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"I'm an actress." Film Movement has unveiled an official trailer for a Czech film called Her Body, a raw & intimate feminist drama from filmmaker Natálie Císarovská making her feature directorial debut. This first premiered last year at the 2023 Karlovy Vary Film Festival and already opened in theaters in Czechia last year. It's now set for a December 2024 release soon in the US in very limited theaters. When a spinal injury shatters Andrea's dream of success as an Olympic diving champion, she goes on to make a name for herself as an adult film star. Based on a true story. A successful athlete, and member of the Olympic team, Andrea Absolonová's life changes after a vertebra injury forces her to end of her sports career. Instead she moves on into nude modeling and eventually becomes a successful and well-known porn actress in Czechia. Starring Natalia Germani as Andrea, with Cyril Dobrý,...

In his new crime series, “Rats,” Slovakian writer Miro Šifra not only tells a gripping tale set in the Czech Republic’s complex drug industry but also a poignant human story.

The fact-based drama examines the dynamic world of the Czech-Vietnamese meth syndicates, funded by cryptocurrency and monitored by police drug enforcement task forces. The story focuses on David, a hapless young drug dealer, played by Cyril Dobrý, who is forced by a narcotics investigator (Václav Neužil) into becoming a police informer. Despite his willingness to cooperate, things don’t go as planned.

Crime drama is a genre Šifra knows well. His two previous works, the 2016 Slovakian box office hit “Red Captain” and the 2018 Czech series “Red Lines,” examined political and state-organized crime committed by the secret police in the waning days of Czechoslovakia.

“The crime drama is a genre with clear rules, which is ideal for learning the screenwriting craft,...