tomáš Krupa
Production: Hailstone
Producers: Tomáš Krupa, Dagmar Sedláčková
Co-production: MasterFilm, ARTE G.E.I.E., Golden Girls Film, First Hand Films, RTVS, Czech Television
DoP: Ondřej Szollos
Editor: Peter Kudlička

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Janette, a British woman with an incurable disease, knows she cannot conquer death but wants to decide how and when she dies. As assisted suicide is illegal in the UK, she prepares for a journey to Switzerland before her illness progresses too far.

• One World IDFFCzech Competition2019 Winner
• Ji.hlava IDFFBetween the Seas2018 Official Selection

Leakage

Feature Film / Drama / 104 min / 2018

Iran / Czech Republic

Director: Suzan Iravanian
Production: Europe Media Nest, Rainy Pictures Production
Producers: Majid Barzegar, Kaveh Farnam
DoP: Ramzi Hibri, Sajad Avarand
Editors: Majid Barzegar, Suzan Iravanian

VFX

Foziye, a woman in her fifties whose husband has vanished, discovers that her body produces crude oil. The gift empowers her but also brings uncertainty and paranoia, as her family uses the oil to solve small domestic and immigration problems until her body stops producing it.

• BerlinaleForum2019 Official Selection

The Humorist

Feature Film / Drama / 101 min / 2019

Russia / Latvia / Czech Republic

Director: Michael Idov
Production: Metrafilms, Tasse Film, Sirena Film
Producers: Artem Vasilyev, Andrey Saveliev, Aija Berzina, Alise Gelze, Artemio Benki
DoP: Alexander Šurkala
Editor: Michal Lánský

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading

It is 1984. Boris Arkadiev is the most famous stand-up comedian in the USSR and a favourite of the government. Caged by the system that censors him on one hand and by public adoration on the other, he slowly begins to lose his mind. Pushed to the edge, Arkadiev fights back the only way he knows how, one joke at a time.

• Art Film FestBest Actor2019 Winner
• Transilvania IFFCompetition2019 Nominee
• Palm Springs IFFWorld Cinema Now2020 Official Selection

The Magic Quill

Feature Film / Fairy Tale / 99 min / 2018

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Marek Najbrt
Production: Punk Film
Producers: Ondřej Beránek, Martin Hůlovec
Co-producers: Czech Television, RTVS, Magic Lab, Barrandov Studio, innogy, Trigon Production
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Editor: Pavel Hrdlička Jr.

Co-production · Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

The Magic Quill takes us to the small town of Pytlov. Its inhabitants have no idea that their actions are closely watched by the local unit of Hell and written down by the flawless magic quill. Until the day it stops writing.

• Czech LionBest Make-up2019 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Supporting Actor2019 Winner
• Czech LionBest Stage Design2019 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Costume Design2019 Nominee
• Sun in a NetBest Make-up2019 Nominee

Pardon

Feature Film / Drama / 100 min / 2018

Poland / Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Production: Centrala, Wytwórnia Doświadczalna
Producers: Paweł Kosuń, Agnieszka Janowska, Aleksandra Michael, Jan Jakub Kolski, Marek Urban
Co-production: Mimesis Film, sentimentalfilm, Telewizja Polska, Odra-Film, Magic Lab
DoP: Julian Kernbach
Editor: Konrad Śniady

Co-production · Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Poland, 1946. After their son, a soldier branded an enemy of the state, is killed, his parents steal his repeatedly exhumed coffin and set out to bury him again in dignity. Their journey through post-war Poland is told by their 17-year-old grandson Janek.

• Gdynia FFBest Actress2018 Winner
• Gdynia FFBest Screenplay2018 Winner
• Gdynia FFBest Costume Design2018 Winner
• Montréal WFFWorld Competition2018 Official Selection
• CamerimagePolish Films Comp.2018 Official Selection
• Gdynia FFMain Competition2018 Official Selection

Intimate Enemy

Feature Film / Thriller / 108 min / 2018

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Karel Janák
Production: Bohemia Motion Pictures
Producer: Ester Honysová
Co-production: Attack Film, RTVS, Czech Television
DoP: Martin Šácha
Editor: Alois Fišárek

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Andrej, a programmer at an international company developing voice-controlled smart homes, moves into a prototype house in the Tatras with his wife Zuzana, an ambitious sculptor, to finalise it. What looks like a fairy tale slowly turns into a nightmare when the house’s server spins out of control and turns against its creator.

King Skate

Documentary / 82 min / 2018

Czech Republic

Director: Šimon Šafránek
Production: Negativ
Producer: Kateřina Černá
Co-production: Czech Television
DoP: Jiří Chod
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Colour Grading · DCP

The first feature-length documentary about the rise of skateboarding in Czechoslovakia is a gripping tale of the search for freedom in a society stifled by the communist regime. Unique archive footage set to a driving punk soundtrack introduces the cult masters of the board and their never-ending party ride through the grey days of Normalisation.

