Mini Series / Period Drama / Thriller / 2024
United States / Ireland
Studio: FX
Showrunner: Joshua Zetumer
Say Nothing for FX features 210 VFX shots, including complex historical set extensions, a CG block of flats, numerous CG elements, and FX explosions. It was a fantastic collaboration with VFX Supervisor Giles Harding and Showrunner Joshua Zetumer, successfully completed in 2024.
Spanning four tumultuous decades during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Action / Crime / Fantasy / 2024
United States
Production: Lionsgate
Director: Rupert Sanders
DoP: Steve Annis
170 VFX shots of mainly projected DMP extensions and CG water
Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Drama Fantasy / 2024
Poland
Production: Aurum Films
Produced for: Netflix
Director: Maciej Barczewski
DoP: Cezary Stolecki
VFX with 250 shots, highlights superpowers such as antigravity and electricity. The climactic scene shows a massive dam being destroyed.
A teenager finds herself being pursued by the military after she discovers she can manipulate gravity.
2024 / 80 min / Animation, Comedy, Family
Czech Republic / France / Slovakia
Director: Kristina Dufková
Producers: Matej Chlupacek, Marc Faye, Agata Novinski
Co-producers: Magic Lab, Czech television, RTVS
DI, Color Grading, VFX (900 shots)
A 12 year-old boy was bullied for his weight and he tries to turn things around by dieting and attempting to win over the girl of his dreams.
Crime / Drama / Sci-fi / 111 min / 2023
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland / Serbia
Producer: Jan Kallista
Director: Robert Hloz
DoP: Filip Marek
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski
DI / Color Grading / VFX (CG and DMP projections, heavy retouching work)
Set in Europe during 2038, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
Action / Crime / Fantasy / 2024
United States
Production: Lionsgate
Director: Rupert Sanders
DoP: Steve Annis
170 VFX shots of mainly projected DMP extensions
Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Action Thriller / 135 min / 2024
United States / United Kingdom
Production: Apple Studios, Marv Films
Director: Matthew Vaughn
DoP: George Richmond
Distributor: APPLE PLUS
VFX (CG and DMP extensions)
A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she’s writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time.
Comedy / Romance / 118 min / 2023
Production: Amazon Studios
Director: Matthew López
DoP: Stephen Goldblatt
VFX (CG hair replacement)
When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain’s prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.
Distributor: PRIME AMAZON
Action Comedy Thriller / 114min / 2023
MIRAMAX
Director: Guy Ritchie
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
VFX Supervised by Michal Krecek, MAGIC LAB responsibilities were a diverse range of tasks, including CG extensions of Palace Morocco, digital matte paints on environments and various elements and objects, CG vehicles such as cars and helicopters, CG billionaire yacht including surrounding CG sea, a sequence involving car destruction, CG blood splashes, muzzle flashes, rocket impacts, and awe-inspiring explosions of gigantic satellites complete with simulated destruction and debris.
Action / Comedy / 155 min / 2022
USA / China
Producer: Ivan Atkinson, Bill Block, Jason Statham
Director: Guy Ritchie
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editor: James Herbert
VFX Supervised by Michal Krecek, MAGIC LAB responsibilities were a diverse range of tasks, including CG extensions of Palace Morocco, digital matte paints on environments and various elements and objects, CG vehicles such as cars and helicopters, CG billionaire yacht including surrounding CG sea, a sequence involving car destruction, CG blood splashes, muzzle flashes, rocket impacts, and awe-inspiring explosions of gigantic satellites complete with simulated destruction and debris.
Animation / Family / 82 min / 2023
Czech Republic / Hungary / Slovakia
Production: Nutprodukce
Producers: Jakub Viktorín, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
Director: Filip Pošivač
DoP: Denisa Buranová
DI / Color Grading / VFX (600 shots)
Eleven-year-old Tony has a unique feature he was born with – he glows. He spends his days at home in his blanket bunker and dreams about having a friend. Before Christmas, a peculiar girl named Shelly moves into his house and turns his world upside down. Together, they embark on an adventurous search for the origin of the mysterious tufts of darkness which suck the sunshine out of their house.
Crime / Drama / Sci-fi / 111 min / 2023
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland / Serbia
Producer: Jan Kallista
Director: Robert Hloz
DoP: Filip Marek
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski
DI / Color Grading / VFX (CG and DMP projections, heavy retouching work)
Set in Europe during 2038, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
Adventure / 99 min / 2023
Canada
Producer: Hany Ouichou
Director: Sophie Farkas Bolla
DoP: Simran Dewan
VFX (CG creatures)
On a cold winter’s day in 1940, Jules and his family move to live with his uncle, mayor of a settler’s village in northern Quebec. He is banned from school because of his rare skin disease. From that moment on, his greatest wish is to be cured. When his dog Spark runs away into the wild forest, Jules has no choice but to look for him. On his way, he meets Asha, a mysterious young indigenous girl. Together, they venture to the other side of the forest, where nature reveals itself full of life and secrets.
