Jakub Pinkava

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.

The story of three Czechs who doubted the reality of the war in Ukraine. Together with the film crew, they went from Prague to Kharkiv, and then to the Donbas. The Czechs were under fire, saw the wounded, mass graves and underground schools.

The film is an inquiry into contemporary forms of alternative models of partnerships. For many protagonists, polyamory, open marriage or long-term lover-to-lover relationships present a fulfilling life style, but also a struggle with misunderstanding of the society or conflicts within their own relationships. The director follows the development of relations of her protagonists over several years, while in intimate talks, she searches for the joy, striving and insecurities brought along by such unusual faces of love, revealing a need for redefining partnership in our times.

Mutated melons are rampaging through the city, posing a deadly threat to all its inhabitants. A group of young heroes, armed with an endless supply of chips, hatches a plan to save the city. Made by children, this short film playfully pokes fun at the disaster genre, giving it a humorous twist. It was created as part of Czech Television’s series GENERATION: NIKA. GENERATION: NIKA is a film workshop project in which young people from Kharkiv and Kherson tell their own stories – through their own eyes and with their own cameras. Czech Television and Punk Film (CZ) are producing the series as well as an upcoming feature film.

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century. Virtually overnight, he becomes famous in Paris thanks to the posters that he designs to announce actress Sarah Bernhardt’s plays. But at the height of his fame, Mucha decides to leave Paris to realize his lifetime project.

The story of three Czechs who doubted the reality of the war in Ukraine. Together with the film crew, they went from Prague to Kharkiv, and then to the Donbas. The Czechs were under fire, saw the wounded, mass graves and underground schools.

The film is an inquiry into contemporary forms of alternative models of partnerships. For many protagonists, polyamory, open marriage or long-term lover-to-lover relationships present a fulfilling life style, but also a struggle with misunderstanding of the society or conflicts within their own relationships. The director follows the development of relations of her protagonists over several years, while in intimate talks, she searches for the joy, striving and insecurities brought along by such unusual faces of love, revealing a need for redefining partnership in our times.

Mutated melons are rampaging through the city, posing a deadly threat to all its inhabitants. A group of young heroes, armed with an endless supply of chips, hatches a plan to save the city. Made by children, this short film playfully pokes fun at the disaster genre, giving it a humorous twist. It was created as part of Czech Television’s series GENERATION: NIKA. GENERATION: NIKA is a film workshop project in which young people from Kharkiv and Kherson tell their own stories – through their own eyes and with their own cameras. Czech Television and Punk Film (CZ) are producing the series as well as an upcoming feature film.