Calm in the Canopy
2024 I Feature film I 90 min
A well-placed middle-aged man is at the airport witnessing a tiny incident of an unknown, perhaps Arab, young man with a servant. After the young man is confronted directly at the airport toilets, the man begins to be subject to an indefinable but greater sense of danger. The fear of the evil that circles around the man since then gradually becomes an obsession, an urgent desire to see the evil, finally, to catch it in the act and destroy it.
Written and Directed I Michal Hogenauer
Produced by I Václav Kadrnka, Simona Kadrnková
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Sound Designer I Richard Muller
Music I Jakub Kudláč
Editor I Michal Raich
Costume Designer I Aneta Grnakova
Production Design I Jana Bejblová
Coproduction | PFX, SilverArt, Czech Television
Cast I Pavel Gajdoš, Judit Pecháček
Festivals
World Premiere - PINGYAO International Film Festival
She Came at Night
2023 I Feature film I 85 min
Jirka and Aneta are a young couple who enjoy the routine of their quiet relationship and are in no hurry to make big decisions in life. One night in their inherited flat, the doorbell rings and standing at the door is Jirka’s mother Valerie. An initially brief call turns into a never-ending visit from an intense and caustic diva whose presence fundamentally disrupts the couple’s privacy. Certainties are shaken, boundaries broken. Although the film’s directorial duo works with a familiar premise, they subvert any dark humor with a sense of tension more commonly found in horror movies, all of it wrapped in the penetrating question: Is the mother’s unbearable smothering legitimate or are mothers sometimes the biggest monsters of all?
Written and Directed I Jan Vejnar, Tommáš Pavlíček
Produced by I Pavel Vácha, Eva Pavlíčková, Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar a Šimon Dvořáček
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Sound Designer I Michaela Patríková
Music I Aid Kid
Editor I Jakub Vansa
Costume Designer I Zuzana Mazáčová
Production Design I Zuzana Mazáčová
Coproduction | PFX, Soundsquare, Česká televize, Artcam Films, Drive Film Factory
Cast I Simona Peková, Annette Nesvadbová, Jiří Rendl
Festivals
World Premiere - KVIFF Special Screenings 2023
Awards
Best Actor - Czech Lion Awards - Simona Peková
Best Directing - Czech Lion Awards - Jan Vejnar, Tomáš Pavlíček
Best Film - Czech Film Critics' Awards - Prišla v noci
Best Actor - Czech Film Critics' Awards - Simona Peková
Holidays with Beetle
2024 I Feature film I 87 min
Who wouldn't want to go on a family holiday in their grandfather's beautiful red caravan? Bára Poláková, as an adventurous mum of two and an enthusiastic food blogger, will say yes to this challenge. Her husband, played by Lukáš Příkazký, does not share her adventurous enthusiasm. But when we have someone we love by our side, it doesn't matter where we are. So the whole family goes on a summer holiday to the seaside in an RV. And even though the Adriatic is literally within reach, the journey can be a long one.
Written and Directed I Jiří Matoušek
Produced by I Pavel Vácha - Bratři
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Sound Designer I Ivan Horák
Music I Petr Wajsar
Editor I Alan Sýs
Costume Designer I Zuzana Mazáčová
Production Design I Zuzana Mazáčová
YUNG MICHAL
2022 I short film I 17 min
On Instagram Michal presents himself as a rapper who is one step away from stardom. In reality, he is a fast-food worker in a place from where no-one ever made the big time. What he doesn't yet know is that his dream will come true this afternoon.
Director | Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
Screenplay | Jan Vejnar, Štěpán FOK Vodrážka
Dir. of Photography | Šimon Dvořáček
Music | Aid Kid, NobodyListen
Editor | Šimon Hájek
Art Director | Antonín Šilar
Producer | Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál
Production | Bionaut
Cast | Mikuláš Vedral, Jiří Huzlík, Michal Slaný, Alena Doláková, Jan Jankovský, Alice Bendová
Contact | Bionaut
Festivals
World Premiere - Pragueshorts at KVIFF
BFI London
FIGURANT
2019 I short film I 14 min
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed
in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to fall behind
the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events.
