Vltava po válce

Amén Jesús

1969

An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.

Ashes and Diamonds

1958 · ★ 7.4

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

Zwielicht

It is often easier to suppress stressful experiences instead of dealing with them. And so Klara stands alone in a clearing looking for her child. The young mother sets off on her search and is drawn into the dark forest more than she would like. Disoriented, she threatens to literally sink into it. Restless and guided by the calls of her child, she penetrates deeper and deeper into nature and thus also into the depths of her own consciousness. Accompanied by the gnawing certainty of a terrible truth, she walks on the threshold between reality and dream.

The Murderers Are Among Us

1946 · ★ 6.8

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

Kastaars

2017

The residents of a flat building are completely self-absorbed and never look out their window to see a chicken frequently fluttering by. The chicken has a nest on the roof where she hatches her eggs. One day the eggs get stolen.

i am doll parts

2021

100% comprised of found footage, this is a meditation on the filmmaker's relationship with herself, others, and how she is perceived by both parties. Showing the filmmaker at various stages of her life, this short seeks to visualize the embarrassing ordeal of being known when you're at your most vulnerable.

Reservoir Dogs

1991 · ★ 7.5

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

The Last Vermeer

2019 · ★ 6.5

A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

The Hessen Affair

2009 · ★ 5

In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.

Stromboli

1950 · ★ 7.1

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

Sleep Sweet, My Darling

2005 · ★ 6.8

A bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.

1945

2017 · ★ 7

An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.