One of the most anticipated films is the poetic road movie Caravan capturing the story of a weary 45-year-old mother and her mentally handicapped teenage son. It is the first Czech film after 31 years that made it to the Un Certain Regards section at Cannes. The coming-of-age story about 15-year-old Enrique, Promise, I’ll Be Fine, had its world premiere in the main competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival. The poignant puppet feature Tales from Magic Garden was first introduced in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus competition. Broken Voices (KVIFF Crystal Globe Competition) takes the audience back to the early 1990s and focuses on the case of the former choirmaster of the Czech children’s choir Bambini di Praga. The biographical drama Duchoň (KVIFF Special Screenings) is about the popular Slovak singer Karel Duchoň and After Party, which premiered in the Venice’s Orrizonti Extra competition, offers a gripping insight into a big family crisis.

Viewers will have a chance to be the first to see Luboš Kučera’s black comedy Cockroach about the loss of job and search for an origin of a porn video, Tomáš Vorel’s Job, which wraps up the trilogy about two inseparable friends-writers, or Pod parou, the Czech remake of the legendary Danish Another Round. But the complete list of the films is much longer.