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The USSR Couldn’t Kill the Radio Star: Jiří Mádl’s Waves

By Jacob Agius Jiří Mádl, the director of Waves (2024), got his start as an actor in the Czech comedy film Snowboarders (Karel Janák, 2004). […]

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The USSR Couldn’t Kill the Radio Star: Jiří Mádl’s Waves

24/03/2025 | casffa

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A life in stills: Reflections on I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

By Joey Demczuk What would you say if I invited you to spend an hour and a half looking at still photos? But what if those […]

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A life in stills: Reflections on I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

19/10/2024 | casffa

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“I’m an ecologist”: Director Mira Fornay on She – Hero, Organic Filmmaking and Old Wise Trees

She – Hero, tells the story of Romy, a 7 year old, who looks for her lost budgie Mimi. It is a lovely children’s film […]

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“I’m an ecologist”: Director Mira Fornay on She – Hero, Organic Filmmaking and Old Wise Trees

16/10/2024 | casffa

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“Beauty is Under the Skin of the Film”: Peter Hošták on Cold and Dark and His Filmmaking Method

Peter Hośták’s Cold and Dark is filled with evocative imagery and ideas. Set in a Slovak forest, the thirty-minute film observes draft horse logging, yet […]

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“Beauty is Under the Skin of the Film”: Peter Hošták on Cold and Dark and His Filmmaking Method

14/10/2024 | casffa

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Filip Pošivač on Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light, Jiří Barta and the wonder of puppets

Puppetry animation gives directors vast powers to create fantasy worlds. In Tony, Shelly, and the Magic Light, Filip Pošivač preserves this creative spirit. Although his […]

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Filip Pošivač on Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light, Jiří Barta and the wonder of puppets

06/10/2024 | casffa

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March to May Director Martin Pavol Repka on Creating His Debut Film

Martin Pavol Repka’s childhood is embedded in his debut feature film March to May (Od Marca do Mája). The 83 minute film, set in a […]

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March to May Director Martin Pavol Repka on Creating His Debut Film

28/09/2024 | casffa

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CASFFA 2022 AFCA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE WINNER: SAVING ONE WHO WAS DEAD

By Ahlia Karam Congratulations to Saving One Who Was Dead by Václav Kadrnka which has won this year’s Best Film Award at CaSFFA 2022. This […]

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CASFFA 2022 AFCA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE WINNER: SAVING ONE WHO WAS DEAD

26/10/2022 | CaSFFA

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Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Ahlia Karam

My interest in international film stemmed from the lack of diversity I was seeing in mainstream cinema. Growing up Lebanese Australian in a predominately white […]

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Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Ahlia Karam

06/10/2022 | CaSFFA

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Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Nadine Whitney

I first came to Czechoslovakian cinema through surrealism. In a cinema studies class at university my tutor took us through the standard fare of the […]

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Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Nadine Whitney

06/10/2022 | CaSFFA

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Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Peter Krausz

My love of cinema goes back to my childhood when my mother would take me to the cinema every week, mainly for her to learn […]

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Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Peter Krausz

06/10/2022 | CaSFFA

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AFCA Award for the Best Feature Film at CaSFFA 2018

The following is a transcript of the award speeches delivered at the Closing Night of the 6th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia on […]

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AFCA Award for the Best Feature Film at CaSFFA 2018

26/09/2018 | Zak Hepburn, Stuart Richards and Eloise Ross

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Meet CaSFFA juror Zak Hepburn

I first came to Miloš Forman like many others, I suppose. As a young film lover in a small country town growing up, the international […]

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Meet CaSFFA juror Zak Hepburn

21/09/2018 | Zak Hepburn

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Eloise Ross

In mid-2009, after I finished my Honours thesis and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, a friend and I spent three months backpacking through Europe. […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Eloise Ross

18/09/2018 | Eloise Ross

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CaSFFA Film Locations interactive

The Czech and Slovak Film Festival is renowned for going above and beyond its mission of showcasing the finest Czech and Slovak films, whether it be […]

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CaSFFA Film Locations interactive

13/09/2018 | Marcel Mihulka

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Stuart Richards

I have been an educator since 2010 and have only formally become a film critic this year through my work on Triple R’s Plato’s Cave […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Stuart Richards

12/09/2018 | Stuart Richards

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Linda Studená catches up with Dagmar Bláhová, star of The Apple Game

(Photo: Věra Chytilová and Dagmar Bláhová. Photo courtesy of D. Bláhová.) Tell me about The Apple Game (Hra o Jablko, dir. Věra Chytilová, 1976, Czechoslovakia)… […]

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Linda Studená catches up with Dagmar Bláhová, star of The Apple Game

11/09/2018 | Linda Studená

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First announcement for 2018: Věra Chytilová retrospective

Today’s the first Wednesday of February, which signifies something wonderful for Melbourne’s fanatical cinephile community – it heralds the opening of another glorious year of […]

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First announcement for 2018: Věra Chytilová retrospective

07/02/2018 | CaSFFA

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Soft diplomacy and the landscape photography of Josef Koudelka

As part of this year’s Czech and Slovak Film Festival there was a panel discussion on the question of how images play a role in […]

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Soft diplomacy and the landscape photography of Josef Koudelka

07/11/2017 | Tyson Wils

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The Cat that Didn’t Get the Cream: On Juraj Herz’s Morgiana

In my first blog post for the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia, I mentioned my fondness for Alice in Wonderland, and especially Jan […]

