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The Nagano Tapes will close the festival Photo: Courtesy of Made In Prague The Made In Prague Festival returns to London this month for its 23rd edition. Running from November 8 to 17, this year's selection aims to consider contemporary Czech society 30 years after the dramatic changes brought about by the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

It will open with comedy mini-series Most! and close with The Nagano Tapes, which charts the underdog story of the Czech ice hockey team’s surprising victory at the 1998 Olympics.

This year, there are seven UK premieres in the line-up, including comedy/revenge thriller Old Timers, which sees two ageing Second World War veterans embark on a final mission to murder the communist prosecutor who once jailed them. The lead actor Jiří Schmitzer and directors Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník will attend a Q&a. Other programme highlights include the latest from Eva Nova director Marko Škop, Let There Be Light,...

A Slovak carpenter working in Germany realizes there might be neo-Nazi-like trouble on the horizon back home in Let There Be Light (Nech je svetlo). In his second fiction feature, Slovak writer-director Marko Skop (Eva Nova, the documentary Other Worlds) focuses on an earnest and loving paterfamilias who has been working abroad to help his family but whose prolonged absence might be one of the causes of his teenage son’s desire to hang out with the wrong crowd. Classically laid out as an arthouse drama, and set in a small hamlet covered in immaculately white snow over Christmas, this is a ...

A Slovak carpenter working in Germany realizes there might be neo-Nazi-like trouble on the horizon back home in Let There Be Light (Nech je svetlo). In his second fiction feature, Slovak writer-director Marko Skop (Eva Nova, the documentary Other Worlds) focuses on an earnest and loving paterfamilias who has been working abroad to help his family but whose prolonged absence might be one of the causes of his teenage son’s desire to hang out with the wrong crowd. Classically laid out as an art house drama and set in a small hamlet covered in immaculately white snow over Christmas, this ...

Film concerns a family caught up in the rise of xenophobic behaviour.

Paris sales agent Loco Films has acquired international rights to Slovakian filmmaker Marko Skop’s second fiction feature Let There Be Light, about a family that gets caught up in the rise of xenophobic nationalism in Eastern Europe.

It follows Skop’s debut fiction feature Eva Nova which won the Fipresci award in Tiff in 2015 and went on to be Slovakia’s Academy Award foreign language submission.

The cast features Eva Nova actor Milan Ondrik, who plays a father attempting to protect his son from the growing influence of home guards.

Starline has taken international rights to “The Cellar,” the crime thriller from Russian filmmaker Igor Voloshin (“Bedouin”).

The picture is a three-way co-production between Slovakia’s Furia Film, Russia’s Gate Film, and the Czech Republic’s 8Heads Production. It was largely filmed in the Slovak Republic, where it will be released this week through Italfilm.

“The Cellar” stars French-American actor Jean-Marc Barr (“The Big Blue”) as a jobbing musician in a failing marriage who decides to take the law into his own hands when his teenage daughter goes missing. Voloshin regular Olga Simonova (“Bedouin”) stars alongside Barr, with Milan Ondrik (“Eva Nova”), John Robinson (“Elephant”) and newcomers Simoneta Hladka and Dalibor Stofan providing support.

U.K.-based sales outfit Starline has been building a lineup of world cinema titles that sit alongside its roster of feature documentaries. It recently acquired Tom Collins’ Irish-language period drama “Penance.”

Starline’s director...

A Slovak variation of sorts on John Cassavetes’ Opening Night, the intimate character study Eva Nova chronicles the difficulties of a Communist-era actress and recovering alcoholic in her sixties as she finally tries to make amends after having sobered up again. But the juicy lead roles have practically dried up for someone her age, and even so, Eva’s long history of out-of-control behavior, fueled by her drinking binges, has soured her relationships with her former colleagues as well as her loved ones.

Constructed almost entirely around a bravura performance from Emilia Vasaryova, the Meryl Streep of Slovak cinema and theater,...

The distributor has acquired North American rights to the thriller starring Emilia Clarke from Game Of Thrones. 13 Films handles international sales at Afm.

Eric D. Howell makes his directorial debut from a screenplay by Andrew Shaw based on the Italian novel La Voce Della Pietra by Silvio Raffo.

Marton Csokas, Caterina Murino, Remo Girone, Lisa Gastoni and Edward Dring also star. Momentum brokered the deal with CAA and plans a theatrical and VOD launch in the first quarter of 2017.

HBO Europe has acquired Slovakia’s Oscar entry Eva Nova starring Emilia Vasaryova. Slovakia’s Artileria produced the feature debut by Marko Skop. The film premiered at Toronto 2015 and will air in 15 central and Eastern European territories on January 1. France’s Loco Films handles international sales.Black Factory Cinema has announced that its Filming In Cuba With Werner Herzog workshop will take place from March 6-16 will be open to 50 young filmmakers. The sessions...

Fox Searchlight’s big awards season contender will screen at the festival on November 14.

Natalie Portman stars as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the days immediately before and after the assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Chile’s Pablo Larraín directed the film from a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. Juan De Dios Larraín, Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin and Ari Handel produced. The festival runs from November 10-17.

Lucasfilm announced on Friday that Donald Glover will play the young Lando Calrissian in the untitled Han Solo Star Wars film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Alden Ehrenreich was previously cast as Han Solo. The film is scheduled to open in 2018.Manchester By The Seaproducers Matt Damon Kimberly Steward, Lauren Beck, Chris Moore and Kevin J. Walsh have joined the line-up at the Producers Guild Of America’s 3rd Annual Produced By: New York Conference, set to run on October 29.HBO Europe has acquired Slovakia’s Oscar...

The official submissions for the foreign language Oscar are in from around the world, and the Academy has deemed a record 85 eligible to compete. Last year, 81 submissions were released theatrically in their home countries between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015. (This year’s deadline for submissions was October 3, 2016.)

Several Academy foreign committees comprised of members from all the branches will whittle down the films to a shortlist of nine and finally, five Oscar nominees. (Last year’s winner was Cannes prize-winner “Son of Saul,” directed by Hungarian Lazlo Nemes.) Many countries pick films that do well on the festival circuit as their strongest Oscar contender; others do not.

Politics often intervene: Brazil’s submission was expected to be Cannes competition film “Aquarius,” starring Sonia Braga, but it was embroiled in controversy over filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s support of outgoing impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Bruno Barreto’s Brazil selection committee went...

The official submissions for the foreign language Oscar are in from around the world, and the Academy has deemed a record 85 eligible to compete. Last year, 81 submissions were released theatrically in their home countries between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015. (This year’s deadline for submissions was October 3, 2016.)

Several Academy foreign committees comprised of members from all the branches will whittle down the films to a shortlist of nine and finally, five Oscar nominees. (Last year’s winner was Cannes prize-winner “Son of Saul,” directed by Hungarian Lazlo Nemes.) Many countries pick films that do well on the festival circuit as their strongest Oscar contender; others do not.

Politics often intervene: Brazil’s submission was expected to be Cannes competition film “Aquarius,” starring Sonia Braga, but it was embroiled in controversy over filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s support of outgoing impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Bruno Barreto’s Brazil selection committee went...

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