In the Name of Security

Living is like crossing a bridge. Is it possible that what looks like it is part of a cityscape is in fact a living being? Just like people, it is born, it lives an eventful life, it experiences its fate and its quiet forsaken aging, and then it inevitably dies. Meet Kyiv’s Rybalski Bridge and its memories.

In the Czech Republic, where democracy is on the decline and a populist movement rules, it may seem as if the issue of climate change has been relegated to the background. The environmental initiative   Limity jsme my / The Limits Are Us uses civic disobedience, whereby the participants knowingly break the law, to draw attention to this problem. Disobedience, which traditionally bears a negative connotation, is a path towards emancipation and change.

A personal documentary about the (im)possibility of living in the center of Prague. The filmmaker and her five-year-old-son received an eviction notice from City Hall ordering them to leave the one-room apartment in which her grandfather lived for almost thirty years. The film illustrates the impact that mass tourism and City Hall’s housing policy have on the capita city’s inhabitants.

The best holiday is one where you find yourself. And when it turns out really well, it can be hard to remember who you were before. A short documentary based on the author's autobiographical experience with coming back to work after parental leave.  

The film portrait Johana tells a story of a young woman from Moravian Wallachia and her life in Prague. The document is searching for an answer on the question of connection between trust and ropes. Also what cats think about it all?

This melancholic film tells a story of a deserted Ukrainian beach that is currently mined and dangerous due to explosives under water. Images of the post-apocalyptic landscape are accompanied with a voiceover and personal memories of the locals and opinions of experts. 

Pionýr bike: what happens when a father and his daughter decide to make a film about a dusty motorbike? A film about film, old bikes and one relationship.  

Film explores how art is misused in development projects in Prague, the so called "developers' artwashing", in the context of urban policy and public space.  

A fragment of our past is locked behind the garage door, forcing us to sense not only what is, but also what was.    

Route is a movie about eight railway stations built by Josef Danda, about our perception of architecture, about a train trip. About light, mirror reflections, station announcements, hurrying and waiting. When was the last time you closely watched a train station?  

How such a historically significant building as the Uherské Hradiště Prison projects itself onto the everyday lives of those who have it right under their noses – students and teachers of the School of Decorative Arts and what impact does it have on them? With this particular case, the film tries to show the importance of historical sights in general.