Acting
Olivia Csiky Trnka is known for As Above, So Below (2014), Bye Bye Blondie (2012) and Another Man (2008).
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Lucien, a 28-year-old cabaret musician, suffers from pathological shyness. Tonight, instead of doing his standard pianist's routine, he wants to get up on the stage and sing his lyrics for the first time in front of an audience. Waiting in the wings, he calms his stage fright with alcohol and cigarettes. He wants to make it through this hell, which will also be his liberation.
A gangster has fallen head-over-heels in love with a cashier and holds up the bank regularly so that he can see her. He decides to take the plunge and kidnap his sweetheart, in order to reveal his love for her. His clumsy declaration in his balaclava is a far cry from the traditional candle-lit dinner...
A shadow in the woods, a sunny summer afternoon. Antoine and Philippe part without saying goodbye. That same day, a blond girl writes their names on a window of her house. Her mission is to heal other people’s wounds, help lost lovers to forget or disappear.
A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.
Two best friends work in a coffee shop, the Caffè Cozy. Mawena is the manager, and she's under a lot of pressure from her superiors to achieve results. Alex is a student and has a happy-go-lucky attitude, oblivious to the workings of the company. But today, Alex arrives late and Mawena is a little stressed out.
Laure, a single thirty-five-year-old, accumulates a series of fixed-contract jobs, unsuccessfully hoping each time that her work will lead to a permanent position. As her periods of employment shrink, her love affairs take the same path.
Anouk, an outgoing actress with a strong personality who has not earned the success she feels she deserves, and Sima, a quiet, hard-working student who is a devout Muslim, live across the hall from one another but have nothing in common. Except that they're both huge fans of the pop star Beanie Sparks.
A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of the 20th century and one of the founders of the puppet animation. His work demonstrated the world that communist society can provide better conditions for extraordinary artistic creations. The ideological clash between West and East didn’t leave children and their stories apart from their struggle in ideological and political positions.