Written and Directed I Jan Vejnar
Produced by I Kamila Dohnalová – Silk Films, Emilie Dubois, Olivier Berlemont – OriGine Films
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Sound Designer I Rémi Durel, Julie Tribout, Michaela Patríková
Music I Jan Vysocký
Editor I Jakub Vansa
Costume Designer I Helena Tavelová
Production Design I Pavel Svoboda
Cast I Denis Lavant, Michal Kern, Jiří Kocman, Michael Drahoš, Filip Chlud, Andrej Polák, Marek Pospíchal, Petr Vršek, Petr Jeništa, Eva Vrbková, Viktorie Čermáková, Tomáš Legierski, Vladimír Pešek
Awards and nominations:
Award / Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Editor - The Jordan International Film Festival
Award / Best Narrative Short Cinematography - The Loudoun Arts Film Festival - Figurant
Festivals
World Premiere - Asiana International Short Film Festival 2019
U.S. Premiere - SXSW 2020
Czech Premiere - Prague Shorts 2020
RECONSTRUCTION
2018 I short film I 15 min
Olda (17) je obviněný, který čeká na soud ve vazební věznici pro mladistvé. Do jednotvárného vězeňského života se postupně prolínají vzpomínky na policejní rekonstrukci. Prázdninová nuda se během jedné letní noci proměnila v krutou zábavu, která skončila smrtí.
Written and Directed I Jiří Havlíček, Ondřej Novák
Produced by I Dagmar Seldáčková - Masterfilm
Cinematography I Šimon Dvořáček
Editor I Šimon Hájek
Cast I Jaroslav Květoň, Simon Baláž, Marek Svoboda ad.
Festivals
World Premiere - Locarno Festival - Pardi di domani, 2018
Czech Premiere - Prague Shorts 2019
Everything's Gonna Be Fine
2017 I documentary I 71 min I 16mm
Producer Čestmír Kopecký had originally wanted to make a film about the changing face of Brno, but in the end director Robin Kvapil and co-writer Pavel Šplíchal created something more closely resembling Šplíchal’s ironic blog Prigl. In their “lovingly anarchistic” film, Brno forms the epicentre of a sarcastic look at Czech society. The naive and vacuous communist-era documentary with which Kvapil’s film opens gives way to the reporter’s bitter monologues right in front of the camera. These are intercut with acted sequences featuring Brno’s political elites, artists, and outcasts.
Directed I Robin Kvapil
Produced by I První veřejnoprávní s.r.o. - Čestmír Kopecký
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Editor I Josef Krajbich
Sound I Adam Levý
Festivals
Czech Premiere - Ji.hlava IDFF, 2017
Everything's Gonna Be Fine
2017 I documentary I 71 min I 16mm
Producer Čestmír Kopecký had originally wanted to make a film about the changing face of Brno, but in the end director Robin Kvapil and co-writer Pavel Šplíchal created something more closely resembling Šplíchal’s ironic blog Prigl. In their “lovingly anarchistic” film, Brno forms the epicentre of a sarcastic look at Czech society. The naive and vacuous communist-era documentary with which Kvapil’s film opens gives way to the reporter’s bitter monologues right in front of the camera. These are intercut with acted sequences featuring Brno’s political elites, artists, and outcasts.
Directed I Robin Kvapil
Produced by I První veřejnoprávní s.r.o. - Čestmír Kopecký
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Editor I Josef Krajbich
Sound I Adam Voneš
Festivals
Czech Premiere - Ji.hlava IDFF, 2017
Menandros & Thais
2016 I Experimental I 129 min
A surreal sandal movie based on the late antique novels. Antiquity mixes with the present, Czech with German. Thaïs is kidnapped by pirates during her wedding to Menander. The groom is transformed into a bloodthirsty monster in an attempt to rescue her, his horse grows wings, a witch promises him to another woman, King Xerxes strips him of his manhood, yet everything ends happily in the end. Happy?
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Directed I Antonín Šilar, Ondřej Cikán
Produced by I První veřejnoprávní s.r.o. - Čestmír Kopecký
Cinematographer I Šimon Dvořáček
Editor I Zuzana Walter
Sound I Hannes Plattmeier
Costumes | Adriana Černá
Festivals
Czech Premiere - Ji.hlava IDFF, 2017
