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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
Scenes of a family drifting toward separation in rural Iceland are captured with quiet restraint in The Love That Remains, the latest feature from writer-director Hlynur Pálmason (Godland). Unfolding through loosely connected vignettes, the film blends domestic realism with occasional surreal imagery.
The Prague Reporter calls it a film that is “emotionally elusive but visually striking, lingering in memory even as its narrative resists easy resolution.” The Love That Remains screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko on May 18 and May 24; keep an eye out for additional English-friendly screenings at other Prague cinemas.
- May 18: A Greek-language fable about a runaway chicken, Hen screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko (also May 20 at Kino Aero).
- May 18: The documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, tracing the life and legacy of the American musician, screens at Edison Filmhub as part of the Movie Barf series.
- May 19: Ukrainian documentary Sand Castles, about artists who have represented Ukraine at Burning Man, screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- May 19: Czech-Slovak drama Last Routine, a biopic about figure skater Ondrej Nepela, screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- May 19: Climate Dialogues 2026: Ecological Solidarities, a public lecture by philosophers Michael Marder and Alexis Shotwell exploring ecological solidarity, takes place in English at Edison Filmhub.
- May 20: Czech-Danish Oscar winner Mr Nobody Against Putin plays with English subtitles at Kino Světozor.
- May 20: The historical thriller The Disappearance of Josef Mengele plays with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- May 21: Oscar-nominated French animated feature Little Amélie or the Character of Rain plays with English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- May 22: Andrei Tarkovsky’s landmark science-fiction film Solaris screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero.
- May 22: Canadian animated feature Endless Cookie, winner of the 2026 Anifilm festival in Liberec, screens at Kino 35.
🍿 New wide releases
🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
Czech filmmaker Jana Boková’s 1989 documentary Havana offers a fragmented portrait of life in the Cuban capital during a period of political tension and social constraint, blending quiet observation with poetic reflection. Shot in guerrilla conditions, it builds an impressionistic study of Havana as both lived reality and symbolic space.
Havana screens at Kino Ponrepo on May 20 at 8:30 p.m. as part of a retrospective series with both English and Czech subtitles. The screening will take place in the presence of director Boková, offering audiences a rare opportunity to see the film introduced in person. Admission is free.
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- All eight episodes of Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine, the latest spin-off from the Money Heist franchise, are now streaming on Netflix.
- Jon Bernthal returns as Frank Castle in The Punisher: One Last Kill, a Marvel special now streaming on Disney+.
- All eight episodes of Nemesis, a Los Angeles-set heist series about a master thief and the LAPD detective determined to catch him, are now up on Netflix.
- The first three episodes of the second season of Rivals, the British drama set in the cutthroat world of 1980s TV, are now streaming on Disney+, with new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays.
- All eight episodes of The WONDERfools, a Korean comedy series about an unlikely group of ordinary people who develop superpowers in 1999 while navigating Y2K panic, are now streaming on Netflix.
🎞️ The Throwback
Slovak actress Magda Vášáryová will receive the President’s Award at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, organizers recently announced. One of the defining figures of Czechoslovak cinema, she is closely associated with landmark works such as Marketa Lazarová and collaborations with directors including Karel Zeman.
One of her most beloved roles is in Jiří Menzel’s Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), a breezy, nostalgic comedy set in a provincial brewery and adapted from Bohumil Hrabal’s novel. The film draws on Hrabal’s autobiographical memories and Menzel’s trademark lyrical approach to everyday absurdity. Cutting It Short is available to stream with English subtitles on Netflix in Czechia.
