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.
Feature Film / Comedy / 93 min / 2026
United States
Director: Thea Sharrock
Production: 3dot Productions, Four By Two Films
Studio / Network: Netflix
DoP: Haris Zambarloukos
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer
VFX
A chauvinistic advertising executive hits his head and wakes up in a world where gender roles are reversed, and has to find his way back to his old life.
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.
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.
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.
TV Movie / Period Drama / 2 × 70 min / 2026
Czech Republic / France
Director: Tomáš Mašín
Production: Czech Television, Negativ, ARTE
Studio / Network: Czech Television, HBO Max
Producers: Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
DoP: Tomáš Frkal
Editor: Filip Malásek
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
115 VFX shots.
A two-part adaptation of Kateřina Tučková’s novel. A young woman from a German-Czech family is driven out of Brno in the post-war expulsion of Germans and carries that stigma for decades.
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.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Comedy / 97 min / 2026
United States
Directors: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Production: Black Bear Pictures, Team Todd
DoP: Danny Ruhlmann
Magic Lab VFX Producers: Michal Křeček, Andrea Shaffer
VFX
Four childhood friends who have drifted apart reunite for a birthday weekend at a luxury spa resort. When their reckless friend Mel arrives uninvited, the trip turns into escalating comic chaos.
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.
TV Movie / Period Drama / 2 × 70 min / 2026
Czech Republic / France
Director: Tomáš Mašín
Production: Czech Television, Negativ, ARTE
Studio / Network: Czech Television, HBO Max
Producers: Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
DoP: Tomáš Frkal
Editor: Filip Malásek
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
115 VFX shots.
A two-part adaptation of Kateřina Tučková’s novel. A young woman from a German-Czech family is driven out of Brno in the post-war expulsion of Germans and carries that stigma for decades.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Action / Fantasy / 111 min / 2024
United States / United Kingdom / France
Director: Rupert Sanders
Production: FilmNation Entertainment, Davis Films, Pressman Film
Studio / Network: Lionsgate
DoP: Steve Annis
VFX – 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.
Feature Film / Action / Fantasy / 111 min / 2024
United States / United Kingdom / France
Director: Rupert Sanders
Production: FilmNation Entertainment, Davis Films, Pressman Film
Studio / Network: Lionsgate
DoP: Steve Annis
VFX – 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.
Feature Film / Action Spy Thriller / 139 min / 2024
United Kingdom / United States
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Production: Apple Studios, Marv Studios, Cloudy Productions
Studio / Network: Apple TV+, Universal Pictures
DoP: George Richmond
VFX
A reclusive author of best-selling spy novels discovers that the plot of her new book is starting to mirror the actions of a real spy organisation, and is drawn into a world of espionage herself.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Sci-fi Crime Drama / 111 min / 2023
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland / Serbia
Director: Robert Hloz
Production: Film Kolektiv, DNA Production, Film Produkcja, Mali Budo
Producer: Jan Kallista
DoP: Filip Marek
Editor: Jarosław Kamiński
DI · Colour Grading · VFX
Europe, 2038. A detective investigates the murder of a couple, one of whom a restoration team is able to bring back to life.
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.
Feature Film / Romantic Comedy / 118 min / 2023
United States
Director: Matthew López
Production: Amazon Studios, Berlanti-Schechter Films
Studio / Network: Prime Video
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 US and British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Action Comedy / 114 min / 2023
United States / United Kingdom
Director: Guy Ritchie
Production: Miramax, STXfilms, Toff Guy Films
Producers: Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Bill Block, Jason Statham
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editor: James Herbert
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
VFX – CG extensions of a Moroccan palace, digital matte paintings, CG cars and helicopters, a CG yacht with surrounding CG sea, a car destruction sequence, CG blood, muzzle flashes, rocket impacts and explosions of giant satellites with simulated destruction and debris.
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars for an undercover mission to stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology.
Feature Film / Drama / 123 min / 2022
Iceland / Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands / Czech Republic
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Production: Join Motion Pictures, Bastide Films, Film i Väst, Hobab, Motor, Negativ
Producer: Anton Máni Svansson
DoP: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editors: Andri Steinn Guðjónsson, Anders Skov
Magic Lab VFX Supervisor: Michal Křeček
Magic Lab VFX Producer: Andrea Shaffer
Magic Lab created the visual effects that bring to life the inner world and visions of the protagonist Balli, from 3D and FX simulations to the final composited look.
