Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A Berlinale Forum of New Cinema award winning feature.

A story following a young man who cares a lot about getting with a girl.

A slide about new agricultural machinery. He demonstrates the latest type of beet harvester, harrow, seeding and planting machine.

A documentary about Prague's Old Town Astronomical Clock. In addition to the technical and artistic description, it also focuses on its history and legendary origin.

A paper dove swaying over a cradle with a baby angers an annoying cat, who starts chasing the dove around the garden.

Shortfilm from the Mr. Prokouk series. Mr. Prokouk wants to be a filmmaker, but the making of a film has more complications than he expected.

Tommy goes out to the world and travels in a rocket. The rocket explodes on the way and Tommy falls into some water. A fish throws him to the shore where he finds a mermaid and falls in love with her. They sail away and marry. Lost Cartoon

A picture promoting collective farming and the use of tractors in agriculture. It introduces the work of the state tractor station in Chlumec - from the development of a uniform deployment plan to the departure of tractor drivers for specified tasks.

Based on an agreement with the USSR from July 1946 on the mutual resettlement of citizens, around 40,000 Volhynian Czechs moved to Czechoslovakia in 1947. The large-scale repatriation operation was not without complications. The short film also addresses these, but they remain overshadowed by the post-war optimism, with which the resettlers were sent to the depopulated borderlands.

A modern fairy-tale about Otýlie, a girl who each time she writes something gets all dirty from the ink. One day her teacher wants to clean her with an eradicator and otylie disappears. She is happy to be invisible but due to blots she becomes an ordinary girl again.

A stop-motion advertisement for shoe company Baťa. Depicts shoe repair as surgery.