• Czech LionBest Documentary2019 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Documentary2019 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Film Poster2019 Nominee
• Karlovy Vary IFFSpecial Events2018 Official Selection

Moments

Feature Film / Drama / 95 min / 2018

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Beata Parkanová
Production: Heaven’s Gate, Fog’n’Desire Films
Producers: Viktor Tauš, Michal Kollár
Co-production: Czech Television, KFS Production, RTVS
DoP: Martin Douba
Editor: Alois Fišárek

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

It might seem that Anežka’s life is not her own. Her entire family want to get involved in every aspect of it. The young woman tries to please everyone, but she is gradually losing what is most important, herself. This confident debut deftly captures the pitfalls of life in and outside the family unit.

• Czech LionBest Actress2019 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Actress2019 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsDiscovery of the Year2019 Nominee
• Karlovy Vary IFFEast of the West2018 Official Selection

Hurricane

Feature Film / War Drama / 107 min / 2018

United Kingdom / Poland

Director: David Blair
Production: Lipsync Productions, Prospect 3, Stray Dog Films
Producers: Krystian Kozlowski, Matthew Whyte
DoP: Piotr Śliskowski
Editor: Sean Barton

VFX

Hurricane (303 Squadron) is the story of the Polish pilots who fought in the skies over England in the Second World War. They fought not only to keep Britain free from the Nazis but also to keep alive the idea of their own country, crushed between Germany and the Soviet Union barely twenty years after it was reborn.

Nothing Like Before

Documentary / 92 min / 2018

Czech Republic

Directors: Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská
Production: nutprodukce, HBO Europe
Producers: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, Tomáš Hrubý, Tereza Polachová, Hanka Kastelicová
DoP: Lukáš Kokeš
Editor: Klára Tasovská
Magic Lab Colourist: Vladimír Bobenič

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

They are 19 years old, lead normal teenage lives and attend the same school in a small Czech border town. The film portrays Teo, Renata, Anička and Nikola at a time when looming adulthood begins to cast an anxious shadow over their carefree school days. Each of them faces a momentous challenge whose outcome will change their life forever.

• Czech LionBest Documentary2019 Nominee
• Czech Film CriticsBest Documentary2019 Nominee
• Czech Film CriticsAudiovisual Achievement2019 Nominee
• IDFAFirst Appearance2017 Nominee
• Karlovy Vary IFFCzech Films2018 Official Selection

Bille

Feature Film / Family Drama / 103 min / 2018

Latvia / Czech Republic / Lithuania

Director: Ināra Kolmane
Production: Film Studio Deviņi
Producers: Jānis Juhņevičs, Marta Romanova
Co-producers: Magic Lab, Master Film, Studija 2
DoP: Jurģis Kmins
Editors: Michal Lánský, Anna Ryndová

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Bille tells the story of a childhood in pre-war Latvia in the late 1930s. Treated as worthless by her relatives, the girl dreams of breaking out of poverty and the grip of inferiority. Based on the autobiographical book by Vizma Belševica, it is Bille’s personal path towards growth.

• Lielais KristapsBest Feature Film2018 Winner
• Black Nights FFBaltic Competition2018 Official Selection
• Shanghai IFFBelt and Road Week2019 Official Selection
• Zlín FFPanorama2019 Official Selection

The Interpreter

Feature Film / Drama / Comedy / Road Movie / 113 min / 2018

Slovakia / Czech Republic / Austria

Director: Martin Šulík
Production: Titanic, In Film Praha, Coop99 Filmproduktion
Producers: Rudolf Biermann, Martin Šulík, Bruno Wagner
Co-production: RTVS, Czech Television
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Olina Kaufmanová

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Eighty-year-old translator Ali Ungár sets out for Vienna to confront the former SS officer who may have executed his parents, but finds only the officer’s son Georg, a retired teacher. The two old men set off together on a journey across Slovakia, a bittersweet road trip through a country that would rather forget its past.

• Sun in a NetBest Film2019 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Director2019 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Cinematography2019 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Screenplay2019 Winner
• BerlinaleBerlinale Special2018 Official Selection
• Czech LionBest Film2019 Nominee

Hendi & Hormoz

Feature Film / Drama / 88 min / 2018

Iran / Czech Republic

Director: Abbas Amini
Production: Three Gardens Film
Producers: Pouria Heidary Oureh, Abbas Amini
Co-production: Magic Lab, Mehrva Gallery
Co-producers: Andrea Shaffer, Mehrva Arvin
DoP: Ashkan Ashkani
Magic Lab Colourist: Braňo Daniš

Co-production · Post-production · Colour Grading

Hendi & Hormoz takes place on Iran’s Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf, where hematite in the soil turns the ocean waves blood-red. Sixteen-year-old Hormoz marries Hendi after promising that he can work as a miner, but finds only closed doors instead of a job. When Hendi unexpectedly becomes pregnant, Hormoz is forced into an ill-advised pact with a smuggler.

