The Czech or Czechoslovak New Wave was a period in the 1960s during which a group of filmmakers made movies that were at once humorous and humanistic, artistically engaging and politically challenging ...

When Maja Pencic first set out to hit the streets with her camera as a Prague film student, she was determined to document the reality she found by asking direct questions. That approach to ...

More than 15,000 people listed "Knights of the Jedi" as their official religion in a recent census. By Sofia M. Fernandez The “Knights of the Jedi” religion is gaining momentum in the Czech Republic.

The spectrum of gender and sexuality may seem to be a subject firmly rooted in the political and cultural squabbles of 2023, but Czech director Matej Chlupacek has chosen to look at it through the ...

A Czech animation movie has won a major award for its depiction of an unusual story inspired by true facts between a Czech woman and an Afghan man. But can this movie change perceptions about ...

The film “Letní škola, 2001” (Summer school, 2001) just hit cinemas in the Czech Republic. It tells the story of the different identity crises faced by some members of the now 80,000-strong Vietnamese ...