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 ...

The short Hurikán by Czech director Jan Saska has made the shortlist for Oscar nominations in the category of Best Animated Short Film, the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced ...

Czech That Film, the annual festival highlighting the best of recent Czech cinema, is now in the midst of its 11th edition. The festival has customarily travelled to over 20 cities, but given the ...

The Czech Republic can lay claim to being one of the hottest spots in Europe for filmmakers as well as people who just love film. Situated in the heart of central Europe with a population of just 10 ...

Having a front row seat to all the goings on at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this week meant seeing some invigorating new films that, much like Cannes did just a couple months ...

Opening night premiere honors at Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival this year go to Special Screenings film “Zatopek,” David Ondricek’s stirring drama chronicling the remarkable life of four-time ...

Drawn from the Anthology Film Archive in New York and the National Film Archive in Prague, this series examines modernism in Czech films from the silent to the postwar era. A dozen features screen at ...

With a pic in every section of the Berlinale, Czech cinema is on a roll. Jiri Menzel’s “I Served the King of England” is screening in Competition, the first Czech pic to be selected for that category ...

The biopic of 18th-century composer Josef Myslivecek premiered in San Sebastian last year. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Il Boemo, a biopic on 18th-century composer Josef Myslivecek, from ...

BAM’s annual micro-retro of what’s contemporary in Czech Republic cinema comes equipped this year with a number of humdingers, startlingly original and otherwise. B Gunarsson’s Bitter Coffee is merely ...

After a year full of uncertainties and an ever-changing situation following the pandemic, the decade-old film festival Czech That Film Texas has returned to Austin. Texas houses the largest Czech ...