Premieres in Czech cinemas

Nebelkind – The End of Silence
Nebelkind – The End of Silence

Release date
05.06.2025

Director
Tereza Kotyk

On the trail of a runaway wolf, wolf guardian Hannah reluctantly visits her grandmother's native Czech village, close to the Austrian border. Hannah's mother lives here and is treated as a social outcast due to her attempts of coming to terms with her traumatic family history. Hannah, too, can no longer escape the hushed-up past. It is time to break the silence.

Moloch Files
Moloch Files

Release date
27.05.2025

Director
Lukáš Hanulák

After an attack on the President of the Czech Republic, the investigative journalist Martin Braun teams up with the young online investigator Julia to uncover exactly what happened and why. During their search, they become embroiled in a dangerous game of secret services, international politics and forces determined to keep the truth hidden for various reasons. In the search of finding the truth people are dying, so Julia and Martin must reveal what happened before they become the next victims.

Lovends
Lovends

Release date
01.05.2025

Director
Milan Cieslar

Based on a true story. A love triangle: Albert, 45, divorced, Katherine, 30, his manipulative lover, and Gabby, Kathy's lesbian friend.
Kathy is post-hysterectomy, but wants Albert to father ‘their’ baby, with Gabby as surrogate and ‘body double’ during coitus. Kathy imitates Gabby's pregnancy as it progresses. Kathy and Gabby grow closer, while Kathy and Albert grow apart. Albert is the only child of an absentee single mother who denied him access to his father. She has had a stroke and dies in hospital, mute, but they reconcile first. When Albert refuses to let Gabby move in with them, Kathy leaves Albert to join Gabby and is tragically raped and murdered on the way. Gabby blames Albert and refuses to give up the baby once it is born. Albert is left motherless, loverless and sonless.

Housing Against Everyone
Housing Against Everyone

Release date
01.05.2025

Director
Tomáš Hlaváček

Housing Against Everyone tells the story of several years in a million city, where the city hall decided to try one of the new ways of combating ‘poverty business’ known as rapid rehousing. The principle is to give a stable and respectable home to families in housing need, which are the usual victims of this business that even the government pays for. The chain of controversy grows into a dramatic social conflict revealing not only the crisis of interpersonal solidarity and traditional social policy, but above all the international problem worsening the situation of affordable housing.

Introducing

Sound designer Martin Ženíšek, 45, has already worked with Zuzana Kirchnerová on her film Bába, which won the Cinéfondation section at Cannes. Now his name also appears in the credits of her feature film Caravan, a rroad movie that follows a woman and her son with a disability on their journey through  Italy. The intimate atmosphere of the film is greatly enhanced by the sound component. Caravan will compete in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.

by Vojtěch Rynda for CZECH FILM / Summer 2025

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