Tereza Šefrnová

This existential drama depicts a godless and stressed family whose members do not live happy lives. A household without joy and pervaded by nervousness, dissatisfaction, and frustration creates an oppressive atmosphere. Everyone hides their desires and dreams within themselves. Unexpectedly, a bigoted grandmother visits this family and begins to "save" them. The mother, father, and teenage daughter are exposed to her criticism on a daily basis, and the grandmother's idea of redemption is forcefully imposed on them. The family undergoes a forced transformation, especially when apparent miracles begin to happen. However, this process increasingly repels the granddaughter, who is experiencing her own adolescent problems, and her clash with her grandmother ends in tragedy.

The story of Doctor Čeněk Dobešek - a decent, kind man who seems almost out of place in today’s world. Though he’s a conscientious physician, he hasn’t learned to exploit his calling for personal gain the way many of his former classmates or hospital colleagues do. Happily settled in a modest two-room apartment with his lovely wife Zuzana and his dreadful mother-in-law Marie Košvancová, Čeněk cheerfully drops everything at any hour to answer the doorbell and tend to whoever needs him. His humble generosity scandalizes Marie, who’d much rather have a “real” Doctor as a son-in-law: someone famous, wealthy, and who never works for free, unlike Čeněk.

Jack, at an all-time low in a Los Angeles hotel, hires an escort from Prague named “Scheherazade.” As she weaves intricate tales of young lovers, their stories begin to blur with the passionate connection developing between them. Jack starts to question which story is real and who Scheherazade truly is. Scheherazade’s Tale explores storytelling, identity, and the thin line between fiction and reality.

The film tells the story of an entrepreneur who, after going bankrupt, leaves the city to join his father in the countryside. His father is a guide dog trainer, and it is there that he meets a puppy named Alma. Marie, a piano student, loses her sight, gets a guide dog, and thus also meets Alma. The dog then connects the lives of these two people who have lost something (sight or business success) and soon get a chance to find something else.