Mira Erdevički

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The common denominator of the five stories, preceded by a brief prologue by Artem Benki, is the setting of a giant open-pit mine in the Podkrušnohoří region in northwestern Bohemia and its surroundings, including the dominant feature of the landscape, the ruined Jezeří Castle.

With the UK’s hardening immigration policy in the background, director Mira Erdevički follows the lives of three Roma: Petr Torák, Denisa Gannon and Ondrej Oláh. Settled in the UK over 20 years ago, the trio still feel attached to their native Slovakia and the Czech Republic. As the country goes into lockdown, they film their lives throughout the Covid pandemic and the aftermath of Brexit.

A vivid documentary portrait of Véra Bílá (1954-2019), a Gypsy singer acclaimed in the international music world. The film explores Romany culture and what it means to be part of a marginalized minority group. She was dubbed the Ella Fitzgerald of Romani music. The Czech singer enjoyed international success in the late Nineties when she was signed to the German record label BMG.

Determined to stage a fully-fledged production of a Mozart opera in his home, Richard White won't let parking restrictions or neighbours stand in his way. For one week, the quiet Norfolk village of Claxton is transformed.

Shot by the first British Roma crew, this impact documentary portrays empowered Roma - a lawyer, a policeman and a student - as they empower others. It’s a story that hasn’t been heard before, presenting a compelling, intimate and nuanced portrayal of Roma which raises bigger questions about the identity of post-Brexit Britain. The film’s three protagonists represent a generation of young Roma whose parents immigrated to the UK in the nineties and the start of the new millennium. In Britain, they’ve received opportunities that had been denied to them in their native Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and as a result, they’ve grown to become educated and confident Europeans. As their lives are interrupted by Brexit and Covid, this film is shot by them with great intimacy, honesty and charm.

At the height of the Bosnian war a musical sensation was created drawing together musicians from all ethnic groups to create when all around was destruction bridges between peoples' souls.

Follows the lives of a Czech Romany family in Britain, with most members of the family still waiting for their asylum claims to be processed.

Have another drink, you don’t know what’s waiting for you outside, advises a FAMU’s cinéma vérité-style report, filmed in the U Kocoura pub in the velvet year of 1989. The pub chanson, sung by Petr Hapka, accompanies the turmoil of overflowing human emotions, from exuberant merriment, to drunken melancholy, to a universe of silence, spilled tables, and empty chairs.