30th Days of European Film

Address: Kraví hora 2, 616 00 Brno

Phone: +420 541 321 287

We open the box office no later than one hour before the start of the first performance and close at the end of the last performance.

Cinema program

Hazelnuts + Akce

Who We Were + Akce

Whale Nation + Akce

Hazelnuts + Akce

Mission Ulja Funk + Akce

Wild Prague + Akce

-22.7°C + Akce

Moonbase – The Next Step + Akce

Wild Prague

Planeta Praha

2022 85 min.

Prague. At first glance, it is a stone and, more recently, also a concrete jungle. But even here, in a city of millions, there is a surprising amount of wildlife. Documentary filmmaker Jan Hošek, author of the prized film Planeta Česko, uses modern technology to bring them up close.

Sections: There’s a hope

Country: Czech Republic

Directed by: Jan Hošek

Starring: Jiří Macháček (vypravěč), Richard Stanke (vypravěč)

Language: Czech with English subtitles

21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Prague - Lucerna

During the festival, stop on your way to the movie at the Lucerna cafe to view the exhibition of the non-profit organization Voice of Animals. You will see photos and read stories of happy and less fortunate animals that were not lucky enough to have the right owners. Fortunately, Voice of the Animals found out about their abuse or neglect and arranged redress.

Do you also want to help defend the rights and interests of animals around the world? You can support the Voice of Animals with a financial contribution here (https://www.hlaszvirat.cz/podporte-nas)

Want to learn more about the work of Animal Voice experts? Come to the opening of the exhibition on April 21. from 6 p.m. in the Lucerna Café or for a discussion after the film Planeta Praha in the Lucerna cinema on 21.4.

The exhibition will last until 24.4. and is freely accessible in Cafe Lucerna (Vodičkova 36, Prague 1)

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21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

In Brno and Ostrava, seven films will be shown in astronomical observatories transformed into movie theaters. We will look at the Moon Base in a detailed project or Greenland, where the temperature is -22.7°C and the Arctic Ocean inspires electronic music. We will discuss planetary problems after the visually captivating documentary How We Were; we will celebrate Earth Day with the mostly invisible inhabitants of Planet Prague and the marine Nation of Whales, with always funny Lukáš Rumlena interviews. Families with children will enjoy the observatories and planetariums during the busy weekend. For the older ones, we are preparing an asteroid Mission, a search for the impact site of space debris. The youngest will go with the ever-hungry duo of animated squirrels to another planet for the tempting Hazelnuts!

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Whale Nation

2023 82 min.

When the sea washes up a live humpback whale on an uninhabited beach, a race for the whale's life begins. During the rescue of the rare animal, we slowly learn its life, habits, and unusually complex social life. A visually captivating natural history film about creatures perceived as guardians of our planet.

Sections: There’s a hope

Country: France

Directed by: Jean-Albert Lièvre

Starring: Jean Dujardin (vypravěč)

Language: Czech with English subtitles

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22.04. 4 p.m.

Prague - Světozor

22.04. 7 p.m.

Prague - Světozor

22.04. 4 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

27.04. 5 p.m.

Boskovice - Panorama

28.04. 7:30 p.m.

Hodonín - Kino Svět

26.04. 5:30 p.m.

Šumperk - Kino Oko

After the film Whale Nation screening, Czech world-renowned filmmaker Steve Lichtag (Stingl - Little Big Okima, Ocean Adventure, Aldabra: Once Upon a Time) will come to the Brno observatory for a discussion. The talk will be about their fascination with the underwater world and whales and his earlier and famous filming of a great white shark without a cage. The conference will be broadcast live at the Světozor cinema and online. The discussion recording will be available after further screenings of this film in the other festival cities.

After the screening of the film How We Were, Ľuboš Slovák will come to the Brno observatory for a discussion. Ľuboš deals with the relationship between man and non-human nature in various ways. At the Department of Environmental Studies, FSS MU philosophically examines changes in the concepts of nature and develops enlivening learning methods inspired by deep ecology. The talk will be broadcast live to the Světozor cinema and the online world.

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21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

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-22.7°C

2022 38 min.

French music producer Molécule went all the way to frozen Greenland, where the sound of the arctic ocean inspired him to write a new song. The audiovisual expedition to the countries is named after the lowest temperature he recorded on his trip.

Sections: None

Country: Belgium / Canada / France

Directed by: Dirty Monitor, Molécule

Starring: Molécule

Language: English

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21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

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Hazelnuts

Noisettes

2022 25 min.

An animated adventure about a pair of squirrels who will do anything to get some super nuts. Maybe they will even travel to a foreign planet!

Sections: None

Country: France

Directed by: Damien Maugin

Starring: Lilli, Nino, Leon

Language: Czech

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21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

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Who We Were

Wer wir waren

2021 115 min.

Renowned German documentarian Marc Bauder adapts Roger Willemsen's book of the same name in his visually captivating novel How We Were. He visits scientists and philosophers, an astronaut or an underwater researcher who reflect on the problems of the current world and the planet - which they are also trying to save.

Sections: There’s a hope

Country: Germany

Directed by: Marc Bauder

Starring: Alexander Gerst, Sylvia Earle, Matthieu Ricard

Language: German with English and Czech subtitles

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22.04. 4 p.m.

Prague - Světozor

22.04. 7 p.m.

Prague - Světozor

22.04. 4 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

27.04. 5 p.m.

Boskovice - Panorama

28.04. 7:30 p.m.

Hodonín - Kino Svět

26.04. 5:30 p.m.

Šumperk - Kino Oko

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21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

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Mission Ulja Funk

2022 93 min.

Twelve-year-old enthusiastic astronomer Ulja discovers that an asteroid is about to hit Eastern Europe. Ulja convinces a classmate to observe him together, and there is a race against time and pursuers.

Sections: No parents

Country: Germany / Luxembourg / Poland

Directed by: Barbara Kronenberg

Starring: Romy Lou Janinhoff, Hildegard Schroedter, Ivan Shvedoff, Luc Feit, Anja Schneider, Christina Große, Janina Elkin, Peter Trabner

Language: German with Czech subtitles

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21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

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Moonbase – The Next Step

2022 20 min.

Man looked at the moon as early as 1969. Since then, a permanent lunar base has been considered. This should happen in the next ten years. The evocative fulldome picture presents the audience with this mission almost from the front row.

Sections: None

Country: Great Britain

Directed by: Graham Watts

Starring: Nicole Stott (vypravěč/narrator)

Language: English

21.04. 6:30 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

21.04. 5 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

23.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 5 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 7 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 3 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

23.04. 2 p.m.

Brno - Hvězdárna

22.04. 6 p.m.

Ostrava - Planetárium

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Program