Czech Republic

Jan Hřebejk’s The Teacher (Ucitelka, 2016)

Julia Zelman reviews this film about a Communist-era teacher who uses her position to exact favors from her students' families.

In Olmo Omerzu’s second feature-length work it is a dog’s life, for both a bourgeois Prague family and their erstwhile canine companion.

Zuzana Piussi's documentary recounts the Czech refugee debate.

Július Ševčík returns to Czech cinema’s favorite historical theme: the 1938 Munich agreement.

In Jiří Strach's grotesque comedy, a man is mistaken for a dissident when he signs the Charta 77 during a night of heavy drinking.

Is Helena Třeštíková aware of her work's moral implications?

Film theorist and documentarian Andrea Slováková explores the matrix of industrial interdependencies.

Jiří Sádek's folk-inspired horror film gets entangled in awkward moralizing.

This documentary by Miroslav Janek tries its best to normalize autism, and succeeds - for the most part.

Petr Oukropec blends magical realism with a flashy sports theme in his unripe coming-of-age film.