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.
Drama / 123 min / 2022
Romania / France / Greece / Bulgaria / Czech Republic
VFX heavy retouches and set extensions
Based on a true story. 1996, open sea.
During his shift on a transatlantic ship’s deck, Joel, a religious Filipino sailor, discovers Dumitru, a Romanian stowaway hidden between some containers.
If he is spotted by the Taiwanese officers running the vessel, Dumitru is at risk to be thrown overboard. Joel decides to hide him, as a sign of his gratitude toward God.
Soon, a dangerous cat and mouse game begins. When his crew, his own friends, and even God itself start to turn their backs on him, Joel learns that he has to face his cruel destiny alone.
Historical movie / 130 min / 2022
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Italy
Producer: Jan Macola
Director: Petr Václav
DoP: Diego Romero
Co-production / VFX / Color Grading
In the 18th century, Josef Mysliveček leaves for Italy to fulfill his dream and establish himself as a composer. Thanks to his talent, charisma, and luck, in a few years he manages to break through. Recognition and fame bring him satisfaction and access to the highest circles of society and provide him with constant favour of women. The ailing Mysliveček eventually dies poor and forgotten in his small Roman apartment.
Documentary / 70 min / 2022
Czech Republic
Producer: Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál
Director: Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček
Editor: Tomáš Elšík
Color Grading
Orion, Vladimir 518 and Mike Trafik are Peneři strýčka Homeboye (Uncle Homeboy’s Hoboes). Three lads from Prague, legendary rappers on the cusp of middle age, friends. Graffiti, the first attempts at rap, parties, fame, booze and drugs. Sky-rocketing popularity (but well-earned), downfalls, crises and comebacks. A cleverly shot, incisive triple portrait that flouts all the taboos.
Documentary opera / 91 min / 2022
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Andrea Shaffer, Martin Řezníček
Director: Lucie Králová
D.o.P.: Tomáš Stanek ASK, Adam Ol’ha, Petr Příkaský, Jakub Halousek, Martin Řezníček
Editor: Adam Brothánek
Co-production / Color Grading
KAPR CODE is a playful reconstruction of life after death; where the memory of film and Kapr’s music interacts with a story gaining mythological dimensions.
Drama / 123 min / 2022
Iceland / Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands / Czech Republic
Producer: Anton Máni Svansson
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
DoP: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editor: Andri Steinn Gudjónsson, Anders Skov
VFX
Fourteen-year-old Balli is something of a misfit. He lives with his drug-addicted mother in a squalid house and is bullied by his classmates. But then Balli meets three boys of his own age – Addi, Konni and Siggi – and a friendship gently develops.
Comedy / Drama / 84 min / 2022
Czech Republic
Producer: Pavel Vácha – Bratři s.r.o.
Director: Adam Koloman Rybanský
DoP: Matěj Piňos
Editor: Alan Sýs
Co-production / Color Grading
When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Bronya 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.
Drama / 100 min / 2022
Czech Republic
Producer: Ondřej Beránek
Director: Tomáš Hodan
DoP: Jan Baset Střítežský
Editor: Anna Johnson Ryndová
Co-production / Color Grading / VFX
The race for the first place turned into a race for life. Based on the true story of Hanč and Vrbata.
Drama / 160 min / 2021
Poland / France / Czech Republic
Producer: Aurum Films (Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Hickinbotham), Les Contes Modernes (Patrice Nezan, Laurent Versini), Canal Polska (Małgorzata Seck, Alicja Gancarz), Background Films (Mikulas Novotny)
Director: Jan P. Matuszyński
DoP: Kacper Fertacz
Editor: Przemysław Chruścielewski
VFX
Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk — a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek — the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state.
Comedy/ Sport / 105 min / 2022
Czech Republic
Produced by: Ctibor Pouba, Jakub Štáfek
Director: Martin Kopp, Jakub Štáfek
DoP: Jan Filip
Editor: Tomáš Klímek
VFX / Color Grading
More than a year has passed since we last saw Julia ” Lavi” Lavický (Jakub Štáfek) (yes, it was when he “sold” the match but forgot it and scored a beautiful goal). Lavi is, as his agent Jarda (Jakub Prachař) would say, still the same idiot, but he finally started to prosper, both in football and in his personal life. He even proposed to his girlfriend Lucia (Šárka Vaculíková), Jarda’s sister to marry him… At a wedding that cost a fortune, they find out that he already has an eight-year-old son, which will definitely not please the newlyweds. Not to lose his wife on the wedding day, to take care of the child, which is far from him, to get somewhere higher from Vyšehrad, or to fight with the practices of a certain football Daddy … He just rushes like an avalanche – from one problem to the other!
