Jiří Konečný

Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? (2024)

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a world-famous political icon and important playwright, but also an ordinary man plagued by health problems. Havel allows the ...

All Men Become Brothers (2023)

A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of "socialism with a human face". ...

Borders of Love (2022)

After years together, Petr and Hana, partners in work and in life, share their unspoken erotic fantasies. What begins as an innocent conversation gradually turns into curious experimentation with a non-monogamous approach to their relationship. But sexual ...

Voices from the Fire (2022)

Three young people in search of dignity, justice and recognition. They are survivors of human trafficking and want the humanity back that was robbed of them. They will tell their story, they will tell it to us. We will follow them to the beginning. To the ...

107 Mothers (2021)

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odesa's women's correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and warde ...

Bird Atlas (2021)

An ageing proprietor of a technology company has dedicated his whole life to his work, so it comes as a big blow when things suddenly start to fall apart at the seams. ...

Every Single Minute (2021)

The Hanuliaks, a couple from Slovakia, have decided to bring up their son according to Kamevéda, a complex approach to developing the child's motor abilities and intellect. Unique in its depth of focus, this reflection on child-rearing documents a year in ...

The Last Day of Patriarchy (2021)

Nina is pregnant with Jakub. Today, he introduces her to his family. They're all gathered in the hospital at the bedside of his grandfather. Just as the young lady tries to put on a brave face, she is faced with the surprising reaction of the dying relativ ...

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. ...

Ztracený břeh (2020)

Amnesty (2019)

Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners. In addition to the story of three families affected by communist persecution, the film Amnesty also deals with the uprising ...

Old-Timers (2019)

Vlasta and Tonda don't have much longer to live but they do have one more important task ahead of them - to find and kill the communist prosecutor who sent them to prison in the 1950s. An unusual road movie about two former political prisoners who fight fo ...

Trabantem tam a zase zpátky (2019)

Never Stop (2019)

Another Chamce (2019)

Good Mr. Benda (2019)

A sensitive portrait of grandfather Miroslav Benda, a tried and true Sokol member and an ordinary man with extraordinary vigor and ideals, revealing a story of human resilience and optimism through nostalgia and situational comedy. The film is a kind of ob ...

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement. ...

Winter Flies (2018)

Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára's turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, ...

Nina (2017)

A 12 year old swimming star becomes the emotional casualty of her parents acrimonious separation, in this powerful coming of age story about youth rebelliously standing up to the cruelties and immaturities of adulthood. ...

Little Harbour (2017)

A story of children who feel safer in the streets than at home, about children seeking out sturdy lifeboats that cross between the world of fantasy and the harsh reality of life. Jarka is one of these children. Ten years-old, and living with a mother who i ...

Richard Müller: Nespoznaný (2016)

For 25 years, Richard Müller has been a key figure in the Czech and Slovak music industry. Despite quitting music once, he returned to the stage while battling untreated manic depression and drug use. The documentary offers an intimate look at his artisti ...

5 October (2016)

Martin Kollár's acclaimed cinematography reigns resplendent in the silent story of a man waiting for important surgery. Discovering he's facing the possibility of only having a few months left to live, Ján Kollár embarks on a journey with no destination ...

Trabantem do posledního dechu (2016)

Probably the most famous Czech traveler of today, Dan Přibáň, has undertaken his most challenging expedition yet. The crews of two yellow Trabants, a Polish Fiat (aka Maluch), a Čezeta, a Jawa, and even two wheelchairs set off from Perth, Australia, an ...

Family Film (2016)

A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending. ...

Goat (2015)

Peter "Koza" Baláz is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner, Misa, live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. Misa learns that she is expecting a child and decides to terminate her pregnancy. In order to earn some ...

Stále spolu (2015)

Petr and Simona have been living together for twenty-five years. They have nine children, with whom they live in caravans on a meadow in Šumava – without television, computers, or running water. The authoritarian Petr calls himself a "professional fathe ...

Aferim! (2015)

Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife. ...

Eugenic Minds (2014)

The history of one idea with monstrous consequences, presented in the style of old newsreels and interspersed with quotes from Patrik Ouředník's Europeana. Archival footage is combined with animation as a kindly narrator takes us on a journey from the id ...

Trabantem až na konec světa (2014)

The third installment in Dan Přibáň's series of travel documentaries describes the author's journey with his friends across South America in vehicles that are often notorious but cult in their own way. The charming dynamics of the group on screen are fu ...

Otázky pana Lásky (2013)

Made in Ash (2012)

A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town ...

A Night Too Young (2012)

On New Year's Day, two boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world. ...

Phantom of Liberty II (2009)

In the so-called global age, a man is caught in the trap of time that he has set for himself and got stuck in it together with his freedom. Film about the nature of time that explores its physical quantity as well as its crucial impact on our actions, beha ...