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The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
Human kindness and purity in a corrupt world will never go out of style. This is proven by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's more than 150-year-old story "The Idiot," which continues to inspire new adaptations and resonates with contemporary audiences thanks to its timelessness.
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, tortuous and dusty, on which the often impressive mental youth (or immaturity, a scrooge might say) is welded with life circumstances forcing the protagonist to wise up. An anxious and exuberant cinematic faerie about love, the fear of loneliness and the gaze of sons fixed on their fathers.
Lonesome middle-aged man Milan steals back the very last memory of working family - retriever Goldy. The mere symbol of the former happiness - Goldy - is transformed into Milan's guide that leads him to the knowledge of himself, his soul and mind. In his mind together with Goldy he chases another fifty wild dogs.
Incomplete thoughts and fragments of dialogue, diverse music interrupted by rushes and glitches, and the seemingly confused, unanchored camera, create a disturbing, philosophical reflection on the limits of anthropocentric thinking.
Oscar, a digital hipster, dives into the fantastic world of analogue loving projectionists. It’s not as easy as it might seems, one may even get hurt! The documentary is about the dying culture of 70mm material and the last mohykans, who aren’t afraid of fighting for their beloved film copies and feed the hungry old projectors with them.
A short story film presenting four micro-stories of Prague residents and visitors: Panorama, The Lawyer, The Ordinary Timetable, The Secret of the Monument.