Comedy / Drama / 74 min / 2021
Poland / Czech Republic
Producer: Karla Stojáková, Agnieszka Kurzydlo
Director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
DoP: Magnus Borge, Robert Lis
Edit: Krzysztof Komander
Piotr is looking for a purpose and order in his life. To find it, he turns to magic, religion, and psychology. Unexpectedly, his father calls him and asks Piotr to come to his family home immediately.
Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / 76 min / 2021
Colombia / Norway / Czech Republic
Producer: Augusto Sandino
Director: Augusto Sandino
DoP: Gio Park
Editor: Augusto Sandino
Co-production / VFX / Color Grading
It is based on a guardian of the mountains who is condemned by his fate and strives to protect the fragile ecosystem he inhabits while caring for his ailing father.
Drama / 92 min / 2021
Czech Republic / Slovenia / Slovakia
Produced by: Jiří Konečný
Director: Olmo Omerzu
DoP: Lukáš Milota
Editor: Jana Vlčková
VFX / Color Grading
An ageing proprietor of a technology company (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.
Comedy / 104 min / 2020
Slovakia / Czech Republic
Produced by: Garfield Film, In Film, Rudolf Biermann and Martin Šulík
Director: Martin Šulík
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Marek Šulík
Co-produced by: RTVS, Czech TV
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him anymore. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down.
Drama / Crime / Thriller / 90 min / 2021
Iceland
Producer/Director: Anton Sigurdsson
DoP: Gunnar Auðunn Jóhannsson
Editor: Sharif M. Es. Ali
VFX
A small town detective investigates into a Sociology professor when a mutilated body is found and women have gone missing from his class.
Action / 118 min/ 2021
Great Britain
Producer: Ivan Atkinson, Andrew Golov
Director: Guy Ritchie
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editor: James Herbert
VFX
The plot follows H, a cold and mysterious character working at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.
Documentary / 126 min / 2021
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Zuzana Mistríková (PubRes, Slovakia), Alice Tabery (Cinepoint, Czech Republic)
Coproducer: RTVS, Studio Beep, Magic Lab
Director: Mária Pinčíková
DoP: Denisa Buranová
Editor: Petr Kudlička, Marek Šulík
Co-production / Color Grading
Prague, July 2018. Fifteen thousand women and men of all generations gather together in one place to give a mass gymnastic performance. They all belong to Sokol, an apolitical movement established in the 19th century to foster self-development within a democratic community.
Drama / 126 min / 2020
Germany / Czech Republic
Producer: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen (Pandora Film Produktion)
Director: Christian Schwochow
DoP: Frank Lamm
Editor: Jens Klüber
VFX
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.
Fantasy / 124 min / 2019
Italy / France
Producer: Matteo Garrone, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, Jeremy Thomas, Paolo Del Brocco
Production: Archimede, Rai Cinema, Le Pacte, Recorded Picture Company
Director: Matteo Garrone
DoP: Nicolai Brüel
Edit: Marco Spoletini
VFX
Live-action adaptation of the classic story of a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life.
Documentary / 80 min / 2020
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Produced by: Kateřina Černá / Negativ, Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská / PubRes
Director: Šimon Šafránek
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Editor: Šimon Hájek
Co-producers: Miro Agency, Czech Television, RTVS
Color Grading / DCP
Miro Žbirka, whom everyone simply calls Mecca. Everyone knows his name and hits, Žbirka himself and few people know his real life. At the same time, it resembles a great song, it has a captivating story, tempo, emotions and surprises. The energetic film portrait of Mecca presents the popular singer up close, completely open and honest and, in unexpected contexts, also with humor. The film was made by Šimon Šafránek, who won the Czech Lion for his previous documentary King Skate.
Drama / 118 min / 2020
Czech Republic / Ireland / Slovakia / Poland
Producer: Šárka Cimbalová, Kevan Van Thompson
Production: Marlene Film Production, Česká televize
Director: Agnieszka Holland
DoP: Martin Štrba
Edit: Pavel Hrdlička
Co-production: Magic Lab
VFX
Charlatan tells a story about an almost forgotten Czech healer, and an unusual medicine man, Jan Mikolášek who cured millions even as he suffered under both Nazi and Communist rule.
Drama Sport / 94 min / 2020
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Latvia
Production: 8Heads Productions, Furia Film, Ego Media
Director, screenwriter: Tomáš Polenský
DoP: Andrejs Rudzats
Co-production: Magic Lab
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
David, a talented 16-year-old-goalie freshly diagnosed with diabetes, joins a new ice-hockey team, the Wolves, where he becomes the outsider, bracing the avalanche of bullying that gradually gains speed.
