Vladimír Škultéty

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.

Blended

After a blind date gone horribly wrong Jim and Lauren agree they never ever want to see each other again. Well that's all about to change when the two find themselves and their respective families (including children) all stuck together in one suite at an African Safari vacation spot.

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.

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.

Lost in Munich

Sir "P" a 90 year old gray parrot, formerly living with Edouard Daladier, the French prime minister responsible for signing the Munich Treaty, comes to Prague to give his "account" of the past events. But can he do it, being just a bird? In a series of weird events sir is kidnapped by a Czech journalist undergoing his midlife crisis. The guy has him publicly say some really controversial statements, causing a diplomatic scandal. At the end of the day it is the French who decide to assassinate their own national hero....And that's only the half of the story.

Schmitke

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.

Transient Consciousness

After a girl gets raped, the only possibility for getting her life back to normal is a memory wipe. But when they meet again, only one of them still remembers the past...

Did Michael Knight End the Cold War?

A young Czech boy, living and surviving the Czech Revolution of 1989 with his favorite TV series Knight Rider and riding around on a BMX bike.

Marbles

The episodic film MARBLES consists of several short stories about how women manipulate with men. About subtle blackmailings, about crying, about tears, about the ability to sacrifice oneself for a dream, about sex as a service, about the way we can use empathy. It all starts on the playground among children and death does not equal the end. As time goes by, a feminine mechanism of manipulation develops, shapes up, ripens until it reaches the stage of perfection. Individual short stories take place at a techno party as well as in a Catholic parsonage and they conclude in a content domestic routine of two old people which cannot be disrupted by anything – not even by death. The short stories about women of different age and lifestyle put together a story of one complete human life which was, thanks to the manipulation with others, lived according to the plan and at the same time and from the same reason wasted away.

It's Gonna Get Worse

"Sex, drugs and rock and roll", not in the West but in a Communist police state - Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia of the 1970s . Anti-hero Olin, 21, has just left a mental hospital, after having slashed his wrists to dodge military service. His prominence in the underground scene of youthful revolt makes him an increasing target for the forces of order. Eventually he is on the run, determined to cross the frontier to the "West" he dreams of.

Victims and Murderers

Two half-siblings Jana and Miroslav are ineffectually trying to escape their mutual attraction and break free from their fatal relationship. Two time levels, presence and 1970s, inter-mesh in the film.

I Was a Teenage Intellectual (Byl jsem mladistvým intelektuálem)

Pavel and Eva are two teenagers who live a happy life full of McDonald's food, action movies and pop music. But one night, Pavel stumbles upon a secret gathering of intellectuals in the woods on his way to the video store. Not wanting to be discovered, the intellectuals attack him and the chief intellectual bites him in the leg. Some times later, he begins changing... Will the power of television, Eva's love and pop star Michal David's music save him from the intellectuals' evil clutches?