Down with the Wall!

2 – 20 November 2009

Barbican Centre, foyer Cinema 1

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

In 1989 totalitarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe began to crumble. This selection of the most interesting posters from 1989-1990 serves as a guide to those democratic changes and provides a stirring record of the complex social and political changes that swept through Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Russia. 

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Gala Screening: The Karamazovs

The Best of Czech Cinema 1989 - 2009

Sat 7 November 2009, 8.30 pm

Prince Charles Cinema

7 Leicester Sq., London WC2H 7BY

Box Office: 0870 811 2559

Admission: £5 (£3.50 concs.)



Director Petr Zelenka will introduce The Karamazovs, a contemporary take on Dostoyevsky´s story voted the best Czech film of 2008 by the Czech Film Academy, and will answer questions after the screening.

If you buy a ticket to this screening you will receive a complimentary bottle of Bernard - Premium Czech Lager. Offer for over 18 only

In collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute and Prince Charles Cinema.

   

Part of Velvet ®Evolution – The Best of Czech Cinema 1989–2009

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Peter Sís: The Wall;
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

9 – 29 November 2009

Riverside Studios, Crisp Road,

London W6 9RL

Admission free

An exhibition of illustrations from an award-winning book by Peter Sís, a Czech illustrator based in New York, providing a highly personal and imaginative account of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer and believed whatever he was told to believe.

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Czech Dream

BFI Southbank

Wed 11 November, 8.50 pm
Sun 22 November, 8.45 pm

BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road
South Bank, London SE1 8XT

Box Office: 020 79283232

A spoof documentary exploring the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism during an ad campaign for the non-existing hypermarket Czech Dream. Screened as a part of BFI Season entitled Towards a New Europe exploring questions about European identity.

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Velvet ®Evolution

The Best of Czech Cinema 1989–2009

12 – 15 November 2009
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL

Box Office: 020 8237 1111

Admission: £7.50 (£6.50 concs.)



The 13^th annual Czech film festival will present an overview of the last 20 years of Czech Cinematography cherry-picking the best films. Director Bohdan Sláma will open the festival with the UK premiere of his film Country Teacher.

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Prefabstory

Sat 14 November, 4.15 pm

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

Box Office: 020 7638 8891

Materialism, sex, the treatment of the old, violence and corruption are just some of themes in Chytilová’s uncompromising portrait of contemporary morality. Part of the Behind the Wall film season reflecting life behind the Iron Curtain. 

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Close Up! November 1989 + Making History
(film screening + panel discussion)

Wed 18 November 2009, 7 pm

Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT

Box Office: 020 7073 1350

Admission: £7 (£5 concs.)

Marking the 20^th anniversary of Velvet Revolution this evening comprises of a screening of three newsreels from November 1989 followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Edward Lucas with key figures of Velvet Revolution including Michal Kocáb, the founding member of Civic Forum, student leader Václav Bartuška and journalist and rock musician Jan Macháček. Part of  Memory, a Season of European Documentaries.

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Heroes Like Us

24 November, 7.30 pm

Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL

Box Office: 020 8237 1111

Admission: £12 (£9 concs.)

The Prague Chamber Theatre presents an adaptation of Thomas Brussig's award winning novel Heroes like Us which looks into the events of 1989 leading to the fall of the Berlin wall from the perspective of former secret policemen. One night only. Part of FeEast 09’.

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