Action / Crime / 113 min / 2020
USA
Producer: Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Bill Block
Production: Miramax
Director: Guy Ritchie
DoP: Alan Stewart
Edit: James Herbert
VFX
The Gentlemen is a star-studded, sophisticated action-comedy that follows a very British drug lord who tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires.
Thriller / 98 min / 2020
Slovakia
Production: In Film, Magic Seven, CinemArt, Slovak Republic
Written, Directed, Produced by: Mariana Čengel Solčanská and Rudolf Biermann
DoP: Ivan Finta
Editor: Ondřej Azor
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
The story takes place in a country where anything goes. Drugged girls become playthings for influential men, both from the underground and from the top echelons of politics. Fortunes can be made from government contracts, and blackmail is just another kind of business. Power is the best way to protect your people from the police and the courts. If you have power, you can do anything. In this country some will do well. Very well. And sticking your nose into things can be fatal. Life is sometimes cheap; death is just another commodity.
Tragicomedy / 110 min / 2020
Latvia / Czech Republic / Lithuania
Production: EgoMedia (LV), 8Heads Productions (CZ), ARTBOX (LT)
Director: Viesturs Kairišs
DoP: Gints Bērziņ
Co-production: Magic Lab
Data management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
This tragicomedy which is set during the 1930s and 40s is told through eyes of a somewhat naive, yet inherently wise soul – a lowly sign painter and artist caught up in a dangerous love triangle.
Documentary / 75 min / 2019
Czech Republic
Production: Goodmind
Director: Petr Klein Svoboda
DoP: Jan Kadeřábek, Petr Klein Svoboda
Edit: Michal Novák
Data management / VFX / Color Grading
The life of the Czech composer Karel Svoboda through the eyes of his son Petr and also the people from the Czech pop culture who worked with him. The documentary combines archive footage with a private one.
Documentary / 80 min / 2019
Czech Republic
Production: Alžběta Karásková (PINK), Tereza Polachová (HBO Europe)
Director: Radovan Síbrt
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček, Radovan Síbrt, Lukáš Milota
Edit: Tomáš Elšík, Jorge Sánchez Calderón
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Are nowadays bands still about the drugs, sex and rock’n’roll? The documentary Two roads (Postiženi muzikou) follows the lives of extraordinary musicians from the Czech band The Tap Tap whose members have a psychical disability.
Drama / 102 min / 2019
Iran / Czech Republic
Production: Europe Media Nest, Filminiran
Director: Mahnaz Mohammadi
DoP: Askhan Askhani
Edit: Mohammadreza Muini
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Ever since Leila’s husband died, she had to take care of her 12-year-old son Amir and his little sister on her own, and provide a regular income without support. When the lovable, widowed bus driver Kazem proposes to her, she and her son are faced with making a serious decision – because this new marriage is tied to an impossible condition.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / 128 min / 2019
USA
Producer: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Guy Ritchie
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editor: James Herbert
VFX
A thrilling and vibrant live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic, “Aladdin” is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future.
Documentary / 78 min / 2019
Czech Republic / France
Production: Kateřina Černá (Negativ)
Director: Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna
DoP: David Cysař
Edit: Jakub Hejna
DCP
The Forman vs. Forman documentary summarises the life of the most famous Czech film director whose protagonists have always fought against institutions for freedom. The film is a collage of rare archive footage and autobiographic memories narrated by the director’s son Petr Forman.
Drama / 91 min / 2019
Czech Republic / Germany
Production: Negativ (Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec), 42film
Director: Štěpán Altrichter
DoP: Cristian Pirjol
Edit: Jan Daňhel
VFX
Vandam likes to get in fights. One day a guy threatens to close down the local pub if Lucy, his love interest, doesn’t pay back her debts. Vandam has to fight for the woman he loves and the place he visits regularly.
Comedy / Drama / 96 min / 2019
Czech Republic
Production: CinemArt (Marek Jeníček)
Director: Jiří Havelka
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Edit: Otakar Šenovský
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
The characters in the film Vlastníci own the flats in an old tenement house. The viewers will enter the owners’ meeting where they are trying to find the common language and decide what will happen with the house in the future.
Fantasy / 2019
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Production: Evolution films
Director: Jitka Rudolfová
DoP: Ferdinand Mazurek
Edit: Jakub Hejna
Data Manegement / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Hodinářův učeň is a fairy tale about the watchmaker’s apprentice Urban, who is on the daring journey to find the watch which can warn the owner of Death.
