Jakub Šimůnek

Diary of an Alcoholic (2024)

The feature film Diary of an Alcoholic tells the dramatic story of a young woman struggling with alcohol addiction. The main heroine (although she often does not act like a heroine) is a young mother who decided not to give up, to start treatment and to fi ...

Two Words as the Key (2023)

Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold across several continents. A Japanese businessman wants to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned as a child and sets off with her on a journey to the Hima ...

Léta s Jaromírem Hanzlíkem (2023)

A Christmas Story (2022)

Three families, three festive stories. Uninvited guests, new love, and a quest for the perfect winter. 'A Christmas Story' weaves humor and holiday spirit into a heartwarming journey through the ups and downs of the season. ...

Dům na samotě (2022)

The search for a perverted serial killer opens the door to a dark past. Where do the clues from the rapist's strange handwriting lead? ...

Sleeping City (2021)

All the parents suddenly fall asleep, and children have to survive in the world. A thrilling adventure showing what can happen when chaos reigns and children are forced to face the pitfalls of the world on their own. ...

A Marriage (2021)

When Zdenka, a single woman in Czech Republic, started playing online games with strangers, she didn't know it would change her life. Neither did Tabish, a computer scientist a world away in Pakistan. ...

Cesta kolem světa (2020)

Ondřej Sokol and Lukáš Pavlásek, together with a film crew led by director Dan Svátek and cameraman Jakub Šimůnek, decided to shoot a travel series unlike anything anyone had ever seen before. And they really succeeded... Viewers haven't seen much o ...

Smiles of Sad Men (2018)

A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol. ...

Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague (2017)

Hans Zimmer is one of the most successful film music composers working today. His multi-award winning career reaches back to the mid-eighties and he has developed close working relationships with renowned directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael ...

Děti Online (2017)

Children of Flamenco (2013)

This film tells a story about two young talented artists coming from different ethnic and family backgrounds whose paths cross because of their unusual talent and passion for flamenco music. Amós is twelve and grows up in Salamanca. A rising star recogniz ...

Forgotten Transports to Poland (2009)

Forgotten Transports to Poland is a documentary by Lukáš Přibyl, part of a series that explores lesser-known Holocaust deportations. This film focuses on Jewish deportees sent to little-known camps in eastern Poland during World War II. It highlights th ...

Setkání v Praze, s vraždou (2009)

After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she finds herself seated next to two characters from a crime story that gradually unfolds around Bubeník, a former guard of political prisoners. With her spont ...

Forgotten Transports to Estonia (2008)

Forgotten Transports to Belarus (2008)

Belarus between 1941 and 1944 was an apocalyptic place with nights lit by flames from hundreds of torched villages and with soil soaked in the blood of countless victims. ...

Vaclav (2007)

Vaclav, the village loser, in his 40's bordering on autism, lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as the local fool, nothing but a constant pain for them, but there is a skeleton in the village closet concer ...

Forgotten Transports to Latvia (2007)

In January of 1942, two first transports with hundreds of Czech Jews leave Theresienstadt for the east. After a journey lasting several days, the trains reach the Latvian capital of Riga. ...

Holiday Makers (2006)

A motley of vacationers on a bus headed for a week long vacation at a seaside resort. Among them: a single, moderately famous singer; a nerdy, onanistic man; a couple of old ladies reaching senility; a couple of young gals looking for an amorous adventure; ...

Ene bene (2000)

Alice Nellis's small-scale debut tragicomedy spotlights small-town elections. The protagonist, a university student name Jana (Theodora Remundová) who is trying to solve a troubled relationship with a married man, takes her mother's place on the electio ...

Eliška Likes It Hot (1999)

A sensual summer comedy for discerning audiences. In a small town with a nostalgic swimming pool, a variety bar, and a pink pastry shop, a couple in love, an aging playboy, a lifeguard, and a variety artist named Marčélo and his much younger wife Eliška ...

The Bed (1998)

A story about a man overly influenced by the women in his life, which is unique in many ways, including the fact that he somehow turned out to be "straight" in spite of his ordeals with women, which started at birth. ...

Eastern Bloodthirsty Hugo (1997)

The film animation technique of pixilation was used in this short comedy. The notorious criminal Bloodthirsty Hugo has broken out of prison again. He is an arsonist, has no respect for old people and absolutely no maiden in the region is safe with him on t ...

Whisper (1996)

Anna, a 16 year-old girl from the sticks, trades her military education for life in the big city Running away to Prague opens a whole new world where she drinks her first cappuccino and meets the kind of people she has only seen in movies. ...

Indian Summer (1995)

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" which is set in a small Czech town where life for two teenage cousins revolves around evening alfresco dances. The tale involves a rivalry for male attention between Klara and Maria, both spend ...

Cesta kolem světa (2020)

Ondřej Sokol and Lukáš Pavlásek, together with a film crew led by director Dan Svátek and cameraman Jakub Šimůnek, decided to shoot a travel series unlike anything anyone had ever seen before. And they really succeeded... Viewers haven't seen much o ...

Snowporning The 10th Movie (2010)

Snowboard movie Snowporning The "10th" was produced by online magazine Freeride.cz and LIP Production, filmed in Europe and the U.S. during the winter season 2009/2010 in a documentary-action style focusing on Czech snowboard scene. Itʼs a continuation o ...

Eastern Bloodthirsty Hugo (1997)

The film animation technique of pixilation was used in this short comedy. The notorious criminal Bloodthirsty Hugo has broken out of prison again. He is an arsonist, has no respect for old people and absolutely no maiden in the region is safe with him on t ...