Pavel Vácha

On a Baking Sheet

Mark experiences many unusual adventures to finally come to the realization that family and friendship are the most important. In his job, he is put in charge of a very ambitious project, but in his personal life he has unexpected problems. After he finds a backpack in the hallway of the house and tries to honestly return it, he is detained by the inspector. However, the policeman does not lock him in prison, but forces him to cooperate. Marek therefore has to curry favor with the three Grundz brothers, who cook meth in the apartment one floor below. He makes full use of his knowledge from the university of economics, the head of the Grundz family soon joins the group, and the drug trade just flourishes. Living together with new friends brings a lot of humorous, but also exciting moments. The viewer is not only captivated by the plot, but also learns a lot of interesting facts from recent and distant history.

Holiday on Four Wheels

A family of four sets off for a summer vacation by the sea in the camper van. Even though the Adriatic is within reach, the journey might just take longer than expected.

Párty Hárder: Summer Massacre

In the comedy Party Harder: Summer Massacre, a group of friends from the first part will return. They have already recovered from their terrible party and in the summer they will go to the "Ibiza of the East" - to the Macháč lake, which is a legendary place full of parties, music and free sex. They are trying to earn money for the golden nail of the summer - the Summer Massacre festival, from which they promise the experience of a lifetime and, of course, holiday sex. Will they enjoy the summer or fail miserably and face humiliation, involuntary celibacy or even Serbian militias?

Somewhere Over the Chemtrails

When a villager is injured by a car at a party, firefighter Brona is immediately convinced that it is an attack perpetrated by an “Arab”. His colleague Standa sees things differently. A laconic film that explores the causes of racism.

Martin and the Magical Forest

Young geek city boy Martin has to overcome himself and stay two weeks in the summer camp without his comforts and any technology. Here he will be challenged to help the forest creatures to save their forest from being destroyed by greedy developers.

Shadow Country

The film chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.

Meky

The film tells about complete dedication to music, about faith in his own path, which was often different from what everyone recommended. About how great social revolutions and life's upheavals can be overcome with elegance.

Daria

When Daria disappears after their first date, Marek finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Everything might be part of a disturbing game played by powerful pharmaceutical companies, though the truth may be more frightening than either of them realize.

Over the Hills

Father and son Vít and Grisha travel to Russia to visit the boy’s mother and sister. Why did their previously harmonious family split in two? A documentary road movie about the distance between two Slavic countries, the difficulties of fatherhood and puberty, and the alienation between people who should, in theory, be the closest of all.

National Street

Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...

Neptune

In 1964, the discovery of secret Nazi documents in the bottom of a lake in the Šumava hits the press worldwide. Years later, it is revealed that the sensational event was orchestrated by the communist regime in a campaign against West Germany, code-named Neptune. Revisiting recent political past of the Cold War in a noir pastiche, this docufiction contributes to the process of myth-making as a necessary construction of our perception of the history.

Letters to a Father

The author's personal confession. This essay film about the relationship between father and son is filmed exclusively in 16mm film in Prague, Slovenia, India, England and France. An important component of Brajnik's film narration is the musical composition and accompanying voiceover of the artist's alter ego.