Comedy / Drama / 93min / 2019
Czech Republic / Chile / France / South Korea
Production: Arizona Films, Film & Roll, Jirafa films
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
DoP: Inti Briones
Edit: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Data Manegement / VFX / Color Grading / DCP / Co-production
The world of Petr, a young theatre director in a small Czech town, starts falling apart when he decides to fulfill his dream – to direct an adaptation of a play based on Euripides Phèdre.
Drama / 100min / 2018
Russia / Latvia / Czech Republic
Producer: Artem Vasilyev, Andrey Saveliev, Aija Berzina, Alise Gelze, Artemio Benki
Production: Metrafilms, Tasse Film, Sirena Film
Director: Michael Idov
DoP: Alexander Šurkala
Editor: Michal Lánský
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading
It’s 1984. Boris Arkadiev is the most famous standup comedian in the U.S.S.R. and the most loved comic of the government. Caged by the system that censors him on one hand and public adoration on the other, he begins to slowly lose his mind. Pushed to the edge, Arkadiev begins to war against them the only way he knows how: one joke at a time.
Adventure / Family / 79min / 2019
Croatia / Luxembourg / Norway / Czech Republic / Slovakia / Slovinia
Production: Studio Dim / Zagreb
Directors: Dražen Žarković, Marina Andree Škop
DoP: Sven Pepeonik
Editor: Marina Andree Skop
VFX
In a single moment, the entire life of a girl Una is turned upside down; her grandpa is abducted by aliens and her mum collapses and ends up in a hospital. Una discovers that her grandpa is an alien himself whose spaceship hit the planet some time ago.
Drama / 104min / 2018
Iran / Czech Republic
Producers: Majid Barzegar, Kaveh Farnam
Production: Europe Media Nest
Director: Suzan Iravanian
DoP: Ramzi Hibri, Sajad Avarand
Editor: Majid Barzegar, Suzan Iravanian
VFX
Crude oil coming out of a middle-aged woman’s body empowers her on one hand, but it also introduces uncertainty and paranoia into her life. When male paranoia is built up against her body’s malfunction, oil being gradually trivialized and just there to solve small family and immigration issues, the condition gets exacerbated, Foziye’s body stops producing it.
Documentary / 83min / 2018
Slovakia / Czech Republic / Austria / France
Producers: Dagmar Sedláčková (Masterfilm)
Director: Tomáš Krupa
DoP: Ondrej Szollos
Editor: Peter Kudlicka
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Janette has an incurable disease. She knows she can’t conquer death but she would like to be in control of how and when she dies. Now she is preparing for assisted suicide in Switzerland.
Drama / 104min / 2019
Czech Republic
Producer: Rudolf Biermann
Director: Julius Ševčík
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
The film, based on the famous novel of the same title by British author Simon Mawer, tells a story of love, friendship, and important life choices; its main heroines are bound together in a lifelong relationship and to one extraordinary house that was built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel.
Fantasy / 99min / 2018 / Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Punk Film (Ondřej Beránek, Martin Hůlovec)
Co-producer: Česká televize
Director: Marek Najbrt
DoP: Martin Žiaran
Edit: Pavel Hrdlička ml.
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
The story of Čertí brko (The Magic Quill) takes us to the small town Pytlov. Its inhabitants have no idea that their actions are closely watched by the local hell’s unit and written down by the flawless magic quill. Until the day it stops writing.
Drama / 100min / 2018 / Poland / Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Jan Jakub Kolski, Paweł Kosuń, Agnieszka Janowska, Aleksandra Michael
Co-Producer: Mimesis Film, Sentimental, Lower Silesia Film Competition, Podkarpackie Film Commission, TVP, Magiclab
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
DoP: Julian Kernbach
Edit: Konrad Sniady
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
A story of parents of a soldier told from a perspective of their 17-year-old grandson Janek. A film was written into the dramatic history of post-war Poland, that still remains universal in its story – a struggle of two parents to regain their dignity and balance in life after losing their child.
Thriller / 108min / 2018
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Ester Honysová (Bohemia Motion Picture)
Coproduction: Katarína Vanžurová, Ľubomír Slivka (Attack Film), RTVS, Jaroslav Sedláček (Česká televize)
Director: Karel Janák
DoP: Martin Šácha
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Andrej works as a programmer at the international company developing the intelligent houses which might represent a revolution in housing. The house is controlled by the voice and it is supposed to take care of the safety and luxury for its residents. Andrej, accompanied by his wife ambitious sculptress Zuzana, moves into the house to finalize it. But what looked like a fairytale, slowly but surely, turns into the nightmare.
Drama / 82min / 2018
Czech Republic
Producer: Kateřina Černá (Negativ)
Coproduction: Česká televize
Director: Šimon Šafránek
DoP: Jiří Chod
Edit: Šimon Hájek
Color Grading / DCP
The first feature-length documentary about the rise of skateboarding in Czechoslovakia presents a gripping tale of the search for freedom in a society stifled by the communist regime. Unique archive shots set to a driving punk soundtrack introduce us to the cult masters of the board and their never-ending party ride through the grey days of Normalization.
