Vít Janeček

Olympic Halftime (2024)

What impact do the Olympic Games have on their host cities? Athens, Tokyo, Beijing and Paris – cities that have changed the urban layout of entire neighbourhoods for the Olympics, transforming their appearance forever. Unused sports stadiums are falling ...

Lichens Are The Way (2024)

There are nearly twenty thousand species of them, they have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years, and they play an indispensable role in many ecosystems. Yet lichens are usually overlooked. Ondřej Vavrečka decided to take a closer look at thes ...

Rock Hard (2023)

What is love? Two young men have found themselves out of rhythm in their relationship as issues they haven't vocalized begin to boil over in unexpected ways one night. ROCK HARD is a story of what happens when partners don't communicate, and serves as a le ...

The Unbalanced (2023)

After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is ment ...

At Full Throttle (2021)

Fifty-something former miner Jaroslav has always dreamt of a career as a race car driver. In a congenial and jovial manner, he represents not only the charms and struggles (especially economic) of southeastern Moravia, but also the ever more visible chasm ...

V hmle (2020)

The State Capture (2019)

The film gives a complex insight into the gap in political reality of Slovakia - one of the EU countries - which became visible after an investigative journalists Ján Kuciak and his fiancée has been brutally murdered at their home. Following mass demonst ...

University and Freedom (2019)

Our era is marked by the transformation of social institutions, with universities central to Euro-American civilisation's development. Despite past persecution, universities have become bastions of free thought and knowledge, crucial to democratic culture. ...

The Siege (2019)

Český Alláh (2018)

Ťažká voľba (2018)

Selský rozum (2017)

Slepý Gulliver (2017)

One of the most striking contemporary Czech film-makers and literary figures, twice over winner of the Magnesia Litera Award, Martin Rysavý, is himself the central character of his new, philosophically tinged travelogue. He takes part in the Ukrainian Mai ...

Sprisahanie šedej rasy (2017)

The Plan (2014)

Prague faces the challenge of a new zoning plan. The city's development leads to conflicts between the private developer lobby, city residents, and elected officials. By following several years of town council meetings, the film paints an image of a public ...

The Monk (2014)

Zawana enters a Burmese monastery filled with the misgivings and uncertainty that come in part with the inexperience of youth. When the superior, U Dahma, falls ill, the youngster takes up an unexpected challenge. This sensitive film, enhanced by its uniqu ...

Race to the Bottom (2011)

Film shows life in industrial regions disrupted by global competition. In contrast to the prevailing neo-liberal rhetoric that considers unions to be a relic of the old regime, philosopher Václav Bělohradský, sociologist Jan Keller, economist Ilona Švi ...

Ivetka a hora (2008)

A documentary about the spiritual experience of a girl on Mount Zvir in Slovakia. On the afternoon of August 5, 1990, three children aged 10, 11, and 7—Ivetka, Katka, and her brother Miťko—were playing in a clearing on Mount Zvir, in the Lubovnianska ...

Hry prachu (2002)

Film in hand. Carnival in the global village. ...

Bitva o život (2000)

A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year of the millennium. The film concentrates on the exuberant social life of the community, including many bizarre r ...

Fungus (2000)

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and civilization, all the while searching for various analogies, such as the similarities between mycorrhiza an ...

University and Freedom (2019)

Our era is marked by the transformation of social institutions, with universities central to Euro-American civilisation's development. Despite past persecution, universities have become bastions of free thought and knowledge, crucial to democratic culture. ...