Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A young and ambitious engineer named Švajcar arrives at the family of a businessman as the fiancé of the factory owner's daughter. He meets his father-in-law's brother Cyril, who pretends to be invisible. The family plays this game with him so that they don't have to put him in an institution.

The kingdom is ruled by the cruel King Anthracite, who is bored with everything in the world. One day he decides that only magical clogs will please him. The superhuman task of making such clogs falls to the cobbler Jakub. Fortunately, he also has the wit of his beloved Anežka and the magic of the permon Šišla to help him.

Documentary film about the use of new methods in the construction of the shell roof of the tannery hall in Gottwaldov.

A short Czech documentary film, capturing the course of the construction and the ceremonial unveiling of the monument to Generalissimo JV Stalin in Prague's Letna.

Forty-year-old bachelor Vondráček lives with his mother, who is completely subservient to him and unable to confide in him about her late love. She is convinced that her son cannot do without her care and help. It is true, Vondráček has become too accustomed to the comforts of home. The selfish young man is complicated by an advertisement. He is not attracted by the acquaintance, but by the cottage. He likes Zuzanka, who comes to introduce herself, but even more so by the idea of ​​enjoying further comforts in the countryside...

Folk art–like hand-drawn stills illustrate this sweetly simple pastoral fable, in which a peasant comes into possession of a small fortune—but realizes there are treasures greater than gold.

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover Dr. Marie Nováková (whom he cheated on with nurse Jiřina), the nurse herself, Dr. Petera (whose career he stymied), a senile patient named Zima, and the inept clinic head. As police sift through truthful and deceptive testimonies, complex professional rivalries and personal entanglements among the hospital staff come to light.

The story of a princess who despised the deep love of a wise king is taken from the legacy of the French writer Charles Perrault. Like all fairy tales by this master storyteller, this one has an original theme and contains wisdom, which is difficult to find. But by the end of it, the princess will know what matters most in life.

A portrait of photographer Pavel Hudec Ahasver is also a homage to the young generation, their thirst for freedom, their non-conformism, their narcissism.

Documentary about children's shelters in Czech villages, which serve to care for children when parents do not have time for them due to their workload.

Produced in the early 1960s, this documentary explores the consequences of large-scale state childcare in Czechoslovakia, where extensive crèche systems supported policies encouraging full female employment. Directed by Kurt Goldberger, the film draws on psychiatric research and observational footage of young children in institutional care, arguing that emotional and intellectual deprivation in early childhood had long-term effects. Initially controversial, the film circulated internationally and later came to be associated with policy changes extending paid maternity leave.

A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."

A medium-length story about the birth of a father and son friendship.

The world-traveling wizard Klingsor flies all over the world, and when he is really tired, Bratislava Castle serves as a place to rest. Klingsor turns it around so that he can sit on it like a stool... Klingsor sitting on an upside-down castle is a symbol of the Bratislava Animation Biennale International Festival.