• BerlinaleGeneration 14plus2018 Nominee

Neptune

Video Art / Drama / 38 min / 2018

Czech Republic / Germany

Director: Adéla Babanová
DoP: Lukáš Hyksa
Editor: Hedvika Hansalová
Magic Lab Colourist: Braňo Daniš

VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

A black and white film about Operation Neptune, a 1964 disinformation campaign in which Czechoslovak State Security staged the discovery of secret Nazi documents at the bottom of a lake. A sceptical journalist and a police officer try in vain to expose the state-backed hoax.

Trilogy Garden Store

Trilogy / Drama / Comedy / 3 × 115 min / 2017

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland

Director: Jan Hřebejk
Production: Fog’n’Desire Films
Producer: Viktor Tauš
DoP: Bartek Cierlica
Editor: Vladimír Barák

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

A historical chronicle spanning the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The trilogy follows a Czech family as they deal with the aftermath of the Second World War and the dramatic changes in society after 1948.

• Czech LionBest Supporting Actress2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Music2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Costumes2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Make-up2018 Nominee
• Cottbus FFHits2018 Official Selection

Benji the Dove

Feature Film / Adventure / Drama / 88 min / 2017

United States

Director: Kevin Arbouet
Production: Fulton Street Entertainment
Producers: Erlingur Gudmundsson, Gregory S. Martin
DoP: Gunnar Auðunn Jóhannsson
Editor: Stefanía Thors

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Four boys from difficult homes face school, bullies, friendship and loyalty by founding The Order of the Red Dragon, a brotherhood of knights determined to fight injustice. When cracks appear in their friendship, the adventure turns dark and they must face real-world dilemmas to save each other.

Following

Documentary / 91 min / 2017

Czech Republic

Director: Jiří Sádek
Producer: Jindřich Trčka
DoP: Antoan Pepelanov
Editor: Krasimira Veličková
Magic Lab Colourist: Braňo Daniš

Data Management · Colour Grading · DCP

A time-lapse documentary capturing one year in the lives of five of the most popular Czech YouTubers, their family backgrounds, creative thinking and the ideas behind the work that shapes today’s young audiences.

• Ji.hlava IDFFSpecial Events2017 Official Selection

Absence of Closeness

Feature Film / Drama / 65 min / 2017

Czech Republic

Director: Josef Tuka
Production: Cinema Belongs To Us
Producer: Asmara Beraki
Co-producer: Magic Lab
DoP: Jan Cabalka
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

After another failed relationship, Hedvika takes her three-month-old daughter Adélka and her dog to stay at her mother’s country house. Her relationship with her mother is strained and she is unsure of her maternal feelings, until she finds diaries her late father wrote for her as a child and begins to reconsider her past decisions.

• Karlovy Vary IFFEast of the West2017 Official Selection

Spoor

Feature Film / Crime Drama / 128 min / 2017

Poland / Germany / Czech Republic / Sweden / Slovakia

Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik
Production: TOR Film Production
Producers: Krzysztof Zanussi, Janusz Wąchała
Co-producers: Heimatfilm, Nutprodukce, Chimney, Nutprodukcia
DoP: Jolanta Dylewska, Rafał Paradowski
Editor: Pavel Hrdlička

Data Management

Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Kłodzko Valley, where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

• BerlinaleAlfred Bauer Prize2017 Winner
• European Film AwardsBest Costume Design2017 Winner
• Gdynia FFBest Director2017 Winner
• Gdynia FFBest Make-up2017 Winner
• Fantasia IFFCheval Noir2017 Winner
• Polish Film AwardsBest Film2018 Nominee

Filthy

Feature Film / Drama / 87 min / 2017

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Tereza Nvotová
Production: Moloko Film, BFilm, FAMU
Producers: Miloš Lochman, Peter Badač
DoP: Marek Dvořák
Editors: Jiří Brožek, Michal Lánský, Jana Vlčková

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Lena is a 17-year-old girl experiencing her first love, secret night-time adventures and magical mornings by the river in Bratislava. Her world is shattered when she is raped by her maths teacher. Lena must grow up and realise that she is not the one who deserves punishment or should feel guilty.

• Czech LionBest Editing2018 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsBest Film2018 Winner
• Czech Film CriticsDiscovery of the Year2018 Winner
• Art Film FestBest Actress2017 Winner
• Czech LionBest Film2018 Nominee
• Rotterdam IFFBright Future2017 Official Selection

Garden Store: A Family Friend

Feature Film / Drama / Romance / 130 min / 2017

Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland

Director: Jan Hřebejk
Production: Fog’n’Desire Films
Producer: Viktor Tauš
Co-producers: Czech Television, Barrandov Studio, Magic Lab, Sokol Kollár, RTVS, MD4
DoP: Bartek Cierlica
Editor: Vladimír Barák

Co-production · Data Management · VFX · DCP

Set during the German occupation in the 1940s, the first film of the trilogy follows three young women and two children waiting for their husbands and fathers to return from Nazi prison. Their family friend, the doctor Jiří, helps the household and slowly falls for one of the women.

