Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A short film about a group of metal trash cans who live out their unconventional life stories full of hardships.

A documentary music film that maps the Czechoslovak punk scene and some of its protagonists in the collapsing communist era. The music for this short film was composed by the then newly founded band Wanastowi Vjecy.

A recruitment film telling young male school-leavers about work in the Vítkovice ironworks. It takes them through the entire production process and acquaints them with the metallurgists, many of whom are exemplary Shock Workers. The movie ends with a call for young men to devote themselves to the metallurgical profession, thereby helping fulfil a five-year plan with their work.

Surreal short animation about a clever girl with an amazing memory. Things go well for her until she can't remember facts about polar bears for a school project.

Reason and Emotion, personified as two gardeners, are opponents in a landscaping contest (French formal garden vs. English landscape park), but inevitably end up cooperating.

This short exhortative feature film presents various forms of tourism, which was one of the post-war means of spending one’s time that was preferred by the regime. The viewer is guided by Mr Vosáhlo, an advocate of passive relaxation, who discovers the positives of tourist club trips in a dream.

The story of the highwayman and folk hero, Juraj Janosik.

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great, until Cupid makes him succumb to the temptations of a light-hearted young woman.

Snapshot of map production. It introduces the history of surveying in the Czech Republic, methods of measuring position and different types of maps.

A contemporary story about the emotional and moral coming-of-age of young people. Martin, 14, overcomes his first disappointment in love and discovers the false actions of his classmates and adults. Through his experiences, he learns to perceive life around him and comes to believe that it's impossible to avoid conflict and live in a permanent dream world.