Fiction / 16min / 2018
Czech Republic
Producer: Dagmar Sedláčková (MasterFilm), Ondřej Novák
Director: Ondřej Novák, Jiří Havlíček
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček
Edit: Šimon Hájek
Color Grading / Deliveries
Olda (17) is an accused waiting for his trial in a detention center for juveniles. The monotone prison life is slowly intertwined by testimonies about his brutal assault of a homeless man. Gradually he recalls pieces of the police reconstruction when he had to replay the whole assault. However, his memory is just as imperfect and incomplete as the effort to understand the unreasonable violence.
Drama / 95min / 2018
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Viktor Tauš (HEAVEN’S GATE), Michal Kollár (Fog’n’Desire Films)
Coproduction: Česká televize, KFS production
Director: Beata Parkanová
DoP: Martin Douba
Edit: Alois Fišárek
Data Management / VFX / Color 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.
Comedy / 90min / 2018
Czech Republic
Producer: Jiří Tuček, David Blümel
Production: DonArt Production
Director: Ján Novák
DoP: Antonín Chundela
Editor: Michal Novák
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading
It might seem like Pepa lives a happy life. But maybe it is not the life he dreamt of. Does he have a shot at happiness with the pretty receptionist? Or maybe with the new beautiful colleague?
Drama / 100min / 2018
Poland / Czech Republic / Sweden
Producer: Agnieszka Kurzydło (MD4), Jonas Kellagher (Common Ground Pictures Gothenburg), Karla Stojáková (Axman Production)
Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
DoP: Jakub Kijowski
Edit: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free-spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother, and daughter. Her estranged husband and son do not recognize this woman who looks familiar and yet behaves like a stranger.
Documentary / 92min / 2018
Czech Republic
Producers: Tereza Polachová, Hanka Kastelcová, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, Tomáš Hrubý
Director: Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská
DoP: Lukáš Kokeš
Edit: Klára Tasovská
Data Management / VFX / Color 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, Anicka, and Nikola at a time when looming adulthood is beginning to cast an anxious shadow over their carefree high school existence. Each of them faces a momentous challenge whose outcome will change their life forever.
Family drama / 103min / 2018
Latvia / Czech Republic / Lithuania
Producer: Devini Studio, Master Film, Magiclab, Studia 2
Director: Ināra Kolmane
DoP: Jurģis Kmins
Edit: Michal Lánský, Anna Ryndová
VFX / Grading / DCP / Co-Producer
Bille tells a story about a childhood and the world of a child in 1930s pre-war Latvia. On the colorful and prosaic historical background, we’re going to learn that personal relationships and dreams of children are the same as they were then. The girl has a dream to break out of poverty and the grip of inferiority; it is Bille’s personal path towards growth.
Drama / Comedy / Road Movie / 113min / 2018
Slovakia / Czech Republic / Austria
Producer: Rudolf Biermann
Director: Martin Šulík
DoP: Martin Štrba
Edit: Olina Kaufmannová
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
The heroes of the movie are two old men who travel across Slovakia to know the truth about their own past. During the journey, they get into bizarre situations, meet diverse people, and gradually make up a mosaic-like image of the world that changes on the outside, but in the depths, it hides unresolved conflicts.
Drama / 88min / 2018
Iran / Czech Republic
Director: Abbas Amini
DoP: Ashkan Ashkani
Color Grading
Hendi & Hormoz takes place on Iran’s Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf, where hematite deposits in the soil turn the ocean waves blood-red. 16-year-old Hormoz is married to Hendi after he promises that he can work as a miner. But the young man finds closed doors instead of a job. When Hendi becomes pregnant unexpectedly, Hormoz is forced to make an ill-advised pact with a smuggler.
Drama / 118min / 2017
Iran / Czech Republic
Producer: Mohammad Rasoulof
Co-producers: Rozita Hendijanian, MagicLab, MediaNest
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
DoP: Ashkan Ashkani
Editors: Mohammadreza Muini, Meysam Muini
VFX / Color Grading
Reza leads a simple life along with his wife and sole son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities has taken control of nearly every aspect of the regional life. It is under their pressure that many villagers have themselves become local rings of the larger network of corruption.
