Knoflikari(1997) Apr 2026

Four young girls attempt to summon spirits, only to encounter the ghost of the American pilot who dropped the bomb.

A man dealing with infidelity and the literal loss of buttons in his cab. Knoflikari(1997)

Knoflíkáři captured the "restlessness" of the post-communist Czech Republic, where the old rules were gone and the new ones hadn't quite settled. It’s often compared to the work of (specifically Night on Earth ) or the absurdist surrealism of Luis Buñuel . Four young girls attempt to summon spirits, only

The film opens with a strange prologue in 1945 Kokura, Japan, where four men curse the bad weather—unaware that the rain is the only thing saving them from the atomic bomb originally destined for their city. Fast forward 50 years to Prague, 1995, and the ghost of that historical event continues to ripple through a series of "tragicomic" vignettes. It’s often compared to the work of (specifically

A man whose only pride is his ability to spit perfectly onto passing steam locomotives.