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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
The top Czech films of 2025, as voted by local critics, will return to Edison Filmhub with English subtitles on Feb. 4-6. The screenings precede this year's Czech Film Critics’ Awards ceremony, which will take place at Prague's ARCHA+ venue on Feb. 7.
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The screenings include Caravan, an intimate road movie starring Anna Geislerová that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, playing on Feb. 4. Father, which follows a grieving couple as they cope with unimaginable tragedy, screens on Feb. 5, followed by Broken Voices (The Prague Reporter's pick for top Czech film of 2025) on Feb. 6.
🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
- Sentimental Value, nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture, is playing with English subtitles at Kino Světozor, Kino Aero, and Bio Oko.
- Competing for this year's Best Documentary Oscar, Czech co-production Mr Nobody Against Putin is playing with English subtitles at Kino Atlas and Edison Filmhub.
- Time to the Target, a new documentary about life in Lviv during the Russian invasion, screens with English subtitles at Kino Světozor on Feb. 2.
- The Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day plays as part of Kino Aero's Legends series on Monday, Feb. 2.
- Take a chance on a mystery film at an English-friendly Blind Date at Kino Aero on Feb. 4; free entry, pay what you want after the screening.
- Kino Aero probes gambling with screenings of Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob the Gambler and Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight, Feb. 5.
- Kino Aero and Kino Lucerna celebrate filmmaker Jim Jarmusch with screenings of Down by Law, Night on Earth, and the director's latest, Father Mother Sister Brother, Feb. 5-6.
- The sex-positive new festival P*fest brings explicit adult films to Bio Oko, Feb. 6-7.
🍿 New wide releases
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
After premiering in local cinemas last fall, the Czech–Slovak biographical drama Nepela is now streaming with English subtitles on Netflix. Director Gregor Valentovič's film revisits the life of Olympic figure-skating champion Ondrej Nepela, portrayed by Josef Trojan, and explores the personal cost of fame under communism.
- The first four episodes of season four of Bridgerton have premiered on Netflix, with the second half of the season dropping Feb. 26.
- All eight episodes of the new MCU series Wonder Man are now streaming on Disney+.
- A new documentary about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, Miracle: The Boys of '80, is now streaming on Netflix.
- The Wrecking Crew, starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa as brothers investigating their father's death, is streaming on Prime Video.
- The third season of Shrinking, starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segel, has premiered on Apple TV+, with new episodes releasing Wednesdays through April 8.
🎞️ The Throwback
One of the most striking works of postwar Czechoslovak cinema, Otakar Vávra’s Krakatit blends science fiction, film noir, and psychological drama into a feverish warning about unchecked scientific ambition. Adapted from Karel Čapek’s novel, the film follows a brilliant chemist haunted by the destructive potential of his invention, capturing anxieties about war that feel as urgent today as they did in 1948.
Krakatit is now receiving international reappraisal with a new Blu-ray release sourced from a 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive. But you don’t have to wait for the physical release: the new restoration is available to watch in full with English subtitles on the Filmová klasika YouTube channel.
