CZECH THAT FILM IS BACK
Czech That Film series is a carefully curated selection of recent Czech cinema. Salt Lake Film Society and the Czech Consulate is excited to be bringing this event back to Broadway this year.
ADMISSIONS
$12 per film screening
VISITING GUEST
Jaroslav Olša Jr. is the author of books and articles on history, culture and literature of Asia and Africa and historical relations of the non-European countries with the Czech Lands. He has also widely published about science fiction and edited over a dozen anthologies of Czech and international science fiction. He has published in a wide-range of publications such as Czech edition of National Geographic, Nový Orient (New Orient), Světová literatura (World Literature), Mezinárodní politika (Foreign Policy), Mezinárodní vztahy (International Relations). He was also a curator of art exhibitions, member of the jury of 2011 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, and initiated numerous cultural exchanges and activities.
FILM SCHEDULE
Tues March 26
6:30 pm
Bod obnovy (Restore Point)
(1 hr 55 min)
9 pm
Bratři (Brothers)
(2 hr 15 min)
Wed March 27
7 pm
Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern)
(1 h 57 min)
9 pm
Přišla v noci (She Came At Night)
(1 hr 25 min)
FILMS
Listed alphabetically by title. All films are in Czech with English subtitles.
BOD OBNOVY (RESTORE POINT)
TUESDAY, MARCH 26 | 6:30 PM
1 hr 55 min | 2023 | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Serbia | Not Rated | Czech, Slovak | Feature
Directed by Robert Hloz
Set in central Europe during 2041, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
BRATŘI (BROTHERS)
TUESDAY, MARCH 26 | 9 PM
2 hr 15 min | 2023 | Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia | Not Rated | Czech | Feature
Directed by Tomáš Mašín
In October 1953, five friends decide to leave communist Czechoslovakia and get to West Berlin. They manage to cross the guarded border but are soon detected in East German territory. Unknowingly, they initiate the largest armed manoeuvre since WW2; twenty thousand German Police and Soviet Army members are mobilised, all because of five teenage boys.
PŘIŠLA V NOCI (SHE CAME AT NIGHT)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 | 9 PM
1 hr 25 min | 2023 | Czech Republic | Not Rated | Czech | Feature
Directed by Tomás Pavlícek, Jan Vejnar
When a couple of thirty-somethings let the mother of one of them cross the threshold into their home, they have no idea that they have just entered a kind of purgatory. Their peaceful life is slowly transformed into a chaotic wreck. Valerie, a well-groomed woman in her sixties, is an energetic diva who little by little conquers not only the space of the apartment, but also the minds of its occupants. As the creeping home invasion gains force, certainties are undermined and the boundaries of privacy are demolished. Are moms and mothers-in-law always right? Do they have good intentions toward us? And isn’t that why they are the scariest monsters of them all?
ÚSVIT (WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 | 7 PM
1 hr 57 min | 2023 | Czech Republic, Slovakia | Not Rated | Czech | Feature
Directed by Matěj Chlupáček
Helena, is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city, as the pregnant wife of an important factory manager. However, all her illusions soon perish, as the dead body of a newborn intersex baby is found in the middle of their factory.
