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2022     38 min.     Belgium / Canada / France

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.

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A Cat's Life
Mon chat et moi, la grande aventure de Rroû
2023     83 min.     France

The wild cat Rroû likes to hop on the rooftops of Paris. His fate changes when a ten-year-old girl, Clémence, adopts him and takes him to the countryside. Adaptation of the popular book by Maric Genevoix.

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Aftersun
Aftersun
2022     96 min.     Great Britain / USA

Divorced father Calum (Paul Mescal) takes his teenage daughter Sophia on holiday to a Turkish resort. A particularly sensitive film in which both Sophia and Calum come of age is last year's most significant film discovery.

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Alcarràs
Alcarràs
2022     120 min.     Spain / Italy

The Solé family spends every summer picking peaches in their orchard in a small village in Catalonia, Spain. However, this year's harvest may be their last as they face eviction.

The film competes for the LUX Audience Award. You can rate it until 12.6.2023 here: luxaward.eu/cs/

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Alma Viva
Alma Viva
2022     85 min.     Portugal

Just like every summer, Salomé returns to the mountains to join her family. But this time, it's even sadder. Her grandmother died. While the adults deal with the earthly problems of the funeral ritual of a woman who many believe to be a witch, Salomé perceives the fleeting presence of her grandmother's soul.

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Banger.
Banger.
2022     105 min.     Czech Republic

A young man Alex (Adam Mišík) would like to stop selling drugs. He wants to concentrate only on music and would like to compose a rap hit, i.e., a banger. But he needs money for that. And the only way Alex can earn them is by selling drugs. A generational statement from nocturnal Prague, directed by Adam Sedlák and with bangers by Sergei Barracuda.

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Blockade
Blokád
2022     90 min.     Hungary

The year 1990, Hungarian taxi drivers are preparing to blockade their homeland to protest against rising gasoline prices. Director Ädám Tösér combines live action with documentary footage and follows the economic and political behind the scenes during the reign of Prime Minister József Antall, who tried to free the country from energy dependence on the Soviet Union.

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Bread and Salt
Chleb i sól
2022     99 min.     Poland

The gifted pianist Tymoteusz returns to his hometown during the summer holidays. He meets old friends in a new bistro with a kebab, and here he also perceives the growing tension between the local youth and the Arab employees of the bistro. Damian Kocuro's brilliant debut won a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival.

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Burning Days
Kurak Günler
2022     129 min.     Turkey

A naive prosecutor Emre arrives in a town ravaged by corruption and a burning drought. First, a crazy boar hunt awaits him - and then the hero discovers how he becomes a piece on the chessboard of the powerful local families.

The film competes for the LUX Audience Award. You can rate it until 12.6.2023 here: luxaward.eu/cs/

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Awards: European Film Awards 2022 - Eytan Ipeker, Özcan Vardar (Best Editing)

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Butterfly Vision
Bachennya metelyka
2022     107 min.     Ukraine / Czech Republic / Croatia / Sweden

Soldier Lilja is returning from several months of captivity in the Donbas, where separatists held her. Maksym Nakanečný's debut tells the story of a fumbling woman who fiercely rejects the victim role and sensitively questions how oppressive existence can be in a war-torn society.

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Close
Close
2022     105 min.     Belgium / Netherland / France

Inseparable friends Léo and Rémi enter the same class after a summer full of shared experiences. Faced with the broader collective, their friendship begins to change. Lukas Dhont's subtle drama features phenomenal acting and precise direction.

The film competes for the LUX Audience Award. You can rate it until 12.6.2023 here: luxaward.eu/cs/

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Fathers and Mothers
Fædre & mødre
2022     97 min.     Denmark

Piv and Ulrik place their daughter in a new school. While she copes in class, they are confronted by a group of other parents. A sharp comedy about a school trip from the well-known Danish actress and recently successful director Paprika Steen.

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Hazelnuts
Noisettes
2022     25 min.     France

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!

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Hilma
Hilma
2022     119 min.     Sweden

A biographical film about the Swedish pioneer of abstract art, Hilma af Klint, who lived at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Veteran Lasse Hallström (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules) cast his wife Lena Olin and daughter Tora Hallström in his new film.

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In Blind
Naslepo
1234     123 min.     ???

Secret film screening. Come blindly to the cinema; you will not regret it.

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In the Fade
Aus dem Nichts
2017     106 min.     Germany / France

Katja (Diane Kruger) loses her husband and son in a terrorist attack. Although everyone close to her treats her nicely and understandingly, Katja thinks about only one thing: bloody revenge. The fantastic Diane Kruger won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for the film.

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January
Janvaris
2021     95 min.     Latvia / Poland / Lithuania

In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Latvia was on its way to independence. Nineteen-year-old Jazis secretly records footage of the Soviet secret police occupying a Latvian press office. Viesturs Kairšs' film combines the coming of age of an individual with the national struggle for freedom.

