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Living Large
Living Large

Release date
17.10.2024

Director
Kristina Dufková

Ben is 12, he is from a divorced family and even though he is a talented chef-in-the-making, his physique leaves much to be desired. So far, the fact that he is fat didn’t bother him much. However, with the summer and school back on, he realizes the boys are tall and manly while many of the girls turned into well-endowed young ladies - Klara especially. Ben longs for her attention but his body is not helping his cause. His size makes him a target of bullying and even the school nurse issues him with a stern warning. And so, Ben, a food fanatic, has to go on a diet. Klára is his main motivation, but his family and friend Erik are there for him too. In the end and after a lot of twists and turns, Ben regains his lust for life, gains love and wins back the friendships he has almost lost.

State of Emergency
State of Emergency

Release date
17.10.2024

Director
Jan Hřebejk

This conversational comedy drama is a parable about the entrance of misinformation and lies into the public space and our everyday lives. It reminds us how easily people can be manipulated and how important it is to verify the information that rains down on us from literally everywhere. Ironically, when the hero of the film does this, he inexorably spins the wheel of his story. Karel Beran, a radio correspondent in the Middle East, arrives in Prague on the basis of an anonymous tip. The next day he wants to fly back. But a revolution breaks out in Kambur, which the correspondent has unprofessionally abandoned. Being given reporter's duties forces the seasoned professional into hoax reporting, simulating the turmoil of the Arab revolution on the kitchen appliances in his apartment.

Year of the Widow
Year of the Widow

Release date
10.10.2024

Director
Veronika Lišková

After her husband´s fatal health collapse, Petra overnight becomes a widow. As she soon finds out, her grief and loneliness are not the only challenges she has to face. Unexpectedly demanding are also countless practical and administrative tasks that a person’s death brings in the 21st century. The fiction debut of an awarded documentary director draws an intimate and minimalistic drama that touches a taboo topic and captures a clash between a person's individual perception of a situation and the reality.

The Hungarian Dressmaker
The Hungarian Dressmaker

Release date
10.10.2024

Director
Iveta Grófová

Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and Wartime Slovak State.

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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