As part of a joint retrospective organized by CinExpress, the Czech Centre Tbilisi, FIPRESCI Georgia, and the Embassy of Slovakia in Georgia, a curated selection of films from the legendary Czechoslovak New Wave will screen at the Blue Hall of the Georgian Film House on May 11, 13, 14, and 15.
The program pays tribute to the cinematic movement often described as the ‘Czechoslovak film miracle,’ which emerged in the 1960s amid major social and political shifts in the former Czechoslovakia. Organizers note that the films “remain strikingly relevant today, not only for their themes but for their avant-garde and revolutionary aesthetics.”
Known for blending surrealist and poetic forms, the selected works criticize totalitarianism, ideological conformity, and bureaucratic power structures, offering interesting takes on history, belief, and state violence.
Titles in the lineup include ‘The Party and the Guests’ (1966, Jan Němec), ‘The Ear’ (1970, Karel Kachyňa), ‘Closely Watched Trains’ (1966, Jiří Menzel), ‘Case for a Rookie Hangman’ (1969, Pavel Juráček), ‘Marketa Lazarová’ (1967, František Vláčil), the anthology ‘Pearls of the Deep’ (1966, Menzel, Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš), and ‘The Sun in a Net’ (1963, Štefan Uher).
