Protagonist Libor Protogny is a senior clerk at a bank who has been charged with embezzlement. He decides to flee to the Czech countryside with his wife and children. Along the way, he meets strangers and old schoolmates, and the encounters prompt him to reevaluate his relationship with his family and the life choices he has made.<\/p>\n The second of Proch\u00e1zka\u2019s films will is Catenaccio a la Drnovice, or Journey to the Beginning of Time of Economic Transformation<\/em> (2010). This film, Proch\u00e1zka\u2019s directorial debut, centers on the small village of Drnovice in southeastern Czech Republic. Drnovice contains a football stadium that seats 8,000 fans \u2013 while the village\u2019s population numbers only 2,000. Investigations of the history of the football club reveal not only a fluctuating local enthusiasm for football but a series of mysterious sponsors, corruption and shady politics.<\/p>\n Did you know the director of Hair<\/em> and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> is Czechoslovakian? In honor of the world-famous director Milo Forman\u2019s 80th birthday, the festival will show Milos Forman: What Doesn\u2019t Kill You\u2026<\/em> (2009). The documentary, directed by Miloslav Smidmajer, relates Forman\u2019s fascinating, tragic life story. Forman, born in 1932, lost both of his parents at the age of ten at Auschwitz. When he grew up, Forman immigrated to the United States, where he began working in the film industry. Forman discusses the influences of fascism and communism on his filmmaking. Aside from insight into his professional choices, the film also explores the director\u2019s relationship with his family, and in particular with his two sons: at the time of the documentary\u2019s filming, Forman was in the midst of collaborations with his two sons, Mat\u011bj and Petr, on a theatrical production for the Czech National Theatre. The film includes interviews with actors with whom Forman worked over the years, including Annette Bening, Michael Douglas, Louise Fletcher, Javier Bardem and others.<\/p>\n Also showing this year at the festival is Flower Buds<\/em>, the 2011 winner of four Lion awards \u2013 the most prestigious of Czech film awards. In Flower Buds<\/em>, the life of a small town family gradually disintegrates, as each family member tries, and fails, to live by his or her particular ideals. Ag\u00e1ta dreams of a glamorous life away from home, and is consequently enchanted, and then impregnated by the local playboy. Agatha\u2019s brother, who believes in the power and purity of love, becomes infatuated with a stripper and grows marijuana. Like her children, Kamila escapes from the realities of work as a cleaner into a fantasy in which she is a singer. Jarda, the family\u2019s patriarch puts his family\u2019s funds at jeopardy with a gambling addiction; his realization of the impossibility of his pursuit might just be too late to save his family.<\/p>\n Other films showing at the festival this year include Rules of Lies<\/em> (2006), which tells the story of 33 year old Roman who decides to combat his drug addiction via group therapy. I Wake Up Yesterday<\/em> (2012) is a romantic time travel comedy in which a high school teacher returns to his student days to win the heart of his high school sweetheart. Another film on the festival\u2019s program is Love (2011), in which a reckless, aimless young man falls in love, but risks that love when his best friend convinces him to commit a criminal act. Finally, Generation Singles<\/em> (2011) is a fascinating study of the increasing phenomenon of bachelorhood in the Czech Republic: thirty percent of adults of reproductive ages are single. This documentary captures a year in the life of six single men and women, who discuss commitment, sex, and society\u2019s pressure to find a partner.<\/p>\n Screen times Tel Aviv Cinematheque (http:\/\/www.cinema.co.il\/<\/a>): 2 Sprinzak St. 03-6060800 Escape to another culture this August at the third annual Czech Film Week at the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa Cinematheques. A rich selection of recent Czech films celebrates, critiques and explores life in the Czech Republic \u2013 and human experience in general. Eight films spin tales of family, passion, violence and even football. 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\nLong Live the Family (2011) with producer Radim Proch\u00e1zka \u2013 Tel Aviv 20\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 19\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 21\/8
\nCatenaccio a la Drnovice (2010) \u2013 Tel Aviv\u00a0 21\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 29\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 22\/8
\nFlower Buds (2011) \u2013 Tel Aviv 22\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 20\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 26\/8
\nRules of Lies (2006) \u2013 Tel Aviv 23\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 27\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 29\/8
\nWaking Up Yesterday (2012) \u2013 Tel Aviv 25\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 25\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 27\/8
\nLove (2011) \u2013 Tel Aviv 26\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 22\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 27\/8
\nWhat Doesn\u2019t Kill You \u2013 Tel Aviv 27\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 30\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 29\/8
\nGeneration Singles \u2013 Tel Aviv 28\/8\u00a0 \u2022\u00a0 Jerusalem 21\/8\u00a0 \u2022 Haifa 23\/8<\/p>\n
\nJerusalem Cinematheque (http:\/\/www.jer-cin.org.il\/website\/modules\/films\/Program.aspx?id=313<\/a>): 11 Hebron Way. 02-5654356
\nHaifa Cinematheque (http:\/\/www.haifacin.co.il<\/a>): 142 Sderot HaNassi. 04-8104299\/302<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"