Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

Animated felt figures tell the story of a barnyard full of animals and their faithful watchdog.

Two linear characters typical of Émile Cohl are situated in the same frame, in different coloured rectangles making up their respective settings. One is good, the other is bad and lives off the first.

Štefan Padych loses a lawsuit against Šulgan, a local innkeeper to whom he owes money. Not wanting his wife and three-year-old daughter to starve, he decides to leave for France. However, after his departure, his wife Katarína Padych commits infidelity and becomes pregnant...

A film about Josef Sudek.

An animated parody on the topic of industrial mass production of pop music.

An industrial film about a Slovak patent - the production of glycerine from sugar beet, with the young František Zvarik in an insightful lead role.

A Czechoslovak army documentary depicting the first military marriage performed in a remote eastern Slovakian village.

Documentary about the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and its post-war construction.

Agitation film about puppets who want to stand on their own two feet and become self-sufficient and therefore make their own legs.

A morality play about human fantasy losing its creativity if it becomes a means of making money. In this film it is the ability of a boy to create colored "nonsense" that becomes a trade for his parents. The colored clouds of the little boy produced on the basis of orders eventually change to gray cubes.

A satiric film that through a lecture of a cracked brain pedant describes the increasing disobedience of children. It calls us for protection against misbehaved children and wants to "defend" the world of adults from disastrous consequences of the ungrateful children's deeds. The film is remarkable for the inimitable humor of Milos Macourek.

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

They revived the world of long-forgotten toy figurines. Rubber doll, leprechaun, prince, cows and sheep...