This fanciful reinvention of the lunatic-in-the-attic tradition is filled with duplicitous twists and incestuous turns-along with repression, insanity, and the prospect of invisibility.
Provocative, unnerving, blackly comic animations by the country's preeminent animator and fantasy filmmaker, appropriately nicknamed The Alchemist of the Surreal.
Shot under the watchful eyes of the Soviet occupying forces, then banned, this tale of paranoia, surveillance, and marital mistrust is a chilling cross between 1984 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
A Jewish physician's nightmarish search for morphine in Nazi-occupied Prague turns into an intense Orwellian fable about fear itself. A major revival.
A '70s cult classic about a girl's initiation into the world of desire. "The film's logic is that of the subconscious, its images those of Gothic fairy tale and the psychiatrist's couch, and its overall effect stunning."-Time Out. With shorts The Raven and Defector.
A novel and offbeat fantasy, this turn-of-the-century thriller tells of sisters, one good, one very bad, both played by Iva Janzurova in a virtuoso performance. With short Little Cousins.
Introduction and Booksigning by Steven Jay Schneider. Jirí Bárta's unique animation combines puppetry, painting, and live-action (the rats!) to create an expressionistic folk metaphor for the fall of a materialistic society. With Bárta short The Last Theft.
A genre-bending mix of sci-fi, slapstick, and '60s Pop art-with a decidedly Eastern European take on the joys of anarchy. With short Till Early Morning.