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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
Prague's Kino Aero presents a marathon screening of one of the all-time best movie trilogies this week. Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy—Blue, White, and Red—is a landmark European film cycle exploring the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity through interwoven stories of loss, identity, and moral choice.
The trilogy is widely regarded as one of the defining achievements of 1990s arthouse cinema, with Red earning multiple Academy Award nominations. All three films screen back-to-back with English subtitles at Kino Aero on Saturday, June 27, and are also available to stream in Czechia via MUBI.
- June 22: French mystery-thriller A Private Life, with Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil, screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub (also June 24 at Kino 35).
- June 22: Historical thriller The Disappearance of Josef Mengele plays with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub (also June 23).
- June 22: David Cronenberg's controversial classic Crash screens in English as part of Kino Aero's Legends series.
- June 23: The latest film from Oscar-winning Czech director Jan Svěrák, What a Way to Go screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub (also June 24 at Edison Filmhub and June 25 at Kino Atlas).
- June 23: Hana Nováková’s documentary AMOOSED: A Moose Odyssey screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas (also June 26).
- June 24: Karel Zeman’s A Thousand and One Nights follows Sinbad’s fantastical voyages; screening with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- June 24: Classic 1960s Ukrainian comedy Chasing Two Hares screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- June 25: Raoul Peck's documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 screens alongside Andy Serkis' new animated adaptation of the author's Animal Farm.
- June 25: Hayao Miyazaki's timeless classic Princess Mononoke screens in its original version with Czech and English subtitles at Bio Oko.
- June 25: Kurosawa's classic noir Stray Dog (with English subtitles) pairs with Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master for an eclectic double feature at Kino Aero.
🍿 New wide releases
- Toy Story 5 ★★★ (see it in English at Kino Světozor, CineStar Anděl, and most Cinema City locations)
🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
Ondřej Vavrečka’s 1+1+1 is an experimental 16mm essay film reflecting on progress, time, and the contradictions of modern development in Prague and elsewhere. The film moves between philosophical inquiry and personal reflection, questioning how constant acceleration shapes human perception and memory.
Blending languages, textures, and essayistic observation, the film considers how societies discard the old in pursuit of the new while simultaneously preserving and idealizing the past. 1+1+1 screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas on June 24, 25 and 27.
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- House of the Dragon season 3 returns with naval battles, new dragonriders, and escalating conflict; the first episode premieres tonight (Monday morning, Prague time) on HBO Max.
- Colin Farrell’s L.A. detective returns in season 2 of Sugar; the first episode is now streaming on Apple TV+, with new episodes Fridays.
- New Harlan Coben thriller I Will Find You follows a father who escapes prison after believing his son may still be alive; now streaming on Netflix.
- High school reunion comedy Never Change! follows adults who return to finish their disrupted senior year and relive teen chaos; now streaming on Disney+.
- Your Fault: London follows two young lovers whose relationship is tested by competing desires in this latest entry in the young adult series; now streaming on Prime Video.
🎞️ The Throwback
Czech New Wave classic The Valley of the Bees remains a stark reminder of cinema’s ability to probe power, faith, and personal freedom. Set in the 13th century, František Vláčil’s film follows a young man fleeing a rigid crusader order and the relentless pursuit of his former friend, a fanatical knight bound by doctrine.
The film contrasts devotion with the desire for personal freedom, building to a tense moral conflict between loyalty and liberation. The Valley of the Bees screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas on June 22.