Fourteen-year-old Balli is a misfit who lives with his drug-addicted mother and is bullied at school. When he meets three boys of his own age, Addi, Konni and Siggi, a friendship gently develops.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Action Thriller / 119 min / 2021
United States / United Kingdom
Director: Guy Ritchie
Production: Miramax, Toff Guy Films
Producers: Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Bill Block
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editor: James Herbert
VFX from on-set supervision to final delivery of 470 shots.
H, a cold and mysterious man, joins a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Action Crime Comedy / 113 min / 2020
United Kingdom / United States
Director: Guy Ritchie
Production: Miramax, Toff Guy Films
Producers: Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Bill Block
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editors: James Herbert, Paul Machliss
VFX
An American expat who has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London tries to sell it to an Oklahoma billionaire, setting off a chain of schemes, bribery and blackmail.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Fantasy / 124 min / 2019
Italy / France / United Kingdom
Director: Matteo Garrone
Production: Archimede, Rai Cinema, Le Pacte, Recorded Picture Company
Producers: Matteo Garrone, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, Jeremy Thomas, Paolo Del Brocco
DoP: Nicolaj Brüel
Editor: Marco Spoletini
VFX
A live-action adaptation of the classic story of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet who comes to life and dreams of becoming a real boy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Documentary / 78 min / 2019
Czech Republic / France
Directors: Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna
Production: Negativ, Czech Television
Producers: Kateřina Černá, Alena Müllerová
Co-producers: ARTE, Alegria Productions
DoP: David Cysař
Editor: Jakub Hejna
DCP
The documentary summarises the life of the most famous Czech film director, whose protagonists always fought against institutions for freedom. The film is a collage of rare archive footage and autobiographical memories narrated by the director’s son Petr Forman.
Feature Film / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / 128 min / 2019
United States
Director: Guy Ritchie
Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Rideback
Producers: Dan Lin, Jonathan Eirich
DoP: Alan Stewart
Editor: James Herbert
VFX
A live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic about the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feature Film / Drama / 100 min / 2018
Poland / Czech Republic / Sweden
Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Production: MD4, CommonGround Pictures, Axman Production
Producers: Agnieszka Kurzydło, Jonas Kellagher, Karla Stojáková
Co-producers: Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund, Odra-Film, Film i Väst, Magic Lab
DoP: Jakub Kijowski
Editor: Jarosław Kamiński
Co-production · Data Management · VFX · Colour Grading · DCP
Two years after she disappeared, Alicja has lost her memory and built a new, free-spirited life. When she returns to her family, she has to take on, against her will, the role of wife, mother and daughter. Her husband and son do not recognise this woman who looks familiar yet behaves like a stranger.
Feature Film / Comedy / 90 min / 2018
Czech Republic
Director: Ján Novák
Production: DonArt Production
Producers: Jiří Tuček, David Blümel
DoP: Antonín Chundela
Editor: Michal Novák
Data Management · VFX · Colour 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 his beautiful new colleague?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Short Film / Drama / 19 min / 2017
Czech Republic / United States
Director: Petra Příborská
Producer: Jiří Mádl
Co-producers: Blake Sturcke, Blanka Příborská, Michal Koblas
DoP: Lukáš Milota
Editor: Jakub Vansa
VFX · Colour 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 United States.
Feature Film / Drama / 118 min / 2017
Iran / Czech Republic
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Producers: Mohammad Rasoulof, Kaveh Farnam
Co-producers: Rozita Hendijanian, Magic Lab, MediaNest
DoP: Ashkan Ashkani
Editors: Mohammadreza Muini, Meysam Muini
Co-production · VFX · Colour Grading
Reza leads a simple life with his wife and son 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 life in the region. Under their pressure, many villagers have themselves become local links in a larger network of corruption.
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.
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.
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.
Comedy / 111 min / 2016
Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer
Production: Bio Ollusion
Director: Dušan Klein
DoP: Peter Beňa
Editor: Libor Merta
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?
Editor: Šimon Hájek
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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.
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.
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 / 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.…
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.
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 / 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.
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 / 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?
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.
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 / 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.
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 / 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.
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…
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.