Essay Film Filmes

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...

The film shows the behind-the-scenes process of making a documentary about an author known for their autofiction stories. By including its own...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by...

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children...

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The...

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand...

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Fake Fiction was initially a play that was turned into a film produced by Theater Basel in 2017. Filip Markiewicz wrote the dialogues in connection...

A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year...

"Situation of the Street" - An experimental study about Czech life, focusing on Prague's National Street, its businesses and the varied people who...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

This documentary essay introduces a peculiar trio of men united by their passion for hunting. Each of them conceives of hunting in his own way,...

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument...

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and...

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire...

The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and...