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Notes from Eremocene
Notes from Eremocene

Release date
26.03.2024

Director
Viera Čákanyová

Taking place in a future that does not exist yet, Notes From Eremocene questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, director Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative democracy. Combining diaristic film footage with 3D scanner images, the author is able to poetically stress the inherent tension between the analogue and digital future of mankind.

Mr. and Mrs. Stodola
Mr. and Mrs. Stodola

Director
Petr Hátle

During an unsuccessful burglary attempt, Jaroslav accidentally kills his old neighbour. His wife, Dana, concocts a plan to make the murder seem like an accident. Another neighbour stands in the way, however, whom they also have to eliminate. Dana convinces Jaroslav to help her. They attempt to use this incident to solve some of their financial problems. With the vision of easy money, the Stodolas start killing elderly and lonely people in the surrounding villages, Dana being the leader and Jaroslav the follower. Initially, they proceed to cover up the murders as accidents or suicides and the police do not do much to prove otherwise. When they finally are convicted by the investigator, who connect all the dots, Jaroslav puts all the blame on himself.

Once Upon a Time in the East
Once Upon a Time in the East

Director
Rudolf Biermann

Captain Miky Miko is a police officer, an operative who lives on the edge of the law in the wild environment of Eastern Slovakia in the early 90s. In a fragile symbiosis, mafia gangs coexist here, under cover with the SIS, businessmen paying protection racket and local police, rewarded for turning a blind eye to the crimes of "our" people. When Miky`s bosses assign him a young, inexperienced partner Igor "Moly" Molnár, they realise how similar they are in many ways. Together, they dare to investigate a mobster who is protected from the highest place in the state. A sequence of events ends with Moly's death. Miky decides take revenge which puts him at war with the police and the secret service. Only with the help of his girlfriend and the former colleague Lepeňák, the real survival game begins.

Dry Season
Dry Season

Director
Bohdan Sláma

A contemporary Czech village. Vast fields surround a small farm, where fifty-year-old Josef works with his wife Eva and three children. Josef tries to live an alternative life and leads a quixotic fight against the local agribusiness. Because of this, his family suffers. He forbids his children to use computers, mobile phones and the Internet, which is especially difficult for sixteen-year-old Žofka. The agribusiness belongs to Viktor, who is walking in the footsteps of his dominant father. His eighteen-year-old son Míra, who has been living with his mother in Prague for over a year, is coming to Viktor’s place for the holidays. Míra becomes close to Žofka, but their relationship is turbulent, especially when both teenagers start to stand up to their domineering fathers.

Introducing

Slovak composer and musician Jonatán Pastirčák, aka Pjoni (b. 1993), was nominated for two Czech Lions in 2023, for his scores on Arved and Nightsiren, taking home the prize for the former. He also composed the score for the film adaptation of Jáchym Topol’s prize-winning novel A Sensitive Person, which competed in the Karlovy Vary IFF that same year. The hard-working composer has also been involved in a host of other projects of various genres appearing at leading festivals, including the miniseries Suspicion, the sci-fi drama Ordinary Failures, and the documentary The Visitors.

Written by Vojtěch Rynda for CZECH FILM / Spring 2024

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