Video art / 2018
Czech Republic
Director: Adéla Babanová
DoP: Lukáš Hyksa
Edit: Hedvika Hansalová
Grading Magiclab: Braňo Daniš
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Adventure / Drama / 2017
USA
Producer: Erlingur Jack Gudmundsson
Director: Kevin Arbouet
DoP: Gunnar Auðunn Jóhannsson
Edit: Stefanía Thors
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
A tender tale of four boys who are rapidly coming to terms with school, bullies, friendship, and loyalty. Not to be limited by a poor upbringing, they tap their immense creativity and imagination to create The Order of the Red Dragon, a brotherhood of knights determined to fight injustice with justice. It’s terribly exciting, and life is one big adventure. But when fissures appear in the friendship, their adventure turns dark, and they are forced to face real-world dilemmas and muster all they’ve got to save each other.
Short / Drama / 19 min / 2017
Czech Republic / USA
Producer: Jiří Mádl
Co-Producers: Blake Sturcke, Blanka Příborská, Michal Koblas
Director: Petra Příborská
DoP: Lukáš Milota
Editor: Jakub Vansa
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Having spent her childhood in communist Czechoslovakia, Anna, now an immigrant in New York City, struggles to pursue her dream of higher education in the U.S.
Documentary / 91 min / 2017
Czech Republic
Producer: Jindřich Trčka
Director: Jiří Sádek
DoP: Antoan Pepelanov
Editor: Krasimira Veličková
Grading Magiclab: Braňo Daniš
Data Management / Color Grading / DCP
A time-lapse documentary, capturing one year in the lives of six of the most popular Czech youtubers.
Drama / Biopic / 106 min / 2017
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Rudolf Biermann
Production: In Film
Co-producers: Czech television, RTVS, ZDF, Arte.
Director: Julius Ševčík
DoP: Martin Štrba
Editor: Marek Opatrný
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Set in 1939, Jan Masaryk escapes to America to forget his personal and political betrayal. Being the flamboyant son of the first president of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, he struggles to live a normal life as he works as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London just before the outbreak of the second world war.
Drama / 87min / 2017
Czech Republic / Slovakia
Producer: Miloš Lochman, Peter Badač
Production: moloko film, B Film
Director: Tereza Nvotová
DoP: Marek Dvořák
Editor: Jiří Brožek, Michal Lánský, Janka Vlčková
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
Lena is a 17-year old girl, experiencing her first love, secret nighttime adventures, and magical mornings at the river in Bratislava. Her dream world is shattered after being raped by her math teacher. Lena must set out on a journey that is not simply about coming of age, but a struggle with herself. It is Lena who must grow up and realize that she is not the one who deserves punishment and should feel guilty.
Drama / Comedy / 3x115min / 2017
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland
Producer: Viktor Tauš
Production: Fog’n’Desire Films
Co-producers: Czech television
Director: Jan Hřebejk
DoP: Bartek Cierlica
Editor: Vladimír Barák
Data Management / VFX / DCP
A historical chronicle covering the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s, tells the story of a Czech family whose members are trying to recover the consequences of WWII and at the same time face the dramatic changes in society after 1948.
Comedy / 111 min / 2016
Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Ollusion
Director: Dušan Klein
DoP: Peter Beňa
Editor: Libor Merta
Adventure / 129 min / 2016
Czech republic / Austria
Producers: Anna Tydlitátová, Ondřej Cikán
Production: Die Gruppe
Co-producers: FAMU, Nutprodukce, MagicLab
Directors: Ondřej Cikán, Antonín Šilar
DoP: Šimon Dvořáček
Editor: Zuzana Walter
VFX / Color Grading / DCP
An experimental, feature-length adventure-movie 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 an happy end. Or does it?
Thriller / Action / 2016
Czech republic / Slovakian republic / Poland
Producer: Viktor Tauš, Agnieszka Kurzydlo
Production: Fog’n’desire films, SOKOL KOLLAR, MD4
Co-producers: Czech television, S PRO ALFA, RTVS, Barrandov studios
Director: Michal Kollár
DoP: Kacper Fertacz
Editor: Lucie Haladová
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
1992. Three years after the fall of the Berlin wall; six months before the split of Czecho-Slovakia. Homicide detective Richard Krauz, 32 years old, is desperate to distinguish himself from the police of the previous regime. One notable notch in his belt is the capture of serial killer Ondrej “The Beast”. During grounds-keeping at an old cemetery, a corpse with a nail driven through its skull is disinterred.
Animated Short / 26 min / 2015
Czech republic
Producer: Pavla Janoušková Kubečková
Production: nutprodukce
Directors: Filip Pošivač a Bára Valecká
Animation: Bára Valecká
DoP: Václav Fronk
Editor: Lucie Haladová
VFX
A new animated short by creative duo Filip Pošivač a Bára Valecká explores an extraordinary world of Bertík and Josefka.
