Catch the best new queer films with an online Mezipatra QFF this year

Although things are looking a bit dire in the film industry lately, there’s still hope! Many Prague-based film festivals are adapting and moving online this season and the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, now in its 21st year, is no exception. The festival will retain its youthful, colourful and carefree spirit despite the circumstances, and will kick off on November 5th with a live broadcast on streaming service Moje Kino, where you can watch a number of award-winning LGBTQ films until November 12th.

Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ gets its first trailer

Denis Villenueve’s Dune is one of the most anticipated science fiction blockbusters of the decade, and the first trailer has finally dropped.

Interview: Producer Kevan Van Thompson on Queer Czech biopic ‘Charlatan’

New historic drama Charlatan directed by Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, The Burning Bush) is turning heads everywhere for its tender portrayal of historic Czech healer Jan Mikolášek who cured hundreds with plant-based remedies during occupied Czechoslovakia.

‘Havel’ hits Czech cinemas and actor Viktor Dvořák is the spitting image

The very first biopic on Czech president and playwright Václav Havel hits Czech cinemas today. Written and directed by Slávek Horák (Home Care), Havel covers the early years of the Czech icon’s dissident life up to the Velvet Revolution.

Interview – Gem Deger on Xavier Dolan, getting high and new film Playdurizm

Prague-based filmmaker Gem Deger’s debut feature film Playdurizm recently dropped its first trailer so I sat down with the young filmmaker to talk about making writingk, directing and starring in his own film, watching David Cronenberg as a child and his obsession with neon lighting.

Train to Busan: Peninsula trailer – OK, this looks intense

The follow-up to the popular South-Korean zombie horror film finally has a trailer, and it looks like they’ve cranked it up a notch.

Bill and Ted Face the Music trailer – Party on, dude!

The much anticipated Bill and Ted threequel now has a trailer and it’s EXACTLY what you need to watch today to get through these covid blues.

Karlovy Vary IFF joins YouTube’s ‘We Are One’ global online film festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has joined We Are One: A Global Film Festival, which will feature over 100 films co-curated by 21 prolific festivals, hailing from 35 countries, in addition to master classes, VR content and musical performances over a 10-day digital event starting May 29.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to screen films across 96 Czech cinemas this year

The recently cancelled Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has organised the quarantine-friendly alternative KVIFF at Your Cinema film event which will see 16 films screen in 96 cinemas across the Czech Republic from July 3 – 11.

Tenet – Christopher Nolan’s latest has a new trailer

The much anticipated Christopher Nolan thriller Tenet has a new trailer and gives us a little more, but in typical Nolan style, a lot of the plot still remains a mystery.