Tip of the week

Three films connected by theme, idea, personality, genre or just the taste of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival programmers. Three Times is a dynamic collection that grows every week with a new trio of films and as an enduring inspiration it is worth visiting regularly.

3× special skills

A group of illusionists have a special talent for bank robberies, Saxana wields magic, though sometimes with the aid of a lexicon, and Syrian refugee Aryan has even conquered gravity and is flying.

3× occupation: teacher

An inspiring French documentary from a contemporary one-room school, a wry satire that shows that it's the parents, not the children, who are the problem, and a tender drama about love, passing and forgiveness. Welcome to the world of teachers.

3× about holocaust

27 January marks the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place associated with a terrible tragedy of modern history that must never be forgotten.

3× we're making a film

Maggie Cheung plays herself in a remake of a vampire classic, a quartet of Czech actors also play themselves trying to co-produce the film, and Penélope Cruz is aiming for the best movie of all time.

3× Jaroslav Kučera

Jaroslav Kučera (1929-1991) created a number of distinctive and visually sophisticated works, first in black and white and later in colour. Three invitations to get to know a key personality of Czechoslovak film.

3× 10, 9, 8, 7... Happy New Year!

A very black comedy that rewrote Oscar history, a parody of Verne's films spiced with Carpathian folklore and the ultimate action ride between universes. New Year's Eve is coming, let's party!

3× strange family

The family background of the famous traveling preacher and founder of Christianity is somewhat disturbing, as is the case of the three families as portrayed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Leos Carax and Jaco van Dormael.

3× men on the hunt

Toni Servillo, as Silvio Berlusconi, preys on women with the help of money, the faded Faun, Leoš Suchařípa, lays traps in the wine bars of the Lesser Town, and Josef Abrhám, in the outfit of a waiter, is simply being taken in by women.

3× tenderness of snow

Three wishes come true about the white landscape outside the window: friendship in the shadow of the mountain massifs, love in a remote train station in the Jeseníky Mountains and snowy Lapland reflected on the retina of a small reindeer.

3× Woody Allen

Did you know that Woody Allen's name is actually Heywood? Anyway, this phenomenal filmmaker released his 50th film this year, and that's a good reason to check out a few of his older titles.