What is Czech in Czech film? This simple question is answered by 29 directors of Czech feature films in one room of the Hotel Thermal during the 58th Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The result is a cross-section of thinking about Czech cinema, stories, stereotypes and society in the here and now. The documentary is loosely inspired by Wim Wenders's Room 666 from 1982.
Documentary
Czech Republic, 2025, 83 min
Directed by Marek Novák, Mikuláš Novotný
The film features Czech filmmaker Duzan Duong, Martin Dušek, Jiří Havelka, Mira Fornay, Ondřej Provazník, Jitka Rudolfová, Tomasz Wiński, Šimon Holý, Matěj Chlupáček, Cristina Groșan, David Ondříček, Bohdan Sláma, Marek Najbrt, Andrea Sedláčková, Jan Hřebejk, Adina Šulcová, Michal Hogenauer, Vojtěch Strakatý, Jan Vejnar, Zuzana Kirchnerová, Tomáš Pavlíček, Marie-Magdalena Kochová, Adam Koloman Rybanský, Jiří Mádl, Beata Parkanová, Petr Jákl, Ivan Vojnár, Michaela Pavlátová and Diana Cam Van Nguyen
The film will be followed by a discussion with the film's director Mikuláš Novotný.
Programme subject to change
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PROGRAM
Wed 8 10
6pm Petra Beňová accompanied by pianist Marie Jírová
8pm Opening film: 'Rather Grow in Divinity'
Thu 9 10
4:30pm Telegraph Short Films: DRINKING: Making the Indescribable & GOOD BOY from Slovakia
18:00 Mirroring Evil in Cinema - Martin Jiroušek
20:00 Film: I, Claude Monet
22:00 NIGHT CINEMA: The Matrix
Fri 10 10
16:00 Family Workshop: Make Your Own Kaleidoscope
18:00 Panel Debate: The Boundaries Between Documentary Film and Photography
20:00 Special Screening.telegraph.com/photography-workshop-fotim-mobile-with-jan-sibik">10:00 Photography Workshop "Photographing with Mobile" with Jan Šibík
17:00 Puppet Theatre SOUDRUŽKY S KROUŽKY
20:00 Preview: CONTINENTAL '25
22:00 Closing of TEFF25: DJ Weirdsky
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