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The Cat that Didn’t Get the Cream: On Juraj Herz’s Morgiana

06/11/2017 | Faith Everard

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AFCA Award for the Best Feature Films at #CaSFFA2017

The following is a transcript of the award speeches delivered at the Closing Night of the 5th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia on […]

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AFCA Award for the Best Feature Films at #CaSFFA2017

15/10/2017 | Faith Everard and Stephen A Russell

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I, Olga Hepnarova

It is a cliché that film biographies attempt to discover the essence of a person – who they were and why they did their noteworthy […]

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I, Olga Hepnarova

21/09/2017 | Janice Loreck

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Facing the demon: Filthy and the spectre of male violence

A Slovak and Czech co-production – like many of this year’s CaSFFA offerings – the festival theme of ‘Neighbours’ takes a dark but important turn […]

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Facing the demon: Filthy and the spectre of male violence

21/09/2017 | Stephen A Russell

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FC Roma

Patrik and Pavel are the central characters in this portrait of Romani life in a small Czech town. As coach and assistant coach of a […]

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FC Roma

19/09/2017 | Joel Zika

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Jaymes Durante

Of the many, oft-justified misconceptions made about critics, the most maddening (and easily debunked) is the idea that we know everything about movies. Though it’s […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Jaymes Durante

18/09/2017 | Jaymes Durante

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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours: Meet CaSFFA Juror Stephen A Russell

While it is certainly true that the citizens of our national capital of disputed dual nationality are now blessed with the glorious Czech and Slovak […]

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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours: Meet CaSFFA Juror Stephen A Russell

14/09/2017 | Stephen A Russell

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The Shop on Main Street

The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, aka The Shop on High Street) is a wonderful example of a cinema of neighbours, representing the […]

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The Shop on Main Street

14/09/2017 | Ben Buckingham

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Faith Everard

I recall fondly the first Czechoslovak film I ever saw – René Laloux’s French/Czechoslovak hybrid Fantastic Planet (1973, pictured above). It was a film I’d […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Faith Everard

12/09/2017 | Faith Everard

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Czech and Slovak Films

Growing up in and around Sydney in the 1950s I knew nothing about films other than those made in English until around 1955 when I […]

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Czech and Slovak Films

28/05/2017 | Bruce Beresford

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First Announcement for 2017: Juraj Herz Retrospective

In what is now a well established CaSFFA tradition, it brings us great pleasure to be able to make our first program announcements for our […]

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First Announcement for 2017: Juraj Herz Retrospective

24/01/2017 | CaSFFA

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Letter from Humphrey McQueen to Peter Lyssiotis

Esteemed Australian historian and author Humphrey McQueen recently attended the Czech and Slovak Film Festival when it visited the National Film and Sound Archive in […]

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Letter from Humphrey McQueen to Peter Lyssiotis

04/12/2016 | Humphrey McQueen

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AFCA Award for the Best Feature Film at #CaSFFA2016

One thing that became immediately clear to the jury members as we began to delve into the CaSFFA program was that this was to be […]

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AFCA Award for the Best Feature Film at #CaSFFA2016

26/09/2016 | Tom Clift, Hayley Inch and Glenn Dunks

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Voyeurism and The Cleaner

Voyeurism is a popular theme in film. That is presumably no accident since the mere act of sitting in a darkened theatre and watching people’s […]

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Voyeurism and The Cleaner

20/09/2016 | Glenn Dunks

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If You Go into the Woods Tonight…

For the first time in our four year run, CaSFFA presents a series of unique new short films in If You Go into the Woods […]

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If You Go into the Woods Tonight…

19/09/2016 | Mia Falstein-Rush and Eleanor Colla

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Slovakia’s answer to Bill Cunningham?

Slovakia’s answer to Bill Cunningham! That may be how some see fit to describe Zuzana Mináčová, the heavily influential photographer whose story is the centre […]

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Slovakia’s answer to Bill Cunningham?

19/09/2016 | Glenn Dunks

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Costume Designer Theodor Pištěk

It feels strange to call Theodor Pištěk a costume designer, when in an interview for The Washington Post, back in 1985, he claimed, “I want […]

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Costume Designer Theodor Pištěk

18/09/2016 | Olivia Hărşan

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Hayley Inch

Getting to know Hayley, and getting to know Czech and Slovak cinema I felt a little bit guilty initially on agreeing to be a CaSFFA […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Hayley Inch

17/09/2016 | Hayley Inch

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Glenn Dunks

Like many of a certain generation, I began my film writing life on a blog while simultaneously working the sort of retail and hospitality jobs […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Glenn Dunks

15/09/2016 | Glenn Dunks

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Tom Clift

In the five years that I’ve been fortunate enough to watch movies for a living, I’ve likewise been blessed with the opportunity to attend a […]

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Meet CaSFFA Juror Tom Clift

13/09/2016 | Tom Clift

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Out of the Shadows: The Noonday Witch

Horror festers within the shadows, we’re told, but what if it makes its way into the sunshine? In the myriad cultures she has long haunted, […]

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Out of the Shadows: The Noonday Witch

06/09/2016 | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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Guests at #CaSFFA2016

What’s a film festival without guests to liven things up? We’ve got a range of remarkable people coming in from outside of the core festival team […]

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Guests at #CaSFFA2016

03/09/2016 | CaSFFA

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Welcome

Welcome, one and all, to the 4th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA), our biggest and boldest event yet, with its theme of […]

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Welcome

22/08/2016 | CaSFFA

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