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In the early 1990s 13-year-old Karolína, a gifted novice singer, is given the chance to become a member of a world-famous girls' choir, taking her place alongside her older sister and her other rivals in the ensemble. Karolína’s exceptional talent has caught the attention of the formidable and much admired choirmaster whose attention is wanted by all the young singers. What will be the price Karolína has to pay to become his favourite?
On the trail of a runaway wolf, wolf guardian Hannah reluctantly visits her grandmother's native Czech village, close to the Austrian border. Hannah's mother lives here and is treated as a social outcast due to her attempts of coming to terms with her traumatic family history. Hannah, too, can no longer escape the hushed-up past. It is time to break the silence.
After an attack on the President of the Czech Republic, the investigative journalist Martin Braun teams up with the young online investigator Julia to uncover exactly what happened and why. During their search, they become embroiled in a dangerous game of secret services, international politics and forces determined to keep the truth hidden for various reasons. In the search of finding the truth people are dying, so Julia and Martin must reveal what happened before they become the next victims.
Based on a true story. A love triangle: Albert, 45, divorced, Katherine, 30, his manipulative lover, and Gabby, Kathy's lesbian friend.
Kathy is post-hysterectomy, but wants Albert to father ‘their’ baby, with Gabby as surrogate and ‘body double’ during coitus. Kathy imitates Gabby's pregnancy as it progresses. Kathy and Gabby grow closer, while Kathy and Albert grow apart. Albert is the only child of an absentee single mother who denied him access to his father. She has had a stroke and dies in hospital, mute, but they reconcile first. When Albert refuses to let Gabby move in with them, Kathy leaves Albert to join Gabby and is tragically raped and murdered on the way. Gabby blames Albert and refuses to give up the baby once it is born. Albert is left motherless, loverless and sonless.
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Introducing
Sound designer Martin Ženíšek, 45, has already worked with Zuzana Kirchnerová on her film Bába, which won the Cinéfondation section at Cannes. Now his name also appears in the credits of her feature film Caravan, a rroad movie that follows a woman and her son with a disability on their journey through Italy. The intimate atmosphere of the film is greatly enhanced by the sound component. Caravan will compete in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.
by Vojtěch Rynda for CZECH FILM / Summer 2025
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