• Czech LionBest Supporting Actor2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Music2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Costumes2018 Nominee
• Czech LionBest Make-up2018 Nominee
• Cottbus FFHits2018 Official Selection

A Prominent Patient

Feature Film / Biographical Drama / 114 min / 2017

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Director: Julius Ševčík
Production: IN Film Praha
Producer: Rudolf Biermann
Co-producers: Czech Television, RTVS, ZDF / ARTE
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Marek Opatrný

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

In 1939, Jan Masaryk, the flamboyant son of Czechoslovakia’s first president and the former ambassador in London, escapes to America to forget his personal and political betrayal after the Munich Agreement. As the Second World War approaches, he struggles to find his place and his voice.

• Czech LionBest Film2017 Winner
• Czech LionBest Director2017 Winner
• Czech LionBest Screenplay2017 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Leading Actor2017 Winner
• Sun in a NetBest Cinematography2017 Winner
• BerlinaleBerlinale Special2017 Official Selection

Helena’s Law

Documentary / 80 min / 2016

Czech Republic

Director: Petra Nesvačilová
Production: Background Films
Producer: Klára Žaloudková
Co-producers: Czech Television, FAMU
DoP: Klára Belicová
Editor: Josef Krajbich

DCP

In the 1990s, police detective Helena Káhnová helped send several dozen members of the notorious Berdych Gang to prison, including David Berdych himself. Director Petra Nesvačilová meets both the policewoman and the former gang members and asks what drives a police officer to stand up to the mafia, and what drives a young filmmaker to seek out that mafia.

• Czech LionBest Documentary2017 Nominee
• Ji.hlava IDFFCzech Joy2016 Official Selection

Girl Power

Documentary / 90 min / 2016

Czech Republic

Directors: Sany, Jan Zajíček
Production: Punk Film
Producer: Martin Hůlovec
Co-producers: Sany, Czech Television
DoP: Ondřej Rybár
Editor: Zdeněk Marek

VFX · DCP

Girl Power is a documentary about female graffiti writers from fifteen cities, from Prague to Moscow, Cape Town, Sydney, Biel, Madrid, Berlin, Toulouse, Barcelona and New York. Graffiti is still largely a man’s world, and many men believe that graffiti, especially the illegal kind, is not for girls. The film captures the stories of women who have succeeded in it.

Menandros & Thaïs

Feature Film / Adventure / 129 min / 2016

Czech Republic / Austria

Directors: Ondřej Cikán, Antonín Šilar
Production: Die Gruppe
Producers: Anna Tydlitátová, Ondřej Cikán
Co-producers: FAMU, Nutprodukce, Magic Lab
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček
Editor: Zuzana Walter

Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

An experimental feature-length adventure film based on a novel by Ondřej Cikán. A kidnapped bride. A distraught hero. Odysseys through surreal worlds. Menandros and Thaïs are freshly married, but the wedding day ends bloodily. Thaïs is abducted by pirates. Searching for her, the bridegroom becomes a bloodthirsty monster, his horse grows wings, a witch promises him to another woman, King Xerxes unmans him, but everything comes to a happy end. Or does it?

• FebiofestUpstream2016 Official Selection

Dopplegangers

Feature Film / Comedy / 103 min / 2016

Czech Republic

Director: Jiří Chlumský
Production: Bio Illusion
Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
DoP: Asen Šopov
Editor: Vasilis Skalenakis

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

A Czech comedy of mistaken identity about two men who look alike, but whose characters and lives are as different as day and night. Jan is a likeable crook in debt to a mobster, Richard a pedantic secondary school teacher. They have never met and do not know the other exists, until a coincidence brings their fates together.

The Red Captain

Feature Film / Crime Thriller / 110 min / 2016

Slovakia / Czech Republic / Poland

Director: Michal Kollár
Production: Sokol Kollár, Fog’n’Desire Films, MD4
Producers: Michal Kollár, Viktor Tauš, Agnieszka Kurzydło
Co-producers: Czech Television, S Pro Alfa, RTVS, Barrandov Studio
DoP: Kacper Fertacz
Editor: Lucie Haladová

Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP

Summer 1992. Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six months before the split of Czechoslovakia, young homicide detective Richard Krauz is desperate to distinguish himself from the police of the former communist regime. His new case begins when a corpse with a nail driven through its skull is unearthed during groundskeeping at an old cemetery.

