Adam Sedlák‘s Domestique, selected for the main competition, is also Jakub Jíra’s production debut (ShorePoints). The story is centred around the bicycle racer who is willing to sacrifice everything for being on the cycling team including the relationship with his wife Šarlota. The film, made in Czech-Slovak co-production, received €97,000 in support from the Czech Film Fund and in 2015, the script was awarded the top prize of Film Foundation of Czech Television, innogy and Barrandov Studio. Adam Sedlák and Jakub Jíra have drawn the attention to themselves in connection with award-winning web series The Term, which they made together in 2016.

Moments by FAMU graduate Beata Parkanová will be screened at the East of the West Competition and it depicts the story of Anežka whose life seems not to belong to her anymore, as her entire family wants to get involved in every aspect of it. The Czech-Slovak co-production film was supported by the Czech Film Fund with €168,235 and was produced by Viktor Tauš (HEAVEN’S GATE). 

Finally, one Czech debut has been selected also for the documentary competition. In a war documentary Inside Mosul, Jana Andert for eight months filmed the elite unit of the Iraqi Army in the first battle line in 2016. The Czech Film Fund supported the film produced by Jan Macola (Mimesis Film) with €19,608.

Domestique
Director: Adam Sedlák 
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2018, 116 min, world premiere
Section: Official Selection - Competition
Roman is a top level cyclist recovering from an injury through hard work and strict regimen. To improve his performance, he even sleeps in an oxygen tent installed in his bedroom. That is a bitter pill to swallow for his wife, Šarlota, whose long-time wish is to conceive a child. And so they both brim with determination, get lost in their obsessions, and improve their bodies to a point where they might even frighten themselves. With each night they spend in the oxygen tent, their relationship changes. Will they be able to catch a breath again in this claustrophobic environment?

Moments 
Director: Beata Parkanová
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2018, 95 min, world premiere
Section: East of the West - Competition
Family drama Moments is structured around the character of young warm-hearted woman Anežka, who is always there for her family, tries to help everybody and keep her promises. But she learns in the course of the story that one's selfsacrifice has to be limited and that sometimes she also needs to fulfil her own dreams and longings. Moments is a film about everyday life, primary emotions, family relations and desire for harmony that we all struggle with.

Inside Mosul
Director: Jana Andert 
Czech Republic, 2018, 72 min, world premiere 
Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Czech documentarist Jana Andert left for Iraq in autumn 2016. For eight months she lived and shot there at the front line of the battle of Mosul with Golden Division, an elite Iraq Army squad. She got into the situation at her own expenses without support of any the big TV stations she usually works for. Thanks to that she could be completly independent and not to respect any security meassures usually imposed by those stations. She just wanted to be at the front line.