No Other Land

Palestine, Norway / 2024 / 96 min.
Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew
Subtitles: Czech descriptive subtitles

The West Bank’s Masafer Yatta has been home to Palestinians for generations. Like thousands of others, they now face eviction. Their efforts to attain justice and resist displacement are met with more harassment and armed violence.

The Other One

Czech Republic, Slovakia / 2024 / 87 min.
Language: Czech
Subtitles: Czech descriptive subtitles

While her peers deal mainly with completing school, relationships and plans for the future, 18-year-old Johana must reconcile her own dreams with taking care of her younger sister Róza. The Other One provides a sensitive insight into the lives of so-called glass children – healthy siblings of children with a health disadvantage. In Róza's case, this means a form of autism that requires constant supervision from those closest to her. who has a form of autism and requires constant supervision.

Home is the Ocean

Switzerland / 2024 / 94 min.
Language: English, German, Norwegian, Portuguese
Subtitles: Czech

What is at first glance a small sailboat houses a fairly large family of ecological researchers, who, 20 years ago decided to leave solid ground and live their lives on the waves of freedom.

Democracy Noir

Denmark, Germany, USA / 2024 / 92 min.
Language: English, Hungarian
Subtitles: Czech

Orbán’s politics are a big topic in the European Parliament, yet Hungarians feel the need to move from words to action. Articles, TV reports, opposition in the National Assembly, roadblocks, all are tools the three protagonists use to highlight Hungary’s current problems. In doing so, they become a thorn in the ruling regime’s side.

Everything Needs to Live

Poland, Ukraine / 2024 / 70 min.
Language: Russian, Ukrainian
Subtitles: Czech descriptive subtitles

Even as a child Anna Kurkurina loved animals, later working in zoos, promoting animal rights and founding shelters. At 40, she took up weight training with similar vigour. She became a multiple world champion in the power triathlon and coached people with physical disabilities.

Blok krátkých filmů o Slovensku

/ N/A / 75 min.
Language: Slovak
Subtitles: Czech

Made in Ethiopia

Canada, Ethiopia, UK, USA, Denmark / 2024 / 91 min.
Language: Amharic, English, Mandarin, Oromo
Subtitles: Czech

On one hand, the industrial zone in Dukem, Ethiopia, with more than 100 Chinese companies, offers tens of thousands of jobs; on the other, it changes the landscape and exploits the locals. The film captures the vision of prosperity through the eyes of 3 women tracked over 4 years.

The Impossibility

Czech Republic / 2024 / 146 min.
Language: Czech
Subtitles: Czech

The award-winning documentary film takes you into the harsh reality of poverty exploitation in the Czech Republic. It follows the years-long struggle of tenants in a rundown lodging house against its ruthless owner, Robert Hrdina, who continues to profit from human desperation despite a court ban. Brave mothers with children decide to resist systematic oppression and, with the help of activists, launch a risky operation - gathering evidence of illegal practices and violence.

Year of the Widow

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia / 2024 / 109 min.
Language: Czech
Subtitles: Czech descriptive subtitles

For translator Petra, things don’t end with her husband’s death. Instead, a gruelling process ensues. She has no time to grieve. The film charts her first year as a widow, when she has to make decisions and deal with endless things. At the post office, the bank, the notary...