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Forever Hold Your Peace
Forever Hold Your Peace

Release date
21.11.2024

Director
Ivan Marinović

Two days before her wedding on the idyllic Montenegrin peninsula, Dragana, the bride, announces she can’t go through with it, although everything is ready, and all the invitations have been sent out. Momo, the meek and narrow-minded groom, is helpless in the face of Dragana’s painful, uncompromising, and overwhelming decision. Leso, the merciless patriarch of the groom’s family, offers the rebellious bride a solution: go through with the bloody wedding and the day after, go wherever you want. She accepts. Momo remains hopeful, learning about this agreement only after they both say “yes”. The traditional wedding consists of a series of absurd activities, playful friends and family members soaked in alcohol, and is topped off with gunfire and dynamite.

Kaytek the Wizard
Kaytek the Wizard

Release date
21.11.2024

Director
Magdalena Łazarkiewicz

Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day, the troublemaker discovers that he’s got supernatural powers, which completely take over his life. Now Kaytek can deal with the teachers he doesn’t like and the entire school, becoming famous and admired among his peers. Things get complicated when the forces of good and evil start to compete for Kaytek’s talents. Which side will he choose?

Dajori
Dajori

Release date
14.11.2024

Director
Nicolas Kourek, Martin Páv

The film Dajori (which means mother in Romani) tells the story of the main character Marie (45), a mother of three children who lives an ordinary life in a block of flats in Varnsdorf with her husband Enrico (50). For a long time now, Varnsdorf has been classified as an area whose population is threatened by poverty and social exclusion. Marie assumes the role of the female head of her extended family and decides to help her younger sister Iveta who has became homeless with her nine children. Two-year-old Anabel and nine-year-old Samuel end up being fostered by Marie and Enrico. In the next three years, the film follows the dynamics of the new family and Marie's efforts to provide the traumatized children with motherly love while at the same time raising them according to her ideals...

Block 5
Block 5

Release date
14.11.2024

Director
Klemen Dvornik

Alma recently moved into a new neighbourhood, which is a skateboarding nest of her classmate Luna. Not only do Alma and Luna not get along – they're outright enemies! When Alma discovers that her father's company plans to demolish the playground, she gets determined to save the green space. Alma has no choice but to join forces with her worst enemies – Luna's skate gang. The battle over the playground evolves into a conflict about unity and forgiving one another.

Introducing

Cinematographer Martin Žiaran (b. 1976) has worked several times with directors Peter Bebjak and Jiří Mádl. With the latter, he made the epic film Waves, set in the turbulent times of the late 1960s when hopes for a freer Czechoslovakia were shattered by the Soviet invasion. The film is set in the international news office of Czechoslovak Radio, where a group of passionate journalists spread the ideals of democracy and progressive, honest journalism.

by Vojtěch Rynda for CZECH FILM / Fall 2024

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