Upcoming Film:
CARAVAN
Austin: Violet Crown, Wednesday, April 8th, 7pm Tix HERE
FATHER
Austin: Violet Crown, Tuesday, April 14th, 7pm Tix HERE
iDENTITY: A CZECH GRAPHIC DESIGN LOVE STORY
Tuesday, April 21st in Austin.
SECRET DELIVERY (Tichá pošta)
Tuesday, April 28th in Austin.
*Films in Czech language with English subtitles
CARAVAN (CZ, 2025)
RT: 105min
Directed by Zuzana Kirchnerová
Starring: Anna Geislerová, David Vostrcil, Juliana Olhová, Jana Plodková, Mario Russo, Giandomenico Cupaiuolo
Austin: Violet Crown, Wednesday, April 8, 7pm Tix HERE
Czech Oscar 2026 • Best Narrative Feature
Official Selection • Cannes 2025 – Un Certain Regard
Trailer Here!
Ester, 45, has devoted her life to caring for her son David, who has Down syndrome and autism. Their bond is fierce—but so is her exhaustion. While visiting friends in Italy, tensions rise—David’s behaviour unsettles the household, and they’re asked to sleep in a caravan. That night, Ester takes off. In the old camper winding through southern Italy, Ester dares towant more from life. But David begins to change too—gradually opening up to the world, and to Zuza, a vibrant drifter who becomes their companion. Together, the trio discovers a fragile joy, a new rhythm, and the possibility of freedom.
In partnership with PolkaWorks, Big Day Pictures, UT-Austin’s CREEES, UT-Austin’s Center for European Studies (CES) & AgroEcoPower
FATHER (Otec, SK/CZ, 2025)
Directed by Tereza Novotná
Starring: Michal Ondrik, Dominika Morávková, Anna Geislerová
Austin: Violet Crown, Tuesday, April 14, 7pm Tix HERE
In Czech language with English subtitles
Official Selection • 2025 Venice Film Festival + Winner – Golden Eye for Best Feature – 2025 Zurich Film Festival + Best Actor • Milan Ondrik • Palm Springs IFF + 2025 Submission to Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
Trailer Here!
Based on a true story….a tragic mistake shatters the life of a devoted father, shaking his marriage and isolating him in guilt. As the threat of prison looms, he begins to question whether he deserves to go on living. But when he and his wife come to see that the tragedy was not a personal failure, but something rooted deep in the architecture of the human mind, a fragile path toward forgiveness begins to emerge. Even with this understanding, the question remains: can love survive what no heart was built to endure? (1h40min)
In partnership with PolkaWorks, Big Day Pictures, UT-Austin’s Slavic Studies, UT-Austin’s Center for European Studies (CES) & AgroEcoPower
iDENTITY: A CZECH GRAPHIC DESIGN LOVE STORY (CZ, 2025)
Directed by Katerina Mikulcova, Petr Smelik
Starring: Nicholas Lowry with Petr Babák, Martin Pecina, Aleš Najbrt
In Czech and English language with English subtitles
Trailer Here!
World-renowned auctioneer and Czech-American Nicholas Lowry flies from New York to Prague as a passionate collector to map out what has shaped and defines the Czech national identity. His travels around the Czech Republic take him to iconic locations of graphic design, including the cities of Zlín, Litomyšl, Brno, and Pilsen, where he explores the work of Tomáš Baťa, Josef Váchal, Alfons Mucha, and Ladislav Sutnar, as well as trying out the famous Pilsner beer. Among other, he meets with the current generation of artists such as Petr Babák, Martin Pecina, and Aleš Najbrt, and gets closer to his own roots, uncovering his own Czech identity.
In partnership with PolkaWorks, Big Day Pictures, UT-Austin’s Slavic Studies, UT-Austin’s Center for European Studies (CES) & AgroEcoPower
SECRET DELIVERY (Tichá pošta) (CZ, 2025)
Directed by Ján Sebechlebský
Starring: Jean-Thierry d”Almeida, Karel Dobrý, Eliska Dytrychová, Jacob Erftemeijer, Daniel Fischer, Petr Forman, Antonie Formanová
In Czech language with English subtitles
Official Selection • 2025 Locarno Film Festival
Trailer Here!
Based on real events…In February 1945 near the end of WWII. group of child heroes rescues a downed French pilot in the snowy Giant Mountains within the German Protectorate of the Czechoslovakia. Their actions resemble the principle of the well-known “telephone game” – the pilot is passed between mountain villages like a secret message – secret delivery – at school. But the children play a highly risky game. They are confronted by deadly soldiers of the occupying army, they must outwit traitors and informers and, last but not least, survive in the harsh conditions of winter in the mountains. (96min)
In partnership with PolkaWorks, Big Day Pictures, UT-Austin’s Slavic Studies, UT-Austin’s Center for European Studies (CES) & AgroEcoPower
Our Previous Films
WAVES (Vlny)
Directed by: Jiří Mádl
Short Listed for Best Foreign Film at the 2025 American Oscars
6 Czech Oscars — Best Film, Best Director & more
A historical thriller set during the 1968 Prague Spring, focusing on journalists at Czechoslovak Radio who defied Soviet censorship. The film follows Tomáš, a technician forced by the StB, the Czech secret police, to spy on his colleagues in order to protect his younger brother, as they fight for free speech during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Buko
Directed by Alice Nellis
Directed by Alice Nellis
Czech Oscar, Best Supporting Role — Martha Issová, Official Selection – Karlovy Vary IFF
Trailer here
Jarmila and her husband Václav move from Prague to the countryside to spend their last years. Upon Václav’s unfortunate passing, Jarmila receives a surprise as dictated in his last will: an old circus horse named Buko she is now supposed to take care of. And with it Jarmila starts a new phase of her life. With help of an autistic Tereza, neighbour Karel and his mother, she tries to create a new home for Buko and find her way to him. But to be able to do so, she first must acknowledge her own feelings and stop hiding behind a daily routine and silly TV shows.
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