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Summary for: What to watch in Prague: This week’s English-friendly cinema and streaming picks🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
The Myanmar-Czech-French co-production Fruit Gathering took home the top prize at the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this weekend. The film explores female desire, intimacy, and queer identity in contemporary Myanmar, where social restrictions continue to shape personal relationships and individual freedom.
The latest in a string of Czech co-productions to be honored at major festivals, co-producer Vít Janeček emphasized the importance of long-term cultural partnerships and international cooperation. The film screens with English subtitles as part of the Šary Vary festival at Kino Světozor on July 13 and also at Kino Atlas on July 15, before opening in Czech cinemas from July 23.
🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
- All week: The Šary Vary festival brings hit films from this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to Kino Aero, Kino Světozor and Kino Přítomnost. Most (but not all) screenings have English subtitles.
- July 13: A Sentimental Journey to the Parajanov Planet, a Ukrainian documentary about Soviet film pioneer Sergei Parajanov, screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- July 14: The latest film from Oscar-winning Czech director Jan Svěrák, What a Way to Go screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub (also July 15 at Kino Atlas).
- July 14: A 35mm print of the classic John Wayne western El Dorado screens in English at Kino Mat.
- July 14: Richard Linklater's animated adaptation of the sci-fi classic A Scanner Darkly screens as part of Bio Oko's Summer with Keanu Reeves series.
- July 15: Enjoy an English-friendly mystery movie at Bio Oko's Blind Date. Free entry; pay what you want after the screening.
- July 15: A young woman confronts sexual impropriety during a couchsurfing trip through Europe in Live a Little, with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub (also July 17-18).
- July 16: The 2001 Brendan Fraser classic The Mummy Returns comes back to Edison Filmhub, with an expert lecture from Lukáš Kubín.
- July 18: Steven Spielberg's classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind plays as part of Kino Dlabačov's summer cinema.
- July 18: Pair a Kali Ma cocktail with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at Kino Kavalírka as part of the cinema's Film & Drink series.
🍿 New wide releases
- Evil Dead Burn ★★★
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- A new reboot of the American classic Little House on the Prairie starring Luke Bracey is streaming on Netflix. All eight episodes are now available.
- The Ghost in the Shell, a new series based on the classic anime, has premiered on Prime Video; the first episode is now streaming, with new episodes Tuesdays.
- The third season of Apple TV+'s excellent sci-fi series Silo is now streaming; the first two episodes have released, with new installments on Thursdays.
- The new documentary Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea revisits the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster; now streaming on Netflix.
🎞️ The Throwback
One of the most imaginative and enduring works of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Vojtěch Jasný’s The Cassandra Cat blends surreal fantasy, comedy, and political allegory into a visually dazzling portrait of a society built on appearances. The 1963 film follows a small Bohemian town transformed by the arrival of a traveling circus and a magical cat whose colored gaze reveals the true nature of the people around it.
Beneath its playful surface, The Cassandra Cat explores themes of conformity, hypocrisy, and the tension between individual freedom and social control. Digitally restored in collaboration with the Czech National Film Archive, the cult classic plays with English subtitles at Kino Atlas on July 17 and is available to stream at KVIFF.tv and dafilms.cz.
