World sales company The Match Factory, which has four films in competition and three in Panorama at the Berlin Film Festival, has picked up the international sales rights for “Ice Mother,” helmed by ...

Pavel Liska, right, mentors a student in 'The Country Teacher,' opening this weekend at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. The new teacher at the speck of a middle school in the Czech ...

A charming tale of a middle-aged woman's journey of self-discovery, the foreign-language Oscar entry was born out of the director's panic over his lack of inspiration. By Shannon L. Bowen A few years ...

film profile] is often described as the final third of a trilogy. What do you see as the unifying theme of your three films? Bohdan Slama: I have a problem with this trilogy idea. I decided it would ...

A former IT manager, portrayed by Martin Pechlát, has started an eco-farm, where his wife (Magdaléna Borová) and daughter (Dorota Šlajerová) work while leading an off-the-grid lifestyle totally in ...

Dir: Bohdan Slama. Czech-Ger-Fr. 2008. 113mins. A bittersweet comedy about a gay teacher hiding out in a country school, Bohdan Slama’s follow-up to his award-winning Something Like Happiness feels ...

This good-natured countryside romp has already secured a place in a number of film festivals, from Rotterdam onwards. While there is no denying its unspoilt natural flavour and its light, insouciant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World sales company The Match Factory, which has four films in competition and three in Panorama at the Berlin Film Festival, has ...

Czech director Bohdan Slama is a filmmaker who excels in finding and telling powerful human stories. A graduate of Prague’s world-renowned film school FAMU, Slama’s first feature in 2001, “The Wild ...

A big-city natural history teacher arrives at a small rural Czech school and makes a great impression until his unresolved emotions about being homosexual threaten to ruin his life in Bohdan Slama's ...