• Sun in a NetSupporting Actress2017 Winner
• Czech LionBest Music2017 Nominee
• Czech LionSupporting Actress2017 Nominee
• Sun in a NetSupporting Actor2017 Nominee
• Sun in a NetBest Art Direction2017 Nominee
• Black Nights FFFirst Feature Comp.2016 Official Selection

Emperor

Feature Film / Adventure / Thriller / 105 min / 2016

Belgium / Netherlands / Czech Republic

Director: Lee Tamahori
Production: Corsan, Film United
Producers: Paul Breuls, Michael John Fedun
DoP: Sam McCurdy
Editor: Anne-Sophie Bion

Data Management

Action epic about a young woman who seeks revenge on Holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It is set in a 16th century world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliation, manipulation and treason.

The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček

Documentary / 75 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producers: Kristýna Hněvsová, Dagmar Sedláčková, Tomáš Michálek
Production: Masterfilm
Co-producers: Czech television, FAMU, MagicLab
Director: Kristýna Bartošová
DoP: Kristýna Bartošová
Editor: Šimon Hájek

VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Kristýna Bartošová has approached the genre of documentary film portraits as a battlefield. This director, who has Bosnian roots, chose to film the story of the Czech doctor Rajko Doleček, who is a very enthusiastic defender of Ratko Mladić, the Serbian general accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. In this undeniably moving work, shot with a hand-held camera with no attempt to conceal the presence of the film’s creators, the director, at first cautiously, but with increasing intensity, confronts Doleček about his controversial stance. At the same time, she must come to terms with the doctor’s unshakeable opinion.

• Ji.hlavaInternational DocumentaryFilm Festival
• DOK LeipzigNext MastersCompetition
• Finále Plzen 2016Documentary Films Competition

Rino

Documentary / 95 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Richard Malatinský
Co-producer: Czech television
Director: Jakub Wagner
DoP: Viktor Smutný
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Data Management / Motion Design / DCP

Karel Köcher is supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate the CIA. There are few reliable sources as to his activities, and so the filmmakers aim their camera primarily at the main protagonist. The result is an unconventional portrait that tells us more about a man living a double life than about any sensationalized spy activities. The mystery surrounding his actions also envelopes Köcher the individual: it is difficult to figure out what is going through the mind of someone so perfectly in control and capable of beating a lie detector.

• Ji.hlavaInternational DocumentaryFilm Festival

Road-Movie

Road Movie / 88 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producers: Ondřej Šejnoha, Kristýna Květová
Production: FAMU
Director: Martin Jelínek
DoP: Aleš Lněnička, Filip Rejč
Editor: Jana Nemčeková

VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Film about the current generation of young people, their disorientation, absence of important values, goals, imagination and personal opinion.

• Tallinn Black NightsFirst Feature Film Competition
• FebiofestCzech Track Section

Chasing 50

Comedy / 97 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Daniel Strejc
Production: FormatFactory
Co-producers: MagicLab, EuropeEasyEnergy, BEEP
Director: Vojtěch Kotek
DoP: Tomáš Sysel
Editor: Tomáš Klímek

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Padesátka is a new fresh comedy film based on a theatre play by Petr Kolečko. The film is set in the picturesque area of the Krkonoše mountains.

• Finále Plzen 2016Feature Live Action Film Competition

Journey to Rome

Spiritual Comedy / 90 min / 2015

Czech republic / Poland

Producer: Mikuláš Novotný
Production: Background Films
Co-producers: Czech television, FAMU, EasyBusyProductions, MagicLab
Director: Tomasz Mielnik
DoP: Jan Šuster
Editor: Šimon Hájek

VFX / Color Grading / DCP

There are as many stories in the world as there are people, and Vašek, 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.

• Karlovy Vary IFFEast of the West
• Silk Road IFFOfficial Selection
• Mill Valley FFWorld Cinema
• Cairo Critics WeekOpening Film
• Tallinn Black NightsPÖFF's Vitamin Boost
• Pune IFF IndiaGlobal Cinema

David

Drama / 80 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Veronika Kührová
Production: Sugar Division
Co-producers: MagicLab, FAMU
Director: Jan Těšitel
DoP: Marek Dvořák
Editor: Šimon Hájek

VFX / Color Grading / DCP

At age 20, David is increasingly aware of how his mental illness influences his parents’ behavior. So one evening he decides to run away to Prague where, alone, he has to face numerous tricky situations – as well as his own thoughts. This courageous and moody debut is crowned with a fine lead performance from Patrik Holubář.

• Karlovy Vary IFFForum of Independent
• Montréal IFFInternational Competition
• Sao Paulo IFFNew Filmmakers
• Warsaw IFFDiscoveries
• Finale Plzen 2016Feature Live Action Film Competition

Gangster Ka Afričan

Thriller / Action / 100 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Adam Dvořák
Production: Movie
Co-producer: Czech television
Director: Jan Pachl
DoP: Marek Janda
Editor: Adam Dvořák

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Gangster KA is a true story based KrimiThriller inspired by the internationally renowned criminal ‪Radovan Krejčíř about one of the largest and most discussed embezzlements in the Czech Republic.