Thriller / 95 min / 2015
Poland / Slovak republic / Czech republic
Producer: Agnieszka Kurzydło
Production: MD4
Director: Marcin Koszałka
DoP: Marcin Koszałka
Editors: Krzystof Komander, Marcin Koszalka
VFX
This feature debut by a leading Polish documentarist and cameraman was inspired by actual mass murders committed in the 1960s. A precisely constructed psychological thriller, the film delves into an intricate story of the fascination with evil that hides in places we would never expect.
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.
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.
Editor: Šimon Hájek
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Comedy / 97 min / 2015
Producer: Daniel Strejc
Production: FormatFactory
Co-producers: MagicLab, EuropeEasyEnergy, BEEP
Director: Vojtěch Kotek
DoP: Tomáš Sysel
Editor: Tomáš Klímek
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading
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.
Thriller / Action / 100 min / 2015
Producer: Adam Dvořák
Production: Movie
Co-producer: Czech television
Director: Jan Pachl
DoP: Marek Janda
Editor: Adam Dvořák
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading
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.
Producer: Radko Janoušek
Production: Mia Film
Director: Pavel Sadílek
NAGANO – THE BIRTH OF HEROES is an engrossing story about the tough journey of the Czech hockey players dream for Olympic gold . But our story is not just about hockey itself , but also the great dream of a little boy who momentarily forgot who he really is .
Spiritual Comedy / 90 min / 2015
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.
Drama / Thriller / 100 min / 2009
Production: Axman Production
Producer: Karla Stojáková
Director: Julius Ševčík
DoP: Antonio Riestra
Editor: Marek Opatrný
Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten’s mental derangement, 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.
Documentary / 25 min / 2015
Producer: Mikuláš Novotný
Production: Background Films
Co-producers: UMPRUM, Česká televize
Director: Martin Hrubý
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.
Horror / 75 min / 2015
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.…
Comedy / 95 min / 2015
Producer: Rudolf Biermann
Production: IN Film
Director: Petr Nikolaev
DoP: David Ployhar
Editor: Michal Hýka
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading / DCP
An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends – Jeff, Skippy and Tom – whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment.
Thriller / Action / 2016
Producer: Viktor Tauš
Production: Fog’n’desire films
Co-producers: Czech television, S PRO ALFA, RTVS, Barrandov studios
Director: Michal Kollár
DoP: Kacper Fertacz
Editor: Lucie Haladová
Data Management / VFX / Color Grading
1992. Three years after the fall of the Berlin wall; six months before the split of Czecho-Slovakia. Homicide detective Richard Krauz, 32 years old, is desperate to distinguish himself from the police of the previous regime. One notable notch in his belt is the capture of serial killer Ondrej “The Beast”. During grounds-keeping at an old cemetery, a corpse with a nail driven through its skull is disinterred.
Thriller / 100 min / 2015
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.
Comedy / 110 min / 2012
Production: Vorelfilm
Producer: Tomáš Vorel
Director: Tomáš Vorel
DoP: Tomáš Vorel
Editor: Šimon Hájek
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. Pays tribute to Czech woodsmen and farmers who bravely face the natural elements and urban encroachment. It is full of flowers, animals and Czech movie stars.
Comedy / 77 min / 2014
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?
Crime / Thriler / 90 min / 2013
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 Godfather’s Story tells about the rise and fall of a person who worked his way up from dealing in digital watches to the position of a grey eminence of Czech politics. Two worlds collide in the film – the belief in the right of the stronger and smarter and the belief in justice. We follow the riveting duel between a representative of law and order and a person who changes the rules to suit himself. Police Inspector Cajthaml has dedicated his life to trailing the Godfather and he never lost his faith in the victory of justice.
Comedy / Crime / 120 min / 2014
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.
Comedy / 95 min / 2012
Production: Ankor-film
Director: Kirill Kuzin
DoP: Ulugbeck Khamraev
Crazy Russian comedy about how two hapless heroes, one of whom wanted to become a pilot, and another actor accidentally get a chance to fulfill two dreams at once on the set of the new film. However, in the first scene they manage to beat the helicopter sponsor that promises them a lot of problems. To indemnify shortstop forced plunge into the grave – to try to rob a tycoon earn kind and even try to steal a helicopter to the U.S. air base.
Documentary / 95 min / 2015
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.
Drama / History / War / 126 min / 2011
Producer: Adam Dvořák
Production: Movie
Director: Petr Nikolaev
DoP: Antonio Riestra
Editor: Adam Dvořák
With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the deputy Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. Heydrich is assassinated and a letter is found describing supposed heroism comes to their attention. It leads to the total destruction of Lidice and the mass execution and deportations of its citizens…
Animation / Family / 90 min / 2013
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 an 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.
Comedy / 110 min / 2012
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. Pays tribute to Czech woodsmen and farmers who bravely face the natural elements and urban encroachment. It is full of flowers, animals and Czech movie stars.