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Klára Malinovská reviews "Better go crazy in the wild", an intimate documentary portrait of brotherhood, rural freedom, and the wild beauty of Southwest Czechia.

Natalia Kopytnik reviews "Amira’s Children", a film about a Syrian refugee family trying to build its life in Czechia.

Jonas Heins reviews Karel Čapek’s "War with the Newts", a book about political folly exposed through a satirical tale of intelligent sea creatures.

Caterina Cambria reviews the Anarcho Shorts compilation of short films, a collection that grants the viewer a thousand different emotions.

Often considered one of the best films produced in Czechoslovakia, The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969) is an impeccable example of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Darkly surreal, it portrays how [...]

Central Europe regional editor Jakub Crcha discusses the return of anti-immigration sentiments among the V4 post-Ukraine

Hanna Hodgetts analyses the works of the retired Czech film-maker and puppeteer, Jan Švankmajer.

Ville Haapanen on the recent parliamentary election in Czechia and the future of now-ousted Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

Elodie Phillips's interviews Piotrek Gawliński, who is behind the increasingly popular @lostfoundEurope Twitter account, inviting you to walk the streets of the golden era of Central European cities.

André Kapsas writes about a political party that now finds itself slowly drained of its blood by an alliance with populists. What will happen to the Czech Republic's Social Democratic party ahead [...]