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Kalev
Kalev
2022     91 min.     Estonia

In the summer of 1990, the Baltic States declare their independence from the Soviet Union. The local Estonian basketball club Kalev nevertheless participates in the prestigious Soviet tournament. For the players, each match means not only a sporting event but a fight for their country's independence. Debutant director Ove Musting draws here from his memories of a turbulent time.

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Karaoke Paradise
Karaokeparatiisi
2022     71 min.     Finland

Karaoke may sound like an obscure pastime. But traditional evenings with a microphone and well-known hits mean a welcome feeling of human belonging in the far north. A musical documentary reminds of the Kaurismäki brothers' films with solitary characters and unusual backdrops.

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L'immensità
L'immensità
2022     97 min.     Italy / France

Rome, mid-seventies. Twelve-year-old Adriana feels like a boy. Her mother Clara, played by Penélope Cruz, in a highly emotional way, does not have a problem with her offspring's self-determination, but she has a problem with her husband. Lively, dancing and colorful film about the complexity of growing up.

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Meet Me in the Bathroom
Meet Me in the Bathroom
2022     105 min.     Great Britain

The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol. The music documentary of the duo Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (Don't Shut Up and Play the Hits) tells about the rock scene in New York after 2000. The energetic film loosely adapts Lizzy Goodman's book of the same name.

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Metronome
Metronom
2022     93 min.     Romania / France

Bucharest, 1972. seventeen-year-old Ana dreams of love and freedom. During the party, he and his friends write a letter to the Metronom music program, which the Free Europe station in Romania secretly broadcasts. Then the secret police break into the apartment. An exceptional debut in which Alexandru Belc openly tackles Romania's dark past.

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Mission Ulja Funk
Mission Ulja Funk
2022     93 min.     Germany / Luxembourg / Poland

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.

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Moonbase – The Next Step
Moonbase – The Next Step
2022     20 min.     Great Britain

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.

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More Than Ever
Plus que jamais
2022     123 min.     Luxembourg / France / Germany / Norway

Hélène (Vicky Krieps) and Mathieu (Gaspard Ulliel) seem like the perfect couple in modern, hectic Bordeaux. But then Hélène falls ill and decides to travel to Norway to find peace in life. The relationship drama directed by Emily Atef is the last film by the tragically deceased Gaspard Ulliel.

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Off the Rails
Off the Rails
2022     95 min.     Great Britain

Two friends have fun with daring parkour tricks in lazy Guilford, England. They dream of millions of views on social networks, but the death of their best friend frames their current lives. Peter Day's documentary debut has the emotional power of the legendary Trainspotting.

Documentary Edge Festival 2022 - DocEdge Award

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One for the River: The Sava Story
Ena za reko: Zgodba Save
2022     84 min.     Slovenia

It carves canyons and creates rapids and nesting sites. People drink water from it and write poems about it. The Sava River flows through Slovenia and Croatia into the Danube in Belgrade. Rožle Bregar's naturalistic film tells the story of this lifeline of the Balkans with a strong aesthetic sense.

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Phi 1.618
Phi 1.618
2022     91 min.     Bulgaria

Stylized Eastern Bloc sci-fi. Humanity approaches perfection, albeit in gloomy conditions inhabiting the brutalist Monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party on the Buzludzha hill. Krypton is tasked with rewriting all human books, but what will he do with the only forbidden one, written by the woman Gargara, Especially in this world where women are almost non-existent?

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Piaffe
Piaffe
2022     86 min.     Germany

When movie Foley artist Zara breaks down mentally, her sister Eva replaces her with a dressage horse in a commercial. But while working, a ponytail starts sprouting from her body. Artist Ann Oren explores questions of mutation and human identity in her film debut.

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Rebel
Rebel
2022     135 min.     Belgium / Luxembourg / France

Kamal leaves his younger brother and a comfortable Belgian home to help Syrian rebels fight the government. Shortly after his arrival, however, his unit comes under the command of ISIS thugs, and Kamal's position changes dramatically. A dynamic drama unexpectedly cut by a Bollywood musical.

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Rhinegold
Rheingold
2022     140 min.     Germany / Italy / Netherland

In his new film, director Fatih Akin adapts the autobiographical story of the German rapper Xatar. The Kurdish boy came to Germany as a boy. Although he inherited the genes of his conductor father, he quickly gained fame as a drug dealer on the streets of Bonn. Only when he outlives his career as a badass does the old call for beats and rhymes resound within him.

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Sisters
Masas
2022     104 min.     Latvia / Italy

Two sisters, Anastasia and Diana, live in a Latvian orphanage. When they learn that a family from the United States will adopt them, the girls have opposite reactions: Diana can't wait, but Anastasia suddenly doesn't want to leave home. In addition, their biological mother Alla appears in such a situation.

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Soul Kitchen
Soul Kitchen
2009     99 min.     Germany

A comedy about the Berlin restaurateur Zinos. He had a girlfriend and a restaurant, but he suddenly lost both. Zinos must overcome his prejudices to regain everything.

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The Edge of Heaven
Auf der anderen Seite
2007     122 min.     Germany / Turkey / Italy

Nejat disapproves of his widowed father starting to live with the prostitute Yeter. But Nejat changes his mind when he discovers Yeter is sending money to his student daughter Ayten in Turkey. After Yeter dies suddenly, Najat leaves for Istanbul to find Ayten. However, he discovers that the girl fled from the police to Germany.

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The Golden Glove
Der goldene Handschuh
2019     110 min.     Germany

The life work of Fritz Honka, a drunkard from Hamburg's San Pauli district, is murdering local prostitutes. He hides their bodies in the walls of his attic apartment, where the stench of rotting flesh combines with the smell of old manhood and the fumes of the Greek restaurant on the ground floor. An extremely physical film by Fatih Akin.

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The Gravity
La Gravité
2022     85 min.     France

Daniel, a runner, trains on an oval near a housing estate where his wheelchair-bound brother sells drugs. So far, eight planets are aligned in the sky, which could have unprecedented consequences for the very attraction of the Earth. A very original sci-fi drama in which social gangsters from Parisian housing estates meet the apocalyptic mood of Lars von Trier's Melancholia.

Ocenění: Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film 2022 - Jury Special Prize

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The Judgement
De veroordeling
2020     130 min.     Netherland

In 1999, the brutal murder of a widow in Deventer shook the Netherlands. Although the police found the murderer, the court sentenced him, but many people disagreed with the verdict. Among them is TV reporter Bas Haan, who unleashes a media frenzy on another suspect. Who is the killer? Who is the victim? Can Bas tell the difference?

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The Quiet Girl
An Cailín Ciúin
2021     94 min.     Ireland

It takes place in the year 1981. A nine-year-old girl named Cáit grows up with troubled parents in the Irish countryside. And because the mother is expecting another child, Cáit moves to a distant cousin's family for the summer. She likes her new home so much that she doesn't want to return to her parents.

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The Victim
Obeť
2022     93 min.     Slovakia / Czech Republic / Germany

Ukrainian Irina lives in a small Czech town. She would do anything for her son Igor. She pays for his gymnastics training, helps him with school, and has been trying to get Czech citizenship for both of them for many years. But now, someone has brutally beaten Igor. Lying in an artificial sleep, he is waiting for an operation.

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The Worst Ones
Les pires
2022     99 min.     France

A director and his crew arrive at a forgotten housing estate and select four local children for his new film. In their debut, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret masterfully handle both the environment in front of the camera and especially behind it.

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Thunder
Foudre
2022     92 min.     Switzerland

It takes place in the Swiss countryside at the end of the nineteenth century. Seventeen-year-old Elisabeth returns home from the convent after learning that her older sister has mysteriously died. Debutant Carmen Jaquier masterfully portrays the character of a restless girl on the threshold of adulthood.

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Triangle of Sadness
Triangle of Sadness
2022     149 min.     Sweden / France / Great Britain / Germany

Influencer Yaya takes her boyfriend Carl on a reconciliation cruise on a luxury yacht. In the British satirical comedy, director Ruben Östlund deals with the world of social networks, with those intoxicated with power and, above all, with the influence of social roles on human society.

The film competes for the LUX Audience Award. You can rate it until 12.6.2023 here: luxaward.eu/cs/

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Vera
Vera
2022     115 min.     Austria

Vera Gemma plays herself as the daughter of the handsome Italian actor Giuliano Gemma, who became famous in spaghetti westerns. Vera lives off the family name, but at the same time, she perceives that everyone uses her because of it, so she seeks the meaning of life in helping those who would least expect it. An authentic, documentary-style film from melancholic Rome.

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Whale Nation
Whale Nation
2023     82 min.     France

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.

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Who We Were
Wer wir waren
2021     115 min.     Germany

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.

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Wild Prague
Planeta Praha
2022     85 min.     Czech Republic

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.

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Will-o'-the-Wisp
Fogo-Fátuo
2022     67 min.     Portugal / France

Portugal's crown prince reflects on his youth on his deathbed. His love for the environment then directed him to become a firefighter. In addition, he met the attractive instructor Afonso in the choir. A musical queer musical set in 2069.

The film competes for the LUX Audience Award. You can rate it until 12.6.2023 here: luxaward.eu/cs/

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Zillion
Zillion
2022     138 min.     Belgium / Netherland

Sharp businessman Frank Verstraeten had money and wanted to live disco. So he opened the biggest club in Antwerp, with an impressive program and the best sound in the city. Based on true events, the story shows that the 1990s were wild not only in the Czech Republic but also in Belgium.

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