Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

1988 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

1977 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

1971 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Ethnographic documentary about customs and ceremonies connected with death in a Bulgarian village.

Dagmar Veškrnová (now Havlová), Pavel Bobek, Jana Švandová, and Eliška Balcerová, with the help of pediatrician Hana Reinšteinová, share their parenting experiences with preparing formula and feeding children under one year of age. Činčera’s civil documentary does not take a patronizing or condescending tone toward viewers, but treats them as equal partners, with whom he shares his own insights in a friendly manner.

Episodic slapstick comedy about package deliveries and a lady who likes to steal letters and make paper planes out of them.

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 film about the work of the unified agricultural cooperative in Poběžovice, which became the winner of the JZD competition in 1950.

Documentary about the ethnographic festivities in Strážnice in the summer of 1949.

A story about a little boy who took care of birds and dogs and they helped him when the evil birdman locked him in a coop.