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The Dream Factory on the Vltava
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The Dream Factory on the Vltava

[...] Film, sir, it was film.” After the communists seized power in 1948, it wasn’t easy for film-makers. [...]
Mateusz Demski
A Rightful Balance
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A Rightful Balance

[...] Studio Ghibli film collage. [...]
Ren Scateni, Serena Scateni
A Matter of Life and Death
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A Matter of Life and Death

[...] “This is a film that’s as strange, comical and unrelated to anything as only a Czech film can be,” is supposedly [...]
Mateusz Demski
10 Great Films About the Afterlife
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10 Great Films About the Afterlife

[...] From Orphée to Beetlejuice, these 10 films imagine the unknowable. [...]
Leigh Singer
Reality Is Much Scarier than My Films
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Reality Is Much Scarier than My Films

[...] behind the doors of film festivals or on boutique film distribution labels. [...]
Sylwia Niemczyk
A Cinema of Frustration in Impatient Times
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A Cinema of Frustration in Impatient Times

[...] On the set of the film “Sunset” (dir. László Nemes). Image courtesy of Gutek Film. [...]
Magdalena Maksimiuk
Our Favourite Films from the ‘New East’
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Our Favourite Films from the ‘New East’

[...] It’s the first Polish film to have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, though not the only [...]
Carmen Gray
Our Favourite Films by Female Directors from the ‘New East’
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Our Favourite Films by Female Directors from the ‘New East’

[...] There is little doubt that female film directors have a harder time getting ahead in the business. [...]
Agata Pyzik
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Films in a Nutshell
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Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Films in a Nutshell

[...] A Short Film About Love As per the title. A Short Film About Killing As per the title. [...]
Grzegorz Uzdański
The Stalker’s Daughter
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The Stalker’s Daughter

[...] They can also ruin our once favourite books and films. [...]
Renata Lis