• Finale Plzen 2016Feature Live Action Film Competition

The Greedy Tiffany

Horror / 75 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Filip Brouk, Filip Čermák
Production: Company F s.r.o.
Director: Andy Fehu
DoP: Jakub Ševčík
Editor: Michal Böhm

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

A rube named Pepa robs cottages for cash and spends his free time swilling rum at fourth-rate establishments. The discovery of a strange video recording points him to a place where he’ll find a treasure of immense value. The mysterious place in northern Bohemia, however, awakens avarice far and wide and, seemingly, it’s got a plan for all those who turn up.…

• Karlovy Vary IFFMidnight Screenings
• Finale Plzen 2016Feature Live Action Film Competition

Gangster Ka

Thriller / Action / 100 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Adam Dvořák
Production: Movie
Co-producer: Czech television
Director: Jan Pachl
DoP: Marek Janda
Editor: Adam Dvořák

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Gangster KA is a true story based KrimiThriller inspired by the internationally renowned criminal ‪Radovan Krejčíř about one of the largest and most discussed embezzlements in the Czech Republic.

Celebrity s.r.o.

Comedy / 103 min / 2015

Czech republic

Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Illusion, Fénix Film
Director: Miloslav Šmídmajer
DoP: Martin Duba
Editor: Jakub Vansa

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

The comedy unfolds in the attractive environs of the neverending filming of a TV serial. The performance opens up with wonderful interplay of relationships, characters, situations, conflicts, big hopes and ambitious plans interwoven with a love motif. At the end of this bizarre story we are surprised by the harmony created from the discord of authentic human emotions.

Resort

Documentary / 25min / 2015

Czech Republic

Producer: Mikuláš Novotný
Production: Background Films
Director: Martin Hrubý
Co-producers: UMPRUM, Czech television
DoP: Lukáš Milota
Editor: Hedvika Hansalová

Color Grading / DCP

In the 1960s an architecturally unique resort built on the banks of Orlík reservoir became the secret getaway of the communist establishment, then later passed into the hands of notorious businessmen during the early days of unrestrained capitalism. Suffused with an air of mystery, this portrait captures the genius loci and turbulent history of a hidden summer paradise that was left off every map.

• Karlovy Vary IFFDocumentary FilmsNominated

Schmitke

Mystery / Comedy / 94 min / 2014

Czech republic / Germany

Producers: Tomáš Vach, Jörg Trentmann, Radim Procházka
Production: Produkce Radim Procházka
Director: Štěpán Altrichter
DoP: Cristian Pirjol
Editors: Phillip Wenning, Andrea Schumacher

DCP

In Schmitke ‘s life there is something lurking behind the bushes. Some mysterious growling from the forest, from deep within? When he’s sent to the Czech-German border to repair a similarly unfortunate old windmill, things start to get strange. Very, very strange.

• FebiofestOfficial Selection
• Karlovy Vary IFFCzech Films Selection
• Cottbus IFFBest Debut Prize
• Busan IFFOfficial Selection
• The Czech Film Critics' AwardBest Audiovisual Work
• The Czech Film Critics' AwardDiscovery of the Year

Sugar Blues

Documentary / 78 min / 2014

Czech republic

Producer: Daniel Tuček
Production: Golden Dawn
Director Andrea Culková
DoP: Martin Štěpánek, Lukáš Milota, Aleš Hart

Motion Design

Sugar Blog is a personal historical-industrial documentary about our addiction to sugar and sweet life. The director, who was diagnosed with pregnancy diabetes, investigates the fatal effect of a century of sugar consumption on the individual and society. She realises how difficult it is to give up this addictive drug and how it is almost impossible to find any food without sugar. She uncovers strong links between mental and behavioural disorders and excessive consumption of sugar and learns about its influence on human thinking and culture in general. And she notes it down in her sugar blog.

Lousy Bastards

Drama / Comedy / 98 min / 2014

Czech republic

Producer: Karla Stojáková
Production: Axman production
Director: Roman Kašparovský
DoP: Vladimír Smutný
Editor: Adam Dvořák

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Two brothers got separated after their first love for the same girl. Mikulas Rohan is a neurosurgery expert living in the capital having problems with love affairs and alcohol. His brother Richard Rohan is an ex-soldier from Afghanistan taking care of his two daughters living in a small town. Both of them have something which the other one doesn’t. We follow their separate lives, their everyday mistakes, their memories to slowly reveal the core of their grudge. Inevitable decisions lead to their most important choice in their lives.

The Plan

Documentary / 90 min / 2014

Czech republic

Production: Negativ, Czech Television
Director: Benjamin Tuček
DoP: David Čálek, Benjamin Tuček, Nikolas Tušl

Motion Design

Prague faces the challenge of a new zoning plan. The city’s development leads to conflicts between the private developer lobby, city residents, and elected officials. By following several years of town council meetings, the film paints an image of a public policy apparatus that ignores the role of the urban planner. Using a journalistic approach, the filmmaker attempts to depict the all points of view, although in the end the dominant perspective is of those who believe in the city as an expression of culture and quality of life.

The Icing

Comedy / 77 min / 2014

Czech republic

Producers: Daniel Strejc, Vojtěch Frič
Production: Love.FRAME
Director: Jan Hřebejk
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Editor: Vladimír Barák

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Explosive conversational comedy based on the successful theatre play, which takes place one evening in a remote village pub, during an Ice Hockey World Championship match. What all can happen, when the kidnapped bride is getting drunk together with the best woman of the groom and experienced barmaid and the only one, who is able to stop and save everything, is not coming?

To See the Sea

Comedy / 90min / 2014

Czech Republic

Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Illusion
Director: Jiří Mádl
DoP: Edita Kainrathová
Editor: Jakub Vansa

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

12-year-old Tomas gets a camera and makes a film about his family. By hiding a camera in his father’s office, Tomas a secret, but his father denies everything. Tomas reveals the secret to his best friend Haris. Courage and profound friendship lead Tomas and Haris to the final revelation and an unpredictable conclusion.

• The Czech Film Critics' AwardDiscovery of the YearWinner
• Zlín IFFChildren's Jury Main PrizeWinner
• Seoul Int'l Youth FFAudience Award Kid´s EyesMain Prize
• Motovun IFFBuzz&Teen AwardMain Prize
• Czech Lion AwardsBest FilmNominated
• Montreal Int'l Children's FFSpecial Jury AwardMain Prize

Krásno

Comedy / Crime / 120 min / 2014

Czech republic

Producers: Daniel Strejc, Vojtěch Frič
Production: Love.Frame
Director: Ondřej Sokol
DoP: Tomáš Sysel
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

A black comedy with a touch of detective genre starts with the return of two main characters, childhood friends Michal and Adam, to their hometown, where Michal’s mother was found drowned in the lake Krasno some years ago. His father, whom Michal suspects to be somehow involved in his mother’s death, dies on the very day they return. Michal and Adam decide to get to the bottom of the mystery. The plots around the heritage and unexplained death bring a series of cynical, sometimes funny, but always tangled situation. The wheels of unstoppable disaster are turning faster and faster.

Uni

Comedy / 85min / 2014

Czech Republic

Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Illusion
Director: Tomáš Vorel sr.
DoP: Tomáš Vorel sr.
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Kocourek sends his application to the university with the goal of studying Graphic Design. He has already been rejected twice because only a handful of the most gifted students is accepted. The beautiful Julie, who also wants to get in the same university, helps Kocourek in his efforts to get accepted.

Detective Downs

Comedy / Crimi / 90 min / 2013

Norway / Czech Republic

Producers: Paul Røed, Asle Vatn
Production: Evolution Films, Czech Television, Nimbus Film
Director: Bärd Breien
DoP: Gaute Gunnari
Editor: Zaklina Stojcevska

Data Management / VFX

Robert Bogerud wants to be a private investigator, but it’s not that easy when you have Down syndrome. All his potential customers evaporate as soon as Robert tips his detective’s hat. But then, he finally manages to secure an assignment: The skating legend Olav Starr has disappeared and his wife and two adult offspring need an investigator.

• Austin Fantastic FestWorld Premieres

The Great Night

Documentary / 72min / 2013

Czech Republic

Producers: Pavla Kubečková, Tomáš Hrubý, Tereza Polachová
Production: Nutprodukce, HBO Europe
Director: Petr Hátle
DoP: Prokop Souček
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Color Grading

A documentary study of the modern-day phenomenon of nightlife and sleeplessness. Using authentic portraits of characters living in the dark “half-world” of Prague’s non-stop bars, gambling houses, and night clubs, the film maps the living space and community of people of the “eternal night”.

• Ji.hlavaBest Film Award
• CPH:DOX

The Story of a God-Father

Crime / Thriler / 90min / 2013

Czech Republic

Producers: David Rauch, Petr Nikolaev
Production: U.F.O. pictures
Director: Petr Nikolaev
DoP: David Ployhar
Editor: Adam Dvořák

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

The film tells a story about the rise and fall of a person who worked his way up from dealing with digital watches to the position of a grey eminence of Czech politics. Two worlds collide – the belief in the right of the stronger and smarter and the belief in justice.

Bella Mia

Drama / 90 min / 2013

Czech republic

Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Illusion
Director: Martin Duba
DoP: Martin Duba
Editor: Vladimír Žán

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

Due to suspicion of BSE (mad cow disease), a herd of cows from a small farmstead is sentenced to be killed. The animals revolt and try to escape. People try to hunt them down but the herd, led by Bella, manages to protect itself.  The escalating battle has little in common with the original veterinary prevention. However, there are also people who try to help the cows, who desire nothing more than free life in the great outdoors. They learn all about hunger, cold, deprivation and pain. And the loss of loved ones…

Lucky Four Serving the King

Animation / Family / 90min / 2013

Czech Republic

Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Illusion
Director: Michal Žabka
Editor: Luděk Hudec

Color Grading / DCP

The most famous characters from the Czech comics starring in their first film! King Rudolf and his kingdom are in danger, the philosopher’s stone is in the hands of the treacherous magician Kelly and the demon Zimozel is preparing icy destruction for the whole world. Fifi, Myšpulín, Bobík, and Pinďa face all this and more in this larger-than-life cinematic adventure in which their lives are on the line.

The Blue Tiger

Family / 90min / 2012

Producers: Petr Oukropec, Pavel Strnad, Milan Kuchynka
Production: Negativ
Director: Petr Oukropec
DoP: Klaus Fuxjäger
Editor: Jakub Hejna

Animation

In a city ruled by the diabolical Mayor, it appears that only one thing can save the old botanical garden from being demolished for the construction of an entertainment center: the Blue Tiger. Now it is up to Johanka and Matyas to protect the tiger from the evil clutches of the Mayor and his henchmen and save the garden.

• Sun in a Net AwardsBest Design AchievementWinner
• Czech Lion AwardsBest Supporting ActressNominated
• Zlín FFBest Children's FilmNominee

Zaljotchiki

Comedy / 95min / 2012

Russia

Production: Ankor-film
Director: Kirill Kuzin
DoP: Ulugbeck Khamraev

VFX / Motion Design

A crazy Russian comedy about two hapless heroes who accidentally gets a chance to fulfill two dreams at once.

To the Woods

Comedy / 110min / 2012

Czech Republic

Production: Vorelfilm
Producer: Tomáš Vorel
Director: Tomáš Vorel
DoP: Tomáš Vorel
Editor: Šimon Hájek

Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP

To The Woods is the sequel to Tomas Vorel’s successful film Out of the City, released in 2000. It is a celebration of woods, water and hillsides, and of the animals that still live there. The film pays tribute to Czech woodsmen and farmers who bravely face the natural elements and urban encroachment.

• Czech Lion AwardsBest Supporting ActorNominated

Love in the Grave

Documentary / 79min / 2012

Czech Republic

Producers: Tezera Krejčí, Krasimira Velitchkova
Production: Yekot Film, Czech Television
Director: David Vondráček
DoP: Jan Kadeřábek
Editor: Krasimira Veličková

Color Grading

A story of a homeless couple. Jana and Jan live together in a desolate cemetery in Prague’s Strasnice district. As the outside world starts to invade their land of freedom, their descent into alcoholism gets even quicker.

• Czech Lion AwardsBest DocumentaryWinner
• The Czech Film Critics' AwardBest DocumentaryWinner
• Finále Plzeň FFBest DocumentaryWinner
• Phoenix Film FestivalBest DocumentaryNominated

Lidice

Drama / History / War / 126min / 2011

Czech Republic / Slovakia

Producer: Adam Dvořák
Production: Movie
Director: Petr Nikolaev
DoP: Antonio Riestra
Editor: Adam Dvořák

VFX

During the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the deputy Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague. After his assassination, Gestapo investigation leads to the total destruction of Lidice and the mass execution and deportations of its citizens.

• Phoenix Film FestivalAudience AwardWinner
• Seville European Film FestivalEFA Selection AwardWinner
• Titanic IFFAudience AwardWinner
• Czech Lion AwardsBest ActorNominated

Normal

Drama / Thriller / 100min / 2009

Czech Republic / Macedonia / UK

Producer: Karla Stojáková
Production: Axman production
Director: Julius Ševčík
DoP: Antonio Riestra
Editor: Marek Opatrný

VFX

Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over into the hands of the authorities. A young lawyer agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the intelligent, cold-blooded manipulator, the young idealist’s values become warped.

• Czech Lion Awards2010
• Shanghai IFFBest Director Award
• Moscow IFFOfficial Selection

Catch the Doctor!

Comedy / Drama / 85min / 2007

Czech Republic

Producer: Daniel Tuček
Production: Golden Dawn
Director: Martin Dolenský
DoP: Antonín Chundela
Editor: Jakub Sýkora

VFX

Gynecologist Michael tries to rescue his marriage after he gets into a marital triangle. Three times the audience along with the hero returns to the same place, same day and three times discover the consequences of his decisions.

Lousy Bastards

Comedy / Drama / 105min / 2014

Czech Republic

Producer: Karla Stojáková
Production: Axman Production
Director: Roman Kašparovský
DoP: Vladimír Smutný

VFX / Color Grading

Two brothers drift apart after falling for the same girl. Each has what the other lacks, and the decisions they cannot avoid lead them to the most important choice of their lives.