Upcoming Film:
CARAVAN
Austin: Violet Crown, Wednesday, April 8, 7